But if poor people were smart, how could we continue to fleece them? It’s no longer profitable if even a fraction of them wise up!!

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Even in states where schools are funded from education slush funds which are supposed to distribute funding equally it doesn’t work well. Well-off areas get better funding, poor areas get less. Some states even do it by county, so if people live in a rural county with no industry or population to tax the schools get very little money.

Yeah, making it so things are more equitably distributed would be great, including higher teacher pay, lower administrative costs (like each district having its own admin and pay structure is ridiculous), etc.

The way to fix this is to make the entirety of the school experience the same. Not by going cheap. But by giving more money to poorer schools to subsidize education so it’s up to the exact same standard across the board.

Where are you proposing the tax money come from for this? While there are certainly areas of poverty that lack funds, I'm not even sure that's the majority of the lack of funds. Another is today's senior citizens that were fine with their children's education being subsidize by yesterday's senior citizens and the childless tax payments, but as soon as their children are grown they vote down any tax increases to fund schools.

Another point: I know a number of families that have intentionally moved out of good school, well funded, districts seeking lower taxes, and hence, worse funded schools. They would fight you on getting better funding even for their own schools if it meant the necessary tax increases. Teachers don't, and shouldn't work for free.

Disgusting? Lol. You completely disregarded the fact that these were knowing and willing tax dodgers deliberately and fraudulently attending schools they were not allowed to. They‘re not poor, they can afford to maintain separate residences in two states. Get your reading comprehension in gear.

Completely missed the point to white knight some unneeded righteousness. I have Zero problem with people unable to pay for education getting an education, but that‘s not what's happening here, and I‘m well aware of how school funding works.

Global surveillance doesn't discriminate, everyone who moves around on surface roads or flies in the sky, or carries a cellphone can be located fairly accurately via these technologies.

People have been able to track rich people for a long time, they primary use aircraft to get around and flight information information is public. They also can afford to hire high speed security and can afford the equipment/vehicles to operate in a way that is harder to trace.

If that's not something that you have the money to have access to, then a random person getting access to the ability to track you leaves you a lot more exposed to danger.

This is why there are such strong privacy concerns about these technologies. The amount of danger that they could possibly protect us from is outweighed by the amount of danger that they put us in.