Yeah, we know, Lily.
More money.
Go to hell.
I saw some round table discussion about this once. I don’t remember any names, but one older black man on the panel, said he got a better education in the Jim Crow south, than the kids in inner cities get today.
And he suggested that values and discipline we’re what is lacking in schools today, not a lack of money.
Kids don’t wind up in gangs, getting shot, or going to jail because their schools didn’t have enough funding. That’s an utter joke. They wind up in those situations because the fabric of society has frayed, including the sanctity of family and the sanctity of life. Children need to be loved and nurtured from the time they are infants, and to feel security, warmth, and safety in their family environment as they grow. Lacking that, they become vulnerable to all the rest. Government money to schools will not address or fix this.
The primary purpose of jail is to protect honest, hard-working people from those who are not.
Anything else is a bonus.