Comments by "Remy Lebeau" (@remyllebeau77) on "How America's public schools keep kids in poverty | Kandice Sumner" video.

  1. And when they still don't have the same outcomes because the rich parents are buying extra things for their school? What if equal funding doesn't solve the massive problem of single parent households in poor communities (not to mention the bad attitude towards education)?
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  2. +c4p0ne Ha, he's just a socialist complaining about socialist government schools. Cry me a freaking river.
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  3. +MRLONG758 No. I specifically said creating a straw man and avoiding answering the points (in one of my previous posts) was a bad path to choose. I never suggesting helping the poor was bad. In fact, I proved that in many (and the majority) states, they are ALREADY receiving MORE total funding. Your idea of leveling the playing field is not an improvement overall, it is a zero sum effort, and it could actually be detrimental to the people with the best chance to make the most out of education. If your idea of treating everyone equally is so great, why do they give the good scholarships to the best performing students? Cause screw those stupid students right? No, it is the same reason that you don't give a million dollars for stock investing to someone that doesn't have a clue what to do, you give it to the smartest and most experienced guy that has the best chance to make a profit. You want to use resources wisely instead of throwing money at a (not the smartest) person and hoping they can do the same as someone that is smart. No it isn't fair, and life isn't and shouldn't be fair. Life is horrible and cruel, and anything and anyone in your life that helps it be less so, is precious. The sooner liberals learn this lesson, the better. Instead, most liberals like you and the lady in the video are determined to place yourselves in your own "torment of Tantalus", constantly fighting an uphill battle against reality.
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  4. I was asking serious questions that remain unanswered. The following is a few paragraphs selectively copied from a Washington Post article. "In general, wealthier towns and counties are able to raise more money through taxes to support their schools than poorer localities can. Many states have developed school-finance systems that send extra dollars to poorer areas in an attempt to mitigate those inequities. But the state aid is often not enough to make up the difference. Federal spending — including through Title I, money meant to bolster programs for poor children — is serving as an equalizer, according to the federal data. When federal dollars are included, just five states are spending less in their poorest districts than in their wealthiest. Nationwide, the average disparity drops from 15 percent to less than 2 percent. In 23 other states, students in the poorest school districts are getting more state and local tax dollars per pupil than students in the most affluent districts. The differences are biggest in Indiana and Minnesota, which respectively spend 17 percent and 15 percent more in their poorest districts than in the most affluent."
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  5. +MRLONG758 Well you are free to create that straw man and avoid dealing with my points, but I consider it to be a rather poor path to choose in a debate.
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  6. +Capone Well there's an oxymoron (libertarian-socialist). Don't make me laugh. Your attempt to insult me is amusing although pathetic. Having never spent a day in a public school classroom, it is laughable that you try to use Chomsky's criticisms of that institution against me. I'll just ask you to stop right there if you are going to pretend to be a bastion of "rational forethought or political literacy" while extolling the virtues of socialism.
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