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0 pointsmancerayder5y ago0 comments

Rich kids have access to private schools, which aren't subject to teacher's unions and political battles like the confusing one you had in New York between the Governor and the Mayor of NYC. They were contradicting each other on policy predictions and did a big disservice.

In California, apparently teacher's unions have been blocking school opening plans. That's what I read and it could just be false or misleading news.

Again, rich people afford private schools, tutors, etc.

In contrast, in France they just went under lockdown in the north this weekend, yet for many months now they had schools open. In the US we're opening up but schools stay closed in many places. Who's being scientific and who's being political?

Nothing makes much sense! We must question authority and special interest groups, constantly. Take nothing for granted, even if a politician claims to be on the side of science.

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cpwright5y ago

I think the idea of "rich kids can go to private schools" is not actually the what is the largest driver inequality of outcomes for children. Roughly 10% of K12 pupils attend private school in the US. I was unable to find anything that pointed towards a definitive increase in private school enrollment; though that doesn't mean that it isn't there.

Sure, the "rich" families can afford private school tuition; but even just well-off families are better able to handle the at home school situation. They are more likely to have flexible schedules or work from home arrangements that allow them to properly supervise their children's learning - which I hypothesize that this better being able to supervise remote learning, is a much bigger driver of divergent outcomes than the fairly small number of private school pupils.

AlexTWithBeard5y ago

Between "rich" and "poor" there's an ever-shrinking, but still a quite large layer of middle-class kids, who cannot afford private schools, tutors and summer camps abroad, but still manage to somehow get educated.

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