2 hoursciting a warning given to parents that submitting a false statement of residency may be a felony.
Couldn’t you send a letter to the address with a verification mechanism, instead of defaulting to inquiring mass-surveillance databases? And why are school districts investigating potential felonies to begin with, shouldn’t that be handled by law enforcement?
This is the same as if I put a police officer on the side of the road with a pen and a notepad and he writes down every license plate number that drives by
The concept of collecting personal data, for the slim chance of becoming relevant in the future, should not be acceptable to anyone. If license plates are not directly relevant to an investigation, the officer, camera, or whatever else, shouldn’t be logging it.
- CoriolisSTORM88@lemmy.worldEnglish5 minutes
It shouldn’t be a crime to send my child to a better school system than I can afford to live in.
I live in a poor area of Alabama, I’d give almost anything to be able to pack my shit and get my children to a better school district.
- 5 hours
Fuck Flock cams, but also fuck school freeloaders, too. I lived in an area with really good schools bordering a state with cheaper taxes and worse schools where people would have family or a hand-me-down residence listed for schools in (good) state while actually living in (cheap) state with the cheap state listed as residence for tax purposes. Every once in a great while they’d sit a cop outside a school and check out-of-state license plates, but it was so rare. These freeloaders were sending their kids to school on my dime.
- atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
The way to fix this is to make the entirety of the school experience the same. Not by going cheap. But by giving more money to poorer schools to subsidize education so it’s up to the exact same standard across the board. Schools being paid for by local taxes is part of the problem here. It will not get better if we keep trying to fix it at the local level. These flock cameras are just the latest in an ill advised attempt to fix a problem the wrong way when fixing it the right way could cost much much less.
- partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
The way to fix this is to make the entirety of the school experience the same. Not by going cheap. But by giving more money to poorer schools to subsidize education so it’s up to the exact same standard across the board.
Where are you proposing the tax money come from for this? While there are certainly areas of poverty that lack funds, I’m not even sure that’s the majority of the lack of funds. Another is today’s senior citizens that were fine with their children’s education being subsidize by yesterday’s senior citizens and the childless tax payments, but as soon as their children are grown they vote down any tax increases to fund schools.
Another point: I know a number of families that have intentionally moved out of good school, well funded, districts seeking lower taxes, and hence, worse funded schools. They would fight you on getting better funding even for their own schools if it meant the necessary tax increases. Teachers don’t, and shouldn’t work for free.
- 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish6 hours
But if poor people were smart, how could we continue to fleece them? It’s no longer profitable if even a fraction of them wise up!!
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- 5 hours
Even in states where schools are funded from education slush funds which are supposed to distribute funding equally it doesn’t work well. Well-off areas get better funding, poor areas get less. Some states even do it by county, so if people live in a rural county with no industry or population to tax the schools get very little money.
Yeah, making it so things are more equitably distributed would be great, including higher teacher pay, lower administrative costs (like each district having its own admin and pay structure is ridiculous), etc.
- Town@lemmy.zipEnglish6 hours
Most people have no idea how different these education experiences are, and it’s a foundation of class warfare in America.
The whole system in the US that allows rich people to go to well funded public schools, and poor people being forced to send their kids to bad public schools is disgusting.
