Comments on: Greene on Schools: No More Taj Mahals

By: AKA Bryce

AKA Bryce — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:57:48 +0000

Oddly enough hookers did having something to do with my choice of a career path. That coupled with my strong love for goverment and for making 17,000 dolars a year with my bachelors degree.

By: David Kinkade

David Kinkade — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:17:30 +0000

Bryce,
Wasn’t that when you made your decision to pursue a career in law enforcement? Or was it after watching T.J. Hooker cling to the hood of a car in the midst of a heated chase and just knowing that was the life for you?
D.

By: AKA Bryce

AKA Bryce — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:22:05 +0000

Damn what a great show. Remember the one were Peter DeLuise went undercover in a high school and got to play high school football again! The coach made him play injured and……well I don’t remember the rest…but man that was a great show.

Wasn’t there a Chinese guy who knew karate on that show?

By: Jason Tolbert

Jason Tolbert — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:58:12 +0000

Wow, thanks for that report Mr. Greene on the fact that high school students “have sex, drink, smoke, use illegal drugs, and engage in delinquent behavior.” I never would have guessed it. I can tell you that work was money well spent.

By: David Kinkade

David Kinkade — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:02:16 +0000

Ah, prime-time cop dramas. You’ve never led me astray.
D.

By: Jay P. Greene

Jay P. Greene — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:48 +0000

Thanks for the link. I would only add that your perceptions from “21 Jump Street” are not wrong.

A number of years ago Greg Forster and I analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to compare student behavior in urban and suburban public high schools. We found that “suburban public high school students have sex, drink, smoke, use illegal drugs, and engage in delinquent behavior as often as urban public high school students.” We concluded: “For the last several decades middle-class families have been fleeing from the cities to the suburbs, in part because many parents see the suburbs, and suburban public schools in particular, as refuges from the disorder and social collapse they see as endemic to America’s urban school districts. Parents believe that suburban public schools provide children with safer, more orderly, and more wholesome environments than their urban counterparts.

This report finds that those perceptions are unfounded.”

You can find the study here: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ewp_04.htm