Re:With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
by jacobsenscott on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:20AM
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Public schools have fantastic and cost effective results except where they are sabotaged by politics. Unfortunately destroying public education for explicitly racist reasons is now a central plank in the republican platform.
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Re:With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
by HideousKojima on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:51AM
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Extra funding has been provided to Abbott districts in New Jersey for decades, and these largely black districts are better funded than the districts in the wealthiest (and whitest) parts of the state. In spite of this, the performance gap has increased between Abbott and non-Abbott districts.
Also I don't think the word "explicitly" (or "racist," or both) means what you think it means.
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Re:With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
by masonic on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @03:32AM
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Conclusion: facts are racist
Re:With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
by onesafari on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:50AM
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What a lazy and completely unsupported talking point.
Who shut down the public schools resulting in catastrophic learning loss and depression? I'll give you a hint. It wasn't Florida.
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Re:With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
by onesafari on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @10:15AM
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None of those are banned.
Re:With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
by jamesgreenleaf on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:30AM
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Well, I don't personally identify with either side of the political divide, but it seems like increasing the quality of educational outcomes for our nation's children should be a primary concern with basic bipartisan agreement. Wishful thinking perhaps.
Re:With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
by jacobsenscott on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:59AM
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Wishful thinking indeed. School board elections, along with other local elections, are now just gateways for radical idealogs to gain entry level positions in politics. Quality education isn't even on the radar. Not that there is even a baseline agreement on what "quality" means anymore.
Re:With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
by armitron on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @10:34AM
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This is why I left California. They way things are going, it won't be long until "decolonizing mathematics" becomes part of the standard curriculum. In the meantime, illiteracy is growing and STEM grades are plummeting.
https://www.city-journal.org/california-public-schools-are-f...
Re:With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
by UberFly on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @02:16PM
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I can't read your comment. The hyperbole is too blinding.
Re:With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
by anm89 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:42AM
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"This system works great except when it doesnt"
If public schools, run by the government, don't work great when politicians get involved than that means they are not a good option.
Re:With plunging enrollment, a ‘seismic hit’ to public schools
by jacobsenscott on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @02:08AM
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> This system works great except when it doesnt
Is a meaningless tautology.
There are plenty of well run public schools throughout the world. Politicians are involved in all of them by definition. If you have a failing political system your public schools won't do well, but neither will your private schools.