MaggieD
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Go ahead and do it all day. I think you'd find the poorest performing schools are those which reside in city areas with poverty. Hard to expect good performance from school children when they have unstable home lives as both parents are working and they're still barely scraping by enough to pay for food or healthcare. Poverty = higher crime and lower education. What do the countries ahead of us have significantly in common? STRONG SOCIAL PROGRAMS including EDUCATION SPENDING.
That's not the point. The point is that these students don't need advanced mathematics. Let's not lose sight of what we were discussing.
Honestly, it's comical that a political ideology attempts to pull away social spending and education spending, villanizes education as "elitist", and then complains about how poor our schools are
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You find very strange things comical. Our schools are failing generations of children. And yet we just keep doing the same thing over and over and over again. And we know what the defines, don't we?
BTW, it isn't all about poverty. Naperville, listed above, has a median household income of over $100,000 per year.
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