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Lack of parent investment and activity in school functions because the school is 40 minutes across town (in a city that is hostile to car use). Oh and if you have multiple kids, they can be sent to different schools.

If the parents are upset, they won't be involved and you get bad schools.

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Also the (working) parents are tired and drained after work -all they want to do is pick the kids up and take them back home. They have little energy for any Parent-teacher meetings, functions, fund-raisers, etc.

Crosstown assignments are detrimental to parental involvement in education.

Interesting. I thought the assignments were random, though? Assuming a normal distribution most parents shouldn't have a 40 minute across town commute.

The distribution is probably uniform, not normal. The point of such programs is generally to homogenize access, not simply blur lines.

In San Francisco, depending on the time of day and the parking conditions, any trip can become a 40 minute slog.

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