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>If the affluent were forced to use the public school system you could be damn sure it would have unbelievable funding either through taxes or really successful

>If the affluent were forced to use the public school system you could be damn sure it would have unbelievable funding either through taxes or really successful brownie sales. It doesn't work this way. Affluent people congregate together and push up the price of housing in a commmunity to drive out "undesirables", then the "undesirables" all end up living in a poor part of town, with shitty schools. But now it's even harder for the "undesirables" to get a good education for their kids, as renting/buying a house in the affluent communities is even more expensive than private school would be.

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mattigames 6y ago
If that's true then make it so you can't pick the school your children go to, instead they are assigned random one (between reasonable limits, e.g. not farther away than 1 hour conmute)
- twblalock 6y ago
  You mean forced busing? That’s been done. It did not end well. The backlash against it made the entire program counterproductive.
  - mattigames 6y ago
    Some people disagree that busing didn't work [0] as well as there is research showing that and I quote "results show that a higher percentage of Black schoolmates has a strong adverse effect on achievement of Blacks" [1] [0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/national/effective-but-never-popular-court-ordered-busing-is-a-relic-few-would-revive/2019/07/07/dce439c8-9d40-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html%3foutputType=amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/national... [1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w8741 https://www.nber.org/papers/w8741
fastball 6y ago
Combine it with a voucher system then, no?
torresmo 6y ago
Have we considered not tying school funding to property tax? What if all the property tax was (sort of) evenly distributed among schools? Similar to Canada [1] (and I bet other countries). [1] https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/HermanCanadaReport.pdf https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/...

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mattigames 6y ago

If that's true then make it so you can't pick the school your children go to, instead they are assigned random one (between reasonable limits, e.g. not farther away than 1 hour conmute)

twblalock 6y ago
You mean forced busing? That’s been done. It did not end well. The backlash against it made the entire program counterproductive.
- mattigames 6y ago
  Some people disagree that busing didn't work [0] as well as there is research showing that and I quote "results show that a higher percentage of Black schoolmates has a strong adverse effect on achievement of Blacks" [1] [0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/national/effective-but-never-popular-court-ordered-busing-is-a-relic-few-would-revive/2019/07/07/dce439c8-9d40-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html%3foutputType=amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/national... [1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w8741 https://www.nber.org/papers/w8741

fastball 6y ago

Combine it with a voucher system then, no?

torresmo 6y ago

Have we considered not tying school funding to property tax? What if all the property tax was (sort of) evenly distributed among schools? Similar to Canada [1] (and I bet other countries). [1] https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/HermanCanadaReport.pdf https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/...