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9. Not after 30yrs of telling Americans that the schools are failing the kids
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 09:41 AM
Nov 2013

and that it's crappy teachers fault. They initially did this to help bust Unions and have created a siphon of tax payer money into private hands between charter schools, books, testing... All these things add up when the district is still so heavily relying on property taxes to fund a budget and political school boards to create that budget.

The best thing we could do is have the schools funded by Federal means and take the burden off of poor districts to create a school like that of a neighboring wealthy district. AND to place the blame in failing kids on the burden of our politicians whose policies have allowed the socio-economic conditions of poverty, wealth inequality, and lack of substantial paying jobs/ wages that help move people into the middle class or to allow people the ability to move theirselves up.

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