I’m clearing out old files, and I came across an article from the May 3, 2016, New York Times entitled “In Schools Nationwide, Money Predicts Success.” The authors noted that “Children in the school districts with the highest concentration of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts. I doubt if this has changed much in the last eight years.
The authors pointed out some exceptions, but those were districts in which the administrators and teachers launched special programs, hired reading specialists, involved parents, and really worked at boosting the kids’ educations.
In Lehighton, a comparatively low income district near me, school board members seem to worry more about which kids use which bathrooms, whether the kids are reading inappropriate books, and who can play sports. I suppose board members may have some concerns about reading and math scores, but they certainly don’t talk about those very much.
I've been to their meetings, school seems to be run by backwards superstitious near-morons who talk rudely to the public and to the students
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