Life in "Progress" City - Kansas City edition

While everyone is doing a lot of back slapping regarding the new one half billion dollar LA public school, let's go back in time and remember another liberal school experiment in Kansas City, where they spent more than a billion dollars at the time to upgrade the schools.

Remember how the public was told how people would be leaving the suburbs to get their kids into the KC schools?

Well, in a surprise to no one, it didn't quite work out that way............

Like so many other public school parents, Reshonda Sanders felt confused on Thursday as she tried to comprehend why nearly half of the schools here, including her own alma mater, are to close for good at the end of the year. As the mother of two high school students, she was well aware of the district’s struggles.

“But even so, I thought, Could they be serious? Close almost 30 schools, all at once?” said Ms. Sanders, 34. “That’s devastating for us. How did it get to be this bad? What were they doing for years and years so that something like this happens just like overnight?”

In her bafflement, Ms. Sanders is not alone. In the wake of the Kansas City school board’s decision to shutter 28 of its 61 schools, many people were left scratching their heads. While school closings as a result of demographic change and tight budgets are commonplace across the country, rarely does a system lose half of itself in one sweep.

The sudden move suggests a depth of dysfunction here that is rarely associated with Kansas City, a lively heartland town with a reputation for order. But a closer look at the school board’s recent history reveals a chaotic, almost nonfunctioning body that put off making tough choices and even routine improvements for generations. Experts said that in the board’s years of inaction is a cautionary tale for school districts everywhere.

Needless to say, it's just one of the many things that liberals have managed to rot.

The most pathetic thing about this article is the last sentence.

Nakisha Eubanks, a mother of three students, said: “I don’t want my kids in this district, going through all this disruption. But I can’t move, and I don’t have transportation. So, this is it.”

And that my friends is the only way liberal can govern; by forcing the people who have no choice into accepting the putrid and disgusting.

Now that's "progressive"!

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