School to Choice?

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of in my life. We're so concerned about overcrowding in schools in Michigan, yet we have public schools that are being closed every semester because of low enrollment rates, when school enrollment is currently the highest in history. Doesn't make sense? Sure it does. School A is built to hold 2000 students, and school B is built to hold 1500 students. School A is in a lower class neighborhood where graffiti overrules street signs, and school B is in a cleaner middle class neighborhood, where you can walk at night without fear. Instead of everyone paying taxes in school district A and working toward improving their schools, they say f*ck it and send their kids to the nice, well taken care of school in school district B where other people are paying all the taxes and working toward upkeeping their neighborhood. Schools and neighborhoods don't stay nice on their own with magic. You have to get off your own ass and get involved to improve the quality of the area, attracting more and better teachers, and improving curb appeal of the schools.

Addressing the problem of school overcrowding while others are closing...
Everyone in school district B gives up on their neighborhood/school district instead of acting on it, and ships their kids to school B, made to hold 1500 people, so now it houses 3,000 students, and is 100% over it's max capacity. Thanks to the wording of the law, the fire marshal can't even put a stop to this. This epidemic leaves school A empty, and under-filled, thus causing closing of the school, leaving the overcrowding of school B, nowhere to go.

Condition of quality...
It's a proven fact that lower quality or lower income neighborhoods, have a higher crime rate. Why? Because the underprivileged of the world gather in these section 8 and low income neighborhoods, and the cancer grows. Those unlucky children that are born into families like this (not low income, but low quality, you can make 100,000 a year and be low quality) are brought up knowing no other lifestyle, and these are the kids that are being shipped off to other schools, overcrowding them, alot because they have already been expelled from a previous school, and this brings down the quality of other schools. Guess what, we have boot camps. Use them. Don't expect the rest of us to babysit your little punks.


Bottom line, keep your kids in your own school district. If you don't like the schools appearance or teaching methods, do something about it. Make a voice for yourself, goto a school board meeting. They are public. If you feel it's impossible to make a change, and the school is that bad, your neighborhood probably isn't much better, man or woman up, and make a better life for your family. Downgrade from a 50,000 dollar car to a 30,000 dollar car, and move your family into a middle or "upper" class neighborhood, and quit settling for lower class.