08-05-2016, 02:29 PM
(08-05-2016, 02:18 PM)Aquapod770 Wrote: Funding really isn't the problem. It's how you use those funds. Baltimore City schools are funded very well, yet still under preform. Does increased funding help? Sure, but just throwing money at a problem rarely ever fixes it.
I think Bmore will back me up on this, funding only gets you so far. What really determines the level of education a child gets is the level of parental involvement. A child that fears no consequences for not paying attention and learning in class will generally prefer not to. A child who can ditch school without consequences, or with parental permission, tacit or otherwise, will generally indulge in doing so. The best teacher in the world with the best materials in the world will not be able to reach a group of children who have no incentive to pay attention or dis-insensitive not to. This is also why teachers deal with such high levels of disciplinary problems in many areas. Often times the first person in a child's life to impose a set of rules, enforce them and hold the child accountable is a teacher. If there's no accountability in the home the teacher is at the wrong end of a long, painful struggle and every second spent in that struggle is a second that takes away from their ability to teach. Not only is it time intensive, it's mentally draining, and being mentally exhausted isn't a recipe for performing at peak levels.
