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For six decades running, Democrat-run school districts in our biggest cities have knowingly given the educational shaft to generations of America's most vulnerable kids

Rank-and-file liberals should drop to their knees and beg God to forgive them for what their vote has done to urban children

By John Eidson ——--October 12, 2022

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Rank-and-file liberals should drop to their knees and beg God to forgive them for what their vote has done to urban children
The conservative meme shown above arrived in my email inbox yesterday. Ordinarily, I would be suspicious of the claims it makes. But I knew two years ago that the claims were 100% accurate, as reported by Baltimore's Fox5 News in March 2021. According to a 2017 investigation by Project Baltimore, 13 of the city's 39 public high schools had zero students who tested proficient in math. Zero! Of the 3,841 students in the remaining 26 high schools, only 14 tested at or above proficiency in math, less than one-third of one percent. 

Baltimore's obscenely substandard public schools are not alone

Baltimore's obscenely substandard public schools are not alone in failing on an epic scale to provide even a minimally acceptable education to urban children. Consider these shocking examples:
  • In 2010-2011, public schools in the nation's capitol spent $29,345 per pupil—nearly $600,000 per each classroom of 20 students—yet the District's 8th graders finished dead last in a nationwide proficiency test in math and reading.
  • According to a 2015 report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 96 percent of 8th graders in Detroit's public schools tested not proficient in math, and 93 percent tested not proficient in reading.
For a half-century running, Democrat-run urban schools have robbed minority children of a realistic chance for a good education. In addition to earning an F-minus in their assigned duty to adequately educate students under their care, school districts in America's biggest cities have something else in common: they all are run by highly-paid Democrat administrators whose foremost priority is catering to the demands of teachers unions, one of the Democratic Party's most loyal constituencies.  In school systems with teachers unions, Democrats look the other way as the interests of children are subordinated to the interests of teachers. And no wonder. The overwhelming share of union dues paid by teachers is money-laundered straight through to the coffers of the Democratic Party. According to a Brookings Institution study, nearly 99% of teachers union political donations in 2012 went to Democrats. In 2016, teachers unions gave $43 million to Democrats, $260,000 to Republicans.

Despite that intolerable failure, the Democrat answer to the problem is always more money

Since the 1960s, big-city school districts have received astounding sums from the U.S. Department of Education, yet their abysmal results have repeated like a broken record year after year after year. The 2009 stimulus bill signed into law by President Obama allocated $98 billion of additional funding to the DOE, nearly all of which went to the same Democrat-run school systems that fail to adequately educate minority children. Despite that intolerable failure, the Democrat answer to the problem is always more money. But while urban kids looking for a decent chance to learn are getting the educational shaft, school superintendents and legions of other lavishly-paid, off-campus administrators are taking gargantuan bites out of school budgets:  
  • From 1999-2010, Beverly Hall was superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, a system that habitually graduated less than half its high school students. Hall's compensation package included a chauffeured limousine and a salary of $389,000, more than twice the salary received by Georgia's governor. Atlanta is not alone in that regard—many big-city school superintendents are paid more than their state's governor. As head of one of the worst performing school districts in American history, the superintendent of Baltimore City Schools is paid $320,000, $50,000 more than Maryland's governor.
  • When federal grants—a.k.a. political slush funds—land in their lap, urban school districts squander much of the money on lavish junkets disguised as “education conferences.” With one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the Atlanta area, the DeKalb County School District blew through a $382,000 grant from President Obama's 2009 stimulus spending by treating 184 senior administrators to a relaxing four-day stay at a luxury resort hotel & spa in Hollywood, California.

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The $64,000 question

So, who's ultimately responsible for the educational outrages cited above? The answer is easy—the guilty include every rank-and-file liberal who habitually votes Democrat, all of whom have been tricked to believe that the Democratic Party would never in a million years put its own interests ahead of the interests of minority children. Every one of these rank-and-file liberals should drop to their knees and beg God to forgive them for what their vote has done to generations of black children who want, need, and deserve a realistic shot at a decent education.
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John Eidson——

Since 2008, John has written nearly 900 freelance articles distributed (free of charge) exclusively via email to my large e-distribution list. John is a conservative political independent with an electrical engineering degree from Georgia Tech (1968).

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