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Boston Real Estate Broker: “I was just thinking about being on the old school bus”
I was just thinking of the old yellow school bus I use to take as a kid, when I came across this article
Condominium buyers take note: Massachusetts has the best public school system in the country
Massachusetts has the best public school system in the country, according to WalletHub’s “2022 States With the Best & Words School Systems” report.
Homebuyers carefully choose communities based on several factors, and for those raising a family or planning to, finding an area with great schools is a high priority. For many families public education is the only option, but school systems can vary widely due to resources and funding, according to the report.
WalletHub compared public school systems in all 50 states and the District of Columbia across 32 key metrics based on quality and safety.
Massachusetts ranked No. 1 with a score of 72.79, coming in tops for both quality and safety. The Bay State also ranked No. 1 for math test scores and reading test scores. It tied for first in ACT test scores with Connecticut and the District of Columbia. Massachusetts also had the lowest percentage of threatened/injured high school students in the study.
The Bay State was followed by Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland.
Boston Real Estate Blog Updated 2022
If you rode the school bus when you were a child, do you remember who you sat next to? Can you see the faces of the other kids on that bus? Do you know or maybe wonder where any of them are today?
In his book Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof talks about his number 6 bus in Yamhill, Oregon. A quarter of those children who he rode with every day are now dead. The book tells the story of what happened to his friends and how, like so many other children, they were never able to live up to their full potential.
If you have friends whose life outcomes are dramatically different from your own, then this is probably worth a read. The same goes if you just want to better understand why some kids make it, while others do not.
It is sad to say that I don’t remember or keep in touch with many friends from my school bus. I know a few are dead, others in prison, (luckily not me) many I assume struggling are in this pandemic era.
In many ways, we are all still on that bus.
Perhaps by sitting next to each other and simply talking once again, we could find ourselves all driving to the same stop – one better for all our children. Or so we can hope.
