re: Mississippi Sued Over Unequal Education for Black Students

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lets audit the hell out of their book keeping and finances, etc

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Do this for the district and schools and you won't need to

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give those schools more money

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What an amazingly ignorant broad brush you have there.

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Sorry the truth hurts

What are the financing statistics in all of these districts? Any discussion begins and ends there.

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What a wonderful privilege to be able to afford to live wherever you choose.

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Are you under the assumption that people with the means to choose where they live are chosen at lot out of the general population?

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Well you knew the four baby daddies weren't going to get involved with anything having to do with their kids

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I dated a first grade teacher that had to take a job in St. Helena Parish because she was straight out of college and had a hard time getting hired with no experience. She taught there for two years. We lived together much of that time and her stories were horrific.

Her first year not a single child lived with both parents. During her second year, just two of them did. They arrived in kindergarten/first grade already years behind academically because no one at home did any work whatsoever with them. She had 6-7 year olds that couldn't identify more than three colors or spell their name or tie their shoes. The children did know, however, all about drugs, explicit rap lyrics, and how to call each other the n-word in every other sentence.

Dad was just a sperm donor, mom was too overworked or just didn't give a damn to be actively involved. Hell, many of the kids were living with their 35-40 year old grandmothers.

To expect a teacher to break through this dysfunction and make citizens that value hard work, education and responsibility is completely asinine. I don't care how much you fund a school. If the other 16 hours a day are filled with violence, abuse and apathy at home, these kids are doomed. When do we start holding shitty parents responsible?

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What are the financing statistics in all of these districts?

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Democratically run, so my guess would be there is enough money coming in to run things. Then, the District has raises and set bonuses, more workers than needed, unnecessary expenses, teachers who don't care but have tenure and make too much, underpaid fresh out of college teachers who slowly stop giving a shite, principals who were picked for influence and not substance who make too much, old schools in dis-repair, and discipline is not enforced.

In other words cost per student is there, but too many hands between the taxpayers and the students working the system would be my guess.

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State: Jackson schools violate 22 of 32 education standards

violations include some classified as “standards that pose life-threatening conditions for students and staff

A Superintendent often overturns principals’ implementation of discipline policies and has not ensured safe and clean school facilities.

Other violations include extensive problems with the district’s records, class instruction and a lack of documentation proving that some seniors who graduated in the past two years met the state’s current graduation requirements.

Officials also found that many JPS teachers don’t hold a valid teacher’s license or are not properly endorsed for the subject they are teaching.



This is just one news article that came out in Summer 2016, but I bet there are plenty of others. Maybe if they turned their attention towards the administrators and possibly their own community members and held them accountable they wouldn't have to blame everything on the state of MS. What do they hope to accomplish with this lawsuit? I hope it's holding the schools more accountable because if it's money then you know it's total bullshite.

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The schools in Jackson don't even have working plumbing. The halls and classrooms are full of mold. Students come and go as they please.

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Please tell me how this is the states problem? This falls on the county and the administration of the school board. I am a teacher in Louisiana and we have poor schools and nice schools. Do you want to know why some schools are brand new and kept up, and why some are dilapidated and falling apart?

1. The Parish makes sure it has enough tax revenue to cover their schools. The more money the parish has, the better the schools. Look at St. Tammany Parish for example.

2. School districts that have a lot of money also tend to actually give a shite about their school and they keep it up.

3. Majority white parishes do tend to have better schools. Why is this you ask? The answer is culcha! Look at St. Tammany and Livingston as compared to Orleans parish or Bogalusa school district.

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Ha. Raise their taxes. See how they like that.

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The ones complaining don't pay any taxes.