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How would someone be well educated at a bad school? I feel like that loses any reasonable definition of good.
by tesin 8y ago
How would someone be well educated at a bad school? I feel like that loses any reasonable definition of good.
- saagarjha 8y agoA school's "rating" is merely an average of the quality of education students there receive. It's entirely possible to "get lucky" and have an exceptional teacher or participate in an optional extracurricular that helps them learn more than their peers. And, of course, there's also the chance that the student did well despite going to a bad school, by self-studying.
- jgamman 8y agothe best teacher(s) in a 'bad' school overlap with the worst teachers in a 'good' school. Keep in mind that there is a relationship between student and teacher and that clicking with one teacher isn't guaranteed or that after a year of growing up, you might click with a teacher you didn't get on well with the year previous.
- closeparen 8y agoAggregate test scores say more about the student/neighborhood population than the instruction. “Bad” schools become “good” as their neighborhoods gentrify, for example.