Comments on: An Education Bailout? It Won’t Improve Schools http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-education-bailout-it-wont-improve-schools/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:13:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: nonsense http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-education-bailout-it-wont-improve-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-366633 nonsense Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:23:43 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=44383#comment-366633 We dont need more schools. We need more funding for the schools that we already have! My sister is a school teacher and they have already been furlowed 3 days for this school year, and there are already talks of an additional 1 day per week furlow. For those who don't know, a furlow means off days that the teachers dont get paid for. My sister has 5 children all under the age of 10 so you can imagine the financial stress that this is going to cause in an economy that is already failing the American people. We dont need more schools. We need more funding for the schools that we already have! My sister is a school teacher and they have already been furlowed 3 days for this school year, and there are already talks of an additional 1 day per week furlow. For those who don’t know, a furlow means off days that the teachers dont get paid for. My sister has 5 children all under the age of 10 so you can imagine the financial stress that this is going to cause in an economy that is already failing the American people.

]]> By: MISS ANN MARIE KELLY http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-education-bailout-it-wont-improve-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-254418 MISS ANN MARIE KELLY Tue, 05 May 2009 10:14:45 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=44383#comment-254418 MISS ANN MARIE KELLY 10 DISTILLERY WALK BRENTFORD LONDON TW8 0SG TEL: 07960931833 EMAIL:ann4kelly@yahoo.co.uk 'THE PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGE' WHAT IS A LANGUAGE CAREER? The age of language depends on the accsent of it culture roots! This can be taught in a career coaching and understanding how to re-new your character of business mind set!. This can generate with in serveral different keys ways they are;- ATTIDUTES INVESTMENT VISION all the above require funds-money to asist and support its BUSINESS AND CAREER PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT! Business and Motivation comes with enjoyment in how to feed and give! All of this come with in attidute and cachracter Kind Regards Miss Ann Marie Kelly MISS ANN MARIE KELLY
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‘THE PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGE’

WHAT IS A LANGUAGE CAREER?
The age of language depends on the accsent of it culture roots! This can be taught in a career coaching and understanding how to re-new your character of business mind set!.

This can generate with in serveral different keys ways they are;-

ATTIDUTES

INVESTMENT

VISION

all the above require funds-money to asist and support its BUSINESS AND CAREER PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT! Business and Motivation comes with enjoyment in how to feed and give!

All of this come with in attidute and cachracter

Kind Regards
Miss Ann Marie Kelly

]]> By: Marc Malone http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-education-bailout-it-wont-improve-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-189928 Marc Malone Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:40:16 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=44383#comment-189928 #37 Lisa - Good for that superintendent. Sounds like a competent guy (or gal). However, that means that somehow, money is not trickling down to the individual school districts. Find out how much is being spent per student at your school, then find out how much is being spent per student in your State. Methinks you will find a great discrepancy. #37 Lisa – Good for that superintendent. Sounds like a competent guy (or gal). However, that means that somehow, money is not trickling down to the individual school districts. Find out how much is being spent per student at your school, then find out how much is being spent per student in your State. Methinks you will find a great discrepancy.

]]> By: Israel http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-education-bailout-it-wont-improve-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-189145 Israel Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:34:51 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=44383#comment-189145 With all this talk of school choice and vouchers, have any of you called your Congressman and U.S. Senators, at 202-224-3121, to ask them to sponsor the Civil Rights Act for Equal Educational Opportunity? This would mandate equitable funding for children in nonpublic schools, while respecting the liberty of schools in hiring and provision of services. In accordance with the 10th Amendment, academic standards and means of funding would be left to the states. With all this talk of school choice and vouchers, have any of you called your Congressman and U.S. Senators, at 202-224-3121, to ask them to sponsor the Civil Rights Act for Equal Educational Opportunity? This would mandate equitable funding for children in nonpublic schools, while respecting the liberty of schools in hiring and provision of services. In accordance with the 10th Amendment, academic standards and means of funding would be left to the states.

]]> By: Murph http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-education-bailout-it-wont-improve-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-188751 Murph Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:30:21 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=44383#comment-188751 It is time to end the government and union control of public education. Money is not the problem. We already spend enough on the failing public school system. The bureaucrats always find new, innovative ways to waste taxpayer money on lucrative teacher’s contracts, excessive administration costs, unsustainable pension plans, health plans, political campaigns, ball fields with artificial turf, and of course condoms. And there’s no shortage of excuses for poor performing schools: parents don’t care, students don’t care, not enough funding, large class sizes, low pay, poor facilities, etc. Teacher’s blame everyone but themselves. The public education system simply lacks choice. Most people can’t afford to send their kids to private schools, so they are forced to use the public school system. Give parents more control and responsibility for the education of their children. Introduce competition and bad schools will either improve or be forced out of business. And there are no “constitutional implications” to vouchers or school choice. The funding is given to a student for pay for their education, not to support a particular religious institution. It is time to end the government and union control of public education. Money is not the problem. We already spend enough on the failing public school system. The bureaucrats always find new, innovative ways to waste taxpayer money on lucrative teacher’s contracts, excessive administration costs, unsustainable pension plans, health plans, political campaigns, ball fields with artificial turf, and of course condoms.

And there’s no shortage of excuses for poor performing schools: parents don’t care, students don’t care, not enough funding, large class sizes, low pay, poor facilities, etc. Teacher’s blame everyone but themselves.

The public education system simply lacks choice. Most people can’t afford to send their kids to private schools, so they are forced to use the public school system. Give parents more control and responsibility for the education of their children. Introduce competition and bad schools will either improve or be forced out of business.

And there are no “constitutional implications” to vouchers or school choice. The funding is given to a student for pay for their education, not to support a particular religious institution.

]]> By: John Moore http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-education-bailout-it-wont-improve-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-188565 John Moore Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:45:18 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=44383#comment-188565 <blockquote>Many of the posters mention Catholic school. Have you considered the Constitutional implications of using public funds to send students to religious schools?</blockquote> It is already constitutional to do so, as long as the funding mechanism <b>does not discriminate</b> based on religion. My daughter went to a good Catholic school. Many of the students there were Jewish. Unconstitutional? As for the song and dance about problem pupils being the problem with public schools... Go back to segregating students by performance - tracking. It has fallen out of favor, but it is very logical. Also get the schools out of the business of anything other than education. I went to public school in post-WW-II army barracks, each room heated by an oil stove, with goats grazing in the "playground" (the desert around Albuquerque, NM). None of this hindered education in the slightest. Oh, and we had big windows, too (to watch the goats and cactus, I guess), but student concentration wasn't a problem. It's all in the attitudes.

Many of the posters mention Catholic school. Have you considered the Constitutional implications of using public funds to send students to religious schools?

It is already constitutional to do so, as long as the funding mechanism does not discriminate based on religion.

My daughter went to a good Catholic school. Many of the students there were Jewish. Unconstitutional?

As for the song and dance about problem pupils being the problem with public schools…

Go back to segregating students by performance – tracking. It has fallen out of favor, but it is very logical. Also get the schools out of the business of anything other than education.

I went to public school in post-WW-II army barracks, each room heated by an oil stove, with goats grazing in the “playground” (the desert around Albuquerque, NM). None of this hindered education in the slightest. Oh, and we had big windows, too (to watch the goats and cactus, I guess), but student concentration wasn’t a problem. It’s all in the attitudes.

]]> By: Lisa http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-education-bailout-it-wont-improve-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-188553 Lisa Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:19:17 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=44383#comment-188553 If private schools took public funding, wouldn't they then be accountable to the special education regulations under IDEA and testing regulations under NCLB? Would they still have the flexibility to remove problem students? Would they be willing to take vouchers if it meant taking on those burdens? If private schools took public funding, wouldn’t they then be accountable to the special education regulations under IDEA and testing regulations under NCLB? Would they still have the flexibility to remove problem students? Would they be willing to take vouchers if it meant taking on those burdens?

]]> By: Lisa http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-education-bailout-it-wont-improve-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-188551 Lisa Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:15:32 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=44383#comment-188551 Marc, Yes, administrative positions were cut. Mostly our curriculum coordinators. In one small school district nearby, the superintendent cut his own position because there was nothing else left to cut. Marc,

Yes, administrative positions were cut. Mostly our curriculum coordinators. In one small school district nearby, the superintendent cut his own position because there was nothing else left to cut.

]]> By: fred http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-education-bailout-it-wont-improve-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-188523 fred Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:20:12 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=44383#comment-188523 The person whose post is above mine, #35 "Thom Fisher," is using sarcasm to vent at those of us who are saying that the public education system is broken and it cannot be fixed by just throwing money at the problem. We've been doing that for decades - and it 'aint working! The problem is the standards for mental effort and conduct in the schools. The expectations keep on being diluted. The only people who seem unaware of the dumbing down of the curricula are those who are mediocre minds who are themselves the products of that system. They don't know any better and are not motivated to find out. Many educators who got their degrees during the last couple of decades have no idea of the richer world of mental accomplishment that existed decades ago. Also, the education system now sprinkles in, sometimes it is obvious and sometimes more subtle, doses of Leftist indoctrination. Taxpayers subsidize the entire project of the Italian Communist, Antonio Gramsci and his American disciple, Saul Alinsky. The person whose post is above mine, #35 “Thom Fisher,” is using sarcasm to vent at those of us who are saying that the public education system is broken and it cannot be fixed by just throwing money at the problem. We’ve been doing that for decades – and it ‘aint working! The problem is the standards for mental effort and conduct in the schools. The expectations keep on being diluted. The only people who seem unaware of the dumbing down of the curricula are those who are mediocre minds who are themselves the products of that system. They don’t know any better and are not motivated to find out. Many educators who got their degrees during the last couple of decades have no idea of the richer world of mental accomplishment that existed decades ago. Also, the education system now sprinkles in, sometimes it is obvious and sometimes more subtle, doses of Leftist indoctrination. Taxpayers subsidize the entire project of the Italian Communist, Antonio Gramsci and his American disciple, Saul Alinsky.

]]> By: Thom Fisher http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-education-bailout-it-wont-improve-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-188495 Thom Fisher Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:40:34 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=44383#comment-188495 My parents were government employees. My kids went to public schools and public unversities. I get government contracts that pays me handsomely. I'm a republican capitalist. Now my kids are through public education - they're working or going to a private graduate school. Now I vote to shut down all government funding for public schools. Because my kids have made it. Screw you and your kids. I'll make sure my grandchildren go to private schools. And if you can't afford it, screw you. You deserve a crappy public education, so please cut funding for public schools. It's good to be wealthy in America. You can be, too, if you work really hard and get lucky. And if you don't, then screw you, and don't hinder those who work really hard and get lucky. My parents were government employees. My kids went to public schools and public unversities. I get government contracts that pays me handsomely. I’m a republican capitalist. Now my kids are through public education – they’re working or going to a private graduate school. Now I vote to shut down all government funding for public schools. Because my kids have made it. Screw you and your kids. I’ll make sure my grandchildren go to private schools. And if you can’t afford it, screw you. You deserve a crappy public education, so please cut funding for public schools. It’s good to be wealthy in America. You can be, too, if you work really hard and get lucky. And if you don’t, then screw you, and don’t hinder those who work really hard and get lucky.

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