Majority of U.S. Public School Students Are in Poverty
17th January 2015
That may be because public schools are so shitty that anybody who can possibily afford to will send their kids to private schools (Catholic schools are a bargain) or homeschool them. I suspect that a lot of public school parents are single working people who use the public schools as a sort of free day care.
Of course one has to realize that ‘poor’ in America isn’t poor as the rest of the world sees it — color TVs, mobile phones, air conditioning, and both parents and kids clinically obese. ‘I want to come to America. I want to see a country where the poor people are fat.’ (Think I’m kidding? Walk into any welfare office in a major city. There will be a lot of corn-fed people sitting in the seats.)