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> Economically gifted students are likely to have an outsized impact If you do that, you basically just dumped a bunch of money into kids that are immediatley
by navait 11y ago
> Economically gifted students are likely to have an outsized impact
If you do that, you basically just dumped a bunch of money into kids that are immediatley leaving for somewhere else. It's like global warming; why cut emissions for someone else's benefit compared to your own?
- jschwartzi 11y agoCan you please elaborate or share some kind of story on why you think this would happen? Where are they leaving to, and why?
- jerf 11y agoWe fund schools because on the whole it all works out; if San Francisco teaches a kid who moves to New York, well, New York taught a kid that moved to Portland and Portland taught a kid that moved to a Kansas farm and Kansas taught a kid that moved to Texas, and in the end everybody wins pretty well.
- afarrell 11y agojerf, the problem is that there is nothing to keep Alabama from defecting, except for the fact that educated people like to live around places with good education systems and tend to vote in favor of education.