If We Want to Grow as a Nation, We Must Invest More in Education than Incarceration

BlackAmericaWeb.com ^ | December 15, 2006 | Judge Greg Mathis

[wintertime]

1) Judge Mathis, falsely states that money to K-12 education has been cut. It hasn't.

2) Government schools can NOT provide the moral direction that parents and children need. The advice that must be given to, and demands made of parents and children can only be dished out by a private school. Why? Answer: Because those demands and that advice is politically incorrect and would violate establishment of religion.

3) Due to the points made in #2, more time in government schools make children worse, not better.

4) Shouldn't a judge know that it is unconstitutional for the federal government to be involved in education?

5) Judge Mathis falsely believes that spending more money on education will reduce the prison population. I won't. Ending the war on drugs will. These people are in prison because they are working in the black market. That black market has NOTHING at all to do with K-12 schools.

6) He states that he benifited from his college education. Well....that college education was funded by vouchers and loans that he could use to attend any private or government school that would accept him. K-12 schools would benefit from free markets too.

[ClaireSolt]

He wrongly blames the drug war and not the criminals.

[wgflyer]

"Government schools can NOT provide the moral direction that parents and children need. "

You are right on target, friend.

The only thing that will improve our educational systems and reduce prison populations is a higher social standard in which people are held accountable from birth to death for bad behavior.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We already spend an average of $10,000 per public school student per year, and yet half the inner-city kids graduating can't even read. Money is not the problem.

[rlmorel]

"...Inner-city schools fail half of their students, and jobs are removed from communities, replaced with guns and drugs..."

Due to liberal polices enacted since WWII that declared war on the traditional family, marriage and fatherhood.

[YoungSoutherner]

I love your second comment.

[Bernard]

Two words that did not appear in the article: Family and Father. Anything in the original source about this, or is government-financed education the judge's answer to all ills?

[YoungSoutherner]

Exactly public schools get so much money. Throwing money at them is not the solution.

[muawiyah]

Jut thinking this guy still doesn't undestand "if you can't do the time don't do the crime".

Maybe he needs some more time in stir or something ~

[Caipirabob]

That state both, simply and logistically cannot take the place of a family, particularly that of a mother and father.

To believe and say otherwise is a larger statement of ignorance, if not an intentional deception on their part.

[robertpaulsen]

"many U.S. states have cut their education budgets to compensate for rapid growth in prison populations and prison construction"

Aha! So we already were spending money on education and now that's being cut to build prisons.

Well then, it obviously wasn't working, was it? Why should we go back to a failed policy?

Give prisons a chance!

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Mathis: "....and jobs are removed from communities, replaced with guns and drugs....."

he states it exactly bassackwards......

[wintertime]

$10,000 per public school student per year,

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It is far, far more than that.

In my state, the only numbers reported are the operating expenses for the school. Not included are capital expenditures, the services of the state ( for example snow removal, attorney's fees, and grass cutting), and **teacher's pensions and post-retirement benefits.

The teachers' at retirement are considered retired state employees and, therefore, not included in the cost of educating children.

[KingArthur305]

such decisions have only served to further marginalize already oppressed populations

Same old oppressed population bull.

[Obie Wan]

" Because I was poor, I had to use loans and tax-payer supported government grants to pay for my education. "

So did my daughter, plus she did a work\study program on campus. Let me clue you in, having to make sacrifices for education isn't limited to the black community alone,even though listening to the mainstream media would have people believe that b.s. !!!

[EGPWS]

Nonetheless, many U.S. states have cut their education budgets to compensate for rapid growth in prison populations and prison construction.

If a 28% increase in one year on my property taxes for education alone is a cut, then lets increase education spending and maybe my taxes will go down...

Pretty soon I will be getting school lunches out of true need.

[Mustard Plaster]

Money isn't the problem. Students fail because teachers don't teach. Failing students are promoted because it would hurt their self esteem to hold them back. I suggest getting both government and unions out of education, and it makes me sad because I know it won't happen.

[wintertime]

Family and Father

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Bingo!

The government schools do all in their power to undermine the traditional family, make all living co-habitations equivalent, support and promote unwed motherhood, emasculate males, denigrate fatherhood as sexism, and leave boys illiterate and innumerate.

Only in a private school can children and parents get the advice they need to build strong families consisting of a mother and a ***father**.

I once attended a monthly private school meeting that was mandatory for all parents. (Babysitting provided by the older students)


At the meeting, the principal explained a principle for building an educationally centered family. Then the meeting separated into smaller women's and men's groups led by an experienced mother or father. In these more informal groups the group leader encourage parents to share ways to strengthen the family and gentle disciplining techniques.

Can you imagine the above happening in a government school? Hardly! The lawyers would be sharpening their torts.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Education...

Here it is... commit a crime, you get punished...

[L98Fiero]

"he states it exactly bassackwards......"

Sad, isn't it. It's nothing new, though.