So, I just moved to a fairly affluent pocket of Los Angeles (Median Home price ~700k), which isn't "ballin" for Los Angeles, but is enough that most of the people living in the neighborhood are white and Asian, and crime isn't too bad. Before moving in I knew that within 1/2 mile of my house is a public grade school and a public middle school, but didn't look too much into it because I have one child who is 1 year old, so don't have to worry about it for a while.
Still, it would be nice to have a good public school my kid can go to, if I end up staying in this neighborhood. Nope. After moving in I saw that one of the schools is a "Charter" school and the other is a "Magnet" school. I do not know exactly what that means, but to put it bluntly the vast majority of the kids are black or hispanic and are bused in. And the schools themselves are gated and barred up like Fort Knox. The middle school even has a metal detector to get in the gate.
So I guess the way things work in Los Angeles is that most of the inner city kids go to inner city schools where they learn to be criminals, while the top echelon of inner city kids are bused into more affluent white areas where they are given a chance, and all the white and asian kids who actually live in nice areas still go to private school? looks like I will be forking over $30k+/year for my kid to go to private school like all the other whiteys. Glad to know my tax dollars are being put to good use.