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The real question is whether the state standards should be expected to apply to inner city schools. The knee jerk reaction is to say yes of course how could the
by explaininjs 3y ago
The real question is whether the state standards should be expected to apply to inner city schools. The knee jerk reaction is to say yes of course how could they not, but that ignores all sorts of socioeconomic context that goes into education.
- graphe 3y agoPeople in greater poverty and ignorance have gotten out of worst situations. Even a nuanced response does not excuse this mismanagement of funds or the poor performance. Inner city should not equate "expectation to fail at greater cost than success".
- explaininjs 3y agoIn almost all cases it wasn’t government cash that got them out. Thus I agree “throw money at the poor people” isn’t the answer. The question is whether “decrease the standards proportional to a reasonable statistical expectation based on underling factors of the particular population at hand” is.
- orangepurple 3y agoThey had 800 million dollars to figure it out and they FAILED. The entire system needs to be purged.
- paleotrope 3y agoSo not only are we not teaching them, we are going to not even pretend that's what we are trying to do.
- explaininjs 3y agoIt would be a bigger failure of the education system for the youth blessed with stable families and no extracurricular commitments to achieve only at the level of those who need to support their families on the side/etc. You can see this happening live in Oregon as they’ve removed all graduation/testing requirements.