CA School Board “Taxes Are Not Too High!!!”

http://www.atr.org/california-taxes-arent-high-a3199 ^

[nateriver]

Sacramento School Board member, Jerry Houseman, has a hissy-fit because people attended the area Tea Party protesting higher taxes. Californians spend 204 days out of the year just paying for the cost of their government.

[Tzimisce]

...well then I guess it’s good that California is going to raise taxes then. :)

[Sir Clancelot]

Only 204 days paying taxes? You Californians should be happy. They let you keep 160 days of your paychecks. (sarc)

[jazminerose]

Riiiggghhhhttt.

And our kids keep getting so much smarter.

What the heck will they do when all of us productive, hard working Californians flee the state?

You certainly cannot run a small business here anymore.

[kittymyrib]

Good grief...the Founding Fathers would be ashamed of the servitude enjoyed by Californians today.

[Brilliant]

They are not too high [for me], so let’s make them higher!

[Maelstorm]

This man is moron. Why is it that educrats can’t understand that they are not the only way and that their every want is not a need. They and their schools that are built wasting millions of dollars billions in some cases looking more like shopping malls than schools many of us went to as kids are failing. They are saturated with waste and children are often coddled rather than taught while they place undue focus on the sex lives of kids while failing them horribly in that and nearly every other respect. What has happened to this nation that we have allowed ourselves to become dependent on incompetent fools like this man who pimp children for tax dollars?

We do not need the expensive outrageous teaching bureaucracy to teach. Homoschoolers do it with those implements called books and libraries and they do it relatively inexpensively. They don’t all have the degrees that these liberal educators have but managed to produce children that are just as well educated or better than their peers. They may not be taught in the art of liberal conformity but their success shows how horribly deficit our public schools are in many cases. People like this man are the problem they think they should not have to answer to anyone and that their every wasteful desire should be fulfilled. I am sickened by this type of individual. This is America and we need to take it back from these socialist monsters.

[3niner]

What we really need, both at state and national levels, are PYMWYMI (Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is) taxes.

People who think taxes are too low, should pay more, and those who think they are already too high, should pay less. That would be a real fair tax.

Of course, once this got implemented, we would quickly find out the most of the high tax proponents are liars. They don't really believe in high taxes, they just believe in high taxes for others.

[M.K. Borders]

My opinion is that education in America took its death plunge when “teaching” went from an art to a science.

A scientist can be produced through education and hard work.

An artist, though trained and mentored, is born.

No matter the certificate held we all know from our own experience teachers who simply cannot teach. They simply do not have the talent.

Yet some of the finest teachers I have ever met had no formal education in the craft. Mostly military, we called them Sargent. They exist in the civilian world also, mostly home schoolers, shop foremen and other positions of authority.

Look at a college level text or dissertation on curriculum. It reads like a physics writeup. Endless strings of scientific jargon that in the end speak nothing of simply how to teach the kid.

[Maelstorm]

I agree. I attended public school and a handful of teachers really stand out in my memory but some very aweful ones stand out too. One hand a relationship with a student, another was a kook, some didn't understand the difference between torture and teaching. I had the opportunity to be taught by some really great teachers, one English teacher Charlotte Meade was one of my favorites. She introduced me to George Orwell's Animal Farm and was just a special teacher. Below is a picture of her.

Another teacher I had great respect for was Krystal Berry my Chemistry and Physics teacher. She was an extraordinary hard worker and intelligent woman who later achieved her doctorate. She had this fun outlook on life and was loved by most of the students she had the opportunity to teach. These are two of my favorites. Mr. Feltz was one teacher who probably made a key difference in my life by challenging me in a way only a guy can. He pushed me to run a marathon when I was trying to get out of it in middle school. He also took me out of my comfort zone. I've been lucky to be taught by some pretty extraordinary people.

[goldi]

Maybe more people would be willing to pay higher taxes for California schools if California schools showed a little more respect to parents’ wishes regarding their children’s education.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/10654

Since that probably isn’t going to happen (courts are on the schools’ side anyway), perhaps unhappy parents should just pull their kids out and send them to schools that show more respect to parents or at least don’t support the schools with donations, fundraising, passing bonds, etc.

Enough is enough.

[Hostage]

There was a study in California many years back (in the early nineties) about the outrageous salaries of LAUSD administrative staff and executives. The superintendent made more salary than the President of the US.

But then the study went into a comparison of administrative overhead of LAUSD with an association of private Catholic schools. In terms of SAT scores and acceptance to their first choice in college, students in the Catholic schools performed much better. And the admin overhead for each Catholic School student was one-twelfth of LAUSD.

School Unions and Government Unions are joined at the hip.

And people connected on the fringes of election offices will cheat on election outcomes. Here in Wash State we had felons rehabilitated as county govt employees working in the election office mail-rooms, sorting mail including overseas military mail, etc.

It's all about people working in and around government. The only way to beat them is when enough people get motivated to organize a massive revolt. I saw that happen when I lived in Kali, watching the Jarvis initiative and Prop 13 stick it to Governor Moonbeam who lost his office soon after.