"The nation's 250th birthday is an invitation to consider what made the American experiment unique in the first place."

Racial Slavery

"the most impoverished districts receive the most funding."

It's the opposite -- obviously -- since the local property tax base is the single largest source of public school funding.

JeffJ lives to lie.

JeffJ is an Alternative Facts Brownshirt.

20 posts about education. How many from actual parents or actual educators?
#21 | Posted by eberly

Anyone with half an education knows "American Exceptionalism" is a White Nationalist myth, not an educational concept.

#2. Public education IS the problem here. And the most impoverished districts receive the most funding.
#3 | Posted by BellRinger

And that's why your problem isn't with public education, per se.
Your problem is that a tiny amount of Federal tax dollars are funding a small part of a poor person's public education.

"So one bad student ruins education for the majority."

That's literally your role here.
To ruin discussions between honest people with your covert agenda.

Eberly tapped out "SSI" in Morse Code at the end of his comment.

Must be a reference to the few remaining Greatest Generation (another pandering construct) who are still alive and collecting Social Security.

"Does anyone care to address the core problem and how it gets fixed?"

That was addressed broadly last Tuesday. Republicans are the problem, according to voters.

Starting with Low IQ Voters who don't even know how public schools are funded.

The Party that says Americans have no Civic Duty -- except maybe to show up if they get drafted -- wants to lecture us on Civics.

The Party that's made it harder for Americans to exercise their Civic Right of Voting throughout my life -- wants to lecture us on Civics.

"JeffJ Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda!"
--Sir Mixalot, probably

Does anyone care to address the core problem and how it gets fixed? A failure to educate our children in civics.
#47 | Posted by BellRinger

You, personally, oppose teaching any American history that might lead kids to think America did something bad, in case that makes them feel bad about America.

You've undergone a complete moral collapse since around the time you believe the frat guy. The one who said the Dixie flag on his wall stands for something other than racism. You failed civics at that moment in your life, and you've never recovered.

Get people like you out of the business of education. Get people like you from children's minds, and things will get better.