Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?
by treis on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:58PM
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What we think of as school quality is mostly the quality of the students. Richer districts have, on average, students of high SES with parents that are more willing & able to help their kids succeed in school. Poorer districts have, on average, lower SES kids with terrible living situations and parents.
Having disruptive kids also makes educating them much more expensive. Discipline issues chew up a lot of resources and disrupt learning for other students. So you have to spend more to provide equal quality instruction.
And, of course, just because they spend more money doesn't mean they spend it on things that help educating students.
Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?
by esyir on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:22AM
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Perhaps the people should provide the teachers /school with more ways to punish disruption. Let schools expel and suspend disruptive students. Don't let bad actors hurt the rest. But from what I've heard, they do the opposite.
Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?
by moduspol on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:24PM
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> I'm curious why [...] inner-city schools are still horrendously bad.
I encourage you to follow this train of thought. It may bring into question some fundamental assumptions in one's world view.
Obviously the students who are raised in these high-crime areas and surrounded by a community that's significantly harsher are going to be harder for teachers to manage, and I do think this is a very big part of it, but there are some things that clearly aren't related to that(such as equipment and the quality/quantity of staff)