Agreeing with Folkbum

Found this little snippet inside a much longer post over at Folkbum's place:

The problem of education in Milwaukee is not (just) a schools problem. It is a Milwaukee problem. And to expect schools alone to overcome parental disengagement, recreational violence, endemic poverty, chronic unemployement and its attendant problems (poor health care, bad nutrition, lack of parental oversight and discipline), and fifty years of white flight and resegregation is ridiculous.

He and I discussed something similar last year (see this post, if you're that interested.

The disagreement is over whether more tax money - particularly spending on schools - is the answer.