Priorities

[woodchip]

So, while the wife of Obama funnels 70 million to Pakistan to educate and empower girls, lets see what is going on with our education of our children:

In the Obamas’ hometown of Chicago, the school district is teetering on the brink of financial disaster, the city’s teachers union is threatening to strike, and student performance – for boys and girls – is downright embarrassing.

Only about 30 percent of the city’s fourth graders were proficient in math, according to the results of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress. That figure was only 25 percent for eighth graders. For fourth grade reading, only 27 percent of Chicago students scored proficient, and that number dropped to 24 percent for eighth graders, according to Catalyst Chicago.

Math proficiency rates for eighth graders in Fresno schools came in at 12 percent, while 15 percent of Los Angeles students in the same grade met the benchmark. Reading scores for eighth graders were just as bad last year, with only 13 percent proficient in Fresno, 11 percent in Cleveland, 13 percent in Baltimore, 16 percent in Philadelphia and 13 percent in Washington, D.C., according to the NAEP data.

In Detroit, a mere 4 percent of fourth graders and 3 percent of eighth graders scored proficient in math, and those numbers were 7 and 9 percent, respectively, for reading.

Now why are we sending funds to Pakistan when our kids are doing so poorly. Also note the cities listed are Democratically controlled. Maybe Michelle thinks those girls will come here to live and out of gratitude will be life long democratic voters.

[callmeslick]

so, woody, you are suggesting that the issues in the US can be simply fixed by throwing more money to education? Who'd have thought?
As for it being some sort of universal problem, our district scores came back today, with a consistent 60-70% pass rate on a far stricter standard.

[woodchip]

so, woody, you are suggesting that the issues in the US can be simply fixed by throwing more money to education? Who'd have thought?

Well the NEA has been preaching that for years. And the problem is not always money but how it is used.

As for it being some sort of universal problem, our district scores came back today, with a consistent 60-70% pass rate on a far stricter standard.

And your district has a major city in it? And I didn't point out a universal problem rather a problem of Democratically controlled cities and how inept they are when it come to educating the children. I guess one could make a argument about dumb, barefoot and dependent.

[callmeslick]

And your district has a major city in it?

yes, it does. The city of Wilmington, and by desegregation orders going back decades, the citizens of downtown send their kids to the suburban schools(very few actual schools in the city at present). My district has 20% of the students at or under poverty definitiion. Oh, and the Dems run Delaware, too.