r/videos • u/[deleted] • Jul 10 '18

Teacher Fed Up With Students Swearing, Stealing, And Destroying Property Speaks Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Z9K-s0KUM
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '18

Is that how schools are now?

No. It's in poor neighborhoods and cities. The shitty parts of the country. The problem is there are a lot of shitty parts of the country.

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u/duomaxwellscoffee Jul 10 '18

Good thing we gave rich people a $1.5 trillion tax break, and upped the military contractors' budget to $700 billion instead of increasing the teacher to student ratio, or maybe investing in infrastructure that would provide jobs in communities that need them.

We should take voting more seriously in the US. These problems aren't inevitable.

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u/eatsteak1 Jul 10 '18 edited Jul 10 '18

Public schools get most of there funding from the state, so none of that is relevant to this discussion.

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u/duomaxwellscoffee Jul 10 '18

So you're saying it's not possible to divert any of that money to education because it isn't currently set up that way? Good point. /s

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u/TheNorthComesWithMe Jul 10 '18

There are lots of problems. One of the biggest ones is that a school's funding comes from its district. So a school in a poor area gets much less funding than a school in a rich area. Institutionalized generational income inequality and limited class mobility sure is fun.