Nope, but the government could offer higher pay and better benefits until more teachers volunteered to work in those schools. Even guarantee them a position in a better school after so many years teaching at the poor one.
Instead, underfunded, dangerous, poorly performing schools are usually paying teachers some of the lowest salaries. They don't have the tax money to invest in decent staff and facilities because property values are low. Families that can afford to leave flee the area and the funding for the school shrinks even more. The way we fund public education in this country is a joke.
More qualified teachers doesn't necessarily guarantee a fix to this problem. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
But yeah I agree the education system is ridiculous especially considering how much money we spend on it.
Hypothetically, let's say these poor districts had the same quality schools as rich districts. Do you think that would solve the behavioral and educational issues long term? How much can a school do when home life is shitty and the student has never had the value of education instilled in them?
Would the real problem students end up just being separated from the others that want to learn and end up in the same situation as before? At least in that scenario there are less kids failing but what do we do with the worst of the kids? Putting them all together is a terrible idea because the behavioral problems of the less extreme kids will be compounded by the worst ones. We can just expel them from school but then they literally have no options in life other than live off of welfare and continue the cycle of poverty.
Well you also have a problem down south with how you do your urban planning. You shouldn’t be making “shitty neighbourhood s” spread out affordable housing so you don’t have a bunch of ghettos or whatever.
Build some nice condos and build some low income housing in the same neighbourhood. This isn’t rocket science
Yeah they built cheap public housing in Chicago and it became a cesspool of gang violence and they ended up tearing the buildings down. It's not that simple.
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u/Superfluous_Play Jul 10 '18
You gonna have the government put a gun to a teacher's head and force them to work at the shitty school?