Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
by torresmo on Thursday October 01, 2020 @12:50PM
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Have we considered not tying school funding to property tax? What if all the property tax was (sort of) evenly distributed among schools? Similar to Canada [1] (and I bet other countries).
[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/...
Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
by fastball on Thursday October 01, 2020 @05:09AM
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Combine it with a voucher system then, no?
Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
by mattigames on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:08AM
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If that's true then make it so you can't pick the school your children go to, instead they are assigned random one (between reasonable limits, e.g. not farther away than 1 hour conmute)
Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
by twblalock on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:16AM
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You mean forced busing? That’s been done. It did not end well. The backlash against it made the entire program counterproductive.
Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
by mattigames on Thursday October 01, 2020 @05:44AM
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Some people disagree that busing didn't work [0] as well as there is research showing that and I quote "results show that a higher percentage of Black schoolmates has a strong adverse effect on achievement of Blacks" [1]
[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/national...
It doesn't work this way. Affluent people congregate together and push up the price of housing in a commmunity to drive out "undesirables", then the "undesirables" all end up living in a poor part of town, with shitty schools. But now it's even harder for the "undesirables" to get a good education for their kids, as renting/buying a house in the affluent communities is even more expensive than private school would be.