For what it’s worth, my distate for public schools began in San Diego: my family moved from Philly to San Diego, where I was dropped into Kit Carson Elementary. I was bored out of my gourd, and things only marginally improved when I transferred to Pete Ross Elementary.
We then moved to Austin, and the schools that I attended were good, until busing came around, and poorly behaved folks tromped into our nice schools.
That’s my big beef with public schools: they tolerate and coddle poorly behaved folks instead of kicking them out.
