The notion that certain demographics can only succeed if given an assist is disgustingly racist. The human mind and heart have no color. For a half-century now, a disproportionate number of black and Latino kids have been shunted into low-quality public schools, their parents' ability to get them into better schools blocked at every turn by Democrats and their union allies. When black kids are allowed to attend charter, parochial, or other private schools, guess what? They perform just as well as their white and Asian classmates (as do their Latino classmates).
Children live up or down to the expectations placed upon them. Social promotion, in which (again, disproportionately black) students are advanced to the next grade even if they didn't master the material in the grade they were in, has resulted in generations of kids given a high school diploma but not the skills nor knowledge that diploma is supposed to represent. Funny that's never mentioned in reparations talk.
In California, school funding is disbursed by the state to local districts on a per-student basis (well, student class day - no funding when a kid misses a day). BUT that per-student rate varies based on the local property tax rate. So the state spends MORE PER STUDENT in schools in rich white areas than it does in schools in low-income, predominately black or Latino neighborhoods. How this doesn't violate the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause is beyond me.
In California, the state is also promoting a plan to eliminate advanced classes in math (no more high school calculus) and the sciences to promote "equity." Which only means, of course, that rich white families will hire tutors or put their kids in after-school programs, while kids from poor families will lose out on any possibility of a quality college-prep education.
Black and Latino parents overwhelmingly tell pollsters they want access to better educational opportunities for their children - either via academically challenging charter schools, or voucher programs to allow working- and middle-class families access to the same opportunities the rich want for themselves.
Instead, Illinois, New York and other Democratic-controlled states are cutting back on charter and voucher programs - denying the kids they claim to care so much about the same opportunities they demand for their children.
The notion that certain demographics can only succeed if given an assist is disgustingly racist. The human mind and heart have no color. For a half-century now, a disproportionate number of black and Latino kids have been shunted into low-quality public schools, their parents' ability to get them into better schools blocked at every turn by Democrats and their union allies. When black kids are allowed to attend charter, parochial, or other private schools, guess what? They perform just as well as their white and Asian classmates (as do their Latino classmates).
Children live up or down to the expectations placed upon them. Social promotion, in which (again, disproportionately black) students are advanced to the next grade even if they didn't master the material in the grade they were in, has resulted in generations of kids given a high school diploma but not the skills nor knowledge that diploma is supposed to represent. Funny that's never mentioned in reparations talk.
In California, school funding is disbursed by the state to local districts on a per-student basis (well, student class day - no funding when a kid misses a day). BUT that per-student rate varies based on the local property tax rate. So the state spends MORE PER STUDENT in schools in rich white areas than it does in schools in low-income, predominately black or Latino neighborhoods. How this doesn't violate the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause is beyond me.
In California, the state is also promoting a plan to eliminate advanced classes in math (no more high school calculus) and the sciences to promote "equity." Which only means, of course, that rich white families will hire tutors or put their kids in after-school programs, while kids from poor families will lose out on any possibility of a quality college-prep education.
Black and Latino parents overwhelmingly tell pollsters they want access to better educational opportunities for their children - either via academically challenging charter schools, or voucher programs to allow working- and middle-class families access to the same opportunities the rich want for themselves.
Instead, Illinois, New York and other Democratic-controlled states are cutting back on charter and voucher programs - denying the kids they claim to care so much about the same opportunities they demand for their children.