Re:Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games
by willio58 on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:27PM
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> If we've learned one thing about education over the years it's that past a certain point more funding doesn't help.
Have we learned this? I don't remember a single time in my life when teachers were generally considered fairly paid.
1. Engaged parents.
2. Social Norms that normalize learning behaviours.
Parent's can control the first directly and the second indirectly by "choosing" a non public school option or moving to a district that has the proper norms.
Charter schools are one of a class of escape hatches that less advantaged parents can choose in order to impact the second factor for their child. I strongly believe that these escape hatches should exist for the Parents who can't easily move or choose a private option. Improving education outcomes for the children of those parents who do care requires giving them tools to support their children whether the environment itself does or does not.
It seems unfair to force those parents to fail just because their community is failing around them.