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Friday, June 8th, 2018

What Budget Cuts Mean for Third Graders in a Rural School

Author:     Dana Goldstein
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     June 5, 2018
 Link: What Budget Cuts Mean for Third Graders in a Rural School
Stephan:   Everyone loves their own children, but as a nation, as a matter of policy, America does not like its children, and is making very inadequate preparations for the nation's future -- which is to say the proper education of the scorned children of today. I believe it is a result of the fundamental conviction of those in control of the system that Neo-feudalism is the way to preserve their power and wealth. What that system requires is ignorant peasants whose fears and resentments are easily manipulated, as Trump is demonstrating daily. In fact I increasingly see the Trump administration as a test of hypothesis.  

Preston Carraway, right, and his classmates, from left, Eric Guerrero, Rashad Dodd and Peyton Murray, worked on a timed math exercise at West Greene Elementary School.
Credit; Madeline Gray/The New York Times

At 7:50 on a recent morning, Preston Carraway greeted his third-grade teacher, Keshia Speight, who stood at the classroom door dispensing hugs. Mrs. Speight’s class has a motto, which everyone chants in the morning when she raises her fist: “Be brave! Be smart! Stay humble!”

That last point doesn’t seem like a stretch.

Preston, 8, goes to West Greene Elementary School in Snow Hill, a town of 1,500 in rural Greene County, N.C. Of the 100 counties in the state, Greene is one of the poorest. About four out of five public school students come from low-income families. Only three counties in North Carolina spend less on public education.

All around Preston were signs of how little money his district has. West Greene is one of many schools across the country dealing with 

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