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Re:Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable by badfrog on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:20PM (#21274332)
> This is only the case if the schools are bad because of the students going to them.

Presumably the good schools got good because they're in rich neighborhoods where the parents pour time and money into the schools. If their kids are going to a wider variety of schools now, the rich parents will have incentive to make all the schools good.

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Re:Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable by scarmig on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:51PM (#21276301)
What instead happens is rich parents either move out of San Francisco to the burbs, or send their kids to private school. And so San Francisco ends up both with the lowest population of children of any major city and one of the highest private school enrollment rates in the country (~20%).
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