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Originally posted by UpPinkies
I'm from a suburb of Saint Louis and have been keeping an eye on what is going on with the city schools. Financially they are in horrible conditions. Many of those schools need renovations, but the city school district can not afford them because they are in millions and millions of dollars in the red. Plus some of their schools academically had not been doing well and that is why the busing (bus kids from the city to county schools) program was put into place years ago. I have read plenty of articles and have wondered why people are going off on the district now when they hired a firm to help with the financial situation when this has been going on for years. I feel sorry for the teachers, staff, and administrators who have lost their jobs but this was bound to happen someday.
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I agree. I was born and raised in St.L.--a product of the school system. My mother was a high school and elementary school principal there until she retired. Your comment about the schools not doing well academically is why I said this move probably won't negatively impact the education level. In fact it might improve it.
My parents moved to University City (a suburb) almost 20 years ago because of the deterioration of St. Louis proper. While there has been a movement to build the city back up e.g., Central West End, downtown, etc. there were not adequate resources put into building the schools back up. So as you said, this has been a long time coming.