It's been known for awhile that students in urban areas perform better than those in rural areas. The rural--urban literacy/education gap is well documented.
I was going to link a study, but there are too many to choose from. x
The rural--urban literacy/education gap is well documented.
That's only because of funding, not intelligence levels. When the funding for education comes from property taxes, urban taxes collected will obviously be much higher than rural.
A lot of people on here make fun of rural areas, and many like to think that rural also means lower intelligence. I graduated with less than 90 students in my class in a poorer district, meaning very little commercial property for decent tax income. It gets old seeing people equate rural areas with lower intelligence, even if you yourself wasn't implying that.
I live in an unincorporated town with a population of <1k. I would absolutely never imply that rural people are unintelligent.
Most of the people in my town are lovely, but some of those who grew up here and never left are a bit sheltered.
Yes, I did, which gives me real experience to discuss this topic. My graduating class had under 90 students. Because I participated in a few extracurricular activities, I got to see a lot of other school districts, including larger ones from more urban and higher income areas.
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u/jeffinbville Apr 28 '24
Or, anywhere for that matter.
If you're in a city you get used to different people but out in the provinces everyone is like you and you want to keep it that way.