I’m not rich and my kid is in private school. Any advantage she can get to do better than me is worth it. Or I could just stand in the corner and scream that I deserve something for nothing.
Statistically speaking a public school education is more quality than that of a private school but there are claims that such results are fucked up by schools trying to get more funding by pumping their scores artificially. The private school I went to was rather good but in the 2 years I've been gone it went completely to shit because the entire science department either died or retired
I moved my family 230 miles, and struggled through some difficult jobs in order to buy our house/land in the public school district that we wanted to raise our kids in. I even turned down an opportunity to partner in a small company that would have certainly made us multimillionaires but would have put us in basically a random city in the US with who knows what level of school or healthcare available.
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My point is that there are plenty of great public schools out there. Weather or not it's your priority to get your kids to them is up to you. And if you think you'll get there by being lazy and complaining about how hard you have it to strangers on the internet I have some bad news for you.
Right, let's have every single person that's going to a shitty school pack their things and put them all in good schools. Hell no. There's not enough good schools to fit that many kids. If everyone was able to do as you did, most of them would get sidelined. The rich can do as they want, but if we want to advance as a nation, we need to help our weakest links. That means education.
Most people don't have the money to move. Most people won't have the money move if they save up for their entire child's infancy. It's easy for someone who works in a field where becoming a multimillionaire is a potential option to say "oh just move somewhere better."
I got lucky in that my Native American blood let me go to a really good Native only school within 10 minutes of my house.
Let's see you do that again working 12 hour shifts at ems making barely more than minimum wage with no options for better paying jobs living at your parents house as a single mother with less than $200 in your bank account at any time, a car that hardly works for your 40 minute drive to work, and a child that need 4 different medications and 5 different supplements to function correctly.
I apologize, i didnt mean to suggest that everyone can do what we've done. Henry Ford said it best that "whether you think you can or whether you think you cant, you're right."
Strangely good ‘ole Henry was a socialist. I can pinpoint the moments in my life that I made decisions that turned me in the direction that made me the person I am today.
I didn't know that. And that is odd. Unless he intended to be one of wealthy ones at top of a socialism machine. It historically worked well for those people.... at least until the system runs out of other peoples money.
Ford wasn't socialist. He just maximized production efficiency.
And if you want your educated children live among educated people of educated society you cannot say "I deserve something for nothing".
As someone who has studied education extensively.
1. Public schools are pretty awful. Especially for anyone who falls outside of what is considered average. Both the gifted and the struggling students are hurt by the way things are done, and the average student doesn't even really excel, they just aren't hurt as much. Some schools are obviously better than others, but on the wholes it's pretty bad.
2. Most if the tests that exist to grade schools only ensure students are taught to the test. This means they do better on the tests, but worse on real world skills and higher education. The tests themselves are broken.
3. "Private Schools" is a broad term, applying to both prestigious schools where the wealthy get excellent education, and tiny religious schools where middle class families send their children for little more than school fees in some states, to ensure that they aren't taught evolution or sex education. And everything in between.
4.Education Opportunities shouldn't be determined by wealth. I am not saying it's wrong for parents to give their child the best they can afford. What I am saying is that Sally who is brilliant doesn't deserve bad education because her mother isn't successful.
I had a friend who referred to birth circumstances as "the parent lottery". Lucky kids got good parents and especially lucky kids got rich parents. And unlucky kids didn't.
And maybe it's TRUE to say that the children of unsuccessful parents are likely to be unsuccessful themselves, this isn't always the case, and certainly it would be helped by better education for all.
We aren't even arguing that lazy adults should get handouts. That's an oversimplified argument. But it's not the point here. Kids don't deserve to be punished for their parents shortcomings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/03/05/how-much-or-little-teachers-earn-state-by-state/
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My point is that there are plenty of great public schools out there. Weather or not it's your priority to get your kids to them is up to you. And if you think you'll get there by being lazy and complaining about how hard you have it to strangers on the internet I have some bad news for you.
I got lucky in that my Native American blood let me go to a really good Native only school within 10 minutes of my house.
And if you want your educated children live among educated people of educated society you cannot say "I deserve something for nothing".
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1. Public schools are pretty awful. Especially for anyone who falls outside of what is considered average. Both the gifted and the struggling students are hurt by the way things are done, and the average student doesn't even really excel, they just aren't hurt as much. Some schools are obviously better than others, but on the wholes it's pretty bad.
2. Most if the tests that exist to grade schools only ensure students are taught to the test. This means they do better on the tests, but worse on real world skills and higher education. The tests themselves are broken.
3. "Private Schools" is a broad term, applying to both prestigious schools where the wealthy get excellent education, and tiny religious schools where middle class families send their children for little more than school fees in some states, to ensure that they aren't taught evolution or sex education. And everything in between.
I had a friend who referred to birth circumstances as "the parent lottery". Lucky kids got good parents and especially lucky kids got rich parents. And unlucky kids didn't.
And maybe it's TRUE to say that the children of unsuccessful parents are likely to be unsuccessful themselves, this isn't always the case, and certainly it would be helped by better education for all.
We aren't even arguing that lazy adults should get handouts. That's an oversimplified argument. But it's not the point here. Kids don't deserve to be punished for their parents shortcomings.