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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (8424)5/5/1997 8:38:00 PM
From: Stan Walker   of 108807
 
Alexa, the education that is provided is equal, the education that is received may not be. For every story about a run-down inner city school there is one about a sparkling clean one. And I'm pretty sure there are old run-down schools in the suburbs also, and given the low quality of construction these days there are some new run-down schools in the suburbs too. I think the real point of contention that you, your sister-in-law and Janice have with what I said deals with what kind of education does the student receive? Many of the students in the inner city want to get a good education. They know that this is their only ticket out of the projects. The frustrations that some teachers feel when trying to teach in the inner city schools is that they are prevented from teaching, usually by disruptive students. Where do these students come from? Usually they are from disfunctional families, and the behavior they exhibit in the classroom is a plea for the attention they don't get at home. In the inner city schools it is the average student that comes from a single parent family, usually the Dad is gone but sometimes it is the Mother, sometimes both and the student lives with a grandmother. These kids can and do wreck havoc in a classroom. . . . . . . The question I ask is why are these kids like this? I think it is because the welfare system created a new kind of career. Having babies! Make money, have a baby. Need more money? Have another baby! The welfare system completely co-opted family values and made having a baby an economic issue. The children having these babies don't have a clue about the stresses involved and many times just give up. Some resort to drugs for escape, some to prostitution for extra income, some just abandon their children to a sister or grandmother. . . . . . . . . . So my feeling is, if we eliminate welfare we can eliminate alot of the problems in the inner city school and then it would be easier to judge the level of education in the inner city schools.
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