Schools and Money
I just read - probably on the msn feed - that teachers in Seattle are going to be on strike on the first day of school; perhaps some others as well. For more money, of course.
and I had a blinding flash of the obvious
If what you have is a giant pile of poop, collected for years and years, and you send the same people out to spend money on "the problem", you'll just end up with a bigger pile of poop.
I wish they'd use it for something useful.
The "BPoP" Effect is also true in many other places...my mind was just on education then.
I hope the teachers pack a good and nutritious lunch, with no chocolate or cookies or other "bad" food. It gets hungry on the picket line!
and I had a blinding flash of the obvious
If what you have is a giant pile of poop, collected for years and years, and you send the same people out to spend money on "the problem", you'll just end up with a bigger pile of poop.
I wish they'd use it for something useful.
The "BPoP" Effect is also true in many other places...my mind was just on education then.
I hope the teachers pack a good and nutritious lunch, with no chocolate or cookies or other "bad" food. It gets hungry on the picket line!
full circle!
Washington state's teachers are no more special than any other employee who gets their wages via the taxpayers.
Times like this...I wish we had Scott Walker for governor.
leaving it up to the schools and expecting more than day care
with homework. . I expect that many, many parents just want
to come home after work and have a beer and argue. -- j
.
to do things which the private sector should be doing.
and it is flung far and wide whenever an election occurs,
obscuring everyone's vision -- but, alas, the tomatoes
never seem to get the better of it. -- j
.
Jan
George Carlin called it smiley faced fascism. Softer touch but still total control.
Each socialist nation including the USA has always developed their own version. Nothing new about that. Each version has always been at odds ergo the great socialist wars of the 20th century. They evolve, develop, redefine and move on liberally or conservatively arriving at the same common goal. Complete control with a one party system.
Why do Republicans cave to Democrats so much? They are the right and left wing of the Government Party Coalition. One two faced party. Each nothing but a controlled political union. No more Marxist Economics. or Fascist Economics it's now State Economics. Not to worry the other name is a 'hampered capitalism.'
Control includes schools...
Not to worry abut learning the differences. There are none substantive or meaningful from Europe in the first half of the last century except ours have a smiley face and their had death camps.
Then these new teachers, fresh out of education college, begin to save the world with what can only be called indoctrination in socialism via pseudo environmental teachings. A local state university was of the habit of taking majors in other fields in danger of funking out, and putting them in the college of education where they were assured they could graduate.
It used to be a cry for money for smaller class size, until an inner city black woman principal made do on what their district had, set some rules for student behavior, and came away with some of the best test scores in the city.
Way too much of taxpayer dollars are going to implement programs which teach our little darlings how great it is to be socialists. The young teaches would be hard pressed to define socialism or note how it never works.
Finally, the kids are doped up with Ritalin or some psychotropic at school request, given labels like ADD or ADHD, or dyslexic, given a large dose of values clarification (to clear away any remaining values from home), and taught a collectivists mantra, "There is no I in team".- for this we need higher taxes!
Public schools run a business model that's really centered on the type of parent you describe - a parent (rarely two parents), who don't really care and need a babysitter. So what if Timmy ends up on disability and living in a home on the government dole for the rest of his life? Nobody cares about that. Public schools are the easy choice in that case.
My wife, for the last 3 years, has been working in the local school district with special needs children. She becomes very annimated when the subject comes up because:
1) We assist kids who have only one problem, parents that do not care to be part of the education process at all. They simply want baby sitters and do things to keep there income down so that buses will pick up the kids from their homes... could give more but will stop there, basically they make sure they financially qualify even if means a lousy life for their kids.
2) They often deny kids with parents who care about their kids that could use extra help (like your case) because parents who care are simply not destitute enough to get the benefit.
Does this match your own observations?
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