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2012 Jun 14, 2:38am   2,778 views  7 comments

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http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/neighborhoods/school-district/ratings/top100/

I don't see Cupertino here and most schools are in New England/NY belt. Doesn't seem right?

Any comments anyone?

The reason I put it in RE forum is that most people believe that there is a correlation between school districts' performance and housing prices.

#housing

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1   Tenpoundbass   2012 Jun 14, 3:15am  

When we're in a country that the best PUBLIC schools in the nation are in the rich neighborhoods. Then I suspect in 20 years we'll have a lot of domestic black workers working in the homes of those privileged few, that got a "Good" education. On the public's dime, including the parent's dime of the domestic help. It's a sick liberal whirld aint it?

I guess it was only wrong when White southern guys did it 50 years ago.
But it's OK for the Liberal elite to establish class inequality.

Oh but they say it's the head honcho at the bank's fault. The 1% and not the 50%.

They sure like to pass judgement on everyone else from behind the safety of their gated community don't they?

2   kt1652   2012 Jun 14, 4:30am  

I will bite. This will show why this is a useless, uh I mean non objective comparison.
Here goes:

I used NY and CA to compare.
I used the best school list from Serpenter for CA
- Oxford Academy Anaheim (OA)
I used the best school list from you for NY
- New Exploration NYC (NE)

Spending per student, district:
NE $17000
OA $8700
Spending per student, state ave:
NY $16400
CA $9093

Property tax, state ave:
NY 1.76%
CA 0.68%

From the above, it indicates OA is performing at the best-of-the-best level for half the cost of NE. I know it is not fair to say that, but this is patnet.

What would happen if CA matched NY’s spending per student?
We assume that $/student is the main driver in school’s performance. (No, I do not believe to be valid.) But lets see what would happen anyway.

CA K-12 population = 6.2M students

(17000-9093)*6.2M = $49B (CA shortfall with NY $/student cost)
Current CA budget deficit = $16B
*Projected* Total CA deficit =$65B
Current CA total tax revenue =$ 84B

So what is my point?
Hahahaha…..(evil laugh)…CA files for bankruptcy.

3   AJ1201   2012 Jun 14, 4:37am  

maybe CA is spending more $ than NY school and also where class sizes are huge (or the number of students are large) the $/student may not be a good metric IMO.

- What does NY spend annually (as compared to CA)?
- What is the total student size?

Maybe it is a combination of these factors that need to be looked at. Maybe NY spends twice because it can afford to or maybe there are programs that are not present in CA.

4   B.A.C.A.H.   2012 Jun 14, 7:48am  

AJ1201 says

I don't see Cupertino here and most schools are in New England/NY belt. Doesn't seem right?

Any comments anyone?

The reason I put it in RE forum is that most people believe that there is a correlation between school districts' performance and housing prices.

Cupertino is an example specific to a certain household demographic and a specific county in The Bay Area. The house prices and rents are heavily skewed into what that particular demographic can afford to pay and what it thinks is a reasonable portion of household expense to pay for housing is. Those values are peculiar to that demographic and in the view of most Americans are very peculiar indeed.

Being a Bay Area Centric website, Cupertino gets disproportionately more discussion on this website compared to other forums.

5   Serpentor   2012 Jun 14, 9:11am  

CaptainShuddup says

When we're in a country that the best PUBLIC schools in the nation are in the rich neighborhoods. Then I suspect in 20 years we'll have a lot of domestic black workers working in the homes of those privileged few, that got a "Good" education. On the public's dime, including the parent's dime of the domestic help. It's a sick liberal whirld aint it?

I guess it was only wrong when White southern guys did it 50 years ago.

But it's OK for the Liberal elite to establish class inequality.

Oh but they say it's the head honcho at the bank's fault. The 1% and not the 50%.

They sure like to pass judgement on everyone else from behind the safety of their gated community don't they?

Jesus, why do you have to turn everything in to a left vs right rant? Fuck. What does the topic have to do with libs vers Cons? WTF

6   Serpentor   2012 Jun 14, 9:16am  

kt1652 says

What would happen if CA matched NY’s spending per student?
We assume that $/student is the main driver in school’s performance. (No, I do not believe to be valid.) But lets see what would happen anyway.

I don't think its a linear relationship in $ vs performance. I'm sure if you have better ratio of teachers to students you'll get some students to perform better, but only up to a point. If you go over a certain threshold, it becomes a waste of money since your quality of teachers will be too variable/

7   futuresmc   2012 Jun 14, 9:56am  

CaptainShuddup says

When we're in a country that the best PUBLIC schools in the nation are in the rich neighborhoods. Then I suspect in 20 years we'll have a lot of domestic black workers working in the homes of those privileged few, that got a "Good" education. On the public's dime, including the parent's dime of the domestic help. It's a sick liberal whirld aint it?

I guess it was only wrong when White southern guys did it 50 years ago.

But it's OK for the Liberal elite to establish class inequality.

Oh but they say it's the head honcho at the bank's fault. The 1% and not the 50%.

They sure like to pass judgement on everyone else from behind the safety of their gated community don't they?

The reason wealthy districts are permitted to outspend poorer ones within the same state is because of a supreme court case from 1973, San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez. This has nothing to do with liberal vs. conservative. All states do this, regardless of the voting blocks involved. However, IMHO, it was a terrible decision that condemned a large number of our countries children to inadequate educational opportunities, and the deciding vote was cast by a Justice appointed by Nixon, who wasn't exactly one of your much maligned liberals.

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