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One thing is for sure, and any high level educator will only speak it off the record. You can have poverty and overcome the educational challenges and you can have minorities and still overcome. But when you have a majority of the two, there's no fixing it. That's not my assessment, that's people who've been at this for decades.

#101 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Hmmm interesting
also you lie about no fixing

The intersection of high poverty and high minority concentration in schools creates profound, systemic hurdles that many educators and researchers describe as exceptionally difficult to resolve through standard interventions.
Understanding the Intersection
Poverty and Resources: High-poverty schools often lack adequate funding, experienced teachers, up-to-date materials, and robust support services.
Racial Isolation: Concentrated minority populations frequently experience the compounding effects of historical segregation and unequal resource distribution.
Combined Impact: When poverty and minority concentrations overlap significantly, schools face compounded deficits that strain local tax bases and community safety nets.
Potential Approaches and Solutions
Equitable Funding: Proponents of systemic reform argue that targeted, weighted student funding formulas can direct extra resources where needs are highest.
Integrated Settings: Research on desegregation suggests that mixing student demographics can improve resource equity and academic outcomes.
Comprehensive Support: Addressing food insecurity, trauma, and healthcare directly within schools helps mitigate external barriers to learning.

Hmmm more mone and resources

So, you only prove that nihilism and giving up ISN"T the answer and the answer is the OPPOSITE of what you argued

Blind Faith - Had To Cry Today (1969)
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Blind Faith
en.wikipedia.org

... Blind Faith were an English rock supergroup that consisted of Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech.

They followed the success of the members' former bands, including Clapton and Baker's former group Cream and Winwood's former group Traffic, but they split after a few months, producing only one album and a three-month summer tour. ...



Speaking of Screaming Abdabs ...

The Dark Side of the Moo
en.wikipedia.org

...The Dark Side of the Moo is a 1986 unofficial compilation of early recordings by the English rock group Pink Floyd, featuring recordings not available on albums released in the US. Unlike other bootlegs containing previously unheard material (bootleg recordings), the album is made up of recordings that had at least one commercial release.[1]

The name parodies The Dark Side of the Moon, the band's most commercially successful album, and the front cover of Atom Heart Mother, which featured a cow.[2][3]

Background

The album was created by an anonymous label known as "Trixie Records" by a bootlegger known as "Richard",[3][4] and to avoid detection by authorities, used an early name for the group, "The Screaming Abdabs" on the record label. ...



The word "twunt" is a new one for me.

So I explored, and found this ...

twunt
www.wordnik.com

...
noun UK, slang

A fool; an extremely objectionable person.

Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Blend of ---- and ----

...



OK, now I understand. :)


... including Agron Berani, whom the Journal documented paying $944.44 to fill up his 18-wheeler with diesel fuel, which the Journal noted would have cost around $500 a year ago ...

Related ...

Truckers Are 'Just Trying to Hang On' When a Fill-Up Tops $1,000
www.nytimes.com

... Truckers are among the hardest hit by the soaring cost of diesel fuel. High prices are forcing some to stay on the road for months and others to park their rigs.

When Sean Howarth started his independent trucking business last year, he made sure to reserve one week a month for his family -- a girlfriend and her two children -- at home in Miami between three weeks on the road.

Then came the war in Iran, which sent the price of diesel fuel skyrocketing and turned a fill-up into an $1,000-a-tank ordeal.

For now, the only way to make ends meet, Mr. Howarth said, is to get on the road and stay there. He has not been home since mid-August.

He sleeps in his truck and has missed birthdays, volleyball games and date nights salsa dancing at a local club. He does not plan to return home until the holidays unless diesel prices fall sharply.

"I am just trying to hang on," he said. ...


The GOP does not even seem to want to back their GOP candidate ...

The price tag on the Ken Paxton rescue mission has Republicans panicking
www.politico.com

... Republicans know they have to spend big to save Ken Paxton. They're increasingly worried MAGA Inc. won't throw down in time.

In private conversations over recent weeks, senior Hill Republicans and GOP officials have nudged President Donald Trump's team to start spending more on the Texas Senate race before it's too late, according to three people with direct knowledge of those conversations, who were granted anonymity to discuss them.

Those fears escalated after audio leaked of Paxton privately trashing Trump's midterm convention, with some worrying it could impact whether MAGA Inc. continues spending after a current wave of GOP ad bookings run out Oct. 12.

A Trump operative told POLITICO that MAGA Inc. and its affiliates are expected to spend near $45 million on direct mail, TV, and digital advertising in Texas through Oct. 12, an increase from its previous $20 million to boost Paxton. But they said the team is still assessing how much more money to send in the final weeks, in consultation with Senate Republicans and their top super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund. ...



Then there are things like this ...

Ken Griffin's Miami neighbors fight his private heliport plan after his $238M NYC penthouse sparked a pied--terre tax
finance.yahoo.com

... Last April, hedge fund manager Ken Griffin was called out by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for his New York home. Now, his Miami neighbors are upset with him.

Back in April, Mamdani announced a pied--terre tax on second homes worth at least $5 million in the city, naming Griffin personally for his $238 million penthouse. In response, Griffin threatened to move his company's focus from NYC to Miami ...

"We will add far more jobs in Miami over the next decade as an immediate and direct consequence of the Mayor's poor decision here," said Griffin to CNBC.

Perhaps because of that, Griffin has announced plans to build a personal heliport near his home in Miami beach. His neighbors aren't happy.

"He's saying that his helicopter is the quietest model, that noise won't be an issue for us," said John Stimmel, president of a luxury condo group near the proposed helipad site, to Bloomberg. "I asked ChatGPT if landing helicopters that close will be noisy, and guess what? It will be noisy." ...



And then there's things like this ...

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
www.404media.co

... As Flock continues to be the center of a nationwide conversation about automatic license plate reading cameras, the company has said that it doesn't, and won't, do facial recognition: "We will not add facial recognition to our devices," Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent video. But other, third-party companies are telling cops that they are willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by Flock cameras in order to "close that gap."

A company called VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds. VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and database company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within the last six months. In a May email to Johnson City, Tennessee, deputy police chief Michael Adams, a salesperson from VIDIZMO wrote that the company's product could do facial recognition on both Flock and Axon data in "one searchable platform." ...


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