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School choice only works because you can choose to not be in a school with high need kids. The public schools can’t choose their student so it’s a huge disadvan
by throw9away6 3y ago
School choice only works because you can choose to not be in a school with high need kids. The public schools can’t choose their student so it’s a huge disadvantage
- s1artibartfast 3y agoThat's a feature not a bug and public school districts should do the same. Because districts are required to provide education to all students, they should establish special schools that are essentially prisons for children with behavioral issues or daycares for the mentally handicapped to segment the student population when necessary.
- throw9away6 3y agoI don’t think the parents of the kids sent off to prison and daycare would be all to happy with that outcome. Usually schools that do that do it in a way that doesn’t draw too much attention. It doesn’t take many pissed off parents to tilt the scales in a local election.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoIt also makes a lot of parents happy. A lot of it comes down to political inertia and the dominance of reactionism. If you have a system with a dedicated school for violent and behaviorally challenged kids, there would be a much larger number of angry parents reacting to the idea of integrating those students with their children.
- throw9away6 3y agoThe happy parents won’t vote in significant enough numbers to offset unhappy ones. Pissed off people vote
- s1artibartfast 3y agoThat's my point about inertia