> or kids with Asperger's

Not for nothing, but Asperger's hasn't been a diagnosis for a decade (not least because Herr Asperger was a Nazi collaborator who referred disabled kids to a clinic where they were probably murdered). It's folded into the somewhat broader autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-1 as of DSM V*.

*whoops wrong revision

[removed]

We get it

[removed]

[deleted]

Lots of teenagers making a ruckus down there. They used to knock out people randomly in the 2010s. I wouldn’t live there if I could live elsewhere in CC.

I appreciate the very thorough response. There's probably 5 or 6 things in here that I didn't know. This is just an insane number of steps to expect citizens to go through, but that does seem to be par for the course for city government.

>I have not found a single website that comes close to your 50 or 100 percent numbers. What source are you getting these numbers from?

I'm just spitballing based on numbers in the inquirer article.

In reality, the philadelphia district and lower merion have roughly the same per student expenses:

https://www.niche.com/k12/d/philadelphia-city-school-district-pa/

https://www.niche.com/k12/d/lower-merion-school-district-pa/

...but the article implies that this number actually would need to be increased thousands more in Philadelphia in order to get up to the state average, or to get to what Lower Merion "spends":

" a need-adjusted measure of what districts actually spend — is $10,796 per student; the state average is $13,688. Lower Merion, by comparison, spells $26,362 per student."

Which gets back to my original point about why this type of analysis is so silly and ridiculous. Measured in dollars (which is how most people measure spending usually...), these districts spend similar amounts but measured in this mysterious "Needs Based Adjusted" metric, the numbers come out wildly different. It just seems dishonest and bizarre.

I work at an agency for a different company, and my answer would be to shop around. Car insurance rates are super dependent on location and company (Allstate just might not be that competitive in Fishtown). Definitely look around and see what's out there (incidentally, at least with my company, Fairmount is a very low cost place to insure a car, at least by Philly standards).

Check out Clear Cover. They just became available in PA and the rates are excellent. I have better coverage than I did with Geico and it's almost half the price.

Nothing nice about Nicetown.

My Geico rate was going to renew with a 40% jump. No accidents/incidents/tickets, recently or ever. If I hadn't looked into their (fairly confusing) billing documentation before renewal and given them a call to confirm, I wouldn't have even noticed until it was too late. Shopped around and the best new quote I could find (which roughly split the difference between my old rate and my new rate with Geico) was with Progressive. FYI you only get the max available discounts if you sign with them a week or more before your current policy expires.

I was told that, when they were first setting up the current day Electric Factory/ Franklin Music Hall space, the sound booth had been in the back as per usual, and once everything was optimized for the space, the owner decided they'd visually prefer the booth up front, but never reworked the sound booth, because they had no idea what they were doing.

It feels insane for that story to still be the case, for a venue to change hands and still, no one looks into the weird booth placement and notoriously terrible sound, so I can't say what goes on there currently. I'm not sure I've been there in almost 10 years myself.

MANDATORY 4K, people. MANDATORY 4K.

I have not found a single website that comes close to your 50 or 100 percent numbers. What source are you getting these numbers from? Since we're discussing relative spending, the answer to your questions don't need to be hard numbers. Just that those numbers are higher in the city compared to the suburbs. Which certainly you can understand?

Thanks for the tip.

There might not be 7 dedicated librarians but from my experience there were teachers that staffed them, or students actually. That's why I'd like to see the data to see if it's misleading in any way.

It should. Your insurance agency probably won’t bring it up on their own though so push them for it.

[deleted]

I’m surprised it’s not a bigger increase.

Say more or say less, this is worse than a platitude - it's meaningless to the point that anyone can impart any interpretation on to this they'd like.

Simon Gratz has had so many kids murdered in the last 5 years. Ugh.

>homeless

What percentage of Philadelphia public school children are homeless? And how much more does it cost to educate a homeless child than a housed child?

​

>lack internet access

Why does this increase the cost to educate children?

The district could literally just pay ~$50/mo to get every family free internet and it would represent like 2% of the total budget.

​

>require special education etc.

That is the entire question I'm asking here: what is so "special" about Philadelphia children that they cost 50% or 100% more to educate than suburban children?

The good news is that the above commenter posted the article that answers your questions. Not exactly shocking, but a lot more intensive teaching is required when you have a large amount of students who are homeless, lack internet access, require special education etc.

[removed]