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Only poor kids get the daycare experience actually. Many public schools have incredible facilities, teachers, honors and AP classes, extracurriculars… the quest

Only poor kids get the daycare experience actually. Many public schools have incredible facilities, teachers, honors and AP classes, extracurriculars… the question is why not supply that for everyone regardless of socioeconomic background.

whalesalad 5y ago
Poor kids? That’s a shallow assertion. Reading between the lines I think you’re trying to say that poorer communities without as many resources offer a lesser experience than a wealthier community. That’s part of the issue - it’s not the same across the entire country or even within small municipalities. If you live in a community where the school system is good - that can work. But that was pre-COVID and pre- all the other shit that is surely about to come crashing down like a house of cards. Masks? No masks? Metal detectors at school? Do we need armed police? When are we going to knee jerked our kids back home to remote zoom “learning”? It’s traumatic and absolutely has a detriment to mental health and learning potential/performance. It sucks to be a student right now. Then in a more broad sense: the American dream is on the verge of collapse. Inflation is here. Homes are unaffordable. People are fed up and don’t want to take low income jobs. Boomers set us up for their notion of the American dream - go to college, get a solid job, pay your dues and you’ll get yours. But it’s a fallacy. So what is our education system preparing people for? It’s all going to change. It already has.
DarylZero 5y ago
I went to one of those "incredible facilities" schools and it was no better than daycare for me, because none of the classes were appropriate for me. And of course nobody cared, instead I was punished.
- femiagbabiaka 5y ago
  I had a similar experience, I empathize heavily. One of the big gaps in all public school is that it has to optimize for the middle 50% of all kids. Given constraints that ends up being probably good for society, but so many people get left behind to fend for themselves as a result.

whalesalad 5y ago

Poor kids? That’s a shallow assertion. Reading between the lines I think you’re trying to say that poorer communities without as many resources offer a lesser experience than a wealthier community. That’s part of the issue - it’s not the same across the entire country or even within small municipalities. If you live in a community where the school system is good - that can work. But that was pre-COVID and pre- all the other shit that is surely about to come crashing down like a house of cards. Masks? No masks? Metal detectors at school? Do we need armed police? When are we going to knee jerked our kids back home to remote zoom “learning”? It’s traumatic and absolutely has a detriment to mental health and learning potential/performance. It sucks to be a student right now. Then in a more broad sense: the American dream is on the verge of collapse. Inflation is here. Homes are unaffordable. People are fed up and don’t want to take low income jobs. Boomers set us up for their notion of the American dream - go to college, get a solid job, pay your dues and you’ll get yours. But it’s a fallacy. So what is our education system preparing people for? It’s all going to change. It already has.

DarylZero 5y ago

I went to one of those "incredible facilities" schools and it was no better than daycare for me, because none of the classes were appropriate for me. And of course nobody cared, instead I was punished.

femiagbabiaka 5y ago
I had a similar experience, I empathize heavily. One of the big gaps in all public school is that it has to optimize for the middle 50% of all kids. Given constraints that ends up being probably good for society, but so many people get left behind to fend for themselves as a result.