First shots fired in republican plans to defund public schools

[tripod]

Ahhhh....yes, anytime anybody doesn't agree with you liberals/socialists, throw out the "racist!" herp derp card.

Your modus operandi has grown old.

Yawwwwwwnnnnn...

Did you actually say something racist? This thread is moving fast with all of my trolls chiming in... I didn't get to see the post in contention.

What I'd like to take issue is with the following statement of yours -

"And when they waddle their overflowing shopping cart to the cash register, how do they pay? 99% of the time it is with an Illinois LINK card"

That's not my experiences in North Carolina with poor people and food stamps.

Let's examine that for a second... most of the people that are on food stamps where I live, arrive to the grocery store in a cab. They cannot afford a vehicle... they are dependent on public transportation and we don't have public transportation in my town. if they wanna walk to the grocery store they will have to walk over ten miles each way... the majority of the poor people in my town live in a segregated area on the other side of the railroad tracks... the grocery stores are nowhere near their poor neighborhoods... the grocery stores are all within walking distance of affluent neighborhoods.

So, if they have to pony up $25 extra dollars just to get groceries... you better damn well bet that they will PILE THE CART AS HIGH AS IT CAN FUCKING GO and then load up the taxicab to the brim. They cannot afford to just pick up a "few things from the grocery store" like the rest of us... they have to strategically plan their trips and to maximize their return on the cost of the taxicab ride.

Some of the poorest people hitch rides with their relatives to the store...and they fill up their shopping carts as high as they can because the same rules apply... rides are hard to come by for poor people and they need to make each ride count.

There's so much more to systemic poverty than many people realize... you have to consider the reality that they live with and not judge them by the reality that WE live with.

 

[AdamHenry]

The bigoted and often race laced commentary of those of your ilk are always amusing... especially how the poor are awash in all this luxury and extravagance. Also amusing the typical narrow-minded notions of public schools equating to day care centers and such.

Straight from the ass wipe mentality of Rush Limbaugh and others like him. Goes along the the same kind of sentiment Jjz once expressed here, as to how public school teachers are there to cruise through LIFE.

Too bad such delusional elitism and stereotypical denigration fails to take into consideration that private schools can be highly selective of who they admit, so they don't have to deal with students with learning and other functional disabilities, those for whom English is a second language, or those performing way below grade level.

Assholes assume ALL private schools are better not only because they have more control and selectivity over admissions, but mostly because they PAY for it. If you pay for it, it's GOT to be better, eh? Never mind the fact that some teaching in private schools couldn't set foot in a public one because they aren't certified, NOR that private schools aren't mandated to prove academic growth on a yearly basis via high stakes testing and have their scores published in the media for comparison with other schools.

The UPSHOT being, those who come here to say who's cruising through life and running a daycare don't know WHAT THE FUCK they're talking about, as USUAL.

Nail on the Fucking Head! I heard a Mic drop somewhere.

 

[nolbaby]

here's my situation. this is all completely factual. i don't wanna jump on either side, but these are facts- I am a 34 year old single white male with no kids. my roommate is a 32 year old black female with 1 kid that she sees one weekend a month and two that she never sees. we both have the exact same job. she attends 2 classes at a community college and gets nearly 8,000 dollars of grants per year. these aren't loans, they are GRANTS, which means she doesn't even have to pay them back. she ALSO gets student loans with almost no interest at all. I have always been eligible for 0 dollars in grants when I have been in school, and I get raped in the ass by a Lexington Steele sized dick on the interest rates if I take out any loans. We are roughly the same age and have the same job. I work about twice as many hours as she does, so my income is a bracket or two above hers. Basically, because she works less and had kids (which the court ruled she couldn't afford to care for properly and were sent to live with their fathers in other states) she gets a + of about $10,000 a year compared to me for school. I vote Republican for the most part, and she doesn't even vote because she is a multiple felon. I absolutely would love for our education system to be 50/50 as far as how funding is spread out, but I would settle for even a 70/30 split. She also gets food stamps, which means she gets free money to buy food with every month from the government. I am also ineligible for food stamps. She makes her lunch with food she bought with her food stamps and takes it to school with her when she leaves in the morning. I'm sure parents of school kids in poor areas do the same. Cutting funding to school lunch programs doesn't mean that poor people aren't still eating for free. anyway, I won't check back on this thread any time soon. I just thought I'd throw out an actual, real situation and let people decide their own opinions on this stuff instead of attacking somebody on one side or the other.