“A child’s ZIP Code in America should never determine their future, and that’s what was happening. So we’re very, very strong on school choice,” Trump continued.
I couldn’t disagree more. Why should I work hard and pay more in taxes for ghetto kids to come to my school?
Or am I interpreting this incorrectly?
In reality, ghetto schools tend to spend MORE money, not less money, per student than most high-performing public schools. They spend far more money per student than almost all private schools except the most exclusive. Yet they get almost universally terrible results. Part of that arises from bad parents, part from corruption, part from low expectations, part from intense negative peer pressure.
And most state school funding formulae take money from you and your school district and give it to the ghetto school so that the nonperforming ghetto school can spend all that money. Your school district may contain both high-spending ghetto schools and low-spending good schools. Both sides pay the same taxes, but an attendance zone, enforced with various degrees of strictness from district to district and state to state, prevents students from switching from one side to the other without switching home addresses.
So, you ultimately may find yourself paying LESS in taxes, not more, for ghetto kids to come to your relatively low-spending school. If your local school has a good policy of returning chronically or violently misbehaving students (most of whom lack parents who care enough to transfer their children) back to their proper schools of assignment, then your school may get the best of the ghetto kids, who may thrive in their new social environment with its high expectations and intolerance for violence.
Personally, I think those who send their kids to a private school or homeschool should be given the option of paying public school property taxes.
I couldn’t disagree more. Why should I work hard and pay more in taxes for ghetto kids to come to my school?Or am I interpreting this incorrectly?“A child’s ZIP Code in America should never determine their future, and that’s what was happening. So we’re very, very strong on school choice,” Trump continued.
If there’s a fallacy in your logic it's that good schools should exist everywhere. Certainly not that there should be forced bussing . . .But good schools do not exist everywhere, and the only proven way to shape up a public school is to expose it to effective competition. I.e., school choice.
I couldn’t disagree more. Why should I work hard and pay more in taxes for ghetto kids to come to my school?Or am I interpreting this incorrectly?“A child’s ZIP Code in America should never determine their future, and that’s what was happening. So we’re very, very strong on school choice,” Trump continued.
If there’s a fallacy in your logic it's that good schools should exist everywhere. Certainly not that there should be forced bussing . . .But good schools do not exist everywhere, and the only proven way to shape up a public school is to expose it to effective competition. I.e., school choice.