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Breaking: wealth, class, and money spent influence educational results.
How about details on comparing class sizes, seniority and tenure of teaching staff, and money spent per student between “blue” schools in the north and “red/orange” schools in the SW and South?
Good thing I like vanilla! Seriously, it’s an underrated flavor.
Once again, it’s about one community having the resources to supplement their children’s education vs. one that does not.
It has nothing to do with the schools themselves.
Basically, mess with schools north of the ship canal and you get fired and all your friends fired.
mess with schools south of the ship canal and nobody cares.
Yes, that includes Downtown and Capitol Hill, fwiw.
It was that way when I moved here 22 years ago, and it’s still that way.
Not news.
@1: parental involvement and high expectations can overcome the gap in wealth and class. not everytime, but in my educational experience.
@4: So you think Steve Sundquist’s involvement in closing Cooper Elementary and screwing with West Seattle’s schools capacity had nothing to do with his re-election failure? Interesting.
Nobody cares about West Seattle.
We screwed you with the Tunnel and you’re not getting more transit, can’tyou tell by their actions?
@5 is exactly correct. Of course, that doesn’t mean that kids without parents who care should be denied a decent education. But as long as schools are required to make sure that kids who can’t do basic math read “Jane Eyre,” and that kids who can’t read or write well waste time learning chemistry and history, those kids will continue to fail. And I say that as a former teacher who loves science and history and literature.
There is not nearly enough flexibility in the massive bureaucracy that is public education.