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Defense Department schools are well-funded, socioeconomically and racially integrated, and have a centralized structure that is not subject to the whims of school boards or mayors.
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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What a surprise, if you spend money on education the students rise to the top. Someone should do a study on this.
99% chance this is true. How ever I would also like it to be known that for some reason military brats also tend to preform better than peers even without DoDEA Schools.
That's something I would like to see a study on. Why do military kids preform better academically
I think it's the exposure to a wider circle of influence. Diversity in education creates more opportunities to be creative or question things. Compare that to kids in small towns that go to the same school their parents did, even have the same teachers, and a small circle of friends.
Learning is not restricted to the classroom.
I think this is part of it. Plus, like @LuckyBoy@lemmy.world and @angrymouse@lemmy.world said, DoDEA schools are well funded, integrated, and have a standard curriculum that is (somewhat ironically) less politicized.
When you have a kid who grows up with an enlisted soldier for a parent, that kid goes to school with other enlisted soldiers' kids and often officers' kids (including flag officers), as well. This is even more pronounced overseas. That would be as if some random Amazon worker's kid went to school with Bezos' kid (a bit of an exaggeration). Sure, sometimes the flags and senior Os will send their kids to private schools and such, but just as often, they're DoDEA, too. Plus, when overseas, there's just so much more that can be experienced in culture.
Because if they don't pay attention their military parents will beat their ass
But that would stretch to other parents with the same mentality. It doesn't
From experience parents don't come in being shitheads very much either. The few occasions when they do, administration just calls up the parents CO and asks them to control their guy.
Also, the "worst of the worst" students that you see in normal schools often get sent back to the States if they act up too much.
Also, parents are employed in secure (for the most part) jobs.
Also, healthcare is taken care of.