Yes, well, they might be performing better exactly because they run below maximum capacity.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 21/09/2011 08:53:58 PM
Lots of schools are running below maximum capacity so it makes sense to fill the best schools to capacity and leave the other with less. Less students means less money from the state so schools have a huge incentive to compete.
I mean, it depends on the school and all, but all other things being equal, one would certainly expect a school with smaller class sizes to do better than one with bigger class sizes. How do you even define "maximum capacity", do you define that as each class having the maximum of students it's allowed to have?
When a school performs badly, it's possible of course that the blame is with the administration, or with a large group of bad teachers that ruin things for everyone. But I rather doubt that's the case everywhere, and among the other factors contributing to "bad" schools, no doubt one has to count over-large class sizes, having too many non-English-speaking students, and the like - and then it's not really that obvious that you can solve the problem by sending all the kids to a different school.
School choice works
- 20/09/2011 10:25:16 PM
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The word "duh" comes to mind.
- 20/09/2011 11:01:26 PM
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Regardless, you don't refuse to save some just because you can't save all. *NM*
- 20/09/2011 11:43:04 PM
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When saving some comes at the cost of dooming others, you might. 
- 20/09/2011 11:50:05 PM
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- 20/09/2011 11:50:05 PM
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I would assume they kids were taking the extra spots the schools hadm.n
- 21/09/2011 12:41:20 AM
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Yes, well, they might be performing better exactly because they run below maximum capacity.
- 21/09/2011 08:53:58 PM
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Cool cool. I'm confused, though- won't pretty much everyone try to get into the "better" schools?
- 20/09/2011 11:47:45 PM
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If you read the aritcle it tells you the good schools were full to capacity
- 21/09/2011 12:17:15 AM
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