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This is a complicated topic, but mostly boils down to how _many_ schools are funded by property taxes, which means that growing up in a property-poor area often
by Karrot_Kream 5y ago
This is a complicated topic, but mostly boils down to how _many_ schools are funded by property taxes, which means that growing up in a property-poor area often leads to underfunded, dilapidated school experiences.
I grew up in a ghetto and went to a school that ran classrooms in trailers and had dilapidated power delivery and sports facilities. See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28450844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28450844 for more depth.
- Permit 5y agoYou've ignored your own advice and based your take on your own personal experience! (I'm just kidding, I think your personal experience is valuable in this context). It really doesn't make much sense to me to fund schools based off local property taxes. At the very least, it seems like they should go into some state-wide fund that is evenly distributed to schools.
- Karrot_Kream 5y ago> You've ignored your own advice and based your take on your own personal experience! (I'm just kidding, I think your personal experience is valuable in this context). Heh I'm trying to be careful to not prescribe any solutions here because I honestly don't have one. I have pretty mixed feelings on this post as a whole, because I'm trying to see it from both my own perspective and the perspective of others.