Seacrest wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Seacrest wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Nas wrote:
Coming from a loving home with educated parents increases the odds that the child will do well in school and life. There is no question about it. The same is true for having access to early childhood education. Those things aren't magic bullets and they don't cover up the failures of shitty schools in poor and minority communities.
I know enough parents who are sending their kids to failing schools. Not because they don't care but because they simply don't know better. It's the neighborhood school. The kids may even be doing well in the school. That will change instantly once that child goes to a school that doesn't suck. When you can take 1 school's 10 best students and place them elsewhere and they become average to above average students that's not parental failure. MANY of these awful and poorly funded schools are in poor and minority communities.
Change that and you'll start to see different outcomes. You can't continue giving poor and minority kids mush and expect the majority to turn it into a gourmet meal.
Exactly!
I'm glad we can all agree on that. Which also means that we can and should promote the best outcome for all kids.
MANY private schools are doing better than the CPS spending MUCH less per student than they are. Which means they are not getting MUSH. Educate parents to send their kids to better schools, and MANY of them will follow.
But that's also based on a false premise. Many private schools are better because they draw from higher income families that place a big influence on education. And it ignores the often constitutional barriers to entry from those schools existing on a broad scale. See the archdiocese
Many private schools are better because the kids come from two parent households where both parents have a financial and personal investment in the education of their children. While the same parents are also providing a healthy investment in the education of public school kids as well.
There is a new law that reduces some of the Constitutional barriers and and as you can see, there are some on this page already complaining about it. And there are a number of private schools that are not religiously affiliated too.
But I'm firmly in the freedom from religion crowd, and although I'm a private school kid myself, $30k is ridiculous for grammar and high school. And college.
And lower tuition is only possible with extremely generous benefactors...like the Rockefellers
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