March 9, 2013 at 2:48 pm
#785626
Bonnie
Participant
I’m not 100% sure of course but I think the district loses the federal funds for children not attending the district schools. I would think they’d still get the money from your property taxes. I don’t know how it all works though.
But I agree, if people would just put the effort to send their child to the neighborhood school it will bring up all the schools. Instead everybody wants their kids in the ‘best’ school and that is how we get so much overcrowding.
editing to add that just because kids are on free/reduced lunch does not mean that they are not good kids. I don’t know if I would count on that data to determine if a school is good.