Why A Low-Ranking Elementary School Might Be Your Child's Best Option
Briefly

TikTok user Lindsay Templeton, a former education analyst, urges parents to rethink school rankings and their impact on education quality. She highlights that numerous factors, such as home environment, socio-economic status, and community support, are more influential on a child's future success than the school they attend. Templeton has chosen to send her child to a local, lower-ranked school, believing this better meets the child's needs and that rankings often misrepresent true educational quality.
Not only is the US the only country in the developed world that uses standardized tests in the way that we do, we know from decades of data collection that these tests are…
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