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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow Taylor has some serious cojones to do this to low income elementary schools when outcomes are so bad.

And his budget one pager makes it look like he is adding funding to increase equity when he is almost certainly reducing funding for low income schools.

SMH[/quote]

Outcomes are going to be bad no matter what.  It doesn't matter if the class sizes are 5, 10, 20, or 30.  Staffing should be the same as all the other schools.[/quote]

If class size doesn't matter then why do you want smaller class sizes for your kid?[/quote]

Less class clowns per class = less teacher distraction = more attention on rach student.

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So the poorest kids with the worst outcomes don't need extra attention but yours do? [/quote]

I am having a hard time understanding the issue with poor families. I come from another country with much less wealth than US. Education was seen as a priority in all families, poor or wealthy. There was a push from inside the family to be be good in school. If one misbehaves, one is disciplined at home. Here we have so much entitlement. If so much money was invested in smaller classrooms, where are the results? How do we have so many failing students? [/quote]

Exactly.  It doesn't matter how small the classes are in the low performing schools.  It is a complete waste of resources.  [/quote]

It's not, though. Yes, there are absolutely kids who are borderline impossible to reach, or whose daily life is so traumatic and/or chaotic that they struggle to function in school.

But we don't really have any choice but to try to reach them, because the alternative is creating a permanent underclass with no possibility to escape generational poverty. Like the PP, I came here from a country that is broadly poorer than the United States and where educational standards are generally higher.

However, my country is also happy to leave entire ethnic groups in poverty forever. Also to decide a child's educational path starting at 6, and their lifelong professional/academic path at 13.

That system is only better if you're at the top of it, and it's also fundamentally unstable for society. [/quote]

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