Reply #14: So how are we going to compare different districts? [View All]

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All funding for schools in local areas come from property taxes, so inner city kids get less money for schools then the suburbs. Inner city kids are probably more likely to have parents in jail or on drugs, or single parent poor family.

Are you going to just say that all A's are equal? or all D's as far as progress goes?

I would think a teacher in the suburbs should have 50% A's under that. Inner city, maybe 5%.

Maybe a nice giant equation to figure things out:

average income of students parents x number of parents in PTA x amount of funding for schools x 1 divided by average grade point average of students in the class ..... etc, etc, etc.

If I was a good teacher, I would know enough to say: "Its a stupid FUCKING idea"