Voucher programs are tailor-made for Ms. Clemons’s sons. Instead, they are sentenced to failing schools and all the pathologies that come with it.
I taught in a school system similar to Normandy for three years after retiring from the military. I still remember the students who tried to get an education against all odds.
I wonder what Michael Brown’s academic school disciplinary records looked like? I’m sure the “gentle giant” and aspiring strong-arm robber was a model student and a role model for the other “yuts.”
The only way to “fix” schools like the ones in Ferguson is with rigid discipline and liberal expulsions of the young thugs—most of them on a permanent basis. Get rid of the hoodlums and schools will improve overnight. Roughly 6% of the students are responsible for almost 70% of the serious disciplinary problems at school. Most federal judges would disagree, but those thugs do not have a right to a “free” education on the taxpayer’s dime.
I believe the thugs that are kept in the schools are, in effect, working for the Left, to prevent as many of the decent black kids in those schools from getting a good education and bettering themselves.
Why do schools have zero tolerance policies for 6 year olds with “pop tart guns” and honor students with butter knives or Midol, but when it comes to teenaged, violent thugs their “hands are tied”?