Again, the issue is rather more complex than you seem to be trying to make it out as.
The Republican way of thinking is what leads to inner city ghettos. Education being paid for based on a local housing tax is clearly going to lead to problems. This is something that has existed for a long, long time. Take Detroit, lots of southern blacks moved to Detroit to get jobs. They were in low paid jobs and they lived in low cost neighborhoods and their kids went to poorly funded schools, grew up to take poorly paid jobs, to live in low cost neighborhoods, and their kids went to poorly funded schools and the cycle just keeps going around and pushing them down and down until you have the Detroit of today.
This isn't just a Detroit issue. It's not just a Michigan issue. It's a national issue.
I agree that public school should be an equalizer. They once were an equalizer, much more so than they are today. The Democratic policies of turning schools into social engineering centers instead of learning centers brought down the quality of education for all, and their solution is more wokeness, more critical race theory (by whatever name), and less emphasis on reading, writing, math and science.
I believe that funding should be more equal, with the state providing more funds for low-income schools. In heavily Republican Texas, where I live, we have a law called "Recover" AKA "Robin Hood," that allows the state to take money from high-income districts and give it to low income districts.
But money doesn't solve the problem. The largest amount of spending per student is in the Washington DC district, an utter failure. In Texas, the Houston ISD spends much more money per student than the state average (using that Robin Hood money), and it is an utter failure. I teach in a small district outside of Houston that spends about the same as Houston ISD. Not because our students are wealthy, they are mainly low-income, first gen American, with non-English parents. That district has money due to the generous donations, on top of taxes that the local refineries provide. That district is a success, in sports, and in the arts.
It isn't the money. What it important is that the teacher teach the kids to succeed.
If a teacher is reading aloud to high schoolers who cannot read, and reading books that teach them that they are unable to succeed because the system is racist and rigged against them, does it improve that education give that teacher a raise?
There are so many factors that lead to ghettos, education is one of them, the electoral system is another, the politicians from that electoral system another (or the same).
I'm not defending Democrats. I'm not a Democrat. But I'm saying the Republicans and their policies have a lot to do with this, and I don't need to use childish insults to make my point either.
If you come out swinging at Republicans, you sound like a Democrat to me. If you want to be the kind of poster that is always on the attack, but never willing to defend anything, you are free to do so. At least until the Democrats mandate that all posts not praising them be deemed "disinformation."
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