I often wonder what percentage of freepers send their children to public school. Has there ever been a poll?
None of the conservatives freepers send their children to public schools.
Here’s a little story for you. I live in a suburb of the city in Philadelphia, very nice, working middle and upper middle class neighborhood. The City just spent millions renovating our neighborhood public high school that NOBODY living here sends their children to and it has been like that since the sixties. The residents always availed themselves of the parochial and Catholic high schools. That output of money seemed like a total waste to me and the students that attend do not live here.
Anyway, the last testing report published in the papers listed the students at a 95% poverty level; that was shocking; and this particular high school that no one living here sends their children to was just designated for the first time as a dangerous school by the Fed Dept of Education - I called the local community paper and asked if they were going to at least do a story on it - I’m still waiting...they won’t touch it.
So, the effort to change a student’s environment, by transporting them to out of their neighborhood, the ultimate classic progressive BS, does not necessarily change their behavior, and renovating a school does not necessarily mean that the residents will use it...so it was a total waste of time and money, which is the typical progressive result. I do know, though, that if I have to homeschool, my grandchildren will never set foot in a government run school.