[mturmon]

Katherine Carpenter Elementary, OP, KS for me, in the same era -- just a couple miles from your school.

I share some of the same disappointment, especially going back and noticing disinvestment in the schools, which were one of the gems of the area.

[JKCalhoun]

Shawnee Mission was a gem of the Midwest. I was told that only California had better schools (whosaidthat?).

(And then of course Prop 13 came along and impaled California.)

[mturmon]

My son went to LA-area and LAUSD schools, and the echo of that same commitment from those years in California was still faintly detectable in the 2010s, highly attenuated by Prop 13, as you mention.