My take is if there’s no money in the government kitty to spend for something then people don’t have a right to expect it to be spent anyway.
This vmay indicate a coming death knell for judges telling governments to spend money in certain ways, essentially usurping the legislative power to do so.
Moreover, when education is valued by those needing to obtain it people of all descriptions have in times past been quite able to self study if that’s what it takes. Here, I’m sure others will point out, parents who are involved and demanding can make a difference but it still comes down to the attitudes of the kids even then. The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves is how the old saying goes.
The one fellow who posted a link to the “professor” who said math perpetuates white privilege showed exactly what and where the problem lay: with an ideology that associates education with submission or selling out. There’s is a reason why a scumbag like Bill Ayers went into teaching teachers and, as with the mismanagement of the Chicago Annenburg Challenge under his chosen buddy Obama (who in his defense is merely a lawyer and not a teacher), what they teach isn’t always about educating someone but indoctrinating them.
aside: the CAC had over a hundred million to spend but by NOT focusing on basic skills and remedial education failed to improve education in Chicago. Something that could now be materially benefitting the very people it failed. As I said before, Obama has an excuse of sorts but Ayers doesn’t so I can only assume that they spent the money just how he thought it shouldn’t be frittered away.
Two take aways: they’ve gotten more subtle that when LBJ had a box of votes, cast in alphabetical order, written with the same pen and handwriting; remember the Democrat operative who boasted on video about bussing in folks for decades?
REQUEST FOR RELIEF
Plaintiffs respectfully request the following relief:
A determination by this Court that this action may be maintained as a
class action;
Injunctive relief requiring Defendants and their officers, agents, and
employees to ensure that Plaintiffs’ and class members have the opportunity to
attain literacy, including, but not limited, to:
a. Implementation of evidence-based programs for literacy instruction
and intervention, such as:
i. appropriate literacy instruction at all grade levels, including
instruction in the alphabetic principle, fluency, and comprehension in
grades K-3, and instruction in comprehension, motivation, word
study, fluency, and vocabulary in grades 4-12;
ii. universal screening for literacy problems, including screening at the
beginning and middle of the year for all students in primary grades
and appropriate periodic screening of older students;
iii. timely and appropriate intervention with individual students to prevent
or remediate reading difficulties;
b. Establishment of a system of statewide accountability whereby the
State:
i. monitors conditions that deny access to literacy, taking into account
the identified conditions antithetical to literacy instruction in
Plaintiffs’ schools, such as insufficient teacher capacity, deplorable
school conditions, and failure to promote learning readiness through
trauma-informed practices; and
ii. intervenes in a timely manner to address identified conditions that
deny access to literacy.
c. Provision of compensatory and remedial education for all class
members—including students who previously attended but no longer
attend Experiencia—including, but not limited to, assessing the
literacy proficiency of each student and developing an individualized
plan to bring each student up to grade level;
The issuance of a declaratory judgment that Defendants’ actions and
inaction complained of herein violate Plaintiffs’ rights under the Fourteenth
Amendment of the United States Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, 42, U.S.C. § 2000d and 34 C.F.R. § 100.3(b)(2);
An award of costs, disbursements, and reasonable attorneys’ fees and
expenses pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 and any other applicable provisions of law;
and
Such other relief as this Court deems just and proper.
No. It’s just that a majority of people who excel at advanced mathematics, prodominantly Asian, actually apply those skills in engineering disciplines as opposed to white people who join academia.
That stinks, all three of mine were quite good.
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I was fortunate enough to attend a small rural school district in Northeast Pennsylvania. Small enough that everybody in the class knew everybody else in the class.
My HS was about 2500 kids, 650 or so in my graduating class, so I didn’t know most of them.