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How should the United States address this issue given that it is usually in the top 5 with spending on public education per student every year?
by jmaygarden 6y ago
How should the United States address this issue given that it is usually in the top 5 with spending on public education per student every year?
- take_a_breath 6y agoWe would have to analyze the actual distribution of that spend. When this is done, we see wealthier places have higher spending per capita because public schools in the US are funded primarily by property taxes.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoYeah, and local property taxes, at that. I mean, if I were designing a system to reinforce inequality in districts and schools, local property taxes would be first on my list of policies.
- brnt 6y agoOne of the thing Americans do differently is setting up systems for inequality from the get go. First past the post voting, but also using education to produce/select 'winners', rather than use it as a tool for equality. One could say this is a choice and there's no wrong way to make it, but to me it seems clear that it is the root cause for many of the issues in the US. I think superstar systems and mentality necessarily produces inequality and inequality necessarily produces problems.