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There's lots you could do w/o abolishing private schools: - Pay public school teachers more & hire more teachers (reduce class sizes) - Free lunch for all kid
by 40acres 8y ago
There's lots you could do w/o abolishing private schools:
- Pay public school teachers more & hire more teachers (reduce class sizes)
- Free lunch for all kids in the public school system up until senior year of high school
- Widespread access to tutors for specialized tests
- More funding for extracurricular activities (academic and non-academic)
- Pay public school teachers more.
- Desegregation bussing
- mataug 8y agoFree Lunch for all kids has actually been shown to be quite effective at keeping kids in school, especially in poorer parts of a country. An example is the Mid Day meal scheme in India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midday_Meal_Scheme#Evaluation_of_the_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midday_Meal_Scheme#Evaluation_...
- yellowapple 8y agoDon't forget paying public school teachers more and hiring more of them. That alone would be a significant equalizer, and far less extreme (and I'd argue far more effective) than just banning private schools outright. Of course, I'm coming at this with an American background, and it seems like the article is about British education, so maybe there are different factors at play here.