Show me numbers

Good to see my hometown making the news for relatively positive reasons.  A few quick points: 

First, I admit that I haven't kept up on Rochester news since moving (both to college, and with my parents) 5 years ago, but I don't know how "many" people think East High is the most troubled in Rochester.  It has its fair share of problems, to be sure, but it also has one of the few IB programs in the county (suburban or urban) and as a larger school, has a fair amount to offer in terms of co-curricular activities.  Its mascot is also the Orientals, so by that measure, it's probably the most troubled.  

Second, the article seems to be more interested in writing creative nonfiction.  Sure, it traffics in innuendo about the tough halls of East High-- "ambulance attendants were rolling out a young man on a gurney and wearing a neck brace."  Insinuendo, we called in it college: no actual reporting on what happened to the young man--Heaven forbid a good image get ruined by a phys. ed. accident--just a tantalizing hint at the problems at East.  Insinuation + innuendo.   Same with the 5 person calculus class.  "Not normally enough to justify a class."  Well, why aren't there more people in calculus at East? The author lets our minds wander.   No supervision at home.  Too many kids taken out on gurneys.  Wait, I thought small classes were a good thing?  It's an interesting gambit (particularly by playing against popular conceptions of class size), but I'd prefer to see some numbers about the apparent disconnect between Rochester schools' success and their teachers' salaries.