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Re:Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Dep... by willcipriano on Thursday October 12, 2023 @01:42PM (#37860360)
Military households and the dependas that inhabit them aren't the stable footing you are imagining. The worst marriage stories I've heard happen under those circumstances.
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Re:Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Dep... by Spinnaker_ on Thursday October 12, 2023 @01:48PM (#37860429)
There are many schools where over 70% of kids live in single parents households. I'm sure you have bad stories, but it's not comparable overall.
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Re:Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Dep... by jmoss20 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @06:46PM (#37864128)
The claim here is that the military families are /so much more stable/ that it explains their kids (collectively) performing better than every other state in the country.

Obviously the military provides some sort of economic lower bound. But it also applies a pretty harsh upper bound, and has all sorts of other effects that you would expect to push the mean down.

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