Madam Mayor and Superintendent, here is a novel approach, enforce rules and laws, sex between kids in an elementary school, seriously fire staff. Not real tough fixes.

https://whdh.com/news/years-of...to-consider-closure/

A pilot school, started in 2012, with about 250 students, and it failed. Closure may be the only option Boston Public Schools have as pilot schools may operate outside the normal BPS structure.

Pilot schools were the answer to homeschooling and academies where students could go without the pressure of attending a detention center - which is what schools are now. The unions had to be catered to in order to get them, and all that is clear evidence public education has become what government wanted - education by The State and catering to the lowest common denominator.

In the beginning it was an outreach by Christians in America for the poor who couldn't teach them at home, or who had few funds. If the area craftsmen were full up on apprentices, there simply were no further opportunities for higher education. Schools were started as a hand up for the children to stop poverty from being the biggest influence.

This all worked out very well - all the charts and graphs were showing crime, out of wedlock pregnancy etc were trending down until 1963, when Christianity was kicked out of American schools. It took going thru the 60's and forcing integration to motivate parents and they fled the cities, organized independent schools, academies, and homeschooling - they returned to our roots.

When school districts tried it with their charter and project schools, they dragged in all the policies and Government based ethics courses anyway. The results are they fail. Now we have teachers who demand the right to train children on how to determine their gender and who offer a closet where they can learn to be comfortable doing it.

Many of us no longer trust a Government education system and the results speak for themself, a 4-5 point improvement in testing and better opportunities looking for jobs. The basis of placing children in segregated ages has only proven to reinforce immaturity - not develope character and keep children from their defective moral choices. Children are feral and allowing them to grow to maturity that way only results in feral adults. There is no way Public Education will admit it, tho.

Is it true that for most places, the majority of property taxes are used to fund public schools?

It sounds like the real problem is the kids and the neighborhood. No school is going to be able to fix that.

From the article linked in the OP: “Based on the persistent pattern of abuse confirmed in this independent report, the only viable option is to close the school and support students in their transition to other schools in the district,” a spokesperson for the district wrote Wednesday evening.

Now ask yourself...which is more likely? That

1) this will have the stated effect that the misbehaving students behaviors will disappear, or

2) that the misbehaving students will spread their perversion to these other schools?

Perhaps that is the intended effect after all?

Close ALL gooberment indoc centers/squirrels.

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Originally posted by Edmond:
Is it true that for most places, the majority of property taxes are used to fund public schools?

It is in this state. I'd venture at least 60-75%.

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Originally posted by ryan81986:

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Originally posted by Edmond:
Is it true that for most places, the majority of property taxes are used to fund public schools?

It is in this state. I'd venture at least 60-75%.

Kitsap County WA: .260 Public School
.300 State General Fund

Easy to figure, due tomorrow, bill's on my desk. @@#!!# Haven't had a child in the system for 21 years. You're Welcome.

The failures and complaints in the OP's article are not unique and not limited to only that school or Boston.

Neither. It's CYA. There's a problem that is really beyond their ability to solve, but the feel the need to appear to be doing something. So they rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

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Originally posted by architect:
From the article linked in the OP: “Based on the persistent pattern of abuse confirmed in this independent report, the only viable option is to close the school and support students in their transition to other schools in the district,” a spokesperson for the district wrote Wednesday evening.

Now ask yourself...which is more likely? That

1) this will have the stated effect that the misbehaving students behaviors will disappear, or

2) that the misbehaving students will spread their perversion to these other schools?

Perhaps that is the intended effect after all?

And replace with what? If you think it's bad now, at least some of them are probably learning something. Don't even try to anything and it turns completely into Mogadishu.

I'd be fine with a voucher system with some level of accountability built in. But there has to be a system in place to try and educate the masses.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
Close ALL gooberment indoc centers/squirrels.