| ▲ | rcpt 12 hours ago |
| It's not because of BLM. It's because of Prop 13. |
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| ▲ | jedberg 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It could be both. Prop 13 is definitely a huge problem, it cut school funding significantly since the 80s. But also the focus on equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity. I read a good book a while back that pointed out how much more we spend on special ed, which is aimed at the bottom 5%, compared to what we spend on gifted education, which is the top 5%. It asked why we would spend so much on one and not the other, especially since the ROI is so much higher for the top 5%. (It obviously skipped the whole "making our society better and helping those in need" argument since it hurt their argument). |
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| ▲ | panzagl 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Special ed is expensive because it's things like 'this student needs a full time aid'. The only way to decrease it is to basically abandon those children. | | |
| ▲ | jedberg 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Or agree that the top 5% should get the same resources and give each one a private tutor at the same cost. |
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| ▲ | tick_tock_tick 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Spending per student isn't really that related to test performance so I don't really understand the link? |
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| ▲ | elzbardico 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| So paying incompetent administrators and teacher even more than what they make in California will somehow improve things magically?
The solution is to always tax more, that's it? |
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| ▲ | teachrdan 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Funny how HN never assumes that paying software developers more money is pointless. It's just those greedy teachers trying to make enough money to buy a home! |
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| ▲ | BadHumans 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Go on...Going to need a little bit more of an explanation here. |
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| ▲ | edmundsauto 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Prop 13 limits property taxes which are typically used for funding local schools. The comment is implying that it’s low school funding in Ca that is the culprit. | | |
| ▲ | itbeho 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Property prices in California have skyrocketed in the last decase, and so have tax revenues. Spending more money wastefully won't solve the problem. | |
| ▲ | BadHumans 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I understand now thanks. That point doesn't make sense to me in the context of the article because the article is claiming that black and Latino gifted children were under-scouted until the BLM movement. Seems that this and that are 2 different issues. | | |
| ▲ | pfisherman 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Prop 13 had a huge negative effect on quality of public schools in California, which I got to experience first hand. The difference was quite apparent to me during high school when I compared my older siblings’ yearbooks to my experience of the same school a decade later. They had so many more classes, clubs, sports, programs, and activities available to them than I did. |
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| ▲ | cosinetau 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Prop 13 prevents new property tax without a direct referendum. Without new revenue streams, gifted programs were affordable for school districts until they were not. |
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| ▲ | xbar 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Specifically, Prop. 13's impact on commercial real estate, which was the real reason for it all along. |
