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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
I've been talking through all of this with a hardcore right winger in the US I used to work with. He's a very smart guy, always seemed nice enough, but he's deep in an echo chamber. It's been interesting and disturbing seeing the lens a lot of people put on this.
His one point has been that there isn't systemic police racism, but police develop stereotypes because of negative interactions with groups of people over time, and they can be a good thing that is actually a protective mechanism.
I've been trying to bring it back further to root causes with him, and discuss why a black male is so disproportionately likely to have an encounter with the law. As part of this I went digging for education funding numbers as hearing US coworkers talk about moving to a "good school district" has always been an alarm bell for me.
This is a fascinating presentation on the funding inequalities in the US education system: https://edbuild.org/content/23-billion
When the UCP is discussing the privatization of education we all need to do our part to push back. Entrenching systemic inequality for children in our province is in none of our best interests. |
I don't disagree with your overall point, but I know in the metro area I live in, the poor, inner city schools spend significantly more than the county schools that are mostly suburban. I see from your site, that this is generally the case throughout the state.
Even though far more money is spent on the inner city schools, the suburban schools are considered much better schools and I think it is definitely fair to say there is a significant advantage to going to them. My point is that it is a much more complex problem than how much money is spent on the schools.