Separate but not even close to equal

[Salty Again]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

“School choice” as used in todays political arena does not refer to colleges and universities, but public k-12 schools. Hence, 1b1 is correct.

... The "political arena" is NOT of issue here, mate.

The simple point is that school choice is already
at the university level - transfer portals for athletics.

School choice and proper admissions may just eliminate
the race-based admissions concept surely being discussed.

... THAT was me point.

#### Salty

[1blackman1]

Terrible point and off topic.

[Tiny]

Originally Posted by Salty Again

... I'm a big believer in School Choice.

### Salty

Hey Salty, good point. I suspect there are students who go to SU who can't get into LSU because their SAT or ACT scores are too low. I agree that school choice is a big part of the solution to that problem. Another part is improving the quality of education at poorly performing secondary schools, or just closing the bad schools.

A lot of kids never go to university -- if they can graduate high school or a junior college with the skills to become nurses, mechanics, welders and the like, they'll be ahead of the game. School choice would provide more opportunities like that, in cities at least.

Finally, repeating myself, poor kids and single mothers don't get as much help as they should. If you reduce the poverty, you'll improve educational outcomes.

Blackman, maybe I am getting a LITTLE off topic. This is just part of the process though used by the eccie brain trust, of which you are a part, to come up with solutions to pressing problems of the day.

[texassapper]

Originally Posted by Tiny

poor kids and single mothers don't get as much help as they should. If you reduce the poverty, you'll improve educational outcomes.

Maybe that should be addressed with their fathers not the taxpayers?

[Tiny]

Originally Posted by texassapper

Maybe that should be addressed with their fathers not the taxpayers?

Granted, that would be a better fix than running money through an inefficient federal government. How do you make it happen? Maybe better to start another thread if you want to pursue this, as we're getting off topic.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by Tiny

Yeah, Democrats have a lot more to do with racial inequality in Louisiana than our friend Blackman cares to admit. They've controlled the state for most of the last 180 years. The state has only had three Republican governors since 1880, and one of them was Bobby Jindal, who doesn't exactly fit the model of white supremacist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_of_Louisiana

While I didn't entirely agree with his reasoning, Tim Scott said something similar about Democrats at the national level during the debate the other night.

5 republican governors!

LA was a one party state.

[Tiny]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

5 republican governors!

LA was a one party state.

Jeff Landry hasn’t taken office and Buddy Roemer was a Democrat for most of his term. So it’s arguably 3 Republican governors in the last 140 years. And before that Republican governors were only there because of Reconstruction. You could argue that LA only had 3 Republican governors during the entire time it’s been a state, except for Reconstruction after the Civil War.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by Salty Again

... I'm a big believer in School Choice.

### Salty

er.. this topic isn't about school choice.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by Salty Again

... THAT was me point.

#### Salty

me point????? lol

[Salty Again]

Originally Posted by Tiny

Hey Salty, good point. I suspect there are students who go to SU who can't get into LSU because their SAT or ACT scores are too low. I agree that school choice is a big part of the solution to that problem. Another part is improving the quality of education at poorly performing secondary schools, or just closing the bad schools.

A lot of kids never go to university -- if they can graduate high school or a junior college with the skills to become nurses, mechanics, welders and the like, they'll be ahead of the game. School choice would provide more opportunities like that, in cities at least.

Finally, repeating myself, poor kids and single mothers don't get as much help as they should. If you reduce the poverty, you'll improve educational outcomes.

Blackman, maybe I am getting a LITTLE off topic. This is just part of the process though used by the eccie brain trust, of which you are a part, to come up with solutions to pressing problems of the day.

... Tiny understood how me-own comment there is
surely germane to the conversation.

### Salty