It goes to a lot of graft and people pissing money away-- think about it; Mayor DeFaggio's wife was given damn near a billion dollars to manage for education type programs. No one knows where the money went (allegedly) and it's just a fucking meme. The people who can do something about it, won't do anything about it.
School funding for inner cities is fairly similar to military spending and what happens to money that Miss DeBlasio made dissappear. There is a lot of waste, graft, and incompetence. But atleast with military spending there are some results and people acknowledge the fuckery.
When it comes to spending money on inner city schools/education, a lot of people (even conservatives) think lack of money is an issue- the main issue in some cases. Or that the schools are severely underfunded. That's just not true.
Yes, per child inner city’s have the highest funding. I believe South Chicago is the highest and that they spend over $50,000/child per year, which is insane.
It’s complete bullshit Deblasio’s wife was able to steal a billion dollars. Why the hell can’t something be done about that. It’s infuriating. It’s one thing to graft a million, which is still a ton of money to you and I. But a billion?! Give me a friggin break.
These inner city schools are also dealing with kids from broken families. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. When the poor kid's mom doesn't care, doesn't teach them to behave and listen to the teacher, doesn't care if they do their homework to try to learn, there's not much the teacher can do. Then to top it off, the teacher is blamed because the kid who refuses to pay attention doesn't know anything.
I used to love those Little House on the Prairie books when I was little, and the descriptions of school will change your perspective on what's needed to learn. They were sharing books, slates, half a chalk pencil. She describes trying to learn her lessons while sharing the book with her sister. They were on different lessons, so just held up the pages in the middle and each read their own lesson so they could go up to the teacher's desk and be quizzed verbally. Inner city schools are not underfunded, they're infested with thieving administrators, terrible parents, and apathetic children.
We have a lot of that going on here in CA. The Bay even has special taxes on top of normal taxes to fund local schools, which never cease to complain that they don’t have enough money. Having been here a very long time since before the tech boom brought in leftist vultures, I have personally seen schools get paid more and more money year over year while only producing worse students with worse metrics, all the while schools complain more and more. Most of it’s not going to the teachers, either, though I admittedly have a heard time taking their unions seriously when public school teachers here can start at $80K and go to $120k. That’s a lot of money for a public school teacher. I’ve heard some complain that ER nurses make way more, but they’re also fucking nurses in the fucking Emergency Room working random 12 hour shifts around people that are often dying.
It’s not just K12, either. We have great colleges here but there’s unlimited fuckery there too. The head of the UC system’s been called out on that a lot. I think she’s resigning over it. They’ve been stealing money and hoarding it for years. The number only grows over time, but I think at one point they found the president of it hid $200 mil or so, if not more. This was all during massive layoffs and the financial collapse, over a period where you’d actually benefit from using money like that. Her excuse was that the money is ‘for an emergency’. Considering how many people they were laying off and all the money they’re constantly asking for, and now the coronavirus nonsense, I’m not sure what else would qualify as an emergency if those didn’t. If we hit the end times it’s not like anybody’s going to college anymore. It’s like when 9/11 happened and the emergency broadcast system did fuck all to broadcast about it. If that’s not the time to use it, what is? I’m willing to bet they’d sooner use it to announce racism is a ‘public health’ issue than another 9/11 or a meteor taking out half the nation.
They’ve consistently dicked people working at the schools too, though there’s still plenty of Karens in that area that I’m okay with people fucking over. They’ve consistently outsourced things you wouldn’t think of outsourcing, like financial aid help and support, having the person that’s been there competently doing it for decades train Indian NPCs that don’t speak English well enough to do the job as their replacements.
The fact that Common Core’s in there is like using poop as an icing on a cake that’s already long since spoiled and gone bad. I personally would not send my kids to one of the public schools out here, despite them being some of the most well funded and expensive in the nation, if not the most expensive given how much money they extort for them. All I’ve seen the tax money for that go to is nicer cars for higher ups and buying all teachers copies of books like “Waking Up White” and “Antiracism” to read in their spare time.
Heard it’s going to cost $500 more per student over some time period like per month to make K12’s here ‘abide by social distancing guidelines’. It’s going to lead to more extortion. It’s the same kind of shit that’s wrong with healthcare, only now it’s targeting your kids. The problem isn’t that they don’t have enough money. It’s clearly not if they have received more money year over year than ever before and had worse student outcomes.
It goes to a lot of graft and people pissing money away-- think about it; Mayor DeFaggio's wife was given damn near a billion dollars to manage for education type programs. No one knows where the money went (allegedly) and it's just a fucking meme. The people who can do something about it, won't do anything about it.
School funding for inner cities is fairly similar to military spending and what happens to money that Miss DeBlasio made dissappear. There is a lot of waste, graft, and incompetence. But atleast with military spending there are some results and people acknowledge the fuckery.
When it comes to spending money on inner city schools/education, a lot of people (even conservatives) think lack of money is an issue- the main issue in some cases. Or that the schools are severely underfunded. That's just not true.
Great response; I agree.
Yes, per child inner city’s have the highest funding. I believe South Chicago is the highest and that they spend over $50,000/child per year, which is insane.
It’s complete bullshit Deblasio’s wife was able to steal a billion dollars. Why the hell can’t something be done about that. It’s infuriating. It’s one thing to graft a million, which is still a ton of money to you and I. But a billion?! Give me a friggin break.
In the old days guillotines kept people from being the most egregious of parasites on the rest of the town.
Now? Nothing... We re-elect them over and over like braindead zombies.
There needs to be some reintroduction of accountability.
It's ghastly how rare the right side wins a revolution.
These inner city schools are also dealing with kids from broken families. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. When the poor kid's mom doesn't care, doesn't teach them to behave and listen to the teacher, doesn't care if they do their homework to try to learn, there's not much the teacher can do. Then to top it off, the teacher is blamed because the kid who refuses to pay attention doesn't know anything.
I used to love those Little House on the Prairie books when I was little, and the descriptions of school will change your perspective on what's needed to learn. They were sharing books, slates, half a chalk pencil. She describes trying to learn her lessons while sharing the book with her sister. They were on different lessons, so just held up the pages in the middle and each read their own lesson so they could go up to the teacher's desk and be quizzed verbally. Inner city schools are not underfunded, they're infested with thieving administrators, terrible parents, and apathetic children.
Don't forget that the admins, parents, and kids are almost all on some sort of mind-altering substances, whether recreational or prescribed.
We have a lot of that going on here in CA. The Bay even has special taxes on top of normal taxes to fund local schools, which never cease to complain that they don’t have enough money. Having been here a very long time since before the tech boom brought in leftist vultures, I have personally seen schools get paid more and more money year over year while only producing worse students with worse metrics, all the while schools complain more and more. Most of it’s not going to the teachers, either, though I admittedly have a heard time taking their unions seriously when public school teachers here can start at $80K and go to $120k. That’s a lot of money for a public school teacher. I’ve heard some complain that ER nurses make way more, but they’re also fucking nurses in the fucking Emergency Room working random 12 hour shifts around people that are often dying.
It’s not just K12, either. We have great colleges here but there’s unlimited fuckery there too. The head of the UC system’s been called out on that a lot. I think she’s resigning over it. They’ve been stealing money and hoarding it for years. The number only grows over time, but I think at one point they found the president of it hid $200 mil or so, if not more. This was all during massive layoffs and the financial collapse, over a period where you’d actually benefit from using money like that. Her excuse was that the money is ‘for an emergency’. Considering how many people they were laying off and all the money they’re constantly asking for, and now the coronavirus nonsense, I’m not sure what else would qualify as an emergency if those didn’t. If we hit the end times it’s not like anybody’s going to college anymore. It’s like when 9/11 happened and the emergency broadcast system did fuck all to broadcast about it. If that’s not the time to use it, what is? I’m willing to bet they’d sooner use it to announce racism is a ‘public health’ issue than another 9/11 or a meteor taking out half the nation.
They’ve consistently dicked people working at the schools too, though there’s still plenty of Karens in that area that I’m okay with people fucking over. They’ve consistently outsourced things you wouldn’t think of outsourcing, like financial aid help and support, having the person that’s been there competently doing it for decades train Indian NPCs that don’t speak English well enough to do the job as their replacements.
The fact that Common Core’s in there is like using poop as an icing on a cake that’s already long since spoiled and gone bad. I personally would not send my kids to one of the public schools out here, despite them being some of the most well funded and expensive in the nation, if not the most expensive given how much money they extort for them. All I’ve seen the tax money for that go to is nicer cars for higher ups and buying all teachers copies of books like “Waking Up White” and “Antiracism” to read in their spare time.
Heard it’s going to cost $500 more per student over some time period like per month to make K12’s here ‘abide by social distancing guidelines’. It’s going to lead to more extortion. It’s the same kind of shit that’s wrong with healthcare, only now it’s targeting your kids. The problem isn’t that they don’t have enough money. It’s clearly not if they have received more money year over year than ever before and had worse student outcomes.