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ray suarez from race talk wrote agreed to use for alternet and it has to do with the
fact that our public schools are short-changing latino students now i found this uh... fascinating
because
a lot of people don't know that our public schools are funded through uh...
property tax cell allot of uh...
schools that are uh... heavily populated with latino students art in poor areas with low-cost
housing so of course uh... that leads to
kal less funding for the school because the property taxes and as much as it would be
richer areas and that they don't have the same resources and the same teachers as us
students do in areas like beverly hills
so um...
maybe this is a good way for politicians who think about other ways to fund education other
than relying on the property tax
i totally agree but i think it's absurd that u
you based education on property taxes because how is that equal opportunity if you live
in a rich neighborhood
with great property values or poor neighborhood
but that's always a conservative conservative argument is like although you know if that's
that's up to the parents and it's like
i get that i get that um... i'm somewhat sympathetic to that to a point
but then how is that the kids fall that's always come back to his house of powers of
the kid's fault that he grows up in a neighborhood flow property values so as education is not
opt apartments on it that's not the kid's fault it's not that that's why you're absolutely
right
ip-based of course puts latino students added gigantic disadvantage it makes it even harder
for them to advance and you know in this piece written by where uh... race why is he talks
about
how few latino students uh... getting high school actually in a role in college and actually
graduate college even fewer actually graduate college so there at this disadvantage and
i think that it's something that we need to focus on in our country because as i've mentioned
a million times before on the show education is always the last thing the politicians are
thinking about when their campaign they always talk about it all we want we want to reform
education is very important we want to make sure that our country advances because education
is power nadi ideology always say these things during their campaigns and then when they're
actually elected when they're actually in office they don't you anything and at the
fact that education is funded by property taxes blows my mind