Under the banner of “modernization,” the district intends to shutter neighborhood schools, redraw catchment boundaries and compel students to travel farther from their communities. Experience has shown that such closures disproportionately impact working-class neighborhoods. The loss of a local public school destabilizes entire communities, eliminating not only classrooms but vital social hubs that provide meals, counseling and after-school programs.
With gutted education in Philadelphia there will be more kids just out maxxin and relaxin playin b-ball, then a couple a guys who are up to no good will start making trouble in the neighborhood.
There’ll be fights, their moms will be scared…but not everybody has an uncle and auntie to move in with in Bel Air. :(
