Anonymous #1 14w

They just push through everyone who's failing

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Anonymous #1 14w

The inner city schools are so bad they literally have a lottery system to get bussed in every morning to suburban ones

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Anonymous #1 14w

During my senior year there was a high school like two towns over from me where they were talking about sending in the national guard

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Anonymous #1 14w

Yup bc our education system is broken. Schools get funding based on graduation rates, and so to keep that rate up, they intentionally lower standards so they get more funding. It’s genuinely fucked up, and we are screwing our future generations with a worse and worse education

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Anonymous #1 14w

Reagan and his consequences have been a disaster for Americans everywhere

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Anonymous OP 14w

Idk where you're talking about but my senior year had an option for english class where you just watch movies all day, an option to take pre algebra as your math class, an option for "sports literature" in social studies (basically you just watch sports). Shit genuinely could not have been any easier and kids would still fail because they would cut class constantly and do drugs in the bathroom instead of going to class

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Anonymous #1 14w

As a future educator, thank you for helping me choose not to go to MA

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Then what, all the ivy leagues? You think a decent chunk of the MA population actually gets in there?

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Anonymous OP 14w

Np

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I would need to find the study again, bc I made this a long time ago, but I believe it is by college degrees among other factors

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Wouldn't be surprised but people make it out to seem like MA actually has decent public schools unlike the rest of the country which is far from the truth

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Makes more sense that way but this graph should have the added context of higher education

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When you just say education I assume you're talking K-12

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Yeah there were other factors too if i remember correctly, but I’m not going through the headache of tracking down a study I read months ago for a fucking YY comment section lmao

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Anonymous #1 14w

I want you to use critical thinking for a moment here. Why on Earth would inner city schools be underfunded compared to suburban schools? Same thing is true here in SE PA, but we’ve been doing Charter Schools instead of bussing and it’s been vastly successful (minus the corruption).

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Anonymous #6 14w

It's not that I don't understand the reasoning, it's that if the school system was so good (to the degree that they keep preaching it is), we wouldn't have any schools that are so subpar it makes more sense to bus kids way outside of their neighborhoods than to fix the school.

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Anonymous #1 14w

There’s just so much that goes into it. For example, OP’s graph doesn’t clarify what measurements are used to determine “most/least educated.” A measurement like average highest grade completed would be a rather poor choice but would still be a (biased) way to measure state education quality. I know that MA’s higher education system is pretty much unparalleled, and even Boston’s public schools are likely much better than Philly’s, coming from our ~50% functional illiteracy rate

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Anonymous #1 14w

Philly’s Catholic School educations are pretty much a gold standard in the country and have competition for entry that can be compared to universities. Catholic and Charter schools here are pretty much the only option to give your kids a chance at a future because the public school system has been doomed to fail them since apartheid America routed as much funding as possible to white schools. We’re making a lot of progress, but there’s still so much work to do.

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Anonymous #6 14w

In my experience I couldn't find one good school near me in MA public or private.

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Anonymous #1 14w

Which is clearly biased but I assume you're taking that into consideration

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Anonymous #1 14w

Our state supreme court recently ruled that our Senate was discriminatory in its decision to refuse funding for schools in poor communities, and it’s such an amazing monumental ruling for us because our greater metropolitan area single-handedly makes up over 50% of the state’s GDP

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Anonymous #1 14w

Pretty much every large city is still gonna have lower statistics compared to the rest of its state for the next 50-100 years so the comparison isn’t fair to make. Looking at how it compares to other cities, Boston would still be top 5-10 so compared to places like Philly & Baltimore youse are doing pretty okay for yourselves

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