KCRag Forum

aknowledgeableperson wrote: First you say you understand the movement to suburbanize but do you accept it?  Yes, white people left the central cities but are you trying to put the decline of the cities entirely on the white flight?  The decay of the cities was caused by many things that happened in our society.  But to blame my parents, or any parent for that matter, for the decay by their moving of the family from the central part of KCK to an area that was then outside of KCMO city limits on the southside is way off-base.  And much like almost 22 years ago my wife and I moved our family from the Hickman Mills area to the Red Bridge area out intent was to have a better environment for our children and if that caused a little decline in the Hickman Mills area then sobeit.

wetpaint wrote: My daughter will be born sometime in the next few weeks. I love KCMO, but if we can't find a decent school for her in a few years, we'll be packing up and moving to the burbs. We'll hate it, but we'll do it.

trailerkid wrote: This point shouldn't be lost. American cities were often dirty, racist, classist places where lots of horrific things took place. I can understand the movement to suburbanize. However, instead of improving the conditions in our central cities...white people packed up, abandoned them and destroyed what was left for parking or cheap fast food and light industrial. The war for urban America is one to revitalize and improve our central city at any cost. 

cdm2p wrote: I moved to KCMO 12 years ago before I had any kids.  I sincerely thought that the KCMO school district would improve.  Boy was I wrong.  My kids are now in private schools.  I thought about moving to Shoal Creek but that felt too much like living in Disneyland.  Besides, a 30 minute communte to my job downtown was more than I could stomach.

cdm2p wrote: I moved to KCMO 12 years ago before I had any kids.  I sincerely thought that the KCMO school district would improve.  Boy was I wrong.  My kids are now in private schools.  I thought about moving to Shoal Creek but that felt too much like living in Disneyland.  Besides, a 30 minute communte to my job downtown was more than I could stomach.

Midtownkid wrote: Stabbings at westport high?  Huge drop out rates?  Specific problems: Parents who don't care...

voltopt wrote: I asked my mom, who became a teacher in the KCMO district about 4 years ago, if she would send me to the school she teaches at now.  Before she taught in the district she taught in Catholic schools, which I naturally attended.  She said she would not hesitate to have me educated at her current school.

voltopt wrote:   When I was choosing a high school, I believe my parents would have been fine with me attending Westport, Lincoln, or Paseo had I insisted - it was in 1992 and there was a lot of local interest in magnet schools - or Center High School, which is the neighborhood I lived in.