So does Bernie Sanders. This is a time for them both to work together for the good of the country. I get that Biden may be the nominee, but don't **** on all ideas that make sense.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...es-2000-direct
So does Bernie Sanders. This is a time for them both to work together for the good of the country. I get that Biden may be the nominee, but don't **** on all ideas that make sense.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...es-2000-direct
Bloomberg lied about everything lol. He's such a shitty person.
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If Andrew Cuomo had the nom right now, there wouldn’t even be a question about this election
It is a problem when the government gives additional resources to schools that don't need it. But it can also be a problem if the government just tries throwing more money at schools that don't know how to use it.
One potential mistake I do want to avoid making is looking at this in a one size fits all way, when what applies to one district may not apply elsewhere (rural Kentucky will have different needs than urban immigrant communities, etc.) There may certainly be funding problems in some states, but money won't help a school if the teachers are terrible, if there is no way to remove disruptive students or if standards are determined by people who have no experience with a particular age group.
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Most schools that are struggling do know how to use it. As they ask for assistance, they almost always say they want to use it for updated text books and to update their curriculum. They operating on years of being on the back foot as a result of funds being taken from them to go to religious charters or private schools.
This is all true, but curriculum experts and high level district employees should be the ones who understand these things and are holding the system, schools, and educators accountable for teaching to their population. Theoretically, these should be graduates with stellar degrees and a history of working within the system they are trying to hold accountable. Of course, this isn’t always true, but there isn’t a single system that yields perfect outcomes, but I think there are plenty that offer better ones.One potential mistake I do want to avoid making is looking at this in a one size fits all way, when what applies to one district may not apply elsewhere (rural Kentucky will have different needs than urban immigrant communities, etc.) There may certainly be funding problems in some states, but money won't help a school if the teachers are terrible, if there is no way to remove disruptive students or if standards are determined by people who have no experience with a particular age group.
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It's why so many smaller colleges play the role of cupcakes to go and get beaten up by larger schools. It's $300-400K that funds the rest of the athletics that year. Sucks for the players of those teams as it's a morale killer, but schools deliberately do it. Hell, UConn is going to take advantage of it as being THE cupcake for FBS schools that are beholden by conference standards to not play FCS programs now that they moved all their other programs back to the Big East and decided that football was not worth investing in for wins.
It's not that schools get more money due to liberal/conservative bias per say... it's more an issue of schools getting their money from property tax. Wealthier neighborhoods obviously generate more property tax, thus generate more income for the school. Inherently, they system itself produces disparities. In many states the wealtiest districts spent two to three times what the poorest ones can spend per student. But a lot of states do try and off set that. Obviously more needs to be done.
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The reason that many white people don't think white privilege exists is that to a lot of us, it's invisible. For instance, when I walk around a convenience store deciding what snack to purchase, I don't have to also think about the store manager looking over my shoulder to make sure I'm not shoplifting. But I don't think of that as privilege. But to a Black man walking around that same convenience store, where his skin color might automatically make him suspicious to the store manager, it is an example of white privilege.
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Though they won't say so out loud, certainly not in mixed company, some people think the disparity is justified because minorities are in fact inferior. The worst of them really think it's a biological difference, but even the less ignorant and outright, anachronistically racist may be aware there is no biological factor, but will instead think there is something culturally wrong -- not valuing education or something, absent fathers, whatever -- that explains why children in minority districts may struggle in comparison to their white counterparts.
To be clear, such a perspective is just as racist as believing in biological inferiority/superiority. To speak on the black community in particular, I honestly don't believe the core values of said community are fundamentally different from the larger, generalized American culture. It's certainly not as if African-American culture somehow developed independently from the wider US culture.
Poor communities exist in the US not because the people there are somehow inherently pathological, but because you need poor communities to exist, if other communities are going to accumulate impressive wealth. If some people are not being underpaid and overcharged, where exactly would that excess wealth come from?
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The SWAC & MEAC basketball teams are perfect examples of this. They take those checks to fund the ENTIRE athletic department. It's why when you look at those school you see a LOT of 0-12 and losing records going into conference play (mainly the SWAC). Those schools tend to NOT play Non- conference games at home against D1 schools. They also tend to have the toughest Out of conference game schedules in the nation.
Now the MEAC records tend to be better then the SWAC because those schools are in places where basketball hotbeds in the East. And come tournament time-it's not a shock that one of those school beats a team in the NCAA, NIT, CBI or other tourneys.