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Good point. The government should really do something to help this impoverished ethnic group. Perhaps the funding could be sourced from the billionaire sociopaths currently raping the world and its inhabitants.
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Globally, the US is #2 (behind Norway) in education spending per student at the elementary and secondary level:
Education Expenditures by Country
(source)And yet the US is somewhere in the 20s or 30s in terms of student academic performance (Google it yourself, sample several different sources, so that you don't feel that I'm cherry-picking data) as compared to all other countries.
I don't think that "a lack of throwing money at the problem" is something which can be cited in this disparity.
And I also don't think that "tax more, spend more" is likely to yield positive results.
One possible explanation for this disparity is that there has been a trend within the US, over the past half-century or so, to embrace and support cultures which place a low (or even negative*) value on traditional educational attainment.
* = Examples would be: claiming that math, science, and literature are constructs of the white oppressor, claiming that "the man" will always hold you down no matter how educated you are, being raised in a home with parents who believe in homeopathy and indoctrinate their children to believe that science is a fiction created by murky, evil, government/corporate conpiracies to enslave them, etc.
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Rescuers race to save 30 people still trapped in collapsed five-star hotel in China being used to quarantine coronavirus victims
While I support very harsh punishment for scum like that I will say not every black person is guilty.
Aaaanyways...
Very stable genius... thinks flu vaccine can help coronavirus.
Give these people more money:
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https://www.facebook.com/truexodus/v...9085820739860/
https://www.facebook.com/10000599529...5940254282473/
https://www.facebook.com/truexodus/v...9085820739860/
Aaaanyways...
Very stable genius... thinks flu vaccine can help coronavirus.
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Not every, but 52% of them, sure. They need that sneaker money! Quick, pay more taxes; that'll solve the problem! It's been proven over thousands of year of paying taxes in human history -- look how good we all have it today.
https://twitter.com/NYPDBklynNorth/s...85104339263490
https://twitter.com/NYPDBklynNorth/s...85104339263490
That is NOT the way it works....
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https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s...ables/table-43
they are very over-represented in many categories despite being only 13% of the population.
Looks like they are 54.2% of all robbery arrests, not 52%...my mistake.
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It absolutely has nothing to do with a degenerative disgusting culture based on hate, murder, violence, jealousy, victimization, and blame.