What could go wrong?

At least all schools will be equally bad now and isn't equality what we all want.

LOL


CT politicians are such cunts.


Not that I would know... being a natural born southerner and all...

Fuck Malloy

Yep he fucked my kids school system over. Can't wait till that douche finally leaves office

LOLOL

For decades they have been giving underperforming schools more money and they have only gotten worse. For what the inner city here spends per student they could send the kids to private schools. Before anything changes people are going to have to admit that money isn't the problem and then they can try to fix what is really wrong with our schools in this country.

Way to piss off the teachers union, this should be fun.

Why didn't I think of that?!

I'm going to go take money out of my best performing stocks and move it to the losers. Damn, that Malloy guy is a genius!

Detroit has already proven it's not a funding issue.

Or, they could DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS! But, that's just crazy talk. Why would anyone expect anybody in that cesspool to actually work.

And white flight in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.........


Quick, have Combat_Jack tear up the highways!

They did that in Chicago 50 years ago. See how well that turned out.

I wholeheartedly support this. CT is chock full of limousine liberals. Give them a taste of socialism.

Malloy has been all about giving the city schools everything and screwing over the country schools like ours.
Our taxes are due to shoot up when this all shakes out. He knows he would never get voted in again
so he is burning down the house. Worst Governor I have ever seen.

We have had a taste of socialism for long enough, you know not of what you speak.

My folks live in Fairfield, and have been there since 1982.

They're looking to get out ASAP.

l we just can't sit around and do nothing.

The Democrat-Communists have been squawking about that in PA, too.

This.

Until they implement my plan, "Every Dumbass Left Behind" which warehouses the disruptive, stupid, and criminal minors away from educable children...I have no hope.

Curious what ARFCOM's solution for school funding* is.

Here in Ohio it's ostensibly based on property taxes; a scheme deemed unconstitutional by the state supreme court at least three times though it hasn't yet been "fixed."  The state, however, sends massive amounts of money to "bad" districts for remedial reading, supplemental nutrition, before and after school programs, etc.  Poor districts spend more per pupil than wealthy ones in many cases.

How would you be fair to wealthy districts, ie: let them keep their money, while also guaranteeing that children in poor districts aren't doomed to failure due to the circumstances of their parents?

I'm just honestly curious since the brightest minds in state government haven't been able to come up with a solution.

*Funding, of course, not being the same as achievement.

Typical liberal.
Reward the shitbirds at the expense of those that are productive.
The whole Democratic way of thinking in a microcosm.

If parents don't give a shit about their kids education no amount of money will help the vast majority of those kids succeed.

Give a kid a stable home life and positive views on education and kids will usually succeed.

good

let all democrat utopias become Detroit and let them collapse of their own lies.

No. The Left doesn't want equality, what they want is "fairness" as they define it. Since most pragmatic and rational people scoff at the idea of fairness (because life is inherently and brutally unfair by its nature and you cannot force fairness on life) the left has co-opted the word "equity" since it sounds less childish than "fairness."  

This image has been used for a long time by the Left to show the difference between equality and equity (as they perceive it):


The graphic has recently been updated (see below) to include a new frame, one where the barrier (the opaque fence) has been altered allowing all three individuals to enjoy the baseball game. If you notice in this graphic the fence still exists as a barrier to separate two groups (those outside the fence from those inside the fence):



Of course, the newest iteration of this fairness nonsense is the following graphic, where "liberation" represents the total removal of the barrier.



I'd imagine the next logical version of this graphic will be the three individuals seated in the stands instead of the outfield. After all, isn't it still "unfair" that they are still separate from the remainder of spectators? But then how do you see to it that they get seats? Assuming the stadium is sold out who gives up their seats so our three additional spectators get seats? If you need three additional seats, but there simply aren't any, is the only logical choice to re-build the stadium so it can accommodate everyone who wishes to spectate, regardless of ability to pay? What about the next three spectators who are outside the stadium? rebuild it again? 

What Leftists fail to ever consider is that the fence represent a means to ration a limited resource, whether it's a baseball game, healthcare, food, etc. This is precisely what a free market economy does, it rations based on your willingness to work hard and/or smart so that those that do have greater access to things than those who do not. And government's job is not to try and ensure fairness/equity, but equality of opportunity. Anyone who disagrees and thinks the government's job is to ensure fairness/equity is simply advocating for a system where the government rations things based on arbitrary factors. And that system has been tried numerous times - its called communism, and it has either only failed or produced equality of misery. 

A good school can teach kids whether it spends $500 a student or $5000.

So what kind of tax base do you have when 60% of your city is public buildings, streets or publicly owned surface parking?

Answer: High enough taxes that people move, but not enough to pay for things.

Good luck asking Republicans or Democrats to stop making new laws, forcing local or rural school districts to shell out more money to something that is just going to fail anyway.

Republicans and Democrats are equally atrocious when it comes to any .edu policy. 

The future Astrophysicists at Bridgeport public schools will finally realize their potential

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Thank GOD I got out of that shit fucking state that place can

Those children are, no matter how much funding you provide those schools. That is the dirty little secret liberals/Democrats don't want let out of the bag. And it's not "circumstances" of their parents. It's their choices. No circumstances force those parents to keep having more and more kids to the detriment of their financial capacity to adequately raise said family. No circumstances force those parents to value the characteristics or attributes of rap singers or hood-rat pro athletes instead of good role models. No circumstances force those parents to smoke dope or use other drugs, behave like feral animals on the bus, or spend their money on frivolous things like clothing and spinning car rims instead of diapers, books, or education. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.    

no amount of money will educate a child who does not have at least one parent who actively supports the child's educational responsibilities and holds the child accountable for meeting those responsibilities.

Democrats secretly know this, but to acknowledge it would call into question the US welfare system which financially rewards women who have children out of wedlock, and punishes them if the father and mother live together (if dad moves in with mom, mom loses her welfare check).  So, they blame the schools' problems on funding, and shovel money towards the bad schools.  This keeps the students' handlers (mamas, grand-mamas, "aunts") pacified when re-election time rolls around again for the mayors, school boards, and governor.  Besides, if they can shovel money towards the bad schools by taking it from the successful schools which just happen to be majority white, so much the better.  They also blame the majority-black schools' problems on "The Legacy of Slavery!" which effectively means they can play that song indefinitely, cash in on the white guilt, and never expect the black students to perform.

It is sick, actually.  It's like a political psychopathy that truly wants to keep those people hurting, just so the Democratic Party never has to answer for slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, or shitty governance.

See that part?

It can't be done, stop trying to fix problems primarily caused by genetics, with social engineering, let nature run its course.

There are several options, and they are not mutually exclusive:

1. If the poor kids who actually want an education want to go off to boarding school where their peers and parents don't undermine them, send them to one.

2.  End welfare support for bastardy.  Stop subsidizing the breeding of the poorest, stupidest, and most irresponsible members of society.  You got knocked up? Your options are: Let your parents or private organizations choose to support you, let your baby-daddy support you, or give the kid up for adoption.

3.  Build reform schools for the shitheads who misbehave.  No more declaring a kid to be Special Needs because he refuses to stop being disruptive.  Send him to juvenile prison instead.  Like the old CCFs in the military.

My wife tells me I get more heartless and ruthless as I age.  I call it getting wiser.  Western Civilization is at stake.

Same here.

deerranger knows what's going on. Can't wait to get out of this shithole and move to my little farm in North Carolina.

I'm only ~30 and I've been heartless for almost a decade.

Pathological altruism is a plague that has destroyed Western Civilization, sometimes you need to let people suffer so they'll learn.

#Aaaaayeaburnthismotherfuckerdown

Ouch.

If you IQ tested the failing schools and their districts, you'd find almost all of them are under 85 IQ, that might even be optimistic.

Generally speaking people aren't stupid because they're poor, they're poor because they're stupid. Low IQ leads to poor life outcomes and there's no amount of money that can fix it.

I am convinced he let the budget crisis go as far as it has because he was convinced that by this time he would have been in DC in Hilarys cabnet or some other position.

A tax and spend kind of guy who for some reason has made it his goal to drive every kind of tax paying company out of the state and now he is paying the piper

Cato, not that it will be listened to

Truth. But you must not speak it, or you will be shouted down.
I would add that, the places that this money will be given to are also full of illegals. They don't speak our language, and have no affinity for our culture. They don't pay taxes and ignore our laws. But we must support them.

They all know their post modern critical theory bullshit though, that the schools are very good at teaching.

Throw more money at it!  Surely that will work this time!!!

truth should hurt.  Look at these factors in poor neighborhoods, whether the black ghetto or the white trailer park:

--nonexistent pre-natal care or nutrition.  Opportunities exist, but not everyone takes them.  Look at people who deprive the unborn child of oxygen by smoking.  Look at people who will use illegal drugs while pregnant, either during the first trimester before she knows she is pregnant or afterward because she DGAF.

--poor nutrition for the child (not lack of calories, but feeding the kids shitty fast food and Twinkies and Ding-Dongs 3x a day)

--poor genetic stock in terms of inheriting poor impulse control and inability to make good decisions, both of which can be genetically derived.

--in some instances, inbreeding.  Yes, I went there.  If you don't know who your daddy is, or who your first cousin is, who is to stop you from hooking up with him/her and reproducing?  


Note that none of this is "sub-Saharan africans have lower IQs than anyone else."  I am not going there.  I am merely pointing out universal factors that can contribute toward the apple not falling far from the tree.  And as a society, we are encouraging the reproduction of the stupidest, poorest, and least responsible people in society via government welfare.  End it before Idiocracy becomes a documentary.

Kids who've historically scored well and kids who've historically scored poorly continue to do so BUT any chance that that extra spending, much of which has gone to technology, has helped the well scoring kids be more competitive in the World market?  Computers, Chrome Books, Smartboards, STEM equipment, etc.?

maybe I am heavily influenced by my background, which was a rigorous education at a Catholic school system that was run on a shoestring budget, but I have yet to be convinced that computers, chromebooks, tablets, etc. do much to help a kid learn how to learn or learn how to think.  They look flashy and gee-whiz, and maybe you can understand higher math via a graphing calculator, but it won't help a kid understand what human nature is, what motivates people, or why human nature in Western Civilization has not changed much since the Greeks burned Troy.

"To each according to their need, from each according to their ability."
-Karl Marx-

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