The dissent didn’t even really argue that it was constitutional, more that it was just needed and so that made it right.
I don’t really think making school funding a state level thing, and no child left behind are the same things. No child left behind attached school funding to the performance of the kids at that school. This would do almost the opposite of that. It would also likely help poor rural white area schools.
By keeping school funding by fiat, there is no incentive for the school to do better for their previously A-List students.
I guess that’s what I was getting at.
I can’t believe I’m going to do this, but I’ll tag @zecarlo for his thoughts.
They can be required to offer those advanced classes for those students (can’t remember what the classes are called). My position is that if the classes are available that the high performers will do well and won’t be impacted much by funding.
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Rephrase any DEI statement with anybody other than white and it’s appalling.
Also, funny how they seem to equate mediocre whites with the cream of the crop otherwise. Whoops!
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Allowing students who have performed less well academically over those who have performed to at least the minimum standard set by the school, helps no one. The students who are less qualified are less prepared and when measured against their peers who met or exceeded the standards, they fall short. They not only drop or fail out at a higher rate, they are less likely to return to college in the future.
AA also has benefited groups that it was not intended to help. You have black students of Caribbean or direct African descent benefitting over African Americans, the descendants of slaves in America.
All kids in America have the opportunity to attend a school which can give them a good education. If a school is failing, or rather the students are failing, think of Baltimore or any inner city, it’s because of the students, parents, community, activists and politicians. Using AA as a way to counter the damage done by those I just mentioned has been a complete failure.
The truth is, an Asian, white or Jewish kid who exceeded an Ivy League’s minimum requirements but was denied admission based on race, will outperform someone who got his seat based on AA when it comes to life. The work ethic, intelligence and ambition that made that kid Ivy ready, will carry him through even if he ends up at a state school. The student who was given a crutch will fall behind when he needs to stand on his own.
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Still outperform the average black student.
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Right. That was the inference.
You’re more of a direct, no reading between the lines even when highlighted kind of guy?
Sequences and patterns?
I’m not playing dumb here. What do you mean by this? And where in the constitution does it say this?
Others can perhaps fill me in on this whole “underfunded” debacle considering throughout America’s history intelligent poor boys made something of themselves on scholarships and went onto be competent professionals and raise families. Some did shit work on the side to earn a few bucks also.
So being I’m ignorant on the subject and not an educator, perhaps some one can tell me how some teachers and students shaped even some great men with nothing but freaking chalkboards, pencils, and books, art supplies, tools, and lab essentials. OK, fine, now we use computers but the premise still stands!
Low-grade people and low-grade educators make sorry excuses for schools. Good people make good schools. You can dump all the bells and whistles on less capable people and that will not turn them into thoroughbreds (academically inclined people with IQ’s of 130 and up) who actually belong in MIT, Cal Tech, and so on.
Plato said all knowledge is reminiscent and it’s obviously true.
Schools don’t create anything. They merely help with people’s development. And who students become are reflective of who they are by birth.
You don’t want to know what inner city kids do with their school issued computers.
Then this proves my point. Give computers or tools to losers and they will not use it for their development. Give the same to winners and they will uh…. win!
From what I observed.
Why do you want Harvard and the president to be Asian?
Because 100% is better than 95%. I rounded the percentage.
How much protracted exposure to Asians do you have?
Little to none
Got it.
To continue, are there underfunded schools that don’t have such items? I’m all ears, or eyes rather.
They definitely have that, but I’m pretty confident inner city kids don’t have the luxury of a flawless and healthy whitey mcjew home environment to learn from.
Just my 2 cents.
I guess we could blame the parents, community, and gov’t on that part.
Calling responsible, mature, civilized behaviors a luxury is part of the problem. Thinking that money will cure degenerate, atavistic, irrational behaviors is another part of the problem.
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