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

It seems to me the school system is rigged by poor kids from dysfunctional families.

He needs to just come out and say what he's beating around the bush on. Many black communities need to nut up and put some emphasis on education instead of tats, tits, and thievery.

How can it be rigged when you have an entire culture that as a whole doesn't value education.

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course the prevailing opinion on the OT is that school funding has absolutely no effect on the quality of education. How convenient.

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Well considering the us spends more per student than most other countries yet we lag in performance it's not exactly surprising.

Months ago there was also some stats posted from Mississippi. Guess what grades the schools that's spent the most money received? A whole lot of C, D, and Fs.

The ones getting A and B spent much less per student.

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To be honest, I am a poor kid who grew up in a "mobile home" subdivision with a single Mom

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I grew up in a working class poor home. Schools are buildings, teachers and students. If the kids and parents don't value education no learning takes place.

All the kids I ran with graduated from college.

Poor schools are just byproducts of poor students

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They usually blame all the white people that left the public school system in BR after the forced busing took place. They did leave and the schools went to shite. it's hard to blame someone living in a 350k house off of Jefferson Hwy not wanting to send their kids to Tara with kids from Gus Young. Outside of the magnet schools, John Parker destroyed public education in BR.

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What everyone tends to forget is that back then we had community schools. I grew up in old Goodwood and went to Tara when it was a neighborhood school. I went from 1st grade through high school within walking distance of schools and with the same kids.

McKinley, Istrouma, Capital, Scotlandville all were community schools with an active and supportive parental base, maybe more working class but nevertheless they were there. And when the Federal Government decided to but into our local schools those communities were just as much against forced bussing as any parent from Tara, Broadmoor or Woodlawn. No parent of a kid in the bottom or Scotlandville wanted their kid to bus across town-with a transfer no doubt-to attend Tara or Broadmoor. Those black schools were good schools. When judge Parker picked up the East Baton Rouge school system and shook it like a fricking snow globe it was downhill from there. This town, the politicians, the community leaders and the parents , both black and white fought like hell to prevent that and lost.

Baker, like Zachary and Central wanted its own independent school district, it got it and now it is overwhelmed without support of the whole parish.

I went to one of the wealthiest public HS in my state. There was definitely more resources and opportunities for students. But being also the largest HS in the state there wasn't as much one on one time with teachers, kids either had to be the seld driven types or have involved or strict parents to make the most out of the oppurtunties given there.

Every school has those kids that are extremely bright but just lazy, or even so bright that school bores them and they don't apply themselves... Kids like that I think are the lone exceptions who could actually benefit from smaller, poorer schools. The curriculum is so easy at small country schools that bright kids like that can not just skate by, but actually still have really good grades with really minimal effort. Then they can still get into a solid college when most of those kids learn a little discipline, and for the first time get excited about school and begin to actually apply themselves and try.

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The paper thinks anything that will sell is fit to publish

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Politics aside....The Baton Rouge Advocate often reads like It was written by someone in middle school.

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No, he's a black editorial writer employed by the Advocate.

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