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Should've banned it all the way through high school, but it's better than most. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 1 point 10 hours ago (2 children)

Public schools are. For high school, I went to a free online charter school. I received a substantially better education than my friends in the magnet public high school.

I get there are other problems with the whole 'school choice' debate, but my family was broke and I was still able to get a better education. That's a plus imo and I'd recommend it to anyone.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 hours ago* (3 children)

    If we forced rich people to send their children to public schools, public schools would get a lot better. By allowing them to have a choice, they choose to defund the public school.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago (1 child)

    It's an illusion either way. Public schools are funded by property taxes. property taxes are based on the home's worth. So you see how this snowballs.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 minutes ago

    Property taxes keep getting cut and capped by people who don't use public schools, because they don't see the personal benefit to it.

    This would have an effect.

    Although pooling property taxes across entire states makes more sense than the weird school district thing we have going on.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    If we forced rich people to send their children to public schools, they would all move to public school districts in areas with housing too expensive for poor families to afford. That's not a hypothetical, that's just current reality.

    The problem is rich people, not what options they do or do not have.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 hours ago*

    That's solvable with bussing, unless rich people all want to live out in the middle of nowhere in compounds or something.

    The problem is rich people, which is why we should take away their options. They currently have the option to make rich-only school districts and we could take that away from them too. Point is, we have to force them to use the same school as everyone else.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    I went to one of the worst schools in my state. The education was fine, schools are judged by their student body, not the teachers.

    Graduated undergrad with a 4.0 in my engineering field, then got a doctorate from one of the most prestigious programs in the world. Now I'm a depressed techie waiting to FIRE, but I wouldn't blame my public high school for that.

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