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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality is that 50% of children in the U.S. have a history of poverty.

This is due to the economic policies of the U.S. where we have 800+ billionaires who have more combined wealth than the combined wealth of 50% of the U.S. population.

Schools are not able address this.  Band aides at most to keep giving kids a fighting chance at success in life.[/quote]

No, it is not because we have billionaires.  It is because most children are being born to poor immigrants and low income parents from "generational poverty."  And the tide of new poor children keeps coming every year.  [/quote]

That's your opinion.  Data show that wealth inequality is higher in the United States than in almost any other developed country and has risen for much of the past 60 years.   We have billionaires who pay zero dollars in taxes and our national infrastructure and schools show it.[/quote]

Except the US spends some of the most money per kid in school out of all industrialized nations. MoCo is well above national average. Yet performance continues to sink and the quality of the schools go down the sh!tter every year.

It doesn't matter how much money you spend when you import the entire 3rd world who can't even speak English. Or you have a bunch of ahole parents who impose zero discipline on their kids.

You'd see performance improve if they brought back the switch and whopped their asses in public whenever they wanted to disrupt the classroom. If the parents won't do it, schools should.[/quote]

Interesting but I've heard RJ is a lot more effective than corporal punishment.[/quote]

False dichotomy much? Let's just have real discipline with real consequences that students wish to avoid.[/quote]

Seriously. Casting it as RJ be corporal punishment is a straw man.[/quote]

Bring back detentions, Saturday school, failing kids, have them clean the school for vandalism, expel, suspend…..[/quote]

Detention, expulsion and suspension are punitive disciplinary responses and MCPS and Maryland have turned away from them calling them racist and/or ineffective.

Nevermind that their so-called restorative practices have failed to prove effective either, but they are convinced the old ways were wrong and harmful.[/quote]

Clearly they haven’t turned away from them as there are students who receive detention and are suspended each year.

Obviously there are kids not getting all A’s and B’s despite DCUM’s thought otherwise.

Expel and then what?

George B Thomas Saturday school already exist to help students.  Further, if it was a regular day who is staffing that?[/quote]

George B Thomas Saturday School helps students? How? No data on that. 
It is a tuition based program designed to provide extra work for MCPS teachers. [/quote]

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