Back East and down South, students can not move around from school to school, if you live in Baypoint, you go to school in Baypoint, its very simple. Its very difficult to even transfer to another high school in the same City in other parts of the country. It depends on what neighborhood your family lives in. Taxpayers in safer areas, who have worked for years.....to purchase a nice home and put their children into the best schools, do not want problems imported into their city from neighboring cities. Families plan there entire lives around buying a home in a great school district where there children will be safe and not distracted by delinquents who should not be in school to begin with.....many also opt for private, or religious schools where public schools are not adequate. Why does CA allow students from outside the District to attend their public schools ??. Answer, LIBERALISM and social engineering. The school Boards, filled with liberals have allowed this to happen all throughout CA, its [bleep] backwards in CA. High standards and exceptional education are not the the main prioritys las in other states, of course there are exceptions. Many districts don't bat an eye, nor do they care, its all about getting those Federal dollars for each body attending their school each day, to hell with educating them. A warehousing situation to keep funding coming in for the fat cats running the District. During an audit in Oakland our citizens group, with politicians and media in tow...... found $6,000 cherrywood desks for District honchos, bloated staffs at the District offices and janitors on the dole showing up once a week to collect a check, all while the roofs leaked, and earmarked construction funding was dissapearing at specific schools. Thats when the State Dept. of ED took over, taking fiscal control away from the District and the School Board members......... If the school is violent, then a fence is a good idea, to protect community members and senior citizens from crime, armed robberies etc... and to assist school personnel in keeping the kids in school learning and not out on the streets. In a utopian world, there would be no need for metal detectors and fenced high school campuses, unfortunately that is not the world we live in. "Oh what a tangled web they weave, when they set out to deceive.