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Buffalo Public Schools 818th/829?

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@matthew came home form work all riled up about the Buffalo public school system, which I assume is due to the ladies he works for talking about it as we have no kids.

Anyhow, I didn't believe him how bad it was because the people I know who went to Buffalo public school seem okay. I figured it was just private schooling parents freakin out about how bad the schools are.

Then I tried looking up some info about the schools in buffalo and happend upon schooldigger.com's entry for Buffalo. Apparently, Buffalo is 818th out of 829 cities reviewed. Yes, that puts it at 0/5 stars.

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Omg, look at Buffalo Elementary School of Technology over at 313 South Division Street - It is 2273rd/2278 public elementary schools in state ranking. Can it be worse? Yes, but only 5 places worse ;(.

Clearly it is a economics issue as that school has 97% of students on discounted/free lunch.

It seems like all the white people are leaving. Looks at the stats. Its interesting that this site offers so much information about each school. Sadly, there is not much info for the private and charter schools.

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Same with Bennett which was 750th out of 776 public high schools.

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Same with Buffalo Traditional School which is now close
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Where did all the whities go, this is during the 90s and early 2000s that it all changed? Did they used to have forced integration that ended. Just look at the numbers that dropped since 2000.

Hutch Tech got great reviews. Is there any hope for buffalo with such a crappy education system in place? Is there even a solution?

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💬 3 comments

  1. gardenmama ·

    As an employee of the BPS I have much to say on this (most not so good), but a response will require some time on my part. Perhaps I will have something together this weekend. I think it's an important issue to the future vitality of our city, and nationally as well. Thanks for this post - it's good to know people care and are paying attention.

  2. jason ·

    It's a disgrace, certainly. Our state leads the nation in school spending, but ranks 48th in 4 year graduation rates. A full THIRD of our students don't graduate on time. Ouch!

    :::link:::

    Unfortunately, it isn't about outcomes or results. Our situation isn't good. Teacher's unions are sacred cows, our school board is corrupt, and nobody is looking out for the kids!

    Sam Hoyt calls the answer "school choice" - This means supporting charter schools which actually are accountable for their results. I wonder how many hate mails he gets from the flaming hypocrites at the BTF every day.

  3. metalpeter ·

    When I was in School I went to a Good High School and I liked it. I can't say how things are at other schools or how things are now. I think there is a big game between schools like Da Vinci, Honors, Hutch and the Special Programs at Mac Kinley (yeah my spelling sucks because of my early years and I was never good at it) and the Nieghborhood schools. I think any school that you have to apply for has an advantage. First of all they don't let dumb kids in, secondly since you have to try and get in, that means you want to be there, you want to get an education, it isn't that you are there because you have to be. Once a school is good then the good teachers want to go there. Yes there are teachers who want to help the "Troubled Kids" but no one wants to spend more time or watching or making sure kids are good then teaching. I'm not saying places like Grover are bad. But the preception that they are is what causes them to get worse. Lets say I have a kid and I want a good education then I send him to a Private school. So now this good kid isn't in a public school but if he was he could make it better and maybe he becomes friends with a troubled kid or someone who wants to learn but Mom is never home so he isn't taught that education is important. But yet this "good" kid is a "good" influnce on him so he does better in school then if the good kid was at some private school. Since the good kids aren't sent to the city schools it makes the school worse so then no other good kids go there. I'm not saying the white kids are good and the black are bad. But often that is the perception of parents. So if a good student doesn't get into Tech or Honors it is off to some private school or they even move. Yes people in the burbs do this also they will sell there house and move to change disticts so they can be in the good district. The school system is so complex that no comment could really cover it all. You also have to look at sprawl and that is a factor also.

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