A white girl is in the hospital after she was mobbed by back students, and one of them beat her head on the pavement. The video has been making the rounds on X for the last few days, and some people are doing some digging.
Remember how race based discipline problems gave us the Parkland shooter and Treyvon Martin?
Well, it seems that St Louis suburb Hazelwood has the same policies in place:
https://nitter.poast.org/libsoftiktok/status/1767286332932411467
Minneapolis has these polices, too, and teachers have been complaining constantly about being assaulted by their own students.
This whole thing is rooted in the No Child Left Behind act bullshit. Schools became about getting standardized tests scores high rather than making sure students learned stuff, when students couldn't pass they just lowered the bars, when shitty students failed they just passed them anyway to keep the 'graduation rate' high.
Parents wealthy enough to move to a better district or to homeschool their kid meant less money for the school district, making it harder for any kid who actually wanted to learn, which led to more students leaving. Since the vast majority of families that could afford to do this were white, this got branded as White Flight.
Instead of course-correcting the rot NCLB has done, they've decided the reason kids aren't thriving is racism. Kids have no discipline at school, and of course their parents don't give a crap either and think it's the school's job to raise their kids.
poor urban all black schools get more funding than other first world countries schools, school performance is not result of fundings. Poor kids in rural China who have to hike miles of mountain trails to go to their tiny school with decades old furnitures still perform better than blacks of the same age
Sounds like that tv show the Wire. There was a season that revolved around Baltimore school districts and it was very realistic. Also what you described doesn’t surprise me at all
Thanks Bush!
Move to another district yes, homeschool no. Depending on the state or town you live in, your property taxes to your city/town is still subsidizing the local public schools (because those taxes go in a large pot) even if they're just indoctrination daycares that don't teach much. It's not necessarily choking them like dropping out should.
Friedman's solution of having only those families who use the school pay, along with voucher systems could work far better with the right kind of population in a district, maybe with the town taxes maintaining upkeep of the facilities.
It was broken by genetics thousands of years ago.