Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department

Re:Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Dep... by zeroCalories on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:12PM (#37860768)

Yeah I have family in education too and it's a sad reality that schools just can't help most students because they come from broken homes. There are marginal improvements you can make like providing free lunch and good after school activities, but an actual solution would require other fundamental problems to be solved in society, or a radical reimagining of public education.

On a more nutty note, for the possible reforms I've heard of everything from public boarding schools so kid don't have to spend time in their bad home, to firing all teachers and paying children for testing well.

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Re:Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Dep... by ethbr1 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @07:31PM (#37864538)

At the root, caring for and raising children well is an extremely time intensive endeavor.

It's hard to see a way we could fundamentally afford to pay someone to do it, at scale.

And the solutions that don't involve "someone" (at an extremely low child:caregiver ratio) don't seem like they'd produce success.

I do think schools should financially incentive performance, though! Not firing teachers, but just paying students directly for academic achievement -- make kids care.

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