Do you think educating inner-city children is wasteful?

**meagan.** · 07-21-2009, 06:30 PM

Lets be real here, for most poor children educating them is a waste of time as they are only going to get jobs in factories or bludging on the dole or worse. Most of them drop-out by the age of 16 and they dont care about education either, so why should we be wasting perfectly good tax dollars on them when we can do it on more deserving students?

**Pfo** · 07-21-2009, 06:31 PM

Some will advance to better places. Look at the current SC nominee, Sotomayor. She was an inner city kid. She's come a long way from that. Everyone deserves an opportunity, even those that live among populations that often don't advance.

Educating is not about the ones that waste their time, it's about the ones that don't. And while they may be fewer, they aren't any less important.

**Bobbi** · 07-21-2009, 06:32 PM

This is the problem with education, and the Department of Education, and the teacher unions. A creative inner-city school would also require tons of parent involvement. This is the only way. The parents in many inner-city homes are the reason the kids have problems.

**Bobbi** · 07-21-2009, 06:32 PM

This is the problem with education, and the Department of Education, and the teacher unions. A creative inner-city school would also require tons of parent involvement. This is the only way. The parents in many inner-city homes are the reason the kids have problems.