Why do liberal cities with the highest spending on schools have the worst school systems in the country?

Question

http://www.schooldigger.com/go/CA/district/28050/search.aspx

liberals being the majority and running the city

Answer 1

Because a lack of funding is not the problem with public schools. In Buffalo, NY they spend an obscene amount per student and the system is a disgrace. The funds are spent so poorly that the students seem to get very little of it.......

Answer 2

It might have something to do with cities growing so rapidly that the resources to sustain the huge increases in student population is impossible to keep up with in terms of the number of class rooms, the number of qualified teachers and the shear issues in dealing with such a diverse population. Many of those kids in big cities have non-english speaking kids from not just Latin America but from Asia, the mid-east, Africa, and East Asia. I grew up in a rural area of the country which had great schools with all the amenities including great arts programs, sports and everything that was important for an education. I then moved to Los Angeles and I teach here. I can tell you there are so many problems in the inner city schools because they are not the ones getting the money. It's the public schools in Brentwood/Beverly Hills, Hollywood hills and other wealthier surrounding areas that get the money. And, just remember, the larger the school district, the higher the costs are for administration purposes. L.A is a very expensive place to live. Not just rents, but access to transportation, decent healthcare, and food prices. And, most of the kids in the inner city schools come from extreme poverty where their only decent meal comes from the school cafeteria. Some of these kids are from such poor families that some of them don't have jackets or even shoes to wear. That isn't an exaggeration. Most Americans from the wealthier suburbs or rural areas just don't know this. It is very difficult to keep a child's attention when he or she is hungry and all they can think about is getting their next meal.
Getting the resources a teacher needs in the classroom is difficult enough in an inner city school, but the teachers are confronted with all kinds of other issues on top of that. There are alot of programs that are being implemented today that are combating these issues and the good news is that they are working. It just takes time especially witht the population size of Los Angeles schools and other large city school districts.
So, you can go ahead and trash talk liberal city schools all you want too from the comfort of your little world, but the reality is that real life isn't as black and white as your little conservative mind would like to think. Perhaps you need to learn a little humility instead of thinking your are so high and mighty and have all the answers without seeing life from someone else's point of view before you point your finger at them.

BTW, the reason most large cities are liberal is that so many diverse people go to those cities for opportunities. Look at the port cities of the WORLD, they are all liberal because they have the most diverse populations. They are points of entry into that country. And, people tend to flock there and then stay there because of the huge amount of opportunity. That includes cities in Muslim countries such as Morocco and Tunisia have the same kind of diversity and openness/liberal attitude in them. People are exposed more to new ideas, new attitudes and new people and cultures in those cities. So people tend to be more open minded as a result.

Answer 3

Well, you are showing Oakland, so I guess you feel Oakland is a liberal city I know Oakland is a very expensive city to live in, so I'm sure the pay to a teacher is higher than in Midland Texas. Perhaps they also have larger class sizes, which means less one on one time for students. And of course, when you are talking about spending, is that overall spending or do you wrongly think the per student cost is so much higher, in that case you need to take into consideration the cost of living of the region, once again Oakland is more pricey than Midland

Answer 4

Simple really. They are socialists. They even have educational programs where six year olds are permitted to set the curriculum for themselves.

Liberals are preoccupied morphing the school cirriculum to include instruction on the merits of homosexual relationships.

They spend huge chunks of money on English as a second language.

They ban legos in pre-schools becuase the faculty considers the resulting structures expressions of capitalism and individual ownership contrary to the values THEY have decided should be taught. see Hilltop

School discipline is frowned upon in Liberal centers like San Fransico where the students are encouraged to police themselves.

By the time the student body gets around to learning somethig practical its time to go home.

Answer 5

Liberals believe that spending more money will cure a problem that they helped create. Liberal programs encouraged young women to have more children (out of wedlock because they were paid more per child...liberals hate this bit of truth). Without parental involvement, the entire community goes down the drain. When will they ever get this?

New York State Unions take 80% of any contract. That's a law designed by unions to protect only the unions. Guess which party wrote that one up?

Answer 6

They're the most expensive cities. The high cost of living - due to sky-high housing costs, high taxes, and the like - makes it hard to hire teachers (or anything else) at a reasonable salary. You either pay teachers far more than in other places, or you hire poorer teachers for somewhat more than it would cost to get a good teacher in a less expensive area.

Thus, higher cost, lower quality.

Answer 7

You can't compare. Different states have very different standards. I work in the testing services industry and its completely unregulated. The states create the standards. One state could look better because the tests are easier.

Answer 8

Generally, because of the large flux of immigrants to absorb. Immigrants don't generally flock to open farm country and small towns. Clearly, they didn't teach critical thinking at YOUR school.

Answer 9

for this only

and brian i am in rochester it same here

i am not the poor because parents blame society with out realizing their mistake our beliefs do impact on the society and community. have their kids kill and fight and do crime for idiotic things like money and material or way they are brung up. also parents do not even spen a time with their kids because they are too busy with work or school and they put everything on the schools not right at all.

Answer 10

What a "liberal" city? That is way too vague to define.

Cities can't be "conservative" or "liberal".... people are but not cities. Please rephrase the question or I'll just think you are trolling to make some point that you hate liberals.