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The Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter is featuring a story on its website about 25 who were arrested protesting in Soddom on the Servern over "historic underfunding" of Maryland Public Schools. Among the 25 were students were Baltimore City High School Students.
Three questions arise from my ultraconservative PUBLIC SCHOOL IN MARYLAND education:
1) Is getting arrested part of the standard Baltimore City High School curriculum?
2) Historic compared to what?
3) Are you frakking kidding me?
Let's deal with each separately for simplicity's sake, since there might be Baltimore City students (or alumni) reading this. I'll try to type slowly so you can understand better.
First, back in the day when you went to school to get an EDUCATION and not get ARRESTED, we took field trips to Annapolis. I remember one from my Junior year in high school when Mrs. Cindy Bennett loaded us on a couple of Trailways buses and we crossed the pond during the General Assembly session thaty year. We got to meet with the Wicomico County delegation. I asked a pointed question about the Light Rail project (which was being debated that year) and its proposed route, as well as pushing for the use of the old Camden Warehouses for office space. (The rest of my classmates just rolled their eyes).
Later, after we were coming back from lunch (I went to Chick and Ruth's), I met Governor Schaefer getting ready to cross the street at Church Circle. We had a pleasant conversation.
Then I attended two or three committee meetings, and almost missed the bus.
But getting handcuffed was not part of the day's events. The next year, I returned to Annapolis as a Senate Page, where I spent two weeks, plus Sine Die, waiting on Senators hand and foot and hanging out with Lew Riley. THAT was fun.
Again, getting arrested not on the agenda. But I did break a bowling ball at the Naval Academy's bowling alley.
It seems though, that the hippie liberals at the Baltimore Algebra Project are trying to relive their youth and create another generation of pot-stunted protest professionals.
Given the uphill fight a student in a Baltimore City High School faces to actually get an education, let alone graduate, you might thing they would be better served GETTING EDUCATED.
Second, "historic underfunding" compared to what? Baltimore City schools spend nearly $10,000 PER STUDENT PER ANNUM. Even adjusting for inflation, that is MORE THAN DOUBLE what Wicomico County spent when I was going to Parkside. And my class at Parkside -- 1989, thank you very much -- featured a student who had a perfect score on his SAT's, 8-10 who scored above 1400, Wicomico County's first Meyerhoff Scholar at UMBC (he went to be the first black American double-masters candidate at University of Pennsylvania and now teaches at Harvard), a whole ton of National Merit Scholars, and one of the highest graduation rates in the HISTORY OF THE STATE.
If you look at average class size -- say, 31 -- that is almost $310,000 PER CLASSROOM that Baltimore City spends on education. Nationally, the country has spent more on education in the last 10 years than it did non-war-related Defense Spending.
Those same pot-student protest professionals and hippie liberals obviously define "historic underfunding" by calculating how much they would spend on education in Candyland, and thus anything less is "historic underfunding".
By the way, since we went on this heroin-like spending spree, we have been graduating high school students who largely cannot find their own assholes with both hands a flashlight. But they can put a condom on a banana.
Finally, "are you frakking kidding me!?!?!?" These students who went to protest in Annapolis today should ask their mommies and daddies why it is that O'Guvnah continues to let their education be held hostage by unelected, unsavory, and unscrupulous teachers unions. They should ask their mommies and daddies where the $50 million deficit -- for the SECOND TIME IN FOUR YEARS -- was spent in Baltimore City school. They should ask their mommies and daddies why the continue to elect INCOMPETENT, CORRUPT, AND VENAL politicians who fail to require ACCOUNTABILITY from school system central offices on budgetary controls and spending.
The problem with EDUCATION IN MARYLAND is not that there is too little money being spent. The problem is that the teachers unions and bureaucracies are treating Ben Franklins like kindling, and burning it in all the wrong places. And they do that protect their investments in the educational-industrial complex, which has a vested interested in a permanent underclass dependent upon government for the basic function of life.
And those students in Annapolis are well on their way to joining that permanent underclass.