America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste

Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by tfehring on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:46PM (#19100918)

> But you'll never get every single public school in the country to empower its students with the resources available to schools like Lakeside and Philips Exeter. It's infeasible. They may as well be research universities.

They'll never have the same level of resources, but I bet top public schools are already at parity when it comes to quality of education. It doesn't cost $50k/year to provide a $50k/year education - it costs $50k/year to isolate your kid among others whose parents can afford to pay $50k/year.

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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by MRD85 on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @08:10PM (#19101997)

In my country we don't have school funding provided locally, it's a state level funding. Poor schools still do poorly, even with more funding. One of the big issues is school culture. A bright student surrounded my low SES kids isn't going to perform as well as a bright student in a high SES room

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