Public School? Private School? Part 2

After 1 year of discussion, excuse me, I would say 20 years of debates, the education system in here is still not promising. With the new student assignment redesign, I don't see the improvement or attempt to improve of the school quality. There's only a lie that the school district superintendents would like to fool us parents or fool themselves on giving a solution to the current problems.

Racial diversity? What is the business of it to the school district? USA is a country with different races and we have total freedom to choose where we live. Why it matters for us to choose to live in a community of the same races? It does not matter me, why you concern about mattering me?

Equity of access to high quality schools? If the under-performed groups do not concern about that, why you think that it bothers them? Does it just like us forcing some people to go to college when they don't want to? But, the ones who want to attend colleges get no chance because they are not poor enough or rich enough.

It's not a game of the superintendents to test. They are real children! We are real parents! It's not like a chess game. If you fail, just start another one. It's a real life game! If the child fails, would he or she able to start again? We parents already have so much stresses and pressures and this stupid student assignment system already draw so many people crazy. Why so many parents fraud to get their children in good schools? Why middle class parents cut their other spending to send their kids to private schools? It's because the current system "persuade" and "stimulate" them to do that.

Some nuts raised silly questions and ideas on cutting yellow bus services and making more restrictions, etc. to "protect" the system being gamed. Why don't you guys think about improving the quality of the schools? The teacher quality, the principal quality, the curriculum quality...all these matters, not the student assignment itself can benefit the students. I can understand that the federal budget and state budget had been cut and the school district needs to find the ways to trim down their expenses. However, I can see the biggest expense of school district is salary: 700 people costs $80.5 million a year and we will be having a deficit of $113 million in a year or two. How the school district is going to cut this deficit? The answer is the benefit of the students: yellow buses, teachers, extra-curriculum funding, support, after-school activities...

I'm getting tired to see or know that. Private school may not be a real solution but I would not want my kids to go through those. Our financial situation is another story. If I lose my job, I may have no choice.