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What laughing? WTH are you talking about? No one is laughing. It's a serious problem.
As I said, shut down Georgetown University. It's a Catholic school, the students of which receive Pell Grants and other government-funded grants and scholarships. Same goes for Boston, College, Notre Dame, etc.
Colleges are not the pedophilia problem. Those private schools you want to give an edge over state run schools are the 2nd version of NAMBLA, in many cases, as prosecutors have shown.
You went to a Catholic school and insist on denying poor kids the opportunity to do so if they and their families similarly choose? Why?
My family was poor, and we paid the tuition. Parents worked 90 plus hours combined every week, and often > 100, when hours were available. My 1st W2 job came at age 14.
Yes, your "proofs" are collection of bulletin board opinion while you'd never explain reality where the richest, most industrialized and successful states in the nation, like New Jersey, Connecticut , New York, Massachusetts always vote blue, while the poorest and least advanced states like Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi always vote red. Shouldn't it be the other way around according to your silly theory? Lol
Georgetown IS a Catholic school. Taxpayer money goes to students at Georgetown and other Catholic (and other religious) schools in the form of Pell Grants, etc. Liberals are extreme hypocrites in that they support what are essentially vouchers for private religious schools at one level of education but not another.
Shut down the problem schools*, but let students attend the others with vouchers. Continuing to trap them in the public schools that are only educating 1/3 of them to grade-level proficiency ISN'T a viable option. Why are liberals so anti-education? Why?!?
* Don't think pedophilia is a problem only in private schools.
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"The study was carried out by the General Accountability Office, which examines how effectively public funds are being used.
Its researchers looked into 15 sample cases of abuse in public and private schools between 2007 and 2009 where the offenders works as teachers, support staff, volunteers or contractors.
Of the 15, at least 11 were convicted sex offenders who had previously targeted children.
In six of those cases the paedophiles went on to abuse more children than first time around - the victims including a young disabled boy and a girl in the sixth grade."
Yes, your "proofs" are collection of bulletin board opinion while you'd never explain reality where the richest, most industrialized and successful states in the nation, like New Jersey, Connecticut , New York, Massachusetts always vote blue, while the poorest and least advanced states like Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi always vote red. Shouldn't it be the other way around according to your silly theory? Lol
Blue states have the most segregated schools, and the widest income gaps. Why aren't they doing anything to change that? Seems they're racists and classists.
And the poor and under-educated continue to vote to maintain that oppression.
There is more poor and uneducated in red states then blue states. What's you say doesn't make any sense.
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Blue states have the most segregated schools, and the widest income gaps. Why aren't they doing anything to change that? Seems they're racists and classists.
And the poor and under-educated continue to vote to maintain that oppression.
There is more poor and uneducated in red states then blue states.
No, on both counts.
Poverty is more concentrated in cities. There simply aren't large enough cities in red states with enough of a population to outnumber the poor in blue state cities. The three most populous cities are NYC (8.34 million), LA (3.86 million), and Chicago (2.71 million). Poverty rates: 19.9%, 21.2%, and 22.1%, respectively. All 3 of the most populous cities are in blue states.
Combine that fact with the following grim statistic:
"Nearly a third of youth from low-income families (29 percent) fail to earn high school diplomas, approximately three times greater than the percentage of youth from middle-income families (10 percent) and roughly six times greater than the percentage of youth from high-income families (5 percent)" Youth from Low-Income Families: Fact Sheet
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