I was actually stunned by an article that I read about in CNN!
Superintendent John Covington called for the closing or consolidation of almost half of the city’s public schools. A divided Kansas City school board voted Wednesday to approve the downsizing.
The plan shutters 28 of Kansas City’s 61 public schools, cuts 700 jobs and saves $50 million to help reduce a burgeoning deficit
This hit me strange because when I was younger and lived in the Kansas City countryside – we were bussed to these huge Kansas City inner schools because of desegregation…
These schools were huge, plus packed with kids that could careless about going to school and more about drugs!
Coming from a country school that had maybe 25 per class and only one class. It was a strange experience taking two hour bus rides to get to a school so big that you could spend all year in classes and never see everyone enrolled there.
It just seems strange that the Kansas City school systems have lost so many students that they are forced to close half the schools and reconsecrate.
I remember even going to school at night because we were so short on space that the schools systems had to run double shifts to keep the classroom size below 35 or 40 students…
Now they close half the schools…
Kyle








