Painting the school, while admirable, doesn't actually answer the question about poverty causing bad schools, or bad schools causing poverty, even if one grants the premise that a "bad school" is defined by the freshness of its paint.
Now, in your favor, there is a school of thought called the "broken window" theory of neighborhoods. It states that allowing a neighborhood to become run down encourages further neglect. The idea being that once you let one broken window stay unrepaired in a building, people tend to throw rocks through the rest. A good case can be made for the validity of this theory, in which case painting a school could certainly be considered productive.
But it still doesn't address what I see as the real foundations of the chronic poverty problem.
Off Topic » in reply to Whereas, I think I pointed out a perfectly simple counter-example to refute your quoted hero.
You painted a school. Why is that a "counter-example?"
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- Welfare culture, continued...
- My son graduated from a public school system in a class of 4,300 seniors.
- Why are the crappiest schools in the poorest neighborhoods? (n/t)
- well that settles that, once and for all ..
- Just because you don't like the facts, doesn't make them idiotic.
- re social mobility
- No, I do like your facts, I just don't like simplistic prostletizing
- Do talk to that taxi driver.
- Just because you don't like the facts, doesn't make them idiotic.