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**himecthekWiff** · 07-20-2011, 04:44 AM

and what exactly is fat to you? I'm telling you dude inner city schools have no chance of turning out kids that can in any way be competitive with kids from richer school districts, and keep in mind here I'm only talking about being competitive in terms of getting accepted, not paying for it, without that money. They just don't have the money for it on their own since it's raised from property taxes which are by property value, which is quite low in the inner city. They need extracurriculars just as much as a rich school does. They deserve computers to aid learning and research as well as to learn necessary typing skills etc. Extracurriculars also help keep kids out of gangs. That's a damn good thing in my opinion.
What we need is simply a better system.

Public schooling is mostly useless in creating usable job skills. They teach way too much bullshit, most of which will be forgotten. I learned the vast majority of what I know about computers on my own. Besides, computers are dirt-cheap these days. An under-$400 laptop can last for the period of the high school years easily. Are you telling me their parents can't cough up $400 in a four-year period? Only thing that's left is keeping kids out of gangs, and that's questionable. At best public schooling is daycare for extra stupid teens who might learn a thing or two while they're there. People who can control themselves and aren't stupid don't really need it except for the diploma which is really pointless except in the sense that some people might think a kid is stupid because he doesn't have one. Once you have one, nobody gives a shit.

07-20-2011, 04:44 AM	#28
himecthekWiff Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 374 Senior Member	and what exactly is fat to you? I'm telling you dude inner city schools have no chance of turning out kids that can in any way be competitive with kids from richer school districts, and keep in mind here I'm only talking about being competitive in terms of getting accepted, not paying for it, without that money. They just don't have the money for it on their own since it's raised from property taxes which are by property value, which is quite low in the inner city. They need extracurriculars just as much as a rich school does. They deserve computers to aid learning and research as well as to learn necessary typing skills etc. Extracurriculars also help keep kids out of gangs. That's a damn good thing in my opinion. What we need is simply a better system. Public schooling is mostly useless in creating usable job skills. They teach way too much bullshit, most of which will be forgotten. I learned the vast majority of what I know about computers on my own. Besides, computers are dirt-cheap these days. An under-$400 laptop can last for the period of the high school years easily. Are you telling me their parents can't cough up $400 in a four-year period? Only thing that's left is keeping kids out of gangs, and that's questionable. At best public schooling is daycare for extra stupid teens who might learn a thing or two while they're there. People who can control themselves and aren't stupid don't really need it except for the diploma which is really pointless except in the sense that some people might think a kid is stupid because he doesn't have one. Once you have one, nobody gives a shit.
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