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Binning/exclusivity/stratification is as big or bigger part of that than the quality of the school's education. What percentage of kids are served by schools o

Binning/exclusivity/stratification is as big or bigger part of that than the quality of the school's education. What percentage of kids are served by schools of that caliber? 5%? 1%? That's not "access" to better education, it's selection bias. >constantly challenged by her high school teachers who set rigorous standards. You absolutely will not get that in a rural area, Rural life precludes having or setting high standards? >you don't generally have to pay for it in areas where the houses themselves aren't close to free. You're paying for it, whether you have kids or not. You just don't have the freedom of picking your child's educators without having to buy a new house and move to change school districts. And that's presuming the rural school isn't sufficient, which is a loaded assumption all on its own.

oblio 5y ago
> Rural life precludes having or setting high standards? In practice it does because people going there generally go for: 1. Nature - awesome! 2. Self isolation - you can't hack it in mass society anymore, hardly a premise for high standards, statistically 3. Are stuck there because of financial reasons - it's hard to have high standards when you're unemployed, underemployed, underpaid. 4. Are stuck there because of family - that's a valid reason but you're also stuck there with people at points 2 & 3. Cities have a much greater degree of variance, but as the floor is lower so too the ceiling is much higher. There's just more people of more backgrounds around in cities.