Posted on 06/08/2020 2:36:37 PM PDT by Rummyfan
A most unkind thing to do is to take someone's arguments seriously and then ponder what could be done to solve the problem being described. The Black Lives Matter movement says the United States is a structurally racist and divided society and that we ought to do something to remedy this situation. OK. Let's do that.
Take the wealth gap, for example. It's entirely true that black people have lower average household wealth than do white people. Accidents of birth for both of us and John Rawls's veil of ignorance insist that we do something about this. Great. Let's abolish rental housing subsidies. If this generation lives in subsidized rental housing, the next won't inherit housing equity. For all but the top 10% of our society, housing equity is by far the largest portion of familial wealth. This actually explains a large part of the wealth gap. Yes, there were redlining and horrendous mortgage contracts forced upon black would-be homeowners. But it is also true that we've been subsidizing rentals and keeping black people from gaining housing equity for the past 60 years or so. Stop doing that, and in a generation's time, the situation will be improved.
I've already pointed out that abolishing police unions would correct much of the problem with police brutality. Disbanding police departments also solves that problem, albeit with some consequences. In Camden, New Jersey, the local police department was disbanded, nullifying the union contract, and the county police department took over. The results were excellent. No, they didn't replace the cops with social workers but with a nonunion police department. The police actually got going and did some policing, lowering crime.
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And yet the school system is a disgrace.
There shouldn’t be any public unions.
It’s an inherent conflict.
Teachers unions HATE charter schools.
Two wolves and a sheep arguing over what’s for dinner.
If the KKK designed a school system in Chicago, designed for guaranteed failure, they could not accomplish it any better than the incestuous elected officials and the corrupt teacher’s union.
OK, leave everything the same: Funding, unions, teachers, curriculum, and swap the students in Baltimore with an equal number and age distribution of Finns.
Discuss.
Sorry, idealists, but the money always comes first.
To save EVERYBODY abolish state run schools. Separation of School and State because the whole rotten structure is beyond repair. You can’t fix socialism! A less controversial solution: education vouchers good for the school of your choice.
Why would I want to save children that will be taught nothing but hatred of my own. Do you really think I am that stupid? Did we fret over German or Japanese children?
Well since the schools are perfect - abolish the schools.
Since our country is not perfect - abolish our country.
Since our species isn’t perfect abolish the human race.
That’s how much sense these people are making.
these people don’t wven know how to have a family anymore.
the black community will never recover because they are angry at themselves for their own poor choices but project it to everyone and everything else, and too many people enable them to feel this way in order to exploit them.
most are lost beyond repair. and their kids are gonna be lost as well.
Abolishing racial quotas for teachers would be even better.
we didn’t have anywhere near the same concerns/problems with german citizens here.
my grandpa was in the navy in wwii. 100% german heritage. 18 years old.
To save all children end public schools.
To save all children’s minds abolish teachers unions.
I’m all in favor of abolishing the teacher union’s, but don’t kid yourself. No black kids are going to be saved by doing that.
I agree. The teachers Unions are a major problem in this country. Bigger than most.
The only way to salvage public schools really is to totally eliminate federal involvement in education from K to grad school. No federal funds. No federal grants. No federal rules. Any research needed by the government should be purchased on the market. There are no secrets in government research projects in the universities, All have Chinese student and faculty involvement. Any Chinese 1st to 3rd generation at least, is a spy for the CCP due to there being relatives/hostages remaining in China.
No.
Abolish all public unions, they are an abomination to proper law and logic. Serve the public w/o unions or go get a job.
Not just the unions, but every “Education Department” at every college and university.
Want to teach? Prove that you know your subject, and you can take a probationary shot at it.
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