@staticshock
You're an educator. On paper, at the very least, this initiative puts more Feds dollars, resources, and access available to Black students. Can you explain how the lack of resources hinders opportunities. Many of us have an idea, but you have greater insight.
Also, where specifically do you think those resources should go? Most effective use.
Unfortunately for the most part, all districts care about these days are passing test, not actually teaching the child.
I’d use those resources to get the best and most updated materials I could to help students get ready to pass test and to teach them stuff that will stick with them outside of those test.
the last elementary school I worked at, we only had 1 computer lab, and they were all the big clunky desktop computers from like 2008 or something and only about 10 of them actually worked out of 30 something. Extra money could be used to update computer labs and make sure our kids have working computers.
This new school I’m at, although it’s in a hoodish area, students have their own devices provided to them from the county that they can take home & they have to give it back whenever they graduate high school..they also help families out with getting internet service if they don’t have any.
Schools could use the extra money to provide students computers to take home
I’d like to see some of the money used to start extra curricular activities & invest it in fine arts and other special programs. The middle school I worked at last year cut band and orchestra from the curriculum because they didn’t have money to fund it, but white schools on the north side of town in the same school district has all of those things. Studies have shown kids involved in fine arts do better in school than their peer.
I know every kid won’t be interested in fine arts, but for those that are it could be something to keep them out of trouble or it can help them pay for college if they keep up with it.
I work with marching bands in the Atlanta area, and one of the bands I worked with, we took a trip to New Orleans a few years back to march in a parade and we had one of our feeder elementary schools with us. The parents had to pay for everything out of pocket, but with more funding parents would only have to pay half or nothing at all.
Imagine you’re a 3rd, 4th or 5th grader and you only know your neighborhood, but one day you had the opportunity to go 3 states over and see stuff you never would have if it wasn’t for music.
I didn’t travel outside of Georgia till I was in high school, but we gave those kids the chance to travel at an early age. They love band now and hopefully they stick with it all the way to college.
The lady who does my hair, she’s putting her 5th grade daughter in a private school, and what made her choose that particular school is because of different classes and programs offered. Her daughter loves planes and aviation, & this school has a flight simulator kids can use while learning about aviation. If schools in poorer areas had the money to have stuff like that, it could give our kids a chance to learn about something they wouldn’t have had the opportunity to learn about & could help them stay on the right path if they wanted to eventually work in that field.
sorry this is so long winded bruh but our schools are severely underfunded compared to schools in white areas. The extra funding could at least level the playing field for our kids & provide them with stuff they would never see or experience.