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If poverty were the driving force, then Appalachia would be an absolute war zone.

Almost no one lives in Appalachia. It's Butt Fuck Egypt territory. Hard to rob, steal, kill when the surrounding population is zero.

Most prestigious private schools operate on shoestring budgets, out of old public school buildings that had been closed and deemed unsuitable.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

I've had several contracts with some of these in recent years, one of which is Benet Academy (Frank Kaminsky's HS!!).

You are correct in your assertion. These are old buildings with old innards. The money to fix them is not there unless someone donates it. Tuition pays the teachers and admin (of which there are few, unlike the public systems).

Are they offering health care or raising my taxes by
 telling their millions to use the ER?

Agreeing to disagree seems to be what it is. We're digging into signage and graffiti at this point.

Again, I'm not particularly ride or die for BLM in general. I think certain elements of prisons need to be reformed, same with police. I'd have to dig in on the Nike stuff, though a quick google didn't bring up the word "refused." Granted, I also understand the reasons for not donating to the org, since as I said earlier, I doubt its organization.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/squad-dems-tlaib-pressley-introduce-bill-bill-to-defund-police-give-reparations

As I was saying.......

In Middle School I went to Wellington which, at least at the time, was the most prestigious Private School in Columbus.

The Grade School was an old abandoned Upper Arlington Elementary School that had been shuttered for decades. The Middle School was the original Perry Township school building that had been constructed decades before Upper Arlington even existed. The buildings were old. They were gross. They were falling apart. There was no AC. They smelled terrible. The teachers made a LOT less than their public school counterparts. About a fifth of the student body were poor inner city black kids that went there for free because they were good students and nice kids (I had a free ride as well).

It doesn't cost a lot to run a good school, if the students, the teachers, and the parents are invested in making it so.

I often wonder what the split is there.

I'd assume on-the-ball parents are the biggest factor, with kids being less so. I know there's a lot of talk about slacker teachers, but I'd assume dialed up parents, mostly because they can create dialed up kids or force the kids to dial up are key. Granted, if you're a teacher with dialed up parents (dialed up in the right way, I mean), you sidestep a lot of the BS.

I went to a somewhat well thought of private HS. In the end, a lot of the teachers were hired because they were good teachers, even if they sometimes (too often) had screws loose personally. The place held together moderately well. Admin was often a mess. Kids parents were more often than not on top of their stuff, which meant the kids were generally OK. Interestingly they really didn't like letting kids fail, which meant a few screw ups with money limped along. Some cratered after HS, some got their stuff together. 

Almost no one lives in Appalachia. It's Butt Fuck Egypt territory. Hard to rob, steal, kill when the surrounding population is zero.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/40968963

I get the population argument but this also breaks it out into crime by 100k of population. No state in the country has more room for people to spread out than Alaska but it had the worst violent crime rate per 100,000 in the US.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/40968963

I get the population argument but this also breaks it out into crime by 100k of population. No state in the country has more room for people to spread out than Alaska but it had the worst violent crime rate per 100,000 in the US.

From the link:
Crime tends to be higher in areas where large shares of the population are struggling. In New Mexico, which is one of only two states with a violent crime rate more than double the national average, 19.5% of the population lives below the poverty line

 by far the highest rape rate of any state. Crime can tend to concentrate in areas that lack economic opportunity. In Alaska, 6.6% of the population was out of a job in 2018, the highest annual unemployment rate among states.


Poverty = crime