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- Jul 7, 2020
Foreigners don't seem to understand this, but it's not lack of funding that causes bad education in America. In fact, many of the worst areas have the highest rate of cumulative state + federal funding per pupil. It's corruption in the school system (usually resulting from one-party systems of political patronage) and the culture of the students that causes all of that money to go to waste.In fairness I mean better funding for the entire education sector. This would mean a higher quality department of Education. Faster policy changes, better laws concerning teacher:student ratios. Better pay and education for educators. More resources and specialist teachers for special needs students. List goes on.
You can't fund your way out of the obvious results of a student body where 75% of the students come from single-parent homes (or whose guardians are not their parents), no expectations of educational betterment are imposed on the children, no academic tradition is present in the culture, all the role models are gangbangers, hip hop artists, or athletes (read: not people who encourage education), the parents/guardians don't take any interest in the educational development of the children, no disciplinary standards are allowed in the school, and the students create a chaotic crabs-in-a-bucket environment that causes the failure of any kid from a household that does care.
Doubling the pay of a teacher in a non-specialized urban public school with these conditions is not going to do shit. That's why many Asian students from poor backgrounds in areas with bad educational resources can succeed academically while the black kids in the same exact schools will fail. It's not the school funding, the teacher-student ratio, the quality of the teachers, or any other leftist excuse—it's mostly the fact that the Asians have two-parent households that give a shit about their kids' educations and expect them to succeed in school so they can get a job that requires being educated; the black kids (generally) don't.
Let me put this in a way that a European can understand: even if you sent the best teachers with the best resources and good pay to teach in a school filled almost entirely with gypsies whose parents are barely functional members of society, do you think the gypsy children will suddenly succeed academically and become doctors, lawyers, and engineers?