Posted on 04/04/2002 4:38:03 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:34:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A radical bill with the potential to halt California's progress toward accountability in the public schools is inching its way to a hearing in the state Assembly. And the members who will be the first to vote on the measure are starting to feel the heat.
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Aw shucks--most of us are held accountable every day on our jobs, but these prima donnas are supposed to be exempt from accountability, when they are in charge of our most precious possessions.
I say, home school or find a way to send your child to a private school, Christian school--whatever. There may be some good public schools, but I fear they are few and far between.
Excellent point! Where do these egomaniacs come off thinking that they know better than anyone. Has anyone on this thread heard or read about how a significant number of teachers can't pass basic skills tests themselves?--it is frightening!
Left unsaid in the editorial is the fact that Carole Migden is a lesbian. The childless radical homosexual lobby in California believes they know what's better for children than their parents do. God gives children to parents, not to lesbian legislators and leftist, moral-liberal teachers. It is the sole right of parents to decide what their children are taught, not perverts, educrats, and the doctors of the soft sciences.
I was an engineering graduate. I remember taking a class in a room in the Education college. During part of the semester, they had a significant portion of the class they were holding in the room devoted to "how to cut out paper dolls". Apparently it's a college level skill.
I suppose it was a good backdrop for my Heat Transfer class. Put things in perspective. Like, why I made so much more than they did when I graduated.
Outrageous. What she's suggesting is rather like saying that people who have their cars fixed should have no say in how they're fixed. If the auto mechanic wants to put on plastic lug nuts instead of metal, you'll like it... or else.
It does not even occur to them that they have no business deciding where kids should go to school, who should be hired to teach or what material should be taught. Ever check out http://teachers.net/chatboard/? The banality and arrogance of their comments takes your breath away.
Btw..no need to register to post or reply. That forum could use some voices of sanity.
Let's leave Microsoft alone, and break up the NEA and the AFT.
Bush wants to be the education president and the federal money further corrupts the system. They spend 24,000 per special needs students in my district. The school district wants more and more special ed students; $$$$$$. They do away with regular ed teaching positions and continue to expand special ed programs.
Freepers all say it's turning around but from what I see, its heading the other direction. School districts are so addicted to the federal funds and without huge property tax increases; you'll never wean them off.
Eventually, it will become so bad that everyone will cry for federalization. That's their ultimate dream.
Seriously, you best believe the teacher unions control the direction of education way more than all the repubs in America. I'm a teacher, registered repub, and my district is going to have a strike this august; go figure. We need more conservative teachers.
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