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My city is one of the best in our area. Best schools, safe, and has a high property tax. 10 miles south of us is Detroit. Where the Detroit voters re-elected
by robertAngst 8y ago
My city is one of the best in our area.
Best schools, safe, and has a high property tax.
10 miles south of us is Detroit. Where the Detroit voters re-elected Kawammi kilpatrick despite having constant public corruption.
Do I want those voters to impact my schools? Do those voters want to spend 9,000$/yr on property taxes?
Its far too simplistic to think that there is only redundancies at play.
- dayofthedaleks 8y agoGlad that the Voice of White Flight Suburbs could chime in. Edit: Also, it looks like Kwame Kilpatrick hasn't stood for office in more than a decade. Exactly what axe are you grinding, here?
- ghaff 8y agoDetroit has some of the highest public school spending per student in the country with some of the worst outcomes even for an urban area. It's a pretty common pattern that cities spend more per student than suburbs and the schools are "worse" (by just about any quantitative metric). And, yes, it's historically been a big reason for families who could afford to do so to leave cities; the alternative in their minds was to put their children in private schools.
- monocasa 8y agoSo I have several family members who work in under privileged schools, and what they pretty unequivocally say to this argument is that it's one of those "it's expensive to be poor" kind of things. These kid's parents work two or three jobs, so we give them subsidized after school programs. Their housholds are food insecure, so we give them breakfast and lunch so they can focus on schooling and not their empty stomachs. So much of this spending is just to try and bring these students closer to parity in the moment, but despite all of that, they don't get any that before they enter school in kindergarten, so they're sort of perpetually behind. It has next to nothing to do with government waste, or throwing good money after bad despite what that terrible "Waiting for Superman" movie told all the white flight parents looking for validation.
- ghaff 8y agoTo be clear, there are all manner of reasons why the schools for a poorer population often need to spend more money per student than an upper middle class suburb. At the same time, as you suggest, the best money can probably do is to bring students and the school as a whole closer to parity. It's not surprising that many people who can afford to do so opt out of urban public school systems one way or another.
- devdas 8y agoIt would be interesting to include all private/parental expenditure on children in the cost of schooling as well.
- AlexB138 8y agoWhat do you think this kind of comment is adding to the conversation?
- radames30 8y agoYou think the parent comment adds something more worthwhile?
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- radames30 8y agoNot sure why your comment has been flagged while the equally loaded parent comment has not
- anothergoogler 8y agoYour kids might learn to spell an un-American name like Kwame if you raised them around those scary poor people.
- scarejunba 8y agoKinda douchy to spell his name like that on purpose. Kinda ignorant to do so by accident.