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Did anyone here attend or send kids to private school? Was there a little pressure or guidance
SoreShoulder
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from the authorities to send them to schools not paid for by tax money?
Please consider it before you dismiss it because such a thing wouldn't have been blatantly obvious.
It is my theory that some school systems save money by cooperating with local governments and employers to create pressure to send as many children who can afford it to a private school.
I know there aren't any laws in place forcing people not to go to public school but there could be pressure from members of society who might be crime targets, or who truly believe that not enough is being spent.
Or it could simply be a way people are expected to give back to their community because they're paying in instead of using funds in a community that gave them a job. Maybe that's the right thing to do, I don't know, but I'd still chalk it up under "reparations paid." Minorities themselves say there is economic inequality, which can't help but mean that they are paying fewer taxes in to school funding, so they'd disproportionately benefit from such a system.
The people you need such as your employer or the police could simply say they'd really prefer to see your kids in private school so the public schools have all the money they need to keep all the kids busy.
Perhaps if people don't comply and society deems that they could afford to comply, then various forms of pressure are exerted like worse work assignments or even firing, or not getting cooperation from people who are crime targets.
It probably wouldn't happen in wealthier places or places where the kids are all raised in stable homes and would study even if someone just gave them the books.
Please consider it before you dismiss it because such a thing wouldn't have been blatantly obvious.
It is my theory that some school systems save money by cooperating with local governments and employers to create pressure to send as many children who can afford it to a private school.
I know there aren't any laws in place forcing people not to go to public school but there could be pressure from members of society who might be crime targets, or who truly believe that not enough is being spent.
Or it could simply be a way people are expected to give back to their community because they're paying in instead of using funds in a community that gave them a job. Maybe that's the right thing to do, I don't know, but I'd still chalk it up under "reparations paid." Minorities themselves say there is economic inequality, which can't help but mean that they are paying fewer taxes in to school funding, so they'd disproportionately benefit from such a system.
The people you need such as your employer or the police could simply say they'd really prefer to see your kids in private school so the public schools have all the money they need to keep all the kids busy.
Perhaps if people don't comply and society deems that they could afford to comply, then various forms of pressure are exerted like worse work assignments or even firing, or not getting cooperation from people who are crime targets.
It probably wouldn't happen in wealthier places or places where the kids are all raised in stable homes and would study even if someone just gave them the books.
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Let's say there was a county in which a mob connected family ran the politics, and the big boss got to say who got a job and who didn't and who got adequate police protection and who didn't.
Let's say to stay on his good side, if you had a decent paying job, you had to send your kids to a private school. There was then more money to spend on the public school kids and they wound up voting for the party of the people running the county.
What if the students in the private schools were all a little black because they were from places like Italy, Ireland, the mountains of Germany, etc. and were led or tricked into blaming their less than stellar reception in society on racism instead of an amateur teaching staff who had been trapped by the party boss into their jobs and did not know how to reason well and did not convey anything but mob smugness and trickery and group spirit and an ethic that it's OK to cheat because they need to.
Then they lapped up the Affirmative Action jobs that were set aside for the truly oppressed and lent their full support to the party boss because he helped get them that favor.
They also considered their education light years ahead of public because they seemed smarter, but it was actually because the system only sends students to private school if their families are capable of keeping them on track and they were capable of learning without special, professional, trained help.
Let's say they might have outright abused certain kids but any teacher who either spoke out about it or perhaps tried to blackmail the administration about it got.....Chappaquiddick'ed.
First, let's suppose they forcibly integrate the public schools with busing.
Then let's suppose they ensure it is less than desirable for the good students by making sure there is not enough security or a curriculum geared toward helping underserved students from disadvantaged areas catch up.
Then, all the good students flee to private schools.
Then, the public school system has more funds to lavish on the poor. They earn their pay, handing out fraudulent degrees and filling up time. Their cronies in politics get a boost because they're the party of strengthening public education.
Then, the minority students go out and try to get jobs but are unprepared. This creates plentiful jobs for the whites with black heritage. Because employers have to hire a certain proportion of the qualified blacks. This gives another boost to the democrats. They are the party of Affirmative Action and all the whiteys who sent their kids to private schools vote for them.
The whiteys who are a little bit black, who send their kids to private schools, might occasionally wind up less than prepared, because their school systems typically run on only 1/5th the funding of public, but they think they're in the best schools, and yet they do poorly, so they wind up voting for the democrats because they wrongly think the party is against discrimination and voting democrat is a good way of fighting being held down by the man.
It occurs to one that they might be saving money on some students in order to create other, deceptive flagship students who make everybody think the school is so good but some alumni are held down by the man because a little black.
Perhaps not realizing they were shooed through school, the displaced, disadvantaged minorities grow disgruntled and riot. That creates yet another democrat boost. The democrats are the party catering to malcontention.
They say "we don't invite them" but they could just as easily vote for the wall instead of against it.
Some may say how do we know the good people aren't the ones coming, but I bet their societies don't give the good jobs and the educations to people who aren't committed to building their own country.