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Old 02-07-2007, 02:45 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Why isn't there one unified school district here?? Why is set up to discriminate (at least that's the way I see it) between those that have and those that have not ($$$). I'm in the have category but I'm displeased to see children not getting an equal education due to how much $$ in taxes an area generates. Thoughts.. Opinions....
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Old 02-07-2007, 02:54 PM
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Location: san antonio - 210
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Why isn't there one unified school district here?? Why is set up to discriminate (at least that's the way I see it) between those that have and those that have not ($$$). I'm in the have category but I'm displeased to see children not getting an equal education due to how much $$ in taxes an area generates. Thoughts.. Opinions....
In all of Texas there is just one unified school district. Every other school district is independent of one another.

And I do not see any discrimination. Just because a school is in a poorer area or has a large amount of poor students doesn't mean they are getting any less of an education.
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Old 02-07-2007, 03:00 PM
 
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In all of Texas there is just one unified school district. Every other school district is independent of one another.

And I do not see any discrimination. Just because a school is in a poorer area or has a large amount of poor students doesn't mean they are getting any less of an education.
Well, for a similar concept: the idea behind the Brown vs. Board of Education is that putting separate races in separate schools is inherently unequal.

Anyway, I would like to see San Antonio with one school district serving the entire city limits, but I would wait for the city to "culturally unify" first.
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Old 02-07-2007, 03:05 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Well, for a similar concept: the idea behind the Brown vs. Board of Education is that putting separate races in separate schools is inherently unequal.

Anyway, I would like to see San Antonio with one school district serving the entire city limits, but I would wait for the city to "culturally unify" first.
The city is a culturally unified as it ever will be. What does that mean anyways?? Rich white people move to the projects?? Poor Blacks move to the Dominion?? (I'm using stereotypes here on purpose) As far as school finance equality, if you remember "Robin Hood" you will remember what a disaster that was.
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Old 02-07-2007, 03:09 PM
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Well, for a similar concept: the idea behind the Brown vs. Board of Education is that putting separate races in separate schools is inherently unequal.
Why is Brown vs. Board even being brought up?
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Old 02-07-2007, 03:13 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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In all of Texas there is just one unified school district. Every other school district is independent of one another.

And I do not see any discrimination. Just because a school is in a poorer area or has a large amount of poor students doesn't mean they are getting any less of an education.
You are correct in saying they aren't getting any "less of an education". Because they are in fact getting "an" education. But from the standpoint of what types of tools, classes, sports equipment and books being provided (ex. computers, vocational classes, instruments) money makes a big issue.
Yes, if you have a book you can teach someone to read, but if you have a Library you can teach someone how to rule the world.
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Old 02-07-2007, 03:16 PM
 
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Why is Brown vs. Board even being brought up?
The starter of the thread is making a similar thesis: the poor in mostly poor schools are getting an inherently unequal education.
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Old 02-07-2007, 03:20 PM
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That was his opinion. No one is being discrimnated on because of economics.

I went to Highlands high school which is in the SAISD. I didn't feel like I wasn't getting a fair education.
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Old 02-07-2007, 03:31 PM
 
Location: San Antonio. Tx 78209
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Large unified school districts only breed corruption, heck even large independents can. Look at the waste that DISD, scandal after scandal, and waste of taxpayers money are rampant. Those that live in the nicer area's don't even send their kids to public schools in DISD, they all go to private. No thanks I will keep my school districts geographically oriented and of moderately sized. Even when I was in lower grade school I knew I was in NEISD and in the MacArthur cluster of schools.
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Old 02-07-2007, 03:45 PM
 
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Then how do you explain North Forest ISD? It has... two SMALL high schools, and the same amount of scandal. Guess what? It's still here.

As for Wilmer-Hutchins ISD, that district was so corrupt that the police made regular visits. Guess who took the land when the district ran out of money? Dallas ISD. Who formally took over the district? Dallas ISD.

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Large unified school districts only breed corruption, heck even large independents can. Look at the waste that DISD, scandal after scandal, and waste of taxpayers money are rampant. Those that live in the nicer area's don't even send their kids to public schools in DISD, they all go to private. No thanks I will keep my school districts geographically oriented and of moderately sized. Even when I was in lower grade school I knew I was in NEISD and in the MacArthur cluster of schools.
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