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One size fits all policy? Where do you draw the line with local parents fundraising to ensure schools in richer areas are always ahead in terms of opportunitie
by wolco 6y ago
One size fits all policy?
Where do you draw the line with local parents fundraising to ensure schools in richer areas are always ahead in terms of opportunities?
Local education can prepare areas differently. Some states/areas like Texas would benefit from Spanish as a language course others like Hawaii might be better served with Japanese. Gym in Alaska must be different compared to Florida.
Nevermind the private schools. You have other school systems like the Amish, Native education or faith based or even home schooled.
Uniform models work better in smaller less diverse countries.
- jjeaff 6y agoThat's why most federal pushes are for a "common core" curriculum. Math is math and federal funding doesn't preclude making local adjustments.
- david38 6y agoYou will be able to stop parents doing what’s best for their kids, not should you. To do so would be to bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator. We’re not a small homogeneous country like Finland. Local fundraising, usually for arts and music, do very little for “getting ahead”. Private schools operate by mostly weeding out the disruptive/ low performing kids and selecting self motivated students with supportive parents. They don’t usually have amazing teachers that “work magic”. I’ve lived in some very poor areas in my life as both a child and adult. By far the #1 influencing factor is the education of the parents. There are countries that try to ban inequality and the only thing that happens is things go underground and get more unequal. That said, even if things aren’t all the same, there is no excuse for the bottom to be so low. A variety of terrible policies ranging from finances to letting disruptive kids have their way ruin what could be a much better experience.