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Education systems are highly local. The Zuckerberg kids aren't going to Cesar Chavez Elementary, or any of the other public schools, and will only know the chil
by dsr_ 8y ago
Education systems are highly local. The Zuckerberg kids aren't going to Cesar Chavez Elementary, or any of the other public schools, and will only know the children of other ridiculously rich people. You need to take steps to actively combat that kind of class separation.
I'm not saying that rich kids shouldn't get a good education. I'm saying that every kid deserves a good education.
- rglover 8y agoWhich is why this is a Department of Education level of implementation. I'm not talking about "daddy, they don't have juice boxes" type of schools, I'm talking middle of Iowa, watch out for that loose bail of hay on the road public schools. Designing those programs can be done in a way that teachers can be taught how to teach them. Not easy or quick, but doable. Ultimately it's a matter of admitting that the current education system doesn't work and start a national effort to recruit minds that can design a new one (and then actively start developing it and testing it).
- dantheman 8y agoWith public sector unions nothing will be able to change.
- sjg007 8y agoCharter schools are basically government subsidized private schools for "middle class" kids who live in resource poor public school districts. They are like magnet schools but they were opened up to private and for profit entities. Parents like them because they concentrate well motivated kids. Republicans like them because they will help bust unions. This will basically continue the current socioeconomic stratification we have. We would do a lot better investing in intensive early childhood education, providing after school care as well as subsidizing 3 meals a day to our kids.