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Posted on 04/26/2011 8:01:14 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
At the dawn of the Obama era, in anticipation of an increase in their “take” from government, Black civic and religious leaders in Chicago started to chant the familiar phrase “inner city schools are underfunded.”
Given the willingness of Americans to attribute uneven results to uneven fundamentals and the knee jerk support for this premise it gets from the media “underfunding is the cause of underperformance” is automatically accepted as true by most people.
Nationally schools with a predominately Black student body receive 105% of the “White school” baseline while Asians get 107% of what White receive and Hispanics recieve about the same as White students.
By region the story changes dramatically. In the Northeast Blacks get 16% more funding than Whites, Asians receive 12% more funding and Hispanics top all groups with 17% more funding than Whites. In the Southern region, Blacks students get 105% of what White students receive.
What accounts for the lag between Black public school student achievement and their White counterparts is a question for another day.
Nevertheless, the next time you hear the NAACP complain that, “Quality public education for African American and Latino students is persistently threatened as a direct result of inequitable school funding” keep these figures in mind...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
That’s right, throw more money at the problem. That always does the trick. /s
What a bunch of liberal schmucks.
Blaming schools in particular doesn’t hold up. It’s cultural. Unfortunately, it’s creeping across all lines in America. Mediocrity has crept into acceptance.
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There is no correlation between dollars spent and student performance. The issue is a Trojan Horse to force redistribution of funds and avoid dealing with real issues.
Matters not how much you spend on your sawmill.
You can’t mill good lumber from bad timber.
What would do more than funding would be to fire TEACHERS who cannot themselves read, write, and do math at a level we expect for high-school grads.
There are some great teachers in our public school system, and some really, really poor ones. We would be better off to figure out a way to have the better ones exposed to more students. But that would mean doing away with the unions now wouldn't it?
Blaming our socialist education system is more than justified, but you are right to point out that “culture” is a factor. Without radical changes nothing will improve educational outcomes for anyone, including whites.
“Quality public education for African American and Latino students is persistently threatened as a direct result of inequitable school funding” keep these figures in mind...”
No it isn’t. Quality public education for African American and Latino students is persistently threatened as a direct result of the one question a politician will not ask. “Do you want your daddy to be some crackhead in prison who fathered three kids with three women, or do you want your daddy to be a good Christian with family values?”
The Christian faith is being destroyed by statist ideology and there is no one willing to come to the forefront and confront the left on destroying family values in America.
Studing is a whitey thing.
Agreed, but even if you sent in the best teachers in the world into these school systems, they would not produce students who exceled because this is a cultural problem. These students do not value education, plain and simple. No amount of spending on education will fix that problem.
I disagree that the timber is bad. But I'm certain that if the government nationalized the the mills, the lumber would be bad, and it would be expensive.
I think the problem is inner city Parents. On Welfare and Drugs having kids to get more welfare money. Then they send the kids to sell drugs while they are too young for jail.
The welfare system provides little incentive for these kids to be interested in academics.
It used to be that if you got an education, you would be better off economically, and that provided an incentive for the kids, and for the parents to pressure the kids to do well.
If the situation was "no education = no job = starvation", then you might see some more interest.
Crapola! If $Billions of dollars spent over the last 40 years is underfunding, no wonder the word $trillions doesn’t scare these profligate spenders.
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