These days much the same. Schools with more resources is needed but you need to know it's dependent upon the wages of the town to support it. In that will be fixed soon I hope as minimum wage is looking to go up sometime as you can't have most people walking with no cars in the knowledge economy.
The knowledge economy takes knowledge but in smaller towns are high in social illiteracy not because they are lazy but because they couldn't afford it in the first place. It's sad like the statement "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." Deprived an education because of income! Harsh like my college professor said in class "Retardation by deprivation, Raised in a corn field your mind is only mushed as the corn field you live in!" So the town you live in is only as smart as the people it has. So a school is only as good as the children that goes to it ending in something like benchmark the parents to know what to expect from the kids in a test!
Well it is true! Your town might have no pride, culture, or couth. But then those things cost money and it they never had any they don't have any!
So I am saying higher wages is needed to bring people up as they can't get brought up on their own and over all of this time they haven't yet!
~~~~~Study: Hope for education differs among poor Americans
Americans who live in impoverished neighborhoods nationwide don't agree on whether their children have access to high-quality public schools, new research said Tuesday.
Gallup said in a survey that only about a third (35 percent) of Americans who live in "fragile" U.S. communities -- those with concentrated poverty and limited opportunity -- believe they have access to high-quality education. Another third (33 percent) said they have no such access, and another third (32 percent) are neutral or have no opinion.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/06/04/Study-Hope-for-education-differs-among-poor-Americans/5351559662544
