re: Why are most crimes committed by minorities?

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He thought that Madison Central and Byhalia High School are basically the same schools with the same amount of money.

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Link to where I said this?

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Motherfricking duh. Most people realized this at 11.

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Oh look, elitist douchebag comment. Nice contribution to the thread

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his doesn't work either. You can't be like "oh well you live in an impoverished area and 50% of your classmates never learned to read so whatever frick you sorry you can't have books or teachers that get paid reasonably.

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Well basing the funding off property taxes won't work..because in poor areas nobody owns nice property, and taxes are usually low because of it. So poor areas are guaranteed shitty schools.

The above system I stated takes the area's money out of the equation, and focuses simply on results. Just because people are poor doesn't mean they are incapable of doing well in school. The schools teach them to read, write, etc. My system wouldn't deny funding if they failed, there would be a base funding allowed for each school based on its size and enrollment..then additional funding incentives for that school performing up to standards. If it did not perform to standards, then faculty changes would be made by the State to try and improve it's performance.

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This has been tried. It leads to cheating and corruption.

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Not based from the schools tests given, obviously the school just could give good grades for money. It would be based on a standardized statewide test covering all basic material, and overall test averages would determine how well each school is doing in teaching the basic, necessary material children need to graduate and perform in college.

I didn't say the schools were the same. I said they have the same opportunity. Nothing keeps them from getting a free public education. If they make straight A's, even at a shitty school, they can get numerous different academic scholarships, and minority scholarships, to attend college. The opportunity for success is there

Are you able to add to the discussion without just throwing out sweeping generalities?

At least delta is attempting to have a discussion amidst the incessant name-calling and bigotry of some of the more sophisticated parties in this thread.

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The public schools where I live are pathetic and only the brightest and best children are able to overcome them and become successful. I've always held that education begins and ends at home though.

My child's school was founded in 1965. That should tell you something.

They do not have the same opportunity though. My mother, a retired teacher from a good public school system, subs in the local school system. She gets calls from multiple schools every day, but usually goes to one or two schools regularly.

Frequently she is left with no lesson plans, and has to wing it. She may be left a note to make sure to collect the pencils from the students after each class (they don't have their own), and the kids are toting backpacks that have been donated. She was once asked by a student if she would be their real teacher because she actually taught them things.

The kids are poor, their parents don't really care too much about their education, or maybe they do, but in the students' minds it's not perceived to be cool to be smart amongst their peers. Also, some of the teachers are just there for a paycheck. Maybe those teachers started out with good intentions, but got disenfranchised after a while, and the better teachers are going to go to a private school, or look for a position in the good schools a county over.

It's a grim situation, and there's really not an easy solution for it. I agree that it starts at home, but there are some apathetic teachers too, and peer pressure plays a large role.

She once told a child "You are a leader. They will follow your example. You can choose to be a bad leader, or you can choose to be a good leader." The kid was great the rest of the day.

That's sad. I've always said that if we closed all the private schools and put that time and those resources into our public schools here, they'd be top notch.

I agree, and now it comes back to property taxes. No one here who makes decent money wants to raise property taxes to fund the school system because the ones who would be affected the most send their kids to private schools, so why would it matter to them?

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72 hours and the racist smell has faded to a nice public school snobbery whiff. 

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