KSL News: Ogden City School District Has the Top Three Worst Performing Schools

Why would the Ogden City School Board agree to extend the tax increment financing that Ogden City receives on Boss Godfrey's pet project when they know that money could be used for more teachers and programs to help fix this problem?

By: What a bunch of garbage

Did anyone see the story on KSL last night about the Ogden City School District having the top three worst performing schools in the entire state when it came to competency testing and 5 of the top 10?

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Maybe it's just me, but I have a hard time buying the superintendent of the Ogden City School District's reason for why this is the case. He tries to blame the results on the poverty of the citizens of Ogden City.

If, as the superintendent claims, the reason for the poor performance of these schools is due to the poverty of the residents of Ogden City, why in the hell would the Ogden City School Board agree to extend the tax increment financing that Ogden City receives on Boss Godfrey's pet project when they know that money could be used for more teachers and programs to help fix this problem?

Poverty as the reason? Really? And this coming from the very taxing entity that is giving away hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to support bullshit projects.

Seems to me the problem lies with the priorities of the school board, not the students and the families.