Baltimore public schools spend more than $15,000 per student per year, but Democrats Bill Ferguson and Zeke Cohen say they can’t afford to heat the classrooms in January
NPR just published this article about how students at Baltimore’s public schools are freezing because the classrooms do not have any heat.
One student said she couldn’t feel her feet.
Another student said he was wearing four shirts, two hoodies, and a jacket.
The same article also says that Democratic State Senator Bill Ferguson and Democratic City Councilman Zeke Cohen both said that the city’s public schools did not have enough money.
But like all people who claim that public schools do not have enough money, neither one of them actually said how much they spent per student per year.
So I looked it up at wikipedia.
The Baltimore public schools have an annual budget of $1.32 billion, and a student population of 84,730.
That works out to $15,578 per student per year.
So, the Baltimore public schools actually have plenty of money.
It’s just that the government bureaucrats who run the schools, have chosen not to provide heat for the students.
I wonder what would happen if Baltimore shut down its public schools, and gave parents a $15,578 voucher for each student each year.
My guess is that the private schools that accepted those vouchers would be properly heated.
NPR unintentionally reveals the existence of “black privilege”
This three minute audio segment from NPR is called “Blind hiring, while well meaning, may create unintended consequences.”
It says that “blind hiring” is a process where job applicants are interviewed by computer instead of in person, so there is no bias regarding gender or race. Applicants are given online tests such as doing a math problem, or writing computer code.
I think this is a great idea.
In the NPR audio segment, the “unintended consequence” of “blind hiring” is explained by a black female college student, who complains that under “blind hiring,” she would not get special treatment.
In the comment section, someone wrote:
“The response of the black female student to blind hiring shows that in today’s job market male whites are not the privileged group.”
I think that commentor makes a great point.
It appears as if NPR has unintentionally revealed the existence of “black privilege.”
You can hear the three minute NPR audio at http://www.npr.org/2016/04/12/473912220/blind-hiring-while-well-meaning-may-create-unintended-consequences
