Posted on 01/18/2015 9:40:01 AM PST by wtd
For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation.
The Southern Education Foundation reports that 51 percent of students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade in the 2012-2013 school year were eligible for the federal program that provides free and reduced-price lunches. The lunch program is a rough proxy for poverty, but the explosion in the number of needy children in the nation’s public classrooms is a recent phenomenon that has been gaining attention among educators, public officials and researchers.
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Not yet but Obama is working on it.
Another stunning Obama success!
Why no demographic information on immigration status?
It must be that there are so many of those immigrants illiterate in their own language whom we are told are going to cause the economy to boom.
Anyone with any disposable income is not going to subject their child to public school. That’s child abuse.
Obama had total, 100% control of the US Government for two years, and near total control for six years, and this problem wasn’t addressed?
There is so much wrong with how this is couched.
They don’t seem to understand that it is supposed to be a huge economic recovery. Those are the talking points of Obama’s success. So how at the same time can more than half of children live in poverty?
Doesn’t matter, it means more money is needed and Obama will just coincidentally be demanding higher taxes in the State of the Union Address.
Isn’t it so interesting how things the Washngton Post publishes coincide with whatever agenda Obama is pushing at the time.
To the extent there is truth in this, it is because there are more unmarried mothers than ever.
I wonder how many of these children in poverty show up to school with smart phones.
Yet another pile of redistribution of wealth programs.
Work your tail off, and pay for your lazy neighbors’ kids to go to public school, while you pay to send your kids to privates schools to keep them away from your lazy neighbors’ crude, low class kids.
If you receive more from the government then you put in, you are a bum. That includes public school costs, emergency services, and so on. Please have yourselves sterilized, and support your own d@mn spawn.
Do realize that non poverty students get offered free lunches. Maybe some take it. We have a surname that could be a million different ethnicities including Spanish. We have gotten free lunch packets but never taken it.
The media lets Obama have it both ways.
Record poverty, destruction of the middle-class, which is not his fault and a wonderful economic recovery with lowered unemployment rates that is completely due to his policies.
“I wonder how many of these children in poverty show up to school with smart phones.”
As wellas cable TV and Xbox’s...
The unspoken premise is that government has the right to take from whomever it decides to rob so that it can support the children of someone else.
As usual, the Washington Post’s premise is faulty.
To tax me to support bastards whelped by sluts is both wrong and evil.
‘Nuff said.
In Texas, the majority of public school children now are Hispanic, many of them illegal aliens or children of illegals. They are poor, have limited or no English skills, and drop out of school at 15 or 16. That is what Texas has to support because of a Supreme Court ruling in the ‘80s that border states had to pay to educate Mexican children (Plyler v. Doe, 1982). The curse of the Burger court Liberals has cost Texas billions and has basically ruined the school system.
It’s crazy isn’t it.
Obviously the solution is to grant amnesty to illegal aliens and not just allow mass legal immigration to continue, but to greatly increase it! Just ask Jeb Bush, the WSJournal, chamber of commerce, Obama. or any professional ethnic grievance group.
“We have a surname that could be a million different ethnicities including Spanish. We have gotten free lunch packets but never taken it.”
We certainly hope not!
After Moosechelle ruined the school lunch programs, to force a child to eat such slop arguably is child abuse.
Sadly, given the violence and egregiously inappropriate sexual behaviors tolerated(even taught) common in said Pooblik Skrewls, the nasty school lunch program food is but one abuse of many.
Why such a quandary when you import poor children from all over the globe.
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