A majority of white voters elected THE worst president in history. Intelligent???

blackascoal said:
A Sea of Charter Schools in Detroit Leaves Students Adrift
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lets be honest......students in Detroit were adrift before charter schools were authorized.....you say half the charter schools are equal or worse than the public schools.....that means more than half are equal or better than the public schools.......since the Detroit public schools are among the worst in the country, that may not be high praise, but at least the kids aren't condemned to the public schools any more.......

do you realize that nearly half of adults living in Detroit, who grew up attending Detroit public schools, are functionally illiterate?.......
 
as we have drifted off topic...

But on the subject of charter schools, would it not be a better effort to fix the public schools. What is it about a new school that turns into a "public" school that will not be the same thing happening to a "charter" school?
 
anatta said:
forget Tom..He's a hopeless revisionist. ask yourself instead if we would EVER have put ANY "boots" into Libya ??
Not UN/Not US. none. ever.
That's why we did an air campaign -what Clinton calls "Smart Power"
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nothing EVER coming out of Clintons mouth should ever be coupled with the word smart
 
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coolbreeze said:
as we have drifted off topic...

But on the subject of charter schools, would it not be a better effort to fix the public schools. What is it about a new school that turns into a "public" school that will not be the same thing happening to a "charter" school?
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Way off topic .. but the subject doesn't appear particularly attractive to Trump supporters . especially when talking about how the white working class is dying of despair, drugs, and suicide faster than all other groups.

I agree with you on schools.
 
yea I'm all for whatever it takes to give kids in all districts the best possible education humanly possible.
No kid should have to go to a school that is not performing. Sometimes I think it might be a good idea to turn it over to the parents. let them in the schools themselves and find out what the problem is.
It should be obvious from their point of view.
is it the teachers, discipline, the facilities? Too much money is being spent and it's not going to the teachers, so things should be at top notch condition otherwise.
if it is the teachers, run them off. Crack the union stranglehold on protecting bad teachers.

Our kids are our life, and we all deserve for them to be safe and happy and learning in any school in this great country with all of it's resources.
 
We've known how to stop the 'Deaths of Despair' crisis gripping America's white working class for 120 years

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Based on Case and Deaton's work, we know that what started as a scourge in the Southwest in the early 2000s has spread to communities across the country. Geography isn't a dominant factor — this isn't a rural or urban problem exclusively. Instead, the problem is a class thing. It's an identity thing.

And this isn't the first time that social change has caused self-destructiveness on a mass scale. Indeed, 19th-century French sociologist Emile Durkheim wrote about similar problems in his time, and might refer to the plague of white middle-class mortality we see today as "a state of upheaval."

Of course, the lesson of the 2016 presidential election was that working- and middle-class whites are suffering. What Durkheim offers, though, is the argument for why the newly elected government in Washington — voted in by this very constituency — is getting the solution all wrong. The way to fix this problem is not through less government — but through more.

Durkheim's seminal work, the 1897 book "Suicide," remains one of the most in-depth examinations of why these situations occur in society, and it is as relevant as ever. Its lessons are an indication that as a country, we are moving swiftly, carelessly in the wrong direction.
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-deaths-of-despair-crisis-is-gripping-america-2017-3
 
blackascoal said:
We've known how to stop the 'Deaths of Despair' crisis gripping America's white working class for 120 years

excerpt

Based on Case and Deaton's work, we know that what started as a scourge in the Southwest in the early 2000s has spread to communities across the country. Geography isn't a dominant factor — this isn't a rural or urban problem exclusively. Instead, the problem is a class thing. It's an identity thing.

And this isn't the first time that social change has caused self-destructiveness on a mass scale. Indeed, 19th-century French sociologist Emile Durkheim wrote about similar problems in his time, and might refer to the plague of white middle-class mortality we see today as "a state of upheaval."

Of course, the lesson of the 2016 presidential election was that working- and middle-class whites are suffering. What Durkheim offers, though, is the argument for why the newly elected government in Washington — voted in by this very constituency — is getting the solution all wrong. The way to fix this problem is not through less government — but through more.

Durkheim's seminal work, the 1897 book "Suicide," remains one of the most in-depth examinations of why these situations occur in society, and it is as relevant as ever. Its lessons are an indication that as a country, we are moving swiftly, carelessly in the wrong direction.
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-deaths-of-despair-crisis-is-gripping-america-2017-3
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:coolstorybro:
 
cawacko said:
Actually Republicans do want to educate people. Democrats are too beholden to teachers unions and thus refuse to fight for school choice and school improvement. Democrats and their teachers union subsidiaries stuck in a mid 20th century mindset on education and thus the students suffer.
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School choice isn't your magic answer. It, again, leaves the poor and special needs in the dust as I have explained to you
needs on numerous occasions.
 
Queen Snowflake said:
School choice isn't your magic answer. It, again, leaves the poor and special needs in the dust as I have explained to you
needs on numerous occasions.
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There is no one panacea for education. Public schools leave the poor in the dust and have done so for decades. Charter schools have had their failures but many are successful and given kids with no other alternatives a chance at a better life.
 
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