[longshadow]

"We have been getting an overwhelming number of calls from teachers who are concerned about being able to transfer out of schools being privatized," Jordan said. "They are totally demoralized."

Rats leaving the sinking ship.....

Note also the budget numbers: $1.7 billion annually, for 200,000 students, um..... let's see, carry the seven, .... um, $8500/student/year spent by the Philly school system. Guess they can't blame their poor performance on a lack of funding, can they?

[knarf]

" .. um..... let's see, carry the seven, .... um, $8500/student/year spent by the Philly school system. Guess they can't blame their poor performance on a lack of funding, can they?"

We home school three kids ... 11th grade, 5th grade and second grade. One is already out of school and on her own.
When we started, about seven or eight years ago, it cost us about 4 or 5 hundred bucks per.

Now, because of the internet and various homeschool groups, I think our cost is about a hundred each. Most of that is paper, ink and two scanners/copiers a year.

I want my reparations!!!!

[aristeides]

Guess they can't blame their poor performance on a lack of funding, can they?

They'll always blame it on a lack of funding. You just have to listen to the teachers who phone in to C-SPAN every morning.

[Let's Roll]

"Guess they can't blame their poor performance on a lack of funding, can they?"

Oh, but they do - often and shrilly.