Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ...
by throwaway894345 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @12:46AM
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Fair enough, but my impression of lots of public schools is that they are abysmal and the few that aren’t are typically only available to rich people anyway (in practice, not principle) so the current system addresses neither overall quality of education nor inequality.
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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ...
by nicoburns on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:01AM
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Yes, currently. But we should be looking to improve that system for everyone, not allowing a privileges few to opt out.
Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ...
by brightball on Sunday June 20, 2021 @12:33PM
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Wouldn’t a better system have more options with different approaches rather than a single lowest common denominator?
Just from a scientific perspective, more experiments that are able to learn from each other and adapt things they see working elsewhere into their approach should naturally lead to constantly improving schools.
A single lowest common denominator that nobody is allowed to escape from is doomed to failure by comparison.
Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ...
by throwaway894345 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @04:34PM
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Vouchers aren’t about letting the privileged few opt out, not more so than the current system anyway. And shooting down vouchers without a better plan for improving the current system is just prolonging a system that is bad for everyone (mostly the poor).