No I agree with you, there is a cultural perception of education that is passed down and plays a significant role. Not surprising many of those cultures we highlight with am emphasis on their kids education are not typical American. Not only are the poor school districts providing a crappy product but their is a changed perception of the parents role and many of the parents simply send their kids off to school and dont know thier kids teachers, grades, classes or how they are doing. This is not red or blue this is 'Merica
I’m just going to add something here because it is important to understand that there is a push to 1. Move funding for public schools to private schools and 2. Use public funds for religious education. So what is being proposed is actually doubling down on America’s weakness in education by making the country more fragmented. And of course the irony is that this scheme is coming from states with the poorest performing education systems.
One can say the poorest performing education states might be fed up with the shit they are getting.... But their demands should wake up the state and federal government to go visit those school rather than opining from their ivory tower and see the issues there and fix them. Poor education stesm from poverty and poor education perpetuates poverty regardless of background or location. One thing I admired about Japan and Singapore and South Korea is the government made an effort to focus on education as an importnat path to improve the lives of its citizens and reduce poverty. Even in my visit to Cuba with all the fucked up politics, there is a 98% literacy rate (its the government that keeps them poor). If the U.S. opened that place up for business, they would find an educated population and within 1-2 generations the change in poverty would be dramatic. Same in the U.S. but schools are jusst black holes where bad money goes in and does nothing. Talking with some people who work in a rough school in D.C., the crime within the school makes it difficult to even learn for the kids that want to. teachers are afraid so you don't get the best ones. I am just citing one example but when there are a large number of schools like this or with no infrastructure or supplies then it is an easy fix....just as easy as creating $1 billion for Ukraine overnight.
Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action, banning colleges from factoring race in admissions In a 6 -3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled higher education institutions may not consider race as a factor in admissions https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...e-affirmative-action-university-b2366556.html The Supreme Court ruled that private and public colleges and universities may not consider race as a factor in admissions, striking down the landmark case Grutter v Bollinger (2003). For more than 20 years, colleges and universities have used affirmative action to help establish a diverse group of accepted students which contributes to a more positive education experience. But now, higher education institutions will no longer be allowed to consider race as a factor in admissions. Instead, students who wish to have their race or culture considered in their application will have to volunteer the information in their personal essay. Since its founding in 2014, SFFA has filed over 20,000 lawsuits on behalf of students and their parents who claim students did not get accepted to a selective university due to their race. In Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College, Mr Blum represented a group of anonymous Asian American students who were rejected from Harvard College and claim it was because of their race. Though Harvard is a private university, it received federal funding making it subject to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits racial discrimination. The students argued that Harvard places a quota on the number of Asian American students it accepts every year thus participating in racial discrimination. Harvard denies this. In Students for Fair Admissions v University of North Carolina, Mr Blum represented white and Asian American students rejected from the Univeristy of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill who alleged that UNC prioritised race in applications and awarded under-represented minority students. SFFA claims UNC, a publicly-funded university, violated the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. More than 60 individuals and organisations filed briefsin support of Harvard College and North Carolina University, emphasising the detrimental effects that ruling in favor of Students for Fair Admissions would have. The NAACP wrote that SFFA’s “distored understanding of one of the most, if not the most, important case in the constitution canon demeans Black Americans, and it would demean this Court to embrace it.” ================================ Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs at Harvard and UNC The ruling is the culmination of a decades-long effort to end the consideration of race in admissions. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/su...rmative-action-programs-harvard-unc-rcna66770
I agree with the first part, but not with the second. The real world consequences to admitting based on merit has a beneficial impact to society. Admitting based on race has the opposite effect.