Students Walk Out In Protest Of NJ Budget Cuts

CBS3 (KYW-Philadelphia) ^ | 4/27/10 | Unattributed

[calex59]

So that makes 480,000 for a class of 30. If we pay the teacher $100,000/year.......where did the other $380,000 go?

To the school administrators, the Principal, Vice P., etc.

[McGavin999]

Hmmm, maybe it’s time to tell these kids that their allowances will be taxed in order to keep the schools going. Their parents can start withholding it now.

[TigersEye]

Too bad it didn’t hail. lol

[jmaroneps37]

Low life teachers using pimple face crowd to make a point that can’t be defended or made in the arena of ideas.

[savedbygrace]

Children should be seen and not heard

That's an incomplete quote. Should be:

"Children should be seen and not heard." (Whack!) "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about."

[Reeses]

NJ spends $16,000/year per student on average. So that makes 480,000 for a class of 30. If we pay the teacher $100,000/year.......where did the other $380,000 go?

I found out this morning it's worse: NJ's Education Commissioner Bret Schundler says per-pupil spending has reached $19,000 per year when all costs, including health care coverage for retired school employees, are factored in. That works out to $475 paid per teacher hour worked.

Small private schools, even neighborhood home schools, could educate students for a fraction of that, produce stellar world-class academic results, and happier, well-adjusted, non-envy indoctrinated students. Something has got to give.

[gogeo]

Again I ask; who cares what children think?

Oh, I do...I just don't mistake them for adults.

There is a reason, after all, why adults run the schools.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The unions organized a walkout?

[TigersEye]

LOL Yes, I heard the second line too but usually on a different occasion.

[TigersEye]

There is a reason, after all, why adults run the some schools.

Ahem. I think that may be in question in some schools.

[gogeo]

(sigh) Well, it was the intent...