The Unpromising Consequences of the Pittsburgh Promise
Found this gem of an article through Pghbloggers. The Admiral has some great analysis on the impending disaster that would be Mayor Ravenstahl’s “K through Bachelors Degree” funding of children’s education. And he backs it up with some other commentary and analysis from equally heaving hitting sources.
It outlines the “lollipops and gumdrops” fantasy world that liberals live in. To a liberal there is no problem that anyone can ever have that is not solved by taxing the general population (read majority) and giving those proceeds to the disadvantaged (read minority). It doesn’t matter the eventual outcome will generate the exact opposite of the stated intent, as long as Mayor Ravenstahl can achieve the two goals that all Pittsburgh Mayors share: never thinking things through, and copying other cities programs.
The reasoning is sound. You do not increase test scores in a failing school system by adding thousands of more children into it to fail. Even though the stated goal of the program is to keep families in the region, the outcome will be more failing kids because the Pittsburgh School District is rooted in failure. Throwing more manure onto a blighted plant wont save the plant just as throwing more money into a failing school system won’t produce better students.
And failing children in the public school system is one of the reasons families are fleeing the region to begin with.
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