Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools
by orf on Sunday January 01, 2017 @08:17AM
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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.
Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools
by Broken_Hippo on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:53PM
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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.
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?