Comments on: SF: Best Schools in the City? Your Kid Can’t Go to Any of Them

By: alex

alex — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:54:46 +0000

Hey Anna,

Give me shout when you have a chance. I’d like to run something by you. It’s alex from tFS. I don’t see your email anywhere here to contact you directly. Feel free to delete this comment asap.

By: David

David — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:38:46 +0000

PS. Not to get in a whole public school debate, but it would be a refreshing change if the public schools’ goal was, I don’t know, to actually ensure their pupils learn how to read and write, instead of trying to have some perfect quota of Andaman Islanders, Pygmies and Lapps?

By: David

David — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:36:33 +0000

Ditto to H.

It’s a joke that some people in SF gov’t “want more families” in SF. #1: it’s too expensive for housing, and #2, even IF you can afford the housing, you have to have a contingency plan for private schools in case you get stuck with an undesirable one.

If you have the money to buy in SF, you have the money to buy just about anywhere else in the Bay Area, including towns like Palo Alto, where you’re guaranteed to have the school district you live in.

So, again, with all these anti-family policies, there should be no wonderment at all that families don’t live in SF.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:57:54 +0000

Yes, I’ve read that more people have dogs than kids here. The expense, coupled with the school issues, seem to repel families with young children.

Hope you’re enjoying Palo Alto. Better weather along with better schools?

By: H

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:46:03 +0000

Yep. Which is why we bailed out of SF and moved to Palo Alto. Ridiculous. The city is more interested in kow-towing to special interests than actually educating children. Not to mention the Board of Education is used by Progs as the minor leagues for higher office. Now we know why there’s only 18% of the pop in SF younger than 18.