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Kasz216 on 27 January 2013
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Soleron said:
FreeTalkLive said:
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The inner city schools are the best funded in much of the country. Often times the rural schools are the least funded. I do agree that inner city schools are way over funded. Around $25,000 per year per student in DC. Students go to school for K through 12 which is 13 years, but many are held back a year so $25,000 per student times 14 is just too much money. In many rural areas the funding is only 1/3 that amount.

Alright. I guess I don't know many specifics about the US. If funding is that high, what is it about the schools that is preventing kids from going to college?

A few problems... big two?

The teachers union and administration union is the same.   Administrators are teachers with more seniority.  So when cuts are made, teachers are cut first.  Administrators generally aren't.

Inner city areas have low parental responsibilities and a lot of acting out.  So teachers often avoid these areas, a lot of the best teachers end up teaching in private schools that actually pay LESS because there are less issues.

Essentially this is why Magnet and charter schools work so well in poorer areas.  To stay in one of those schools the parents HAVE to make an effort.  They're suddenly forced to, it makes all the difference in the world.

How you fix the schools for everybody?  I'm not sure you can.  You need to fix the parents.  Oddly enough kicking kids OUT of school and not having school mandatory might ironically lead to more people learning as parents would get more involved.