As much as I'd like to stay and help my community, I'd like to study somewhere else.
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This is called "brain drain". Educated people exit the state and the effects continue.
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Thanks for your perspective, Jake!
He said it as if this is normal...
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Louisiana, a state of massive exports and industrial strength, however, little of wealth trickles into schools.The state ranks last in the country for economic development.
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Dang it Juan! We ran out of desks. You're going to have to sit on the floor again.
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It's like being a suspect before a student.I can't even feel safe here!You want to hear that?
If that is the truth, yes.
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Louisiana has a rise in youth/school-related crimes with high violence. Their crime rate is twice as high of the national average...
Hey! Why do you have a knife in this bag?!
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If I want to take AP Physics, I have to drive 40 minutes to another district or take it on a glitchy laptop!We don't even have labs!
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Our school becomes a management project for teachers when they have to choose between teaching which students, where to teach when other teachers (possibly due to shortages) are out, and to control large student bodies.
Teacher struggles and student struggles combined make effective education very farfetched as a possibility, especially for districts with minimal funding.
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They were wrong...
Thank you for your sharing, Melissa.
The state says the economy is improving, but the only thing "improving" are the refineries and the number of students being suspended.
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Wow, these students have it rough...
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Massachusetts has ranked #1 in education for years
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Opportunity was embedded in the environment, not necessarily earned, just inherited.
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I didn't know not every school had AP classes until like… sophomore year
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I thought a public school was a public school.
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The state really cares about education and has laws in place to support it.
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I'm not saying I don't work hard. But I also just… had stuff. I didn't earn the robotics lab
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He got it. Not all of them do. But he got it
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None of the students in these areas said their school was bad.
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But they weren't describing the same institution
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In the U.S., school funding is largely tied to local property taxes. Wealthy areas fund better schools. That funding gap compounds, year over year, student after student.
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The students adapt.They normalize whatever they're handed.
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One country and one education system, yet students are still set on very different paths.
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Different schools, different resources, different opportunities — long before students reach adulthood.
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Works CitedNational Research Council. (1993). The funding of school systems. In School finance: Issues and recommendations. National Academies Press.American Legislative Exchange Council. (2024). Louisiana: Rich states, poor states.West Virginia Watch. (2024, June 11). WV ranks near bottom of country for education outcomes as childhood poverty increases, data shows.