>At 10:49 AM 5/29/01 -0500 Reggie Bautista wrote:
> >but economics wasn't even OFFERED in
> >any of the other high schools in the school district. There's been some
> >lobbying to try to change that, but no success so far.
>
>John replied:
>Out of curiosity, what City and State?
Kansas City, Kansas, not to be confused with the much bigger Kansas City,
Missouri.
For those of you who don't know anything about Kansas City and might be
interested...
The Kansas City metropolitan area is split right down the middle by the
Kansas/Missouri border. If you hear about something happening in Kansas
City, chances are it was is Kansas City, Missouri, home of the KC Symphony,
KC Chiefs, Royals, Wizards, and several other sports teams, Worlds of
Fun/Oceans of Fun amusement parks, Science City, Hallmark Cards, Liberty
Memorial, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (named after KC philanthropist
R. Crosby Kemper, not Kemper Insurance), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, KC
Zoo, the "Historic Country Club Plaza," regional FBI headquarters, several
colleges and universities, casinos, The American Jazz Museum, the Negro
Leagues Baseball Museum, etc. Kansas City, Kansas is home of a brand new
NASCAR race track that opens this weekend, the Kansas City Rennaissance
Festival (actually in Bonner Springs, just west of KCK), a community
college, and not much else. Despite being small and poor, KCK has better
public schools than KCMO, which just lost it's accreditation and has had a
30-year history of horrible management and a school board that is more
interested in politics than education.
KCK is in Wyandotte County (actually, the city and county government is a
"unified government"), which is one of the poorest counties in Kansas. It's
also one of the smallest counties in the midwest. The county directly to
the south of Wyandotte County is Johnson County, which is the richest county
in the state and one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S. Johnson county
is home of the world headquarters of Sprint and Sprint PCS, national
underwriting centers for several insurance companies, lots of internet-based
companies (which have mostly stayed in business during the current slump),
and a whole slew of major distribution centers for other companies such as
JC Penny's and Titleist. Jackson County in Missouri (home of KC MO) is
directly to the east of both Wyandotte and Johnson counties.
The metropolitan area as a whole is made up of eleven counties with about
1.9 million people, in an area roughly the size of Connecticut.
For more info, please feel free to contact me or visit
http://www.kansascity.com/ or
http://www.visitkc.com/
Reggie Bautista
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