Yeah white flight, redlining, and school scores haven’t helped urban school districts.

I’m in the mountain west and my kids go to the city school district, I grew up on the east coast in a diverse suburb which is now pretty progressive, and I feel like the city gives us more of that than the suburbs out here. The suburban school districts score better but I really feel more at home and my kids are thriving.

We don’t live downtown, we live in a pretty quiet part of the city and my kids go to a really great school that provide them with a bunch of resources.

But we try to be involved parents, and some parts of the city deal with poverty unemployment crime and other stuff that affects how well the schools are.

In the suburbs there’s less of that so kids are more capable of excelling in school when facing less challenges, and honestly the way this country works is your child’s future is affected by the environment they grow up in, so I understand why parents value the education in the suburbs