: DDN2) Since we already spend at least twice as much per student than any other country in the world and we still rank almost dead last in math and science (and not so hot in other areas either), we need to collectively admit that throwing more money at public education is (and has been) an act of pure desperation and futility devoid of anything even remotely resembling reason or critical analysis.
SDF: Well, the poor are desperate. Ever been to south central LA, Deep Dad?
DDN: Desperate in what way? In a way that the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM should or could help? If so then somebody needs to look at why there is an uneven distribution of public education funds. Why are they “desperate” if every other developed nation in the world spends less than half as much as we do per student and yet manage to stomp us into the ground in math and science? Why do ten’s of thousands of OTHER public schools have enough money for football teams, PTA clubs, swimming pools, and after school programs but the homies in south central are “desperate”? THAT’S the rational first course of action, NOT taxing the shit out of us to make up for some incessant beurocratic fuckup or Department of Education corruption.
By the way, I went to school in the black ghettos of Montgomery, Alabama under the auspices of the forced busing program of the early seventies. They didn’t like white folks down there
