I once saw a TV show, where an older black man said, that he got a better education in the segregated schools of the Jim Crow south, than students get today in our inner city schools.
What really gets me, is that some cities, such as Washington, spend among the highest amounts per capita on education, yet produce some of the worst results.
So often, activist types say we just aren’t spending enough on troubled schools, yet when you see that some troubled school systems are actually spending much more than other school systems, it makes you wonder what’s really going on here.
It’s all based on a lie: that lie is equality. National standards won’d solve this. All the vouchers in the world won’t solve this. Disbanding the NEA won’t solve this. It’s all falling apart right before our eyes. We might slow it down with policies that are somewhat acceptable in the current year, but only slow it down.