Low quality education in inner city schools, is money really the answer?

education city issues : Okay, I have long seen people complain about how being in the inner city is rough and how often inner city kids are underprivileged as compared to their suburban counterparts. I have to agree that inner city schools do not get as much funding as suburban schools (we are talking all public schools here). Here is my viewpoint, money should not even be an issue, those kids should be able to prosper under those conditions. Want an example?

1. Kids from countries like China and India (countries where the population can barely feed itself) are scoring 2400s on their SATs and getting accepted into a lot of the top colleges here in the US.

2. The Magnet school system in the US has worked out perfectly compared to other systems. Magnet usually attract kids from inner city settings who WANT to learn and those kids usually go on to college and earn their bachelors. Poverty obviously isn’t an issue here.

So tell me, why do others make this into Black and White and rich and poor? If other people are thriving under conditions worse than those listed then why are people making excuses for those in the inner city US who fail to succeed academically?

The answer about: Low quality education in inner city schools, is money really the answer?

Answer by Stop BO
Look at Texas Southern University.

Answer by Sunshine
Schools that are so underfunded they don’t have enough textbooks obviously need proper funding. However, if a child‘s parents or community don’t value education, spend time with them doing homework, and encouraging them to value it themselves, no amount of money will turn them into a scholar. A few kids are driven on their own, more learn to take school seriously from their social environment. Money can only do so much. It can’t make a kid attend classes if their parents don’t care or even notice that they are skipping school.

Answer by Pro Con
No.
The trouble is 3 generations of government checks in the mailbox. The more babies, the bigger the checks. The underground “cash” economy that supplements the government checks is all illegal – prostitution, drugs, etc…
Children learn primarily from their parents. We need to cut off the checks. Changing their entitlement attitude and making the parents get a job is the real answer.

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