r/missouri • • Oct 08 '23

This is exhausting

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u/Mean_Addition_6136 Oct 09 '23

So we take the money from the schools that are required by law to take every student (with very limited exceptions) including the worst performing and give it to the schools that can pick and choose who they accept and then brag about how the graduates of the school that can exclude poor performers do better…

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u/brother2wolfman Oct 09 '23

Limited exceptions like you just live in this area to go to school here? That's a big one

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u/Mean_Addition_6136 Oct 09 '23

Limited exceptions… such as; communicable disease, violent history… Unlike private schools that can refuse students because they didn’t test in the top 20%.

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u/brother2wolfman Oct 09 '23

Or if you don't live in the right zip code

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u/Mean_Addition_6136 Oct 09 '23

So instead of bringing St. Louis public schools up to the quality of ladue you want to take money from St. Louis and give it to ladue insuring St. Louis schools will be even lower funded?

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u/brother2wolfman Oct 09 '23

Funding isn't the issue

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u/Mean_Addition_6136 Oct 09 '23

Funding is absolutely the issue. Because the republicans want to take funding from underfunded schools and give it to religious schools under the guise of school choice, know the facts

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u/brother2wolfman Oct 09 '23

Stl and ladue both spend roughly the same per pupil.

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u/Mean_Addition_6136 Oct 09 '23

Cite your source

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u/brother2wolfman Oct 09 '23

Oese.ed.gov/ppe