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Originally Posted by Baronvonellis
I agree with TUP. The whole concept that a "school" is failing is wrong. It's the kids and their families that are failing. They have to take accountability for themselves. And how is a public school a system that is just for the privileged? Anyone can go to a public school.
I went to one of the top ranked PUBLIC high schools in the country but it was because of the quality of the kids and their parents that went there rather than it somehow being an amazing school. The school and the facilities itself were pretty basic. It just happened that the smartest students in the county went there, so it looked really good on all the test scores. If you have a school with students that don't care at all about learning, the scores will be really low.
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Public schools are not created equally. Wealth is very unevenly distributed and it's impossible to ignore the role that race and institutionalized racism has played in this process.
Here's a simple, easy-to-understand example: Many of the best high schools in the state are located in the North Shore. These are largely homogenous communities composed of property-owning, upper middle class whites. For generations, these communities have enshrined housing policies that outright prevent the unpropertied classes from living among them (e.g., restricting multi-family residential development), thereby denying them access to the benefits of the vast resources they have amassed. How are people who have since the founding of this country been systematically denied even the
opportunity to obtain capital supposed to make their way into those communities? By design, they're not supposed to. And that's the point.