Do you trust the federal government?

[VOLS INC.]

And your solution is to drive more successful students and resources to more elite and expensive schools ?

Or are you suggesting that poor black students are simply a lost cause, acting as dead weight on their middle or upper class peers?

I didn’t offer a solution.

And how in the hell did you get to here (in the bold above) based on what I posted?


All I’m suggesting is you are full of it (as usual). Many children in Baltimore that attend public high schools (and other major cities around America) can barely read at a 1st grade level.

That’s not “Good”.

 

[Jxn Vol]

Depends on your measure of "perform."

If you mean the white students from higher class households end up all going to the more elite private schools and have good test scores you may well be right. But if by "perform" you mean that the school helps students from less advantaged backgrounds obtain good educations (when the resources flee elsewhere) you'd be wrong.

I wasn’t bringing color into it. Why do you want to keep a poor black kid from being able to choose a better school with better opportunities? Seems a bit racist IMO.

 

[LouderVol]

Who should enforce federal guarantees of equal education? Let's be honest, a lot of the issue here is related to equal education amongst classes and races, which the states have not always been particularly good at or even interested in. Some yes, some no; ergo a federal department.

Wouldn't that be a matter for the DOJ? they are the enforcement/investigative/trial part of the government.

 

[LouderVol]

Depends on your measure of "perform."

If you mean the white students from higher class households end up all going to the more elite private schools and have good test scores you may well be right. But if by "perform" you mean that the school helps students from less advantaged backgrounds obtain good educations (when the resources flee elsewhere) you'd be wrong.

getting rid of standardized tests would be the first thing I would do. ESPECIALLY if you care about actually testing the KNOWLEDGE of the kids on the subject matter and not just their test taking abilities. I 100% put that on the DOE.