Kansas City school closure round-up

Once a school/district culture becomes toxic (dominated by antisocial behavior and anti-education attitudes), it isn’t only whites that will flee the system, either by moving out or by using charter/private schools. Even in generally affluent suburbs, a small percentage of black kids who see black academic success as a betrayal of their race can poison the well for many/most of the black kids in the school, through ridicule and abuse. I’ve seen it happen to friends of my own kids, despite the best efforts of professional, married parents to counteract it. In the end, lots of kids were moved to private, often religious, schools (even if the religion was not theirs).