Public Schools: Invisible Privilege

3. Explain how funding for schools could be a form of "invisible privilege." Discuss the financial, educational, social, and learning barriers of children in poor schools. How could these inequalities be remedied?

Public schools are funded by local property taxes which differ from neighborhood to neighborhood creating an invisible privilege. The more wealthy neighborhoods generate higher revenue through local property taxes, whereas the property taxes generated by the poorer areas generates far less, giving more educational privileges to well-to-do students. The income generated by property taxes is a reflection of an areas wealth. Wealthy parents are more involved with education and fundraising and have personal connections to generate more funds for the schools their children are enrolled in. In the wealthy schools,
Teachers should be alternately placed and moved randomly throughout the year or every semester and they should all follow a state approved universal curriculum. Every school should be modeled after that of a successful one and stick to the modeling. All schools should mirror each other in terms of appearance, education, structure, resources, and teacher qualifications.
The distribution of funding should be equal throughout the entire state. It shouldn't matter how much revenue in tax money a particular neighborhood brings, each school is a state facility funded by the state, not by a single neighborhood. The school district should collect all the district’s funding in one lump sum and distribute it evenly throughout the district by school population. If the school board goes by population, the funding will be distributed equally per student. This will make sure each student is afforded the proper learning tools throughout the year whether their parents can afford it or