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Baltimore spends $16,184 per pupil per year.[1] That places it 3rd of the 100 largest school systems in the country and far above the national average of $12,20

by ggreer 6y ago

Baltimore spends $16,184 per pupil per year.[1] That places it 3rd of the 100 largest school systems in the country and far above the national average of $12,201. This is not a funding problem. 1. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/school-spending.html https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/school-s...

prepend 6y ago
Imagine how much they would have if they weren’t systematically defunded in the mid-1800s.
washadjeffmad 6y ago
Spend per pupil isn't meaningful beyond showing administrative efficiency. Given the outcomes, intentionally and severely failing students to game well-meaning initiatives smells like high level corruption a la the Cash for Kids scandal. Someone's getting that funding, sure, but it's not the students or their families.
- dkhenry 6y ago
  I understand and appreciate the overt racist actions that have happened in the past, and maybe I am just jaded at this point, but saying this is caused by historical racism is giving a pass to the corrupt and failed system that has just given this kid a one way ticket to a lifetime of poverty and incarceration. This isn't the fault of some racist city manager in the 60's who diverted funds away from this school. There is a whole building full of teachers and administrators that are directly responsible for this. Teachers in this situation have an impossible job, as it stands they will never be able to make kids with this kind of background succeed, and they haven't been able to for 40 years. Their culpability begins because they are willing participants in this education theater. Its funny that the teachers union will put their foot down about not participating in school because of Covid, but they are very content to participate in a system that condemns a majority of the kids to a futureless life.

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Baltimore spends $16,184 per pupil per year.[1] That places it 3rd of the 100 largest school systems in the country and far above the national average of $12,20

by ggreer 6y ago

prepend 6y ago
Imagine how much they would have if they weren’t systematically defunded in the mid-1800s.
washadjeffmad 6y ago
Spend per pupil isn't meaningful beyond showing administrative efficiency. Given the outcomes, intentionally and severely failing students to game well-meaning initiatives smells like high level corruption a la the Cash for Kids scandal. Someone's getting that funding, sure, but it's not the students or their families.
- dkhenry 6y ago
  I understand and appreciate the overt racist actions that have happened in the past, and maybe I am just jaded at this point, but saying this is caused by historical racism is giving a pass to the corrupt and failed system that has just given this kid a one way ticket to a lifetime of poverty and incarceration. This isn't the fault of some racist city manager in the 60's who diverted funds away from this school. There is a whole building full of teachers and administrators that are directly responsible for this. Teachers in this situation have an impossible job, as it stands they will never be able to make kids with this kind of background succeed, and they haven't been able to for 40 years. Their culpability begins because they are willing participants in this education theater. Its funny that the teachers union will put their foot down about not participating in school because of Covid, but they are very content to participate in a system that condemns a majority of the kids to a futureless life.