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Florida School Board Sued for Unequal Education
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| 11/18/2005
Posted on 11/20/2005 7:05:53 AM PST by pleikumud
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The solution is to eliminate public, government-run schools at all levels, K-12 and up. Get the Federal, State and local governments out of the education business. This eliminates about 50-60% of local and state taxes, reduces taxes on all real estate, including apartment buildings, and puts money in the pockets of education consumers to purchase education. Complete freedom of choice. If you don't like XYZ Education Co., send the kid to a different school. Truly competitive, shop for price, quality and content.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:05:55 AM PST
by
pleikumud
To: pleikumud
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:09:42 AM PST
by
Sterco
To: pleikumud
"The lawsuit cites a consistent gap between black and white high-school graduates in Pinellas County. The class failure rate is more than twice as high among blacks. Discipline problems are 39 percent more frequent than with white students. "
Well when you have 70% of black children born out of wedlock, no one home to supervise what's going on and that included NO discipline, is it ANY wonder there is a problem?
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:10:55 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God).)
To: pleikumud
"Crowley said the white-run school system allowed his son to fall behind."
He has a good point. After all, blacks do so very well in those black-run educational systems in the big cities. The youths just need those role models, you see.
To: pleikumud
"Public education, to me personally, is specifically set up to dumb us down," said William Crowley, who filed the lawsuit.
** Well sir if you had any imagination, you'd homeschool your child if that's how you feel. There are lots of parents doing this right now.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:12:39 AM PST
by
cyborg
(I'm on the 24 plan having the best day ever.)
To: pleikumud
I'd LOVE to see that!
In this particular situation, I'd say it's more about the breaking down of the family and this race trying to blame others for the results of the family disintegration. 70% of all black births are out of wedlock ... guys don't hang around ... so that leaves mom ... working and not being around. This scenario is not reserved for blacks. It knows no race although blacks have the highest percentage of this problem.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:14:35 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God).)
To: nmh
It is also impossible to teach children who insist on being discipline problems.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:14:37 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: pleikumud
""The facts are overwhelming and not just in Pinellas County, but nationwide, there is a high failure rate of black students across this country," Crowley said."
And not just across this country, either, but across the world, since blacks do less well academically in countries as socially advanced as France, Britain, and Canada as well. Need to use Occam's razor on this one.
To: BenLurkin
I agree!
Where my daughter goes it's a private school. A demerit is given out for being naughty. Depending on what grade you are in, and you have a certain amount, you are asked to leave. NO exceptions. That's it.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:16:31 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God).)
To: nmh
"It knows no race although blacks have the highest percentage of this problem."
So true!
To: Ninian Dryhope
"The youths just need those role models, you see."
Yeah, like Marian Barry in DC and I forget the one in Philadelphia. Yeah great examples.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:17:52 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God).)
To: cyborg
"Public education, to me personally, is specifically set up to dumb us down," Do you vote for the plantation masters?
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:18:32 AM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: cyborg
"Well sir if you had any imagination, you'd homeschool your child if that's how you feel."
Absolutely! There is no substitute for parental involvement. Whether one home schools one's children, sends them to a private school, or to a public school, it is the attention and concern and effort of the parents in the educational process that is most important. The schools cannot do it all by themselves.
To: pleikumud; mhking; rdb3
Public schools as they stand today are pure poison for young black children. People on both sides have stereotypes of black children that will hamper them. One side thinks they need their help and the other side believes they're too stupid to educate.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:19:22 AM PST
by
cyborg
(I'm on the 24 plan having the best day ever.)
To: pleikumud
This is going to open up a real can of worms, and snakes!! I do not blame the man for wanting a really decent education for his children, nor should anyone stand in their way trying to achieve this. That being said, the problems foisted on public education by governments tying to be "nannies" is staggering. In the black community we have rampant drug cultures, out-of-wedlock births,high unemployment, crappy schools, no parental involement, high crime rates, and a welfare state that has fostered most of this. We have the same thing in the white community too, just not the same percentages. Until we grab hold of the problems involved, and find mutually acceptable solutions and standards, we will continue to bastardize our educational system and continue to fail our people.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:19:44 AM PST
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
To: pleikumud
[["The facts are overwhelming and not just in Pinellas County, but nationwide, there is a high failure rate of black students across this country," Crowley said]]
Is it maybe because they are too busy glorifying gangstas like fiddy cent, snoop dog, and trying to live the gangsta lifestyle rather than hit the books and studying? You can only blame so much on whitey.
To: ncountylee
If he does, then he should not complain.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:20:13 AM PST
by
cyborg
(I'm on the 24 plan having the best day ever.)
To: pleikumud
One critic argues it's not the school's fault that black students are not learning.
"To suggest that the school district can somehow uniquely single out black kids and give them inferior educations while giving other kids a better education is kind of ludicrous," said Ward Connerly, head of the American Civil Rights Institute.
Ah, someone sane involved with this. I LOVE Ward Connerly. He tells it like it is. BTW, he's .... dare I say it ... black!
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:20:49 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God).)
To: pleikumud
"Public education, to me personally, is specifically set up to dumb us down," said William Crowley Actually, it's set up to dumb EVERYONE down!
Vouchers, vouchers, vouchers.
To: geezerwheezer
That's the ugly secret about liberalism. They refuse, absolutely REFUSE to be responsible people. The elites get off on playing god and the peons get relieved of ALL responsibility and blame. And the cycle goes on and on.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:22:58 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God).)
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