How could people on welfare complain about inner city school funding?

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People on welfare do not pay income or property tax yet they complain about school funding. You never hear a reporter who does a piece on school funding address this. Now that Obama is going to over turn welfare reform even more kids will become a burden to these poorly funded public schools. When will people learn that welfare is one of the most destructive things in society.


The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

-Thomas Jefferson-

 

[beantownleo]

I grew up poor and I agree with you. In my state some of the inner city schools get more funding than the smaller towns which angers a lot of people. You can give inner city schools billions of dollars and they still will be dangerous and wont improve test scores because the kids don't care. It starts at home because most but not all of the parents or guardians collect and have no desire to work or push their kids to achieve in school. Plus inner city kids are into the whole gang culture which is self destructive and leads to a life of crime and possibly a prison sentence.

I think this is a care where the government doesn't really care about these kids and figures giving them more funding will show people they care when they really don't. Plus if a student and their parents could care less about their education there is not much the school system,teachers,government cant do to help them.