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Public schools have fantastic and cost effective results except where they are sabotaged by politics. Unfortunately destroying public education for explicitly r
by jacobsenscott 4y ago
Public schools have fantastic and cost effective results except where they are sabotaged by politics. Unfortunately destroying public education for explicitly racist reasons is now a central plank in the republican platform.
- jamesgreenleaf 4y agoWell, I don't personally identify with either side of the political divide, but it seems like increasing the quality of educational outcomes for our nation's children should be a primary concern with basic bipartisan agreement. Wishful thinking perhaps.
- jacobsenscott 4y agoWishful thinking indeed. School board elections, along with other local elections, are now just gateways for radical idealogs to gain entry level positions in politics. Quality education isn't even on the radar. Not that there is even a baseline agreement on what "quality" means anymore.
- armitron 4y agoThis is why I left California. They way things are going, it won't be long until "decolonizing mathematics" becomes part of the standard curriculum. In the meantime, illiteracy is growing and STEM grades are plummeting. https://www.city-journal.org/california-public-schools-are-failing https://www.city-journal.org/california-public-schools-are-f...
- anm89 4y ago"This system works great except when it doesnt" If public schools, run by the government, don't work great when politicians get involved than that means they are not a good option.
- jacobsenscott 4y ago> This system works great except when it doesnt Is a meaningless tautology. There are plenty of well run public schools throughout the world. Politicians are involved in all of them by definition. If you have a failing political system your public schools won't do well, but neither will your private schools.
- anm89 4y ago> Is a meaningless tautology. I was summarizing your post.
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- onesafari 4y agoWhat a lazy and completely unsupported talking point. Who shut down the public schools resulting in catastrophic learning loss and depression? I'll give you a hint. It wasn't Florida.
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- onesafari 4y agoNone of those are banned.
- HideousKojima 4y agoExtra funding has been provided to Abbott districts in New Jersey for decades, and these largely black districts are better funded than the districts in the wealthiest (and whitest) parts of the state. In spite of this, the performance gap has increased between Abbott and non-Abbott districts. Also I don't think the word "explicitly" (or "racist," or both) means what you think it means. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_district https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_district
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- masonic 4y agoConclusion: facts are racist
- UberFly 4y agoI can't read your comment. The hyperbole is too blinding.