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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

The jobs that once kept the city prosperous are being replaced by skilled jobs in service sectors such as health care, finance and information technology — positions that require more education than just a high-school diploma, thus squeezing out many of those blue-collar, traditionally middle-class workers. Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it.

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