Good. They stole this man’s life. The evidence that exonerated him was available to the people involved with his protection 30 years ago. Insane that it took this long.
I want to see a breakdown of which race if kids has been targeted here. Wonder if someone is making anonymous “suggestions” that brown kids “don’t live here”.
How is this done in other countries that’s better? Like, I would think that assigning children to particular schools based on geography is pretty universal. What makes this a particularly American failing?
It does sound like this district is managed by jerks, but that doesn’t make this some sort of systematic, American issue.
there was less than 3 months left in the school year.
they hired somebody to literaly stalk them
it’s apparently fairly common,
the requirement is “where they pay taxes”…. So it should be incredibly easy to verify they’re paying property taxes in their district without ever doing more than a quick records search.
This is ignoring the high likelihood it’s entirely predicated on race. My guess without ever looking into it is that this district is predominantly white, and is nominally well funded compared to predominantly black districts… which leads to people wanting their kids in better schools and “draining” funds. (A lot of school funding comes from property taxes at the city level. Which creates inequality with affluent areas spending more, for their kids, etc.)
in the US, or at least where I’m at in the US, landlords collect your property taxes and pass it on- kinda like how stores collect sales tax and pass it on.
When I went to school, my hometown with about 10000 people had 12 schools. They are now one single school community.
Close to 15000 students from up to 50 miles away came to that school when I lived there, somewhere between 25-30K attend school there now.
Schools here get funded per student nationally, rather than locally (which removes this issue of towns not wanting people that don't pay town taxes to attend).
School curriculum is guided nationally, rather than locally (which removes the issue where large school districts dictate school curriculum across the nation).
Etc, etc.
Even private schools need to follow national curriculum. They can supplement it, but the base education is dictated nationally.
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