Right. But the root of the problem is broken, dysfunctional black families. I can *guarantee* that throwing more and more money at them is a complete waste of resources. DeVos and Trump will fail, if this is their plan. School choice will make a small but negligible difference.
The solution is scrapping the welfare state. It will take one or two generations to scrap it. Those embedded in it currently are without hope. These get grandfathered into it. Anyone born after a certain date will not be eligible for welfare. Sink or swim. Keep your legs together.
Then we are doomed as a country.
It’s not just black kids. My wife is a teacher (was in the public school system), so we know. There is no way can we throw away 1/3 or more of the kids, in all but the most rural parts of the country, for another generation, and have the country survive as something worthwhile. If that 1/3 were all in, say, Southern CA, and we could just chop it off, then maybe we could (survive). That would not be a very Christian solution, though.
Regardless, even in flyover country towns of pop. 5000 or more, there are often big problems in the public schools. We are in exactly such a place, and it’s a big part of why we home school.
See my post 176...