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And yet the public schools with the most snooty parent involvement seem to be the best in my experience.

Probably not a whole ton of great public schools with little to no parental involvement.

This is true but it is much larger than just the parents being involved. Community involvement plays a large role in the quality of the schools. When the city/town you live in doesn't feel the need to properly fund the educational system then it will show in the final product. When a community invests in the educational system then it will see more benefits as a result.

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Posted by WestCoastAg

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Posted on 5/7/13 at 2:29 pm to CatFan81

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They don't have to deal with snooty parents and spoiled kids either.

that's an over generalization

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Posted by Mizzeaux

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Posted on 5/7/13 at 2:30 pm to GTHTSUN

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When the city/town you live in doesn't feel the need to properly fund the educational system then it will show in the final product. When a community invests in the educational system then it will see more benefits as a result.

I absolutely agree, here in Las Vegas we have the fifth largest school district in the country. The state/city/county do not fund it extremely well. We're always near the bottom of the list nationally when it comes to per pupil funding and class sizes.

However, in my neighborhood we have the same funding, class sizes, resource problems, and yet all the schools excel and survive. It's almost completely based on community involvement and (likely) being upper middle/upper class.

Even when the school district was still busing students from the ghetto to attend this high school the school was great. The graduation rates for all the minority groups and discounted/free lunch students were significantly higher than schools with less community/parent involvement.

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Posted by GTHTSUN

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Posted on 5/7/13 at 2:33 pm to Duke

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It should be done then. I'm obviously not an educator but I think I would really enjoy being a teacher. I've done enough tutoring to know I've got a bit of a talent for it, and I really enjoy watching ideas click in people's heads. I wouldn't do it at this point in time though. Y'all don't get paid enough considering what I can make in the engineering field and well the system seems to be a bit of a mess.

It's an interesting topic though, and one that isn't discussed nearly enough.

I completely agree.
Teaching is a calling, kinda like going in to the ministry, you don't enter in to it because you want to be rich. You do it because you were "called" in to it.

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Posted by Duke

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Posted on 5/7/13 at 2:34 pm to GTHTSUN

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Teaching is a calling, kinda like going in to the ministry, you don't enter in to it because you want to be rich. You do it because you were "called" in to it.

Yeah, but that ends up excluding people who we want to be teachers.

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Posted by BluegrassBelle

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Posted on 5/7/13 at 2:37 pm to GTHTSUN

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Teaching is a calling, kinda like going in to the ministry, you don't enter in to it because you want to be rich. You do it because you were "called" in to it.

The problem with this line of thought is you're progressively losing potential teachers, good teachers, to better paying fields. And yet the pressure on teachers to be solely responsible for the education of a child because of the declining family unit increases. There's something wrong with that.

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