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Originally Posted by jdulej
A lot of good points by you and the post you replied to. I'll just add a couple more, hopefully good points. I came from a broken home. Father took off when we were little kids, and we were raised by my mother. 4 kids, one parent who worked 10-12 hrs/day, 6 days a week. Yet we all turned out okay. Why? A big reason was because there was still an infrastructure in our schools to support kids like my brothers, sister, and me. There were counselors who actually knew who I was and who I could see without waiting weeks.
Fast-forward 30 years and there I am, a single parent with a son in High School and starting to get in trouble. I call the school to see if I could talk to a counselor - for 2000 students there is ONE counselor on staff. When I finally do see this poor frazzled guy, we tells me honestly that he has about 5 minutes to devote to each student and if I really care about getting my son help, I need to get him outside help. Luckily, I could afford it - many cannot and are just out of luck.
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That's a good post about schools. I would just quickly say that whenever you see a problem (like a frazzled school counselor) look to TAXES, believe it or not! Schools are financed by property taxes and rich people have the most property - so they get their own school board members elected to keep school costs DOWN. That is why public schools end up with 30 plus in each classroom - less learning and more "acting out".
........Then the rich people want better schools for THEIR children so they invent CHARTER SCHOOLS. The public schools get less money and become INCUBATORS for a "dumbed down" US society, customers for drug dealers, and enough TENSION to create the world's largest numbers of MASS MURDERERS!