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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree.  It is nearly 100 percent about the student, their family, and parental support at home.

Countries that spend way way less on education produce better students.

My husband went to a private school in a very poor country.  It was not an expensive school, but it was filled with middle class families that really cared and valued education.  They had extremely basic materials; pencils, paper, text books, chalk boards, desk.  There was no school gymnasium/auditorium.  No sports fields, no after school clubs, no science Olympiad, no field trips, no PTA organizing cookie exchanges, staff lunches, assemblies, etc.  They didn’t have spirit week, homecoming, prom and all the stuff US schools do and spend money on.  School would be cancelled for weeks at a time due to ongoing political conflicts.  Yet he and many of his classmates managed to become highly successful with lucrative careers and now live in the US. It isn’t money that makes a good school, it the values and discipline of the students and their families. [/quote]

WV, MS, AR, LA, KY and AL spend little per student.[/quote]

So? Do their parents care about their education, discipline them and correct their behavior, teach them to follow directions and respect their teachers, work with them at home every night? [b]That is what determines good schools.[/b]  Not how much money you throw at the school. [/quote]

Those states have terrible schools. 
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NP. That’s the point. Are you really not following the logic? Were you educated in one of those states?[/quote]

No, you’re the one who isn’t following. People on here were insisting that money doesn’t matter and that the best school districts spend the least, and that the worst school districts spend the most. Obviously, that’s a load of crap. See those states listed above.[/quote]

No, people aren’t saying the best schools spend the least. People are saying the best schools are the ones where students and their families value education.  That happens to coincide with districts where the families have more money-  but the money isn’t what makes the schools great.  It is a student body there to learn, capable of learning, a parents at home that support and supplement that learning. Not money.  [/quote]

"Happens to coincidence with districts where the families have more money" is the understatement of the year. What gives parents the liberty of providing unencumbered parental support and supplements for learning? Money. Well-paying jobs. Whether it's paying for tutoring, or paying for enrichments like sports and museums. Or having a cushy job that allows parents to be at home often during traditional hours to read to their kids and in general manage their child's early education to instill a love of learning. It's always about money and the freedom money provides.[/quote]

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