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No, it's due to the fact every school gets the majority of its funding from local property taxes, and America has 200 years of experience packing all the poor p

No, it's due to the fact every school gets the majority of its funding from local property taxes, and America has 200 years of experience packing all the poor people and minorities into districts that white elites don't contribute to. There is an aversion to investing in society at large because it benefits the poor and black. Even if that investment pays off double, triple, sextuple times what is put in[1]. People value white supremacy higher than even their own safety net[2]. 1. https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/12/504867570/how-investing-in-preschool-beats-the-stock-market-hands-down https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/12/504867570/how-inv... 2. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/americans-welfare-perceptions-survey_us_5a7880cde4b0d3df1d13f60b https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/americans-welfare-perce...

behringer 8y ago
It's almost as if the government mismanaged this whole affair.
- omegaworks 8y ago
  You can keep pushing that view, but it is too narrow to be of use whatsoever. The government here is structured to make public schooling answerable to local concerns and funded by local taxes. It's the barest minimum government you can apply. Private schooling only amplifies the issues with this system. It has all the same problems, along with not needing to be transparent or accountable to the public.
  - behringer 8y ago
    It isn't too narrow, it's the exact problem. The US has failed to protect the people, it has failed to protect our planet, and it has failed to protect anybody but the rich. The US government is fundamentally flawed.
    - dorchadas 8y ago
      > The US government is fundamentally flawed. I think part of this stems from how much power the states have, to be honest. There's no overarching system of, say, education that can really be used to hold States accountable for what they teach and appropriation of funds and such. Sure, they're bound by some regulations if they accept federal funding, but it's nowhere near enough. They can choose willy-nilly to just change it up, by stopping the federal funding...which is often a decision made on politics rather than what's good for the kids. Not to mention that American secondary schools are going through an identity crisis, as I see it.
    - goliatone 8y ago
      Flawed unless you are one of the rich you mention. I think things work rather well for a few and rather terrible for many, the question is how much longer things will keep working so well for the few?

behringer 8y ago

It's almost as if the government mismanaged this whole affair.

omegaworks 8y ago
You can keep pushing that view, but it is too narrow to be of use whatsoever. The government here is structured to make public schooling answerable to local concerns and funded by local taxes. It's the barest minimum government you can apply. Private schooling only amplifies the issues with this system. It has all the same problems, along with not needing to be transparent or accountable to the public.
- behringer 8y ago
  It isn't too narrow, it's the exact problem. The US has failed to protect the people, it has failed to protect our planet, and it has failed to protect anybody but the rich. The US government is fundamentally flawed.
  - dorchadas 8y ago
    > The US government is fundamentally flawed. I think part of this stems from how much power the states have, to be honest. There's no overarching system of, say, education that can really be used to hold States accountable for what they teach and appropriation of funds and such. Sure, they're bound by some regulations if they accept federal funding, but it's nowhere near enough. They can choose willy-nilly to just change it up, by stopping the federal funding...which is often a decision made on politics rather than what's good for the kids. Not to mention that American secondary schools are going through an identity crisis, as I see it.
  - goliatone 8y ago
    Flawed unless you are one of the rich you mention. I think things work rather well for a few and rather terrible for many, the question is how much longer things will keep working so well for the few?