The bad news This can be generalized to apply to any state.
A state could spend $100,000.00 per student per year and it would make little difference.
The bloated, Peter Principle in action bureaucracy and the NEA will see to that.
Posted on 02/21/2005 6:49:26 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Solution? Raise Taxes.
Go Figure.
Wanna bet?...JFK
i'm so tired of educators blaming the lack of money that i could puke.
they can retire their lavishly paid consultants,
trim their administrators to the bone,
fire union sub-standard teachers,
get rid of the union,
put their stupid sex and feel-good stuff on dvd's and send it home with the kids for parental review,
and fine parents that are not involved in their children's education.
Putting more money into schools while allowing the kids and liberals to run them is throwing money down a toilet.
Nice list..
Wait until this fall and parents are asked to gussy up more money for parcel taxes across this state than you can shake a stick at.
and then, if the special election gets held, the list of initiatives will be a mile long.. that's a special gift from the same gutless money grubbing politicos and their backers.
But as long as we have gutless politicians and a happy to be socialist voter base , too dumb to balance teir own chackbooks, what can one expect?
gracias.
The liberals and public school teachers descended on the Oregon State Capitol today demanding more money from the proposed budget. The TV stations were showing school busses converging on Salem. Our tax dollars paying for students and parents to go to the capitol. The governor proposes to give schools 56% of the budget. The teachers and liberal parents say that it is not enough.
sheesh
As Milton Friedman has pointed out, every time a beaurocrat is shown to be getting terrible results despite spending tons of money their answer is to ask for more money. They always claim that with just a little more money it would be different.
All I know is that Texas teachers dread getting transfers in from CA because they are so far behind. It's very sad.
I think it is time for all good parents to leave the public school party and help bring it down into a final collapse.
More money will mean worse results. How many years has it been like that? Twenty? More?
Local control is the answer. I've never worked in a school where the parents didn't know best, and I've never known of an administrator that was of any help at all.
is that why every University of California school is ranked higher than the University of Texas?.....only Rice ranks in between the UC universities.....
The bad news This can be generalized to apply to any state.
A state could spend $100,000.00 per student per year and it would make little difference.
The bloated, Peter Principle in action bureaucracy and the NEA will see to that.
I live in California.
No such thing as local control!
NEA unions owns the state, school boards, you name it.
Why do you suppose its so bad here?
Don't let NCR get away with dissing The University of Texas. Tell him the reason is because The university exist for the purpose of teaching people how to find oil, not mates of the same sex.
that doesn't explain the rankings......some of you Texas guys seem to like to bash the whole state of Calif. I don't care if you bash some of our politicians cause we do that to, but to generalize to the whole state is just ludicrous at times.....You don't see us here bashing Texas as a whole. We only bash specific events or ideas and not an entire popultation.....there are still 10 million conservatives here ya know.....plus, your reason for UT doesn't hold water......go look it up at US News and Reports....all the info is there......in fact, UC Berkeley holds the #1 ranked public university in the U.S.. That probably kills ya.....
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