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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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Record tax revenues and record national debt. I would say trickle down entitlements is not working. Where is all the money going ?
What you say is true, but even if our black-robes masters hadn’t mandated k-12 education for illegal alien children, do you really doubt that by now Texas would be doing so voluntarily? With shameless panderers like Bush and “no heart” Perry as governor, and that weasel Strauss as state House leader, they’d have willingly done so, and been holier than thou as they did so.
The Great Society accomplished what it set out to do.
Except they keep expanding the free lunch (and breakfast and dinner) programs. Giving more free stuff to people doesn't mean there are more poor people... it means more people are getting free stuff. I do agree however that this sort of thinking WILL lead to more poverty in the long run since it makes more people dependent on handouts.
Food Stamp Prezzy strikes again.
Public schools have become a de facto day care system for the poor, and anyone who can afford it sends his kids to private school. Many other factors contribute as well.
Yup. Private school lackey here LOL
Don't forget that they are your neighbors in the first place because you were taxed to pay for their section 8 housing.
Virtually every kid I see in public school has a smart phone. For those schools who strictly enforce the no-cell-phone rule (that is, until March 2 when Mayor DeBlahBlah rescinds it, which will kill ANY tiny bit of education still going on in NYC classrooms), students pay $1/day to a local bodega or van which is nearby to store their phones until they can retrieve them at the end of the day. So that's a smartphone + $5/week right there. I don't see many students in rags, unless that's the intended look. Some teachers report seeing students in the same clothes every day, or students who smell from lack of bathing.
I have no idea exactly how they are defining “Poverty”, but I am pretty darned sure it’s goofy as heck.
Apparently The War on Poverty has become the longest War in American History.
For organizing purposes, the government will soon be defining the bottom 80% of the US population as poor
Makes sense to me. Between the illegals and the welfare single moms popping out four or five at a time, it could be true. Add to that the number of sane parents who are putting their kids into private schools and those who are home schooling, and you have poor, failing students whose parents could give a crap and only want free child care.
This reminds me of the scenes in the film Idiocracy where the smart well to do people refuse to have children or very few while the dumb ones are popping them out like assembly lines.
And the school systems deliberately redefine “poverty” in order to get a bigger share of the federal pie.
And the latest outrageously-priced shoes.
The Great Society accomplished what it set out to do.
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Yes, it has destroyed a great society.
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