Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
by pathseeker on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @07:04PM
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>that the kids in, say, Lodi are still getting shafted
So are the ones in a 200 person town in Alaska. What does proximity matter?
Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
by gumby on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @08:31PM
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Because the point was to try to improve the educational opportunities for all the kids in California. California has nothing to do with school funding in Alaska.
Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
by zozbot123 on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @03:13PM
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How are the other kids "getting shafted"? They're still getting more funding thanks to the property tax revenue being spread around. Do you think they should be envious of the kids in Palo Alto who are benefitting from the extra donation money, or what? I mean, it's one thing to advocate for more funding of all sorts of underserved educational opportunities, but this rhetoric of envy and misguided entitlement is just not very appealing, even from that POV.
Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
by tfehring on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:31PM
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> They're still getting more funding thanks to the property tax revenue being spread around.
More funding relative to what? Certainly not relative to the funding Palo Alto schools are getting.
But what this means is that the kids in, say, Lodi are still getting shafted even though the whole point of spreading the money around was to try to level the school spending difference between rich and poor areas.