RECESSION ISN'T ALL BADThe upside to near bankruptcy

Kansas City School District, despite the $2 billion investment ordered by a loony Liberal judge, is as bad today, if not worse, than it was in 1977. There are without a doubt more "Activists" in Kansas City than there are parents because no one ever seems to fix anything. That could be because of the flight of not just whites, but anyone with any regard for their children or their own sanity.

So, it's good news of a kind to see that they plan to close 29 of 61 schools. The buildings were, as AP reporter Heather Hollingsworth observed, "half-full as its population has plummeted amid political squabbling and chronically abysmal test scores." There are, she says, 18,000 students, less than half of what there were a decade ago. The last time the school district had less than 18,000 students was in 1889. The district now runs a $12 million monthly deficit. (Wall Street Journal)

The vote split 5-4 largely along racial lines, with all four of the board’s white members supporting the plan, along with West, who is black. (School Superintendent John Covington, who proposed the plan, is black as well.) The squabbling isn't racial in nature but a question of who-gets-the-big-bucks kind of infighting and the resulting discord. Of course, that was when they had $2 billion from their desegration settlement to blow. Now that that is gone, it's likely the poverty pimps, race baiters and those jockeying for well-paying political patronage jobs will be less wearisome.

To describe the schools as having chronically abysmal test scores may be an understatement. The Kansas City 33 school district rates 2 out of 10 (1 being the lowest) at GreatSchools.org. Look at every single one of those schools rated as 1 and think of the multiple generations of children who attended who were deprived of the chance to learn and grow. It makes my blood boil. I only wish it made Democrats feel some shame.