On the topic of teaching: Trans kids suffer a lot day-to-day, a lot of it coming from their own judgement of themselves. The zoomer generation is very accepting however. Not only of trans kids but homo- and bisexuality, and of kids from different cultural backgrounds.
I taught at a school that was very ethnically mixed, I would say like 50% white and 50% other (Syrian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Somali, and more), but it wasn't what Americans would call an "inner-city school". It wasn't a fancy private school or anything, but it was a good school.
Some schools are heavily segregated, though, and the schools with almost entirely students from immigrant backgrounds are also schools in poor municipalities with less resources than they need.
That's mostly a symptom of decentralisation. Poor communities are left to fend for themselves and receive little to no assistance because it's every municipality for themselves and there isn't really a central authority that can fix these things anymore.
So rich municipalities can have an excess of funds because their constituents are wealthy but then they just raise their budget and build a swimming pool or something, meanwhile the municipality next door is having trouble sending all the kids to school.
Sorry this thread went from supporting trans kids to ranting about decentralisation but that's how I do. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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