no doubt other cities have similar problems with their school district (not sure any city has it worse though), but the public transportation in kcmo is just laughable. no way to fix it either because of all the annexing in the 1950's-70s. i mean Omaha, NE has almost the same population as KCMO (486k vs 508k), yet less than half of the land area (141 sq mi vs 315 sq mi). such a dumb way to make sure you're always stretched too thin, and having to spend more money on infrastructure/police, etc per resident than almost any other city.