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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by wolfgke on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:18PM (#13294364)
Why not allow (mostly) autonomy to the schools in this kind of question so that there is a school for every taste (as long as their are enough parents with children to fill the classrooms of such a school)? Parents should (mostly) not care to what school children of other parents go as long there is a school that satisfies their desires for their children.
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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by robotresearcher on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:57PM (#13294484)
We need to protect children from the desires of their badly-educated parents.

Large populations of people believe all kinds of crazy stuff that most of us prefer not to help propagate with our tax dollars.

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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by ticviking on Saturday December 31, 2016 @11:38PM (#13294718)
And those people would rather to pay taxes to have their children taught to disdain and look down on them.
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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by robotresearcher on Sunday January 01, 2017 @01:25AM (#13294896)
The same way we feel about segregationist grandparents. Yes.
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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by ubernostrum on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:40PM (#13294432)
Are you aware of the US' population density?

I grew up in a town where the entire population, at the last census, was a bit over 11,000 people. It would've taken probably two hours or more each way to provide bus service to the local "big city" (a whopping 50,000 people!).

How would you support multiple schools offering real choice in approach in a community that size and that spread out? And then how would you scale it to work in all the other places in the US which are like this?

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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by orf on Sunday January 01, 2017 @08:17AM (#13295639)
I come from a town in England with 15,000 residents. It has 3 secondary schools (sort of like high schools) and 2-3 primary schools.

Just... Build schools.

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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by Broken_Hippo on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:53PM (#13294473)
It isn't easily solvable for young students, but for high school age kids it is. You can increase course offerings through some sort of in-school distance learning. The last 2 years, when kids are generally 16-18 could sometimes go away to school.

Of course, all of this requires some investment and planning. The political fix would be to buss the students to far-flung schools.

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