O'Reilly gives a spot on assessment of the Ferguson situation.

Ricter said:
Hedging. If there are enough jobs, Obama has done a good job. But if there are not enough jobs, then we can understand youth unemployment. Grow a spine and pick one. :D
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It's not hedging at all, troll. There aren't enough jobs to satisfy all people looking for jobs in the country - that's a problem. But there are a good deal of minimum wage jobs that are ignored by many folks on welfare because it pays less to get a job than it does to stay on welfare.

Are you so obtuse that you don't see this?
 
LEAPup said:
Sorry. If you loot in Russia, China, even Mexico, you won't have the luxury of choosing which way you'd be taken out of the gene pool.
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It's not looting. Just ask Al. The black man is simply liberating product from the shelf that belongs to them in the first place.
Meanwhile a young boy was recently killed in a shooting on Chicago’s South Side.

9-year-old Antonio Smith was shot twice in the chest near 71st and Woodlawn around 4 p.m. Wednesday in the city’s Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition where he later died, according to his family.

He lived near to the scene of the shooting and family members say he may have been waiting for a bus or walking in the neighborhood when someone opened fired. Where is the out cry for this ? Oh, that's right, its a black on black crime which happens everyday so it's a non story.
 
Ricter said:
So there's plenty of job openings... good job, President Obama!
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Along with those excellent schools, outstanding teachers, up-to-date equipment, cutting-edge curriculum materials, plenty of brand-new textbooks, small class sizes, tons of support personnel, nutritious free lunches, loads of supplies -- how can one lose?
 
I am amazed at how anyone can still be defending Obama's economic poliices, his international policies, his domestic policies or anything else. How much are you guys be paid to troll out your support?

on any scale your only solace / argument was... well he is not worse than Bush.
Guess what? The world has turned against him. He has blown it. The left is even turning on him.

Your side side is now saying he doesn't care instead of admitting his leftist policies have failed again.

Is it all his fault... Nope he had some really bad advisors like Hillary Clinton and he got played by the health insurance industry.
 
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dbphoenix said:
Along with those excellent schools, outstanding teachers, up-to-date equipment, cutting-edge curriculum materials, plenty of brand-new textbooks, small class sizes, tons of support personnel, nutritious free lunches, loads of supplies -- how can one lose?
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Speaking of which . . .

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Normandy School District [in which is located Brown's school] lost accreditation in 2012 after it was labeled a "failed district" due to low standardized test scores. Out of over 500 school districts in Missouri, only three are without accreditation, according to Sarah Potter, the communications coordinator for the Missouri Department of Education. Since then, the district has been renamed the Normandy Schools Collaborative and was taken over by the state. . . .

Missouri received a D on a 2014 school funding report card that measures how states distribute funds to low- and high-poverty schools in the state. School funding in Missouri is slightly regressive, so that the poorest schools often receive the least funding, even though those students may need the most support. Overall, the report found that only 14 other states had school funding distribution systems that were more unfair than Missouri's.

A 2012 report from the Center for American Progress reiterates this point. According to the report, Missouri is a state where "children attending school in higher-poverty districts still have substantially less access to state and local revenue than children attending school in lower-poverty districts."

Unfortunately, Missouri is not alone. Across the country, places like Pennsylvania and Illinois also have unequal school funding systems that often leave the poorest students with the least resources.

And the beat goes on . . .
 
dbphoenix said:
Speaking of which . . .
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You were pretty much stomped on in the other thread by DHOHHI when it came to the argument about funding at schools. Bringing the point back up in another thread doesn't give it more truth.
 
Tsing Tao said:
You were pretty much stomped on in the other thread by DHOHHI when it came to the argument about funding at schools. Bringing the point back up in another thread doesn't give it more truth.
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Except that it's actual data and not just the unsubstantiated opinion of one volunteer in one school.
 
Schools are typically funded county by county, with state and federal aid larded on top of that. Poor black areas do not have the same funding base. At the same time, local control and funding of schools is a fundamental value that most people support. Better off whites are willing to accept higher property taxes to fund their local schools. They aren't so willing to see that money flushed down the toilet in a district like Ferguson where the culture regards education as "acting white."

I suspect DB's stats ignore state and federal funding, which disproportionately flows to poorer districts.

The sad fact is there is zero correlation between funding and outcomes, as desperately as liberals like to pretend there is. There is a strong correlation between family respect for education and outcomes. I would argue there is also a negative correlation between the amount of slack given troublemakers in schools and outcomes. In typical liberal fashion though, the administration is pushing schools to tolerate more and more abusive and disruptive behavior under the guise of civil rights. Liberals will always opt for coddling a minority even if it means ruining the chance for a decent education for every other kid in the class.
 
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