Well, I guess I'd opine that maybe it's a phantom until it isn't, I think - and you talked about this yourself recently:
If the physical environment of the school itself sucks (freezing cold, leaking water, rats, all of which happen here despite sky high per student expenditures), your kids come home hungry, or keep getting their asses ki…
Well, I guess I'd opine that maybe it's a phantom until it isn't, I think - and you talked about this yourself recently:
If the physical environment of the school itself sucks (freezing cold, leaking water, rats, all of which happen here despite sky high per student expenditures), your kids come home hungry, or keep getting their asses kicked because of the lack of any sort of security or discipline ....
At that point, it seems like "quality" is not a red herring, but rather, tied to outcomes any normal person would want for their kids when it comes to schooling.
I absolutely agree that there is no "quality" metric tied to per student spending, and few things in education have been made more obvious over the past couple of decades.
What many normal people fail to realize is that few problems in America are due to "lack of resources", and that problems caused by poor planning, waste, even corruption, are actually exacerbated, not relieved, when more people and money are thrown at the problem.
Well, I guess I'd opine that maybe it's a phantom until it isn't, I think - and you talked about this yourself recently:
If the physical environment of the school itself sucks (freezing cold, leaking water, rats, all of which happen here despite sky high per student expenditures), your kids come home hungry, or keep getting their asses kicked because of the lack of any sort of security or discipline ....
At that point, it seems like "quality" is not a red herring, but rather, tied to outcomes any normal person would want for their kids when it comes to schooling.
I absolutely agree that there is no "quality" metric tied to per student spending, and few things in education have been made more obvious over the past couple of decades.
What many normal people fail to realize is that few problems in America are due to "lack of resources", and that problems caused by poor planning, waste, even corruption, are actually exacerbated, not relieved, when more people and money are thrown at the problem.