>NJEA : Socioeconomic Status with failure in Education
Whenever I’ve had a discussion with Ridgewood teachers about school choice for inner city children, they always scoff at the idea. Explaining that school choice wont matter because it can’t make up for the lack of parental involvement. That the failure of the urban education system rests with the socio-economic conditions of the children and their parents. Only more money will solve the issue. Which is a socialist’s solution for all of society’s ills. We will never be able to raise the standard of living for the uneducated to that of the educated no matter how much money we give them. As we see now, we are running out of money.
The solution is to empower families by providing a system of education that they can hold accountable for the failure or success of their children’s education.
If parents seem uninvolved in the inner cities, perhaps it is because they don’t feel like they have a stake in the system. It is like all else around them, government controls everything. Give the power to choose and they will make sure their children excel. The way out of government dependence is education. And the folks who work in government know this. Keep people stupid and ensure that the government has a purpose; taking care of them. Create independence and we need less government. It is truly an insidious system when the political establishment and government workers do everything they can to ensure poverty and thus guarantee their jobs.
