sleeper;1816687 wrote:Except funding doesn't correlate well with education. The reason poor kids do poorly in "poor" school districts is because their family does not value education. Want to fix the schools? Make parents accountable for their child's education.
http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/dc-schools-29349-pupil-83-not-proficient-reading
No surprise COA would pull the classic liberal move of blaming external avenues rather than being honest with people about their own failures.
Sleepr you dummy, you just supported my point and you didn't even know it bc you're so quick to be a know it all chest thumping dumbass.
According to "Capital Kids," a new report on the state of children throughout the Washington region, the childhood poverty rate in D.C.—those kids living in a family of four taking in just $22,000 a year—stands at
30.4 percent, higher than Mexico's rate. CHILD POVERTY is a real issue in DC which equates to lower test scores and poorer performance. Many reasons for child poverty, but fact remains child poverty is a great indicator of poor school performance.
Teachers aren't miracle workers. When you have kids with a ton of out of school trauma, that limits the impact a teacher can have. Very similar to what I said about charter schools, throwing money at a school isn't the solution. Dealing with effect ways to limit child poverty is a much more effect way to increasing school performance. However, that's much harder problem to solve.
For those that GAF, article about school integration (John Oliver also did a great piece on it):
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/gentrification-threatens-oaklands-few-truly-diverse-schools/
