“More money can help schools succeed, but not if they fritter those extra resources in unproductive ways,” says one researcher.
by Emma Camp
Reason.com
A viral TikTok video of Carmel High School outside Indianapolis, Indiana, has sparked a revealing conversation about school funding and school performance. The video, which had over 34 million views on TikTok and Twitter as of Wednesday morning, shows a group of students giving a tour of their massive and well-manicured suburban campus. The public school’s facilities include a sizeable gleaming auditorium, an auto shop, and a planetarium.
Critics quickly argued that Carmel’s schools must be better funded than worse-performing Indianapolis City Schools. “[W]hen you see this and then look at the other ‘publicly funded’ high schools in indianapolis, you realize just how blatantly racist indiana is,” wrote one Twitter user in a post with over 9 million views.