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There are some really great public schools if you can afford to live near them, but that's certainly not true on net. Otherwise California wouldn't consistently
by panopticon 5y ago
There are some really great public schools if you can afford to live near them, but that's certainly not true on net. Otherwise California wouldn't consistently rank among the bottom half of US states for public schooling.
- asdff 5y agoIt's really not the school that determines outcomes but the home life. You have a lot of kids in LAUSD who have no real role models at all in their lives and come home to terrible situations every day, which makes the school district look bad but its not really something the school district has any power to solve short of offering boarding school for at risk kids.
- yebyen 5y agoThe Chetty study says it's not just the home life, it's the whole neighborhood. And whether the majority of families in the area are single-parent homes or not. Source: Sandi Metz 2019 RubyConf "Lucky You" but also: https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-family-geography-of-the-american-dream-new-neighborhood-data-on-single-parenthood-prisons-and-poverty https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-family-geography-of-the-ameri...