Ray From Cleveland
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Lisa asked you how much more money do you think it will take in order to get the improvements that you want, and what legislation do you propose to improve inner city and rural schools. As for yet, you haven't answered either one of those questions. IMO, rural schools is a matter of finances, but the inner-city schools already have plenty of money going in per student. The problem is that there's no "bang for the buck". Prime example, I saw on Fox 45 News of a senior in HS with a .1 GPA. Not a 1.0, but a .1 GPA and he was almost right in the middle of senior class rankings. Did the Superintendent have to resign over this? No. Did the principal of the school get punished for allowing that student to get to being a senior with that poor of a GPA? No. There's the saying that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. There's a serious number of families in those inner-city school where the parent (very lucky if they have two) don't care about education and if a student does care, they're told that they're "acting white". No amount of money and no legislation is going to solve anything as long as that type of attitude and the lack of demanding a better education for their children exists.
I live in a predominately black suburb. Several years ago my former neighbor got a portable basketball hoop. Before you knew it he had a yard full of kids here. It was bouncing basketballs from the time they got home from school until past dark. There were so many kids they had to take turns by forming two groups.
A couple of times I had to tell them to knock it off. It was dark and 10:00 pm. Another time I had to call the cops when one of the little heathens got mouthy with me.
Where were the mother of these kids? There were kids as young as 6 out that late at night. I know we don't have that many kids in this neighborhood. They were coming from several streets away. Why weren't they home doing their homework? Why were they not in the shower and getting ready for school the next morning? If I didn't stop them, I'd bet they would have been bouncing those basketballs until midnight.
When I was a kid the rule was be home before those street lights came on. Mom made sure all our homework was done.