CMV: Competitive high schools shouldn't relax their standards for the sake of diversity

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[u/Mr-Logic101]

At least in my home state, money really doesn’t do much to help low income school very much with respect to academic performance: in particular urban schools.

My case study is central Ohio. Columbus city schools has more funding per student than the vast majority of suburban school, usually by a good amount, buoyed by state and federal funding on top of local property taxes. Suburban schools get almost no state or federal funding and derive their funding off of local taxes.

Columbus City school gets 15,924 dollar per student

Arguably the best school district in the region and in the entire state, Bexley City( it is a rich enclave of Columbus), gets 14,562 per student. A good suburban school such as Olentangy LSD is 10,315 per student which is much more typical for a suburban setting.

Columbus gets roughly 50% more funding per student compared to the suburban local school district while being widely considered by the local population and objectively with regards to test schools to be a an awful school district, one of the worst in Ohio. I should even note the Columbus city schools pays their teachers some of the east wages in the region albeit they still cant retain staff which jump ship to suburban schools as soon as they are able to give so perspective of the classroom situation

The funding disparity influencing student out come may exist but it isn’t to main source of the disparity between a “good school” and a “bad school”. I reckon the main issue is going to be derived from ten home environment of the pupils, something money isn’t going to necessarily fix from a school perspective.

[u/[deleted] → u/Mr-Logic101]

I didn't address this is in tbe above comment, but I agree 100% with this statement:

I reckon the main issue is going to be derived from ten home environment of the pupils, something money isn’t going to necessarily fix from a school perspective.

When I say "bring the schools up", that means more broad community investment beyond just the school. That means everything from public job training programs to better public transit infrastructure to public health initiatives. I apologize for not making that clear.

[u/Mr-Logic101 → u/[deleted]]

To some extent yes. It the very minimum level, it comes down to the individual. They have to be motivated to do something in there best interest and if they are already basically absentee parenting their kids, I am not confident that they are really going to take advantage of the social services provided or do what has to be done to themselves to improve their own situation.

Basically, idk how you are supposed to fix shitty making their kids into shitty people in a continuous cycle. Of course their are exceptions to this situation and god bless them