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Sadly and unfortunately that hits the nail on the head. There should be some mechanism, however, for identifying smarter kids in such schools and moving them to a magnet school or other arrangement.
I have a nephew that was a straight A student in a middle school ranked at around 240 out of 315. He's since graduated, moved and now attends a high school that's ranked 5 out of 215.
This is the first time he's ever scored D's and E's in any class at any other school. He was woefully unprepared for the amount of studying required.
Fortunately he's been able to turn things around but it angered me that his prior school gave him such a false sense of competence and achievement. I know they do this with a completely self serving agenda.
Gates, Zuckerberg, Buffett, Bezos, Mark Cuban, Oprah, etc., etc... All liberal billionaires. They could go a long way towards funding the charitable programs, with the rest of the liberals pitching in to complete the funding. Put your money where your mouths are.
Gates & Buffett are putting a lot of their money into education. But Gates has his own people crunching the numbers & looking for places & methods to make a difference. They've both put up a lot of scholarship money, but I believe they target specific areas (STEM?) as being critical to keeping humanity going into the future. The rest I don't know much about in terms of their philanthropy - but these are all adults, & they have their own ideas about what needs to be done, & in what sequence.
& I truly doubt that they're even going to notice if you try to razz them into doing what you want. They probably have people for that - or in Gates' case, he likelier has an app for that ...
Of course they are not free to the taxpayers, aka, the rich.
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If the poor pay rent or mortgage, they're paying property taxes, either directly or indirectly. & property taxes are the basis of state support for most public education K-12 & public libraries in the US. Taxpayers is not the same as the rich. To the extent that people pay sales tax, excise tax, luxury tax & so on - I think most people in the US pay a fair amount of taxes. It's very hard to avoid paying taxes altogether.
"The United States of America has separate federal, state, and local government(s) with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property, sales, capital gains, dividends, imports, estates and gifts, as well as various fees. In 2010, taxes collected by federal, state, and municipal governments amounted to 24.8% of GDP. In the OECD, only Chile and Mexico are taxed less as a share of their GDP.[1]
"However, taxes fall much more heavily on labor income than on capital income. Divergent taxes and subsidies for different forms of income and spending can also constitute a form of indirect taxation of some activities over others. For example, individual spending on higher education can be said to be "taxed" at a high rate, compared to other forms of personal expenditure which are formally recognized as investments.[2][3]"
Intelligence is partly based off of genes. So my scenario is not outrageous, but almost certainly, true.
so your proof is that stupid people marry stupid people and smart people marry smart people but you haven't even attempted to provide support for your claim that poor people are dumb, have you?
There are few jurisdictions where school districts share the same money pot... I haven’t seen any evidence that it leads to better students... however, most school districts in wealthier neighborhoods do have better performing students... ironic that people want to use a failed system so that we get more underperforming students... I rather selectively identify students to go to better school districts who would do better in that environment to increase larger numbers of good students... not every snowflake is going to excel, that’s life...
It's not a great example. Charter schools are not the same as the public school system, so you're comparing apples and oranges.
And no, the system would not have to change if every child went to public school. The majority of children attend public school and the only change we've seen is that they've grown worse.
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