Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Eddie Teach]

The correct answer is "No".

Most of the time.

[Syt]

One of best posts I read in recent memory.

In reference to the Columbus police shooting.

"What should be done is a federal probe into Democrats destroying the education system that they have controlled in inner cities for over half a century to produce multi-generational functional illiteracy rates over 40% in almost all of them.

You cannot expect functional illiterates to understand that life choices sometimes leads to life ending. Illiterates are ruled by emotion, not reason.

Republicans did not build this, Democrats did."

[Valmy]

I am glad to see statements calling for improvements to public education.

I had not noticed anybody else making connections between specifically "inner city" education quality and these shootings though. It almost suggests they are claiming it is mostly black people doing the shootings...

[Syt]

I am glad to see statements calling for improvements to public education.

I had not noticed anybody else making connections between specifically "inner city" education quality and these shootings though. It almost suggests they are claiming it is mostly black people doing the shootings...

Isn't "inner city" thinly veiled code for "them blacks"?

[Valmy]

Very thinly veiled yes. They are not talking about urban hipsters.

[Syt]

How are public schools funded in the US? And who's holding the purse strings?

[The Larch]

How are public schools funded in the US? And who's holding the purse strings?

IIRC school districts in the US are financed via the residents' property taxes. So, poor areas have poor school districts.

[Valmy]

How are public schools funded in the US? And who's holding the purse strings?

Um...well...in Texas it is supposed to be funded through local property taxes with an elected school board controlling the funds for each school district. In practice it is absurdly more complicated than that with the state taking a lot of local taxes to give to poorer districts and there is lots of state control that goes with that. Then you have federal money and control of that money by federal agencies.

And often you will have some private philanthropic fund that is providing some sorts of funding and they also have a large say in how those funds are used.

So like everything involving money and power in the United States it is...hard to say really.

[Valmy]

How are public schools funded in the US? And who's holding the purse strings?

IIRC school districts in the US are financed via the residents' property taxes. So, poor areas have poor school districts.

I would be surprised if it works that way in all 50 states though.

[viper37]

How are public schools funded in the US? And who's holding the purse strings?

IIRC school districts in the US are financed via the residents' property taxes. So, poor areas have poor school districts.

I would be surprised if it works that way in all 50 states though.

It works that way in California and Massachussets, from what I've been told.

I think it used to be this way in Canada up 'til the 50s.  Now, it's all funded by provinces.  Federal government transfers money for health&education to provinces.

[PDH]

How are public schools funded in the US? And who's holding the purse strings?

IIRC school districts in the US are financed via the residents' property taxes. So, poor areas have poor school districts.

I would be surprised if it works that way in all 50 states though.

It works that way in California and Massachussets, from what I've been told.

I think it used to be this way in Canada up 'til the 50s.  Now, it's all funded by provinces.  Federal government transfers money for health&education to provinces.

Over half of the school funding in California comes from the state - throw in Federal money and that is about 2/3 of the total.  This is in part because California regulate property taxes (Proposition 13) and after 1978 the state had to step up funding.

[Valmy]

The low property taxes of California is why if I lived in California, and everything else remained the same, I would pay substantially less tax than I currently pay in Texas. So when you hear people complaining about the high taxes over there, they really only get you if you make shitloads of money every year.

[PDH]

The low property taxes of California is why if I lived in California, and everything else remained the same, I would pay substantially less tax than I currently pay in Texas. So when you hear people complaining about the high taxes over there, they really only get you if you make shitloads of money every year.

Exactly - a lot of folks who moved out of state are unpleasantly surprised at things like their property valuations going up more than 1% each year.

[Syt]

[Habbaku]

I ruin my restroom just fine without the help of liberals, thanks. Credit where it's due, fuck.