William Andrekopoulos' dreams could come true and property taxes could be jacked up by 16.4% or 50% or 100% and it wouldn't make any difference in terms of the performance of students enrolled in Milwaukee Public Schools.
This is what I'm talking about when I say that money isn't going to solve the problems with MPS.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
The 22-year-old Milwaukee woman who admitted putting pot in her 4-year-old son's school backpack was charged today with a felony count of marijuana possession with intent to distribute.
Heather Amber Danowill was arrested Wednesday after a teacher's aide at Burbank Elementary School found the marijuana while looking for supplies in the kindergartner's backpack. Police found additional marijuana in a search of her home in the 300 block of S. 69th St.
Danowill's son does not have a bright future.
He's being raised by a drug dealing mother.
She's so irresponsible that she actually put pot in her 4-year-old's backpack.
What sort of mother sends her child off to school with pot?
A BAD ONE.
Am I being too judgmental?
No.
This isn't a judgment call.
I'm sure all experts on parenting would agree with me that mothers should not put pot in their children's backpacks.
Educating children is not just the business of the schools.
The role parents play in their children's education is enormous. It can't be underestimated.
Without engaged and responsible parents doing their jobs at home, all the money in the world poured into MPS won't produce results.
As long as there are parents like Danowill, no tax increase is going to help.
It's the parents, stupid.
4 comments:
I'm sure a private school would have dealt with this in the much prefered way of expelling the student and washing its hands of the whole mess.
What is you point with posts like this? And what is your stake in MPS?
What do you mean what's my point with "posts like this"?
My posts are my opinions.
My stake in MPS?
EVERY resident in Wisconsin is impacted by what happens with MPS.
Think about it.
If EVERYONE had a serious stake in MPS they would do better research. Also, your argument is faulty. You are equating overall funding based on one event. What if I told you about the students that I've encouraged to learn to read and continue in school. Are they worth the dollars? Or is every kid in the city just another sink-hole for those hard earned dollars? The district's 16% request wasn't going to go for more security or parent programs...those types of "frivolous" programs have already been slashed by our local representatives in their race to the bottom.
I do "think about it" every morning when I welcome the kids from horrible homes into my school. If EVERY resident of Wisconsin cared a fraction as much about the children of poverty as they do about slapping a troop support magnet on their car or why billions of dollars are going to a corporate war machine.
If those are generalizations, they are the response to those first offered up.
I am absolutely not "equating overall funding based on ONE event."
That's a completely baseless assertion.
Moreover, I think it's very telling that you slime Wisconsinites for their expressions of support and gratitude for our troops.
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