How to save inner city schools.

[AZrailwhale]

Where did you get that stupid idea? The primary funding for schools is property tax, and school districts usually align with city and county governments. You have no clue as to what you are talking about. Every school district I taught in, with the exception of the military dependent's schools, was a county district. I taught in 7 districts in two states,

I taught in two major metro areas and several rural districts. The funding was set by property tax by the county they were in. In Louisville, they have a combined city and county government. That was the same in Jacksonville, FL.

You're wrong. Property taxes contribute only thirty percent of school funding according to USAfacts.com. The other seventy percent comes from state or federal government. Schools were better when the lion's share of funding came from property taxes because local government tends to me more responsive to local voters than the state or federal governments. The closer to the taxpayer, the more responsive the government. Someone can ignore me over the phone, but when I walk into their office and loom over their desk, ignoring me isn't an option anymore. I have had great success in my life with personal visits to people who have denied me over the phone.

 

[AZrailwhale]

There were a lot of Hispanics in the program. Try it some time its not so easy. The tactics change by the second, you have to creative, forward thinking, have a lot of stamina, and run for 45 minutes

Soccer isn't an easy sport. It's a sport for the small and agile. I tried it a few times when I was in the army and very fit. The high school kids we were training with ran me to death. I'm death on a football field playing offense or defense, I survived a game of Rugby once, and am a decent basket and baseball player, but soccer is a game at a much higher level of exertion.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Experience proves that is not so.

Money isn't the issue, it's motivation and parental support. Most teachers (at east in L.A. Unified School District where I went) don't really give a damn about student success. A few do and they are worth their weight in gold, most are there to get a paycheck. The higher up the educational ladder you go, the worse it is, Administrators NEVER care about the kids, they are just attendance numbers for extra funding. There is an old, but very accurate saying, "those that can DO, those than can't do, TEACH, those that can't teach ADMINSTER". I always knew the first two, my wife who was a career Special Ed teacher taught me the third.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Ah yes, jogging, kicking. Athletic excellence. That's why the starving, impoverished of the third world can be found kicking a clod of dirt around anywhere in the world.

It's a popular sport around the world because it only requires a ball, and that can be improvised at need.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Spare the Rod, and the Child Thinks He's God

Being spoiled leads to megalomania. Heiristocracy is a form of religion: God must love them if He made them born rich. Affluenzist brain disease entitles them to play the God of the Deluge. Their plutocratic parents indulge them, not being able to believe that successful people can beget a demon.

But their own Thought Control won't let you think about the inevitable consequences of unearned hereditary power. They invent all kinds of other reasons and let you pick one from the multiple choice they offer. "None of the above" is not allowed by those undeservedly placed above us.

You need 9,000 days observation.

It's a popular sport around the world because it only requires a ball, and that can be improvised at need.

This.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Fake news. Appraisal at lower values lower the taxes. Why would anyone complain?

You are talking out of your ass again, Nutz!

PER CAPITA. However, a densely populated urban environment generates more total tax revenue than a sparsely populated Suburban or especially a RURAL environment, but even rural schools get better results than urban schools.

Take Los Angeles Unified for an example. It's property tax area covers everything within five hundred- and three-square miles. There is everything from slums to mansions in that area. The property tax revenues are appropriated per student regardless of where in the city they reside. Federal and State money is apportioned to favor the schools in the poorest areas. Property tax doesn't go to the local school which is what would have to happen for schools in the more affluent areas to get more than others.

 

[Dekster]

Soccer isn't an easy sport. It's a sport for the small and agile. I tried it a few times when I was in the army and very fit. The high school kids we were training with ran me to death. I'm death on a football field playing offense or defense, I survived a game of Rugby once, and am a decent basket and baseball player, but soccer is a game at a much higher level of exertion.

Rugby isn't that hard depending on which position you play. You just have to pace yourself. We played 5 matches in 3 days in a tournament once. That was brutal though. The only thing I recall after about half way through the third one was how increasingly painful every freaking step became just because of muscle fatigue.

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

Just raise property taxes on those neighborhoods.

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To save inner-city schools:
1. Cease electing Democrats to run the cities.
2. Improve the quality of the teachers. Stop hiring fringe Marxist/Socialist teachers.
3. Permanently remove youths from the schools that act out violently against other students and teachers. Send "at risk" kids to specially designated schools that are set up for disruptive kids. Provide funding for such schools.
4. Improve general educational funding for inner-city schools.
5. Educate parents that if their child has mental issues that cause them to be disruptive in classes, that their child ruins it for the other children and has to be in a specially designated school/facility to deal with it so that the other kids can learn.
6. Last: If you are an excellent old-school teacher who is having to deal with over-protective/helicopter parents, drink heavily after work.

 

[AZrailwhale]

BULLSEYE!

I was an outlier in High School, not only was I active in ROTC, but was a member of the LAPD Jr. marching band, an all-star band made up of students from most of the schools in the LAUSD. My school wasn't my entire world because I had friends, some very close friends, from a dozen nearby schools. We had fun at a high school color guard competition once; all the schools wore variations of the US Army dress green uniform and had their own routines. A bunch of us from the LAPD color guard got together and were running the color guard routines in our different uniforms. It really raised some eyebrows.

 

[AZrailwhale]

So, there's one! That is a Catholic school I assume. They give discounts for church members and scholarships I am sure. Not the same thing. Try again.

The catholic schools in my very poor neighborhood didn't turn away any student for financial reasons. Parent paid what they could and the Arch Diocese picked up the rest. The key was if you refused to obey the rules you were gone in a heartbeat. I got kicked out in the first grade because I insisted on questioning the church doctrine we were being taught and the nuns didn't appreciate a seven-year-old questioning them.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You're wrong. Property taxes contribute only thirty percent of school funding according to USAfacts.com. The other seventy percent comes from state or federal government. Schools were better when the lion's share of funding came from property taxes because local government tends to me more responsive to local voters than the state or federal governments. The closer to the taxpayer, the more responsive the government. Someone can ignore me over the phone, but when I walk into their office and loom over their desk, ignoring me isn't an option anymore. I have had great success in my life with personal visits to people who have denied me over the phone.

Those state funds are almost all property taxes also. I don't know where your source got their information, but it is not accurate. If that was the case, you just destroyed your own arguments as local control sets the tax rates.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Rugby isn't that hard depending on which position you play. You just have to pace yourself. We played 5 matches in 3 days in a tournament once. That was brutal though. The only thing I recall after about half way through the third one was how increasingly painful every freaking step became just because of muscle fatigue.

The tough part of Rugby for me was I never figured out how to defend myself while trying to move the ball. I got beaten to death and figured I'd stick to football. The only "sport" I ever played that was worse was a game in the Army called pushball. It was played with an eight-foot ball, and the objective was for one team to push the ball through the other team's goal. As far as we were told, the only rule was that "anything goes" within ten feet of the ball. I looked over at one point and saw my company commander raining down blows on one of my squad members. I never played that "game" again. To me it was an excuse for uncontrolled violence and revenge.

 

[AZrailwhale]

I am guessing you spent most of your wasted school years with your head stuck in a toilet.

It sounds to me like you were one of the gangs that stuck people's heads in toilets. People like that found out in Junior High School to leave me alone because I was a berserker. Once I was forced to fight, I never stopped until the other guy stopped moving or I was pulled off. By the time I got to high school all six foot and 140 pounds of me never had a fight because people would take the bullies aside and say, "leave him alone, he will kill you". I would break up bully's attacks just by walking up and standing between them and their victim. I've always hated bullies.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Those state funds are almost all property taxes also. I don't know where your source got their information, but it is not accurate. If that was the case, you just destroyed your own arguments as local control sets the tax rates.

No they're not. Property taxes go to the counties and local governments. States draw their income from income taxes, sales taxes, fees, excise taxes and other indirect taxes and fees.

 

[AZrailwhale]

When a DNR official was asked why we can't have clean lakes, he replied, "It's not that simple."

Actually it is, just cut the ******* weeds.

I had a similar conversation with upper management type when I was a tech for a TELCO. He was complaining about the high percentage of service outages. I said, "just replace the bad sections of the cables". He came back with the same "it's not that simple" and all the techs agreed that we all know where the bad sections were and that our problems were almost always there and were "fixed" with scotch tape and bubble gum by the cable maintenance techs because they couldn't get the cables replaced.

 

[Woodznutz]

Maybe because you look funny.

Well, I do look different.

 

[Dekster]

The tough part of Rugby for me was I never figured out how to defend myself while trying to move the ball. I got beaten to death and figured I'd stick to football. The only "sport" I ever played that was worse was a game in the Army called pushball. It was played with an eight-foot ball, and the objective was for one team to push the ball through the other team's goal. As far as we were told, the only rule was that "anything goes" within ten feet of the ball. I looked over at one point and saw my company commander raining down blows on one of my squad members. I never played that "game" again. To me it was an excuse for uncontrolled violence and revenge.

It is more or less soccer with your hands with occasional kicks and ruck overs. Since you have to drop the ball when tackled, the goal is either to get it to another player before you go down or to go down with so many people around that you cause a ruck rather than anybody be stupid enough to reach down and try to snatch it up knowing they will be insta-crushed.

Anyway, it wouldn't be a bad sport to teach kids, inner city or otherwise. The lack of shoulder pads and helmets means you have to be a bit more strategic when squaring up than with football. I got far more beaten down playing HS football than I ever did college rugby.

 

[Woodznutz]

It is more or less soccer with your hands with occasional kicks and ruck overs. Since you have to drop the ball when tackled, the goal is either to get it to another player before you go down or to go down with so many people around that you cause a ruck rather than anybody be stupid enough to reach down and try to snatch it up knowing they will be insta-crushed.

Anyway, it wouldn't be a bad sport to teach kids, inner city or otherwise. The lack of shoulder pads and helmets means you have to be a bit more strategic when squaring up than with football. I got far more beaten down playing HS football than I ever did college rugby.

Actual T-shirt I saw once.

"Be Kind to Animals.
Kiss a Rugby Player."

 

[Hafar1014]

Private schools and home schooling do better then public schools

 

[Unkotare]

Private schools and home schooling do better then [sic] public schools

"than"