3 ms·
I have never understood this argument very well. It's not like there's some sort of centralized bottleneck, schools can scale pretty well. I would argue (this
by rtpg 14y ago
I have never understood this argument very well. It's not like there's some sort of centralized bottleneck, schools can scale pretty well.
I would argue (this is completely speculative), however, that cities in the US are (maybe?) denser than those in Finland, and that urban planning has a tendency to lay out infrastructure in terms of area more than in terms of population in itself. Hence big cities having stuffed classes. The same effect can be seen in DMVs or polling centers.
- penny500 14y agoAmerica's demographics are far from homogeneous. Students in Palo Alto need a different approach than students 30 miles away in Oakland. You're dealing with different cultures, values, English-speaking abilities, math levels, reading levels, and on and on.
- wildgift 14y agoEast Palo Alto exists. Also, there are the Oakland hills, Rockridge, Claremont. Poverty and wealth exist near each other because one depends on the other.