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Do you have any experience working with children that come from those backgrounds? There's a reason poor urban schools are so terrible
by throwaway6734 4y ago
Do you have any experience working with children that come from those backgrounds?
There's a reason poor urban schools are so terrible
- kevviiinn 4y agoIt's definitely not the neglect and underfunding of course Do you have experience working with them?
- throwaway6734 4y agoYes I taught middle school in Baltimore for a few years. The level of normalized violence is significantly higher than the middle class suburban school I went to. Yes it's caused by parental neglect and poverty. Many poor urban schools are the highest funded but even then need significantly more resources than an affluent suburban school
- rayiner 4y agoNote that: (1) anywhere in Baltimore is far richer than the Bangladeshi village where my dad grew up; and (2) his village is nonetheless vastly safer and more peaceful. What plagues Baltimore isn’t just poverty. (We lived there for a couple of years.) It’s a breakdown of the social hierarchy, and in particular the replacement of male authority with gangs.
- kevviiinn 3y agoYou may want to recall that correlation doesn't equal causation. We live in an incredibly complex system where things may appear a bit disconnected.