I saw that no matter what I wanted for the kids, it wasn’t going to happen. The system purported to be supporting students just wasn’t there. They need remediation, tiny class sizes, one-on-one attention—they need parenting, basically. Their parents are affected by the same Toxic Stress that they are, and it repeats itself in a cycle from parent to child. In America, the wealthiest school is going to get ten times more funding than the lowest one. For every dollar my school was getting, one in the suburbs was getting ten dollars. That’s huge. The kids come in disadvantaged, and they’re subjected to this disadvantaged school. My school was completely third-world.Well there are a few things that this 'educator' hasn't learned. Like arithmetic. If you look up per pupil spending per district NYC (back in 2008, which was the latest I could find) spent about 18K and the richest district (Southhampton) spent about $28K, a tad short of 10X don't you think? And New York State, at about $18,000 has the highest per pupil spending of any state in the nation. Texas, which gets better results with a larger proportion of the kids being minorities spends about $9,000.
But evidently wildly overspending on education does get you one thing: bitter, whiny, resentful 'educators' who assert 'facts' but apparently lack basic internet search skills.
God help us every one.
Ht instapundit.com
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