What is the Mission of Public Education? (And where does it stop?)
Reader Syd said this in a comment to Charlie's thread on Equitable School Funding:
Poverty is a real societal problem, and realistically the best place you can serve impoverished children is in a place they are mandated by law to attend. We should feed them, clothe them, doctor them, nurse them (it is different), and mentor them using schools as the center. That's not the schools mission you say? Change the mission.
I'm going to express some thoughts on this issue but please understand that they are a jumping off place for a conversation and not necessarily my opinion/belief.
1) Sentence one - that makes sense to me. If students are not being adequately supported at home and given they are mandated to be in schools, should
Poverty is a real societal problem, and realistically the best place you can serve impoverished children is in a place they are mandated by law to attend. We should feed them, clothe them, doctor them, nurse them (it is different), and mentor them using schools as the center. That's not the schools mission you say? Change the mission.
I'm going to express some thoughts on this issue but please understand that they are a jumping off place for a conversation and not necessarily my opinion/belief.
1) Sentence one - that makes sense to me. If students are not being adequately supported at home and given they are mandated to be in schools, should