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You are implying the cause of illiteracy is the lack of funds. It is not so - in fact, the very worst schools often spend per pupil the same as the very best on

by smsm42 3y ago

You are implying the cause of illiteracy is the lack of funds. It is not so - in fact, the very worst schools often spend per pupil the same as the very best ones, or at least very close to it. Throwing money at the problem is not the solution - it would cause the worst schools spend even more and keep churning out ignoramuses. The bad schools are bad not because they can't find money to become good but because the whole system there is broken and it can't be fixed by just giving the same incompetent, ignorant and apathetic people more money to waste.

nolongerthere 3y ago
The literacy issue and lack of proper education can almost always be traced back to the local family life, specifically single parent households. Households that don’t have two present parents are unlikely to be able to afford the time to enforce school attendance and homework. If you want to fix the education problems, start by fixing the breakdown of the family unit. Put another way, the reason some schools spend twice as much money but have worse outcomes is because the children in those schools are starting from much farther back. There isn’t a reasonable amount of money you could throw at the problem school to solve the issue.
jwiz 3y ago
Well, as my highschool friend said 30 years ago, "I think teachers should be paid more...just not these teachers." If they paid teachers more, they'd have better teachers, though.
- bluGill 3y ago
  Not really, bad teachers often start good. Then after getting senority\tenure they ??? and become bad. But the rules don't allow you to get rid of them. Even if you could, they stick together. of course I write the above as if we can objectivly evaluate teachers. I'm not sure if we can. I had my share of what I thought were good and bad teachers: in the end I'm a successful engineer which matters far more than how I felt about any teacher. What we really know is overall they were good enough, but not how any individual played a part
- smsm42 3y ago
  Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Over the years, I have reads dozens of articles from young enthusiastic teachers coming into bad schools with the starry eyes and the determination to fix it all. The system inevitably chews them up and spits out a jaded exhausted cynic. Has nothing to do with the lack of salary.

by smsm42 3y ago

nolongerthere 3y ago

The literacy issue and lack of proper education can almost always be traced back to the local family life, specifically single parent households. Households that don’t have two present parents are unlikely to be able to afford the time to enforce school attendance and homework. If you want to fix the education problems, start by fixing the breakdown of the family unit. Put another way, the reason some schools spend twice as much money but have worse outcomes is because the children in those schools are starting from much farther back. There isn’t a reasonable amount of money you could throw at the problem school to solve the issue.

jwiz 3y ago

Well, as my highschool friend said 30 years ago, "I think teachers should be paid more...just not these teachers." If they paid teachers more, they'd have better teachers, though.

bluGill 3y ago
Not really, bad teachers often start good. Then after getting senority\tenure they ??? and become bad. But the rules don't allow you to get rid of them. Even if you could, they stick together. of course I write the above as if we can objectivly evaluate teachers. I'm not sure if we can. I had my share of what I thought were good and bad teachers: in the end I'm a successful engineer which matters far more than how I felt about any teacher. What we really know is overall they were good enough, but not how any individual played a part
smsm42 3y ago
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Over the years, I have reads dozens of articles from young enthusiastic teachers coming into bad schools with the starry eyes and the determination to fix it all. The system inevitably chews them up and spits out a jaded exhausted cynic. Has nothing to do with the lack of salary.