Having moved from an urban to a rural area, I can anecdotally say there is more to it than just education (though that certainly may be a factor).
I got an uncle in his 70s.
He went to k-10th (stopped there) in a one room school house, that had an outhouse.
His “grade” was him and a girl 2-3 years younger than him, then there was a few much younger kids later.
He is alive and voting, and won’t miss midterms.
I think when I talk about “rural”, people might not be understanding how “rural” America was and to a lesser extent still is.
Like, I don’t think people realize how modern school buses as a concept are…
It’s only been about 50 years, which is most likely why we saw the 90s boom than whatever the fuck Bill Clinton was doing.
1995 was 20 years after we started really educating everyone. And we saw a bunch of innovation and good times.
2003ish was No Child, and 12 years after that we got trump. Shits worse than before because now the only ones getting decent educations, are wealthy privet school kids. Which a wealth divide should obviously be worse than the prior geographical divide, but at this point I might as well mention.
I got an uncle in his 70s.
He went to k-10th (stopped there) in a one room school house, that had an outhouse.
His “grade” was him and a girl 2-3 years younger than him, then there was a few much younger kids later.
He is alive and voting, and won’t miss midterms.
I think when I talk about “rural”, people might not be understanding how “rural” America was and to a lesser extent still is.
Like, I don’t think people realize how modern school buses as a concept are…
It’s only been about 50 years, which is most likely why we saw the 90s boom than whatever the fuck Bill Clinton was doing.
1995 was 20 years after we started really educating everyone. And we saw a bunch of innovation and good times.
2003ish was No Child, and 12 years after that we got trump. Shits worse than before because now the only ones getting decent educations, are wealthy privet school kids. Which a wealth divide should obviously be worse than the prior geographical divide, but at this point I might as well mention.
those magnet campuses are really quite beneficial if you don’t have to drive two hours on the bus to get to one.