Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?
by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:00PM
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There are good schools and there are bad schools. Pumping money into bad schools doesn't help, as many urban areas have found out.
Schools are institutions and have all the inertia that any other institution has. Send a good kid to a bad school and they'll perform on that level. Send a good teacher to a bad school and they'll half-ass it long enough to get the experience on their resume and move on.
If you wanna make a bad school good you break it up and sprinkle the students teachers and administrators among schools that are doing alright. Those people mostly then go on to perform at the same level as those around them.
People vote for shoveling money at the schools because it's a feel good measure and doesn't require doing anything difficult.
Schools are institutions and have all the inertia that any other institution has. Send a good kid to a bad school and they'll perform on that level. Send a good teacher to a bad school and they'll half-ass it long enough to get the experience on their resume and move on.
If you wanna make a bad school good you break it up and sprinkle the students teachers and administrators among schools that are doing alright. Those people mostly then go on to perform at the same level as those around them.
People vote for shoveling money at the schools because it's a feel good measure and doesn't require doing anything difficult.