Harris vs. Biden equals two flops

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7. chicago did too. the system is pretty open now. we still bus kids but

we entered into a consent decree to open up choices. we started w a few magnets for gifted kids, but now there are lots of options to cross attendance boundaries for special programs of all sorts. most of those kids can get a bus.
there are other options where parents have to get them there, and they do.
lots of good charters. hate on, but we do them right here, and choice is not an empty promise. i live around the corner from an open enrollment charter that is on the usnews list.

by high school, kids can take public transit, which is subsidized. there is a ton of choice at that level now.

i raised 5 kids in chi starting in '81, to '11.
went through every part of the system, and a lot outside it.

as it has evolved, i think a lot of good has come of it.
the idea of 'one size fits all' has been killed, and the boundaries are more and more porous.
my oldest rode a bus, and i didnt want the younger kids to do that, but if that was my only option, i would have.
youngest took the train downtown for 4 years, tho. a little over an hour each way.

i would like to see suburban districts have to open up their boundaries. there are plenty of folk who would like to have a legal route in, instead of lying about their addresses and ending up doing 10x the time that the rich folk got for bribing people to get their kids into yale.

it is still an issue, imho, and the proper role of the feds is an issue, too.
schools are still segregated.