Morning Joe this morning on MSNBC had a segment on education. Actually it had a discussion on segregation in education. Guess which state has the most school segregation? New York. Can you imagine? I would have said North Carolina or Alabama or Texas or someplace like that, but New York? Even the New York Education Secretary admitted it. And Arne Dunkin the National Education Secretary agreed. They all went on to explain how they planned to fix the problem.
They had me on their side until they started talking about vouchers and such. That's when these highly educated men who are well versed on the problem stopped looking for solutions for all youth and started looking for solutions for kids with the means to attend schools outside their normal school district. Kids whose parents could transport them to better schools, dress them to fit in, provide them with the niceties like IPhones and the like. And that's fine for them.
But that leaves those who can't afford transportation costs and the rest. So they're stuck in the same old schools with less money being spent on those already stressed and underachieving schools. So how does that program help those students? I don't think anyone is suggesting these kids be ignored, but that seems to be exactly what's going to happen to them.
Wouldn't it make more sense to arrange for specialized funding for underachieving schools and specific students to provide for trained teams of educators to descend on those schools to help bring them up to level? The teams could work with teachers, students and administrations to solve the problems being faced. Additional funds could be made available to provide for the teaching aids that correspond to that of higher achieving schools. After that, state and federal funding should be directed to help these schools to provide higher teacher wages and to keep pace with technology.
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