there are also different funds available for the secondary level which take into consideration postal code areas and neighbourhoods with low income households social welfare and nonwestern backgrounds as some schools discriminate against disadvantaged students because they feel that they are a financial burden gauri and vawda this funding eliminates the motivation for such inequitable practices through this policy disadvantaged students have become more attractive to schools oecd research shows that schools with a high proportion of weighted students have had an increase in resources such as the number of teachers per student assistant teachers and administrators ladd and fiske