A residue of racism and classism still taints some of Georgia's rural counties -- Did I hear it takes one to know one?
An 8-28-04 ajc editorial discusses underperforming schools in rural Georgia suffer in the context of the Gov. Perdue's recently assembled task force to re-examine school finance and come up with a more equitable way to fund public education in Georgia. The 23-member task force will focus on reforming the school funding formula established in 1985 as part of then-Gov. Joe Frank Harris' Quality Basic Education (QBE) Act.
We will all be hearing more about this as time moves on.
An 8-25-04 ajc article discusses this task force, and also how about 50 of the state's 180 school systems have organized as the Consortium for Adequate School Funding to contest the way state dollars are distributed (generally, on a formula based on student count). A lawsuit has been in the planning stage for at least two years and should be filed next month, the ajc article says.
For me the lawsuit isn't news. My school system (the Coffee County School District) is the largest school system in the suit. Most of the systems are small, real small.
The purpose of this post. To fuss at the writer of the ajc editorial. I know you can't write an editorial to please all of the people all of the time, and the editorial is a fine piece of work.
That said, let me observe that when someone tells me he or she is not prejudiced but . . ., most of the time you are looking at a bigot.
Me? Just as Zell claims he was born a Democrat and will die a Democrat, I was born colorblind and will die color-blind.
The editorial notes that "[a] residue of racism and classism still taints some rural counties." If this means that this is the case in rural Georgia, but most certainly not in the metro areas, I say baloney and hogwash.
We will all be hearing more about this as time moves on.
An 8-25-04 ajc article discusses this task force, and also how about 50 of the state's 180 school systems have organized as the Consortium for Adequate School Funding to contest the way state dollars are distributed (generally, on a formula based on student count). A lawsuit has been in the planning stage for at least two years and should be filed next month, the ajc article says.
For me the lawsuit isn't news. My school system (the Coffee County School District) is the largest school system in the suit. Most of the systems are small, real small.
The purpose of this post. To fuss at the writer of the ajc editorial. I know you can't write an editorial to please all of the people all of the time, and the editorial is a fine piece of work.
That said, let me observe that when someone tells me he or she is not prejudiced but . . ., most of the time you are looking at a bigot.
Me? Just as Zell claims he was born a Democrat and will die a Democrat, I was born colorblind and will die color-blind.
The editorial notes that "[a] residue of racism and classism still taints some rural counties." If this means that this is the case in rural Georgia, but most certainly not in the metro areas, I say baloney and hogwash.
posted by Sid Cottingham | 5:57 AM
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