re: Spinoff - re: Paying teachers to teach at bad schools........Soapbox #3

I think until society shifts from blaming the mothers to trying to solve the problem, no progress can be made.

Overall people seem to just want to berate and punish the moms (because the sperm donors are often unknown or absent) instead of trying to really come up with realistic remedies.

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Kids can fight each other, throw desks and other objects, cuss out teachers and other students, hit teachers and there are really no consequences.

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That must stop. Every classroom should be on closed circuit. Any assault or unwanted physical contact with a teacher should result in suspension, probably expulsion, and exposure to criminal charge.

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Schools are basically ensuring a population of inmates by teaching them they can do whatever they want and not face consequences.

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and a lot of this (both the behavior and inability to respond) is so the parents can keep getting "crazy checks"

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But blaming mom for having kids out of wedlock (after the government has incentivized this behavior) clearly doesn't work for changing the behavior.

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we can either attack the culture or remove the incentive (or both, i guess)

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I think an overhaul of welfare rules could help. Don't punish people on assistance for working by eliminating all if their benefits even if they don't make enough money to compensate for those benefits.

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a good trick would be to offer more benefits if they're employed (with a limited duration). that would probably trick enough into working without the welfare cliff being an immediate threat. due to the thought processes of the underclass, many would take this deal b/c they can only see immediate results and can't/don't use long-term strategy. by the time they realize what they've done and the benefits are about to end, they can't go back and will have to figure it out

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Moms who apply for WIC should have to attend classes on basic things mothers should do

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I think everyone who files a tax return should have to attend parenting classes. I see the need so glaringly. I would attend gladly if it meant the people who needed the classes most would have to attend.

People need to know WHY they shouldn't scream at their crying infants or cuss at their crying toddlers.

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basic things mothers should do

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i would love to see this policy only to see the "racism" allegations for this

i don't want to see the allegations as much as the defense (of the pathologies)

it's going to be like the SUNO closure insanity all over again

I'm sure we'd have plenty of articles coming from 28 year old wealthy Northeastern women.

the education stuff boils my blood b/c of the good kids (from good families) who get fricked by the pieces of shite we've allowed to run these schools

i've posted for years that my political philosophy is that we should enact policies to reward good decision makers and punish bad ones. this education example is a big example of how we literally do the opposite. our educational system diverts an ungodly disproportionate amount of resources trying to bring the very bottom up from laughter to standard failure while hurting the middle and neglecting the top kids

what's even more terrible is the insidious and terrible way in which the argument is framed

a year or so ago i posted an article about "nuclear family privilege" and it was absurd, but a poignant example of this framing. there are behaviors that are known to be more optimal with better likely results and many progs accept this premise. but then they flip the argument around to demonize these more optimal behaviors as "privilege" so that they can demand governmental policy to punish the "privilege" and defend/aid the socially pathological behaviors they admit are sub-optimal

it's fricking infuriating

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Maybe I'm shortsighted or misinformed, but wouldn't the "bad" school in Ensley then receive federal subsidies and such to "help then improve"... basically incentivizing that school to continue to do poorly or face reduced budget?

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They would receive federal funding if they are a Title I school meaning that a high enough percentage of students are on free and reduced lunch.

They actually lose funding if they do not meet federal standards.

i think the rank and file truly are empathetic and feel guilty for their success

it's the "you didn't built that" mantra on a macro scale

we don't want to be mean/critical of pathological behavior because those people are in a shittier place and it's like double fricking them. so in response, they lap up explanations as to why there are gaps so they don't have to criticize those in lesser situations (to not feel bad).

what they don't get is this is very elitist b/c they're implicitly admitting "i'm strong enough to be criticized and you poors are not". it's a savior complex that is REALLY judgmental and is everything they publicly stand against