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Property tax comes after the fact. You move to a new area with kids now. You pay your property tax at the end of the year. But the kids need school right now an
by yardie 11y ago
Property tax comes after the fact. You move to a new area with kids now. You pay your property tax at the end of the year. But the kids need school right now and the district has to: find property to build a new school, raise bonds to fund it, build the damn thing, hire staff.
A modern tract home can be built in as little as 2 weeks with modern prefab construction. Schools take much longer.
- hodwik2 11y agoThe students escaping the ghetto will still be getting a measurably better education on the strained suburban school than they will at the ghetto school they're currently stuck in.
- mountaineer22 11y agoDoes "escaping" imply segregating one's child from the "ghetto school"?
- jessaustin 11y agoAll parents who love their children would "segregate" them from awful schools if they could. The whole point of thread originator was that geographical restrictions are more unfair to the poor than they are to anyone else.
- home_boi 11y agoWhat about the kids who go to the suburban school? Kids from the ghettos can simultaneously be the victims and causes of the state of their school. Just an anecdote, I went to an upper middle class suburban high school. The poorest kids in my school were the biggest bullies and class disruptors.
- ktRolster 11y agoA modern school can be built in a couple days with modern portable classrooms: http://www.modulargenius.com/portable-classroom.html http://www.modulargenius.com/portable-classroom.html
- tamana 11y agoIf you have somewhere to put it.
- sokoloff 11y agoAnd can find and afford a whole set of qualified staff to teach and administer it.
- yardie 11y agoIs there a warehouse where you can order a bunch of portables like you can USB cables off of Amazon? No, prefab doesn't mean prebuilt. And that still doesn't cover funding, staff, and all the various local, state, and federal rules that make a school. Buildings, the US has plenty of.