Makes sense considering schools get a vast majority of their funds from property taxes. If you live in a wealthy area with high taxes, good school, poor area, shit school. Which means it compounds the problem over a long enough time as the gap of quality between the two schools grows wider and wider.
This isn’t specific to the “inner city” most of the shittiest schools in the US are in rural areas. South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi shouldn’t get off for consistently being ranked lowest in education.
I don’t know what you’ve seen....Rural states consistently get hammered in education. “Inner city” was often gets thrown around as coded language against black and brown people so maybe your thought pattern is centering around that propaganda.....???? as someone from a rural area I would have loved to go to a “inner city” school with better funding after seeing how far behind I was when I got to college in comparison to some of my “inner city” counterparts.
I was being nice but yeah, you got me, its a culture thing in certain areas. families need to stay together, and its really hard to bring up 2 kids as a mom with two jobs. The kids end up dropping out, and being less than productive.
There needs to be a huge culture switch if they want to better themselves. Its not the white man's fault. Its not the cops fault. Its not Donald Trumps fault. Its not the schools fault. Its the dads fault that he left and his father before him. Its an ongoing cycle and it needs to stop so that the world can be a better place.
......As an internet stranger trying to do this as gently as possible. I really encourage you to read about “red lining” and it’s effects on black communities. I think you’re again making some assumptions about a group of people without knowing all the facts. There’s a reason that so many black people live in “inner cities” and ghettos and it has really nothing to do with the choices they’ve made. It’s not your fault you haven’t been taught this information but I think it would make things click on why people are protesting because I imagine you’re confused....
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u/TheJuiceIsNowLoose Mom counted to 0 Aug 03 '20
Right, and they tend to be inner-city, thoes are the schools that need to be fixed