WHile the News survey asks about what ails the region, there is a lot of talk about jobs (as there should be) however within the city limits there is no single issue more responsible for out migration than the sad state of education. Buffalo's biggest and yet most poorly kept secret is the chasm that exists between the performance of students who attend public schools and those who attend parochial schools.
Surely some of the difference can be attributed to socioeconomic factors, etc. however not most of the difference. And the saddest thing is, there are parochial schools that are closing that have test scores far higher than the scores of public schools that remain open. The result is that students leave a better school to attend a poorer public school and tha taxpayers have to subsidize this new enrollee to the tune of about $14,500 - far more than if they were to simply pick up the tab at the parochial school where the kid might have the chance to excel.
This issue clearly shows that there are those who are for more interested in protecting a failed system than they are in protecting and helping our children.
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