What is it like being an alumni of a school that’s underfunded or neglected? Even if the school is “good” (as in well funded or private), does the learning environment reflect that? Also, the dark side of American schools (shootings) dampens peace of mind for parents since at any given moment some gun wielding individual can storm in murdering those inside (students, teachers, custodians, etc.)
And the excellent school and awful school can only be a few miles apart.
Our schools are funded via local taxes overwhelmingly, so the wealth of your town is the biggest determiner of how good your school system is. States governments are supposed to make up this difference and give more money to poorer schools, but it has a limited affect.
The feedback loops that local funding creates are vicious too:
desirable neighborhood -> higher prices -> more taxes -> better funded school -> desirable neighborhood (for families)
undesirable neighborhood -> low prices and no population increase -> worse funded school -> undesirable for families
As you said, next to one another. By sheer luck I happened to live in an apartment building that somehow belonged to a rich school district. Next building over was in the poor school district.
I dunno, that idea you just posted sure sounds like Sociology to me…which is now banned in Florida.
Yeah, there is a ‘loop’ in that some people live in cheaper areas, but send their children to private schools.
But the ‘tax’ on really good pubic schools commands such a premier, that often it is more expensive to send your kids to a really god public school than it is to a private one. The top 10 districts in my state all have home values that are over a million dollars, but all those schools are better than most private schools.
Then you have parents that have a million in assets but refuse to spend money so their kids can go to private school…
Private school is not automatically better. I live in a million dollar house and very much intend to use the public school district here.
I mean when your public school’s rating is 1/10, anything else is surely gonna a lot better.
Funny thing is: In China, the “private” school I went to was actually worse (according to mom)… its made for migrant parents whose kids did not have a Hukou where the parents worked (in cities, parents are from rural areas where there were no jobs) and since the parents want to keep their kids close to them so these “private” schools were the only options since public school didn’t allow them without a local hukou.
(Cuz the other option would be to leave their kida behind with grandparents so they can go to school where their Hukou is registered… which means kids arent gonna be able to see parents for a long time… which is very sad…)
Also the house is not a million dollars, its barely like 100k, taxes are low, I’m saying they have like 1 mil in like… small bussiness investments that turns 100k profits every year…
I could’ve been spared the fears of getting into a fight every day…
And I did end up getting into a fight…
And I ended up just using a public defender lol…
Cuz “it’s just a highschool fight, not that serious, you don’t need a private defence attorney for it”
I mean sure… I had derivative citizenship from mon’s naturalization so its not like they could deport me…
So I just… I felt like a burden… since I got mom having to run around to talk to the school then pick me up from the local police station… so I felt like I cause her too much trouble and didn’t feel like I needed a private defence attorney…
Ended up with charges dismissed anyways…
But had I been a non citizen, I’d probably have insisted in a private defence attorney to make sure the record is as clean as possible… I mean imagine getting deported over a highschool fight when you acted in self defence lmfao…
I feel like my mom had an OBSESSION with money… like numbers go up = happiness…
The house I live in still has a lot of broken stuff…
Like… this is the OceanGate type of shit with Video Game Controllers as controls… that type of shit…
That’s how they live life… like they’re in the Titan Submarine… lmfao…
(Sorry if I’m rambling, I do that a lot…)
In the Des Moines area all the difference schools share the same funding. Some schools are still vastly better than others.
As I’ve said before the largest factor seems to be parents that don’t value education teach their kids to not learn much in school.
the largest factor is how rich your parents are. parental income overwhelmingly predicts student outcome, like 90% of it.
Only about 10 percent of students are gifted or ungifted enough to significantly over or under perform the baseline their parental income establishes
That doesn’t establish a cause though. well off parents teach their kids to value education.
No, they pay the schools to do that for them.