‘Exhausted and underpaid’: teachers across the US are leaving their jobs

Re:‘Exhausted and underpaid’: teachers across the US are lea... by jcims on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:46PM (#28823757)

Many wealthy areas dump their money into private schools and therefore don’t support high millage property taxes for public education. If you look around in Ohio at least, this generally evens the spending out on a per pupil basis.

The biggest differences are generally between rural and urban districts.

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Re:‘Exhausted and underpaid’: teachers across the US are lea... by zenithd on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:18AM (#28824939)

> The biggest differences are generally between rural and urban districts.

Huh. I would characterize this more like "suburban vs. everything else, with some urban exceptions".

City schools have extreme bifurcations depending on their inputs; Boston Latins and Lane Techs exist but are notable precisely because they're exceptions to the general rule that city school systems aren't great.

Suburban schools are generally OK. Never nearly as good as the local population seems to think, but whatever.

Rural schools are uniformly horrible (but at least not as bad as the bad side of the bifurcated urban schools).

At least, that's my understanding.

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