Some idiot from Advocate says "system rigged against poor kids' schools"

The paper thinks anything that will sell is fit to publish

rigged as in the majority of the single moms of the students don't give a shite?

Well, then he's right.

Ed Prat is white, correct?

I do love when White people tell other White people about how blacks feel and the shite we have done to them.

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Brister said to the group that teachers are facing issues such as students coming to school tired because the man living with them was arrested by police late the night before. The children had to somehow get to school the next day and focus on classwork.

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Then there are cases of several children from a family that had been kicked out of their house the day before. They come to school the next day, or they come back after sitting out for a couple days because of the upheaval.

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“Now those kids come to school and want to sleep, or don’t want to be bothered and we have to find a way to teach them,” Brister said. “They are good kids but they have so much going on with them. But, it is our job to find a way to reach them. We have to do that.” “The big problem is that we don’t know how long the situations will last. Will it be three days? Three weeks or three months?” he said.

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When do these children do homework or just prepare for the next day without some adult guidance? These schools and children, many from low-income, one-parent households, have to meet the same state-mandated achievement numbers as those schools where the parking lots are loaded with luxury cars driven by students.

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So these kids have terrible, 1-parent home lives. The school can spend $1 million/student and it wouldn't make a goddamn difference because these poor kids have shitty parents.

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And to sum up his point, the solution is to just throw more money at the problem

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That's always their solution. And when it inevitably doesn't work, they say they just need more money.

The Baton Rouge Business Report (which I have issues with too) had a pretty good article about the failed attempt to integrate BR schools in the 80s. The ruling essentially had the opposite effect of its intent.

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And the rise of Ascension and LP due to the ruling

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The system is rigged against the kids who are morally impoverished. Kids that raise themselves tend to be morally impoverished. Nearly 80% of black kids nationwide are in single parent homes. Rinse . Wash. Repeat.

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He points that out-

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Brister said, where momma is “doing the best she can by working two and three jobs” to take care of her children. But then that creates “babies raising babies” at home.

When do these children do homework or just prepare for the next day without some adult guidance? These schools and children, many from low-income, one-parent households, have to meet the same state-mandated achievement numbers

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It has nothing to do with "good" or "bad" schools.

How good of bad the school is rated is generally determined by how much the general population of parents give a shite about their kids education.

It's rigged against kids that have dumbass parents.

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It's rigged against kids that have dumbass parents.

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Yep. So is everything else in life.

The poorer a school is, doesn't it receive more federal money?

Everyone has the same opportunity to take advantage of resources provided to them, which is a free education, but the thing that holds back poor kids is their home environment. When you have parents who don't give a single frick about their kids, unless the kids are determined to get out on their own, there really isn't much hope for them.

In high school, I remember maybe 35% of the kids in advance classes were from poor families. Some even had scholarships available to them, etc and once they graduated high school, they ended up married and pregnant. It was the environment they lived in. That's what they were expected to do. So the system isnt rigged against them, its just the way it is.