Sparhawk

Nice contributions, guys.

The problem with affirmative action isn't that it's bad, it's that it starts way too late to do any real good. If we decided to start spending some real money on primary and secondary schools in poor and inner city areas, and make it money that you can't just cut from your budget like every state and local budget makers like to do, then you'd start seeing some real benefits.

But you can't just throw money at these schools, you have to shake up their administrations, a lot of them are incredibly slow to change, which has a lot to do with the caliber of people they can get to work there. We start paying some real wages, and get the best and the brightest teachers and administrators, you'd see a difference.

/idealistic prattling

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