Education, if budgeted properly, will lower future state budgets. Agree or disagree?

Houston Independent District has 298 schools and 202,773 students, the vast majority of whom are African American and with whites making up about 8%. Friendswood is 85% white. Across the district, almost 80%% of HISD students are economically disadvantaged compared with around 3% at Friendswood.63% are considered "at risk." 95% qualify under Title 1 of NCLB.

That said, only 12 of the schools were classified as unacceptable. Most were recognized and 84 were classified exemplary. 235 met annual yearly progress goals as per NCLB.

They spent $7200 per student overall operating costs. Friendswood operated at about $6000.

Out of the 11 top rated high schools in HISD, most are made up primarily of minority students from economically disadvataged backgrounds.

It seems to me that they are doing a pretty good job given the unique problems urban districts face. Comparing the involvement level of upper middle class parents to working class poor parents is unfair, unreasonable, and shows a lack of sociological understanding.

Characterizing the parents of Houston as drugged or drunk and the students as misbehaved vandals, is a gross generalization and shows you haven't done your research.

I suggest that you reflect on why you believe these things.

Parental involvement and a family atmosphere.

The parents are druggies, and never around to parent their kids, the kids, out of loneliness and depression, literally tear everything up in school, nothing lasts long, its not respected or taken care of, its not the money, but the environment that the kids are raised in.

When a third grader has to come home and clean up pot roaches, vomit, and empty rum bottles and see their mom passed out on the couch, the last thing on their mind is homework.... Parents need to start being parents!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.