Quote (Skinned @ Jun 2 2022 08:13pm)
#puritanethic
His post is 100% correct. What zip code did you grow up in up? We can compare it against other zip codes. It isn't just resources the school puts into the kid, it is the family, neighborhood, and every other system as well.
Zip code is the best predictor of stuff in the US, outside of parent's level of education, which is number 1.
Its funny that you believe stable housing, better school supplies and extracurricular programs, less guns, and more parents, lead to worse outcomes. You play up the dumb card a lot here sometimes.
Republicans: The party of dumb whites
So it "isn't just resources the school puts into the kid". Glad we agree on that. Because public schools in the cities have shown that they're just pouring money into a bottomless pit, spending more per capita on education and still completely failing the students.
And you've identified one of the solutions put forth by Republicans: Let parents send their children to school in those "successful zip codes". With school vouchers.
The democrats have had total control of the political system here for a long time and these are their social policies come to fruition, and it doesn't work. They didn't create stable housing and better schools and less crime, they created ghetto enclaves, failed schools and more crime.
It was a combined effort of politicians, bureaucrats and activist judiciary that created our abomination of sentencing reform, a point system and non-enforcement doctrine where career criminals can commit 20+ felonies, get caught on them and still not go to prison. And its not white people in stable houses in the suburbs with better schools and extracurricular programs and less guns and more parents who are being victimized by the crime wave. Democrats: The party of ivory towers.