Posted on 09/10/2011 7:01:08 AM PDT by Bean Counter
There's so many things wrong about this story it is hard to know where to begin...
Oregon and Washington *ping* please!
The woman who started this idiocy is in New York? What’s she doing there, starting another school, or fleeing?
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In other words, it's their fault she screwed up? Way to take responsibility there sister.
Evidently Mathematics was not in the curriculum.
Was their mascot a frog? Or an old lady recovering from hip surgery?
She bailed out in August, claiming exhaustion and poor health, and probably took the money with her.
Many Charters were also closed in NYC. THey were all new and staffed by just out of college teachers. My dtr is a 2nd grade teacher and her school got many of the students who can’t read nor do simple addition. She has a class of 27, some way ahead, and then these kids. This woman created a total mess for others but she’ll be bumped up to a higher paying job.
The students were distraught when they heard they were being relocated to the Polka and Square Dance Academies.
So, are you saying this woman from Portland was involved with these charter schools in New York?
More federal money down the toilet. I wonder if the “founder” found herself a new car or some fancy trips on our dime?
You have to wonder who the people are that approve of this rubbish. But, the real problem is the grant program, one in which people think it's all just more free gubmint cheese.
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Moronic parents, underachieving students, scam "academy", missing money. Sounds like a first rate Dimocrat enterprise.
Another “shovel ready” project for 0.
Sounds like this one is ready to be buried, though.
Anyone remember when the Aaaaaafrican Americans wanted to build a black Smithsonian? It has been awhile but what I can remember is that they got full congressional approval to get a blank check. When asked how much it was going to cost, the reply was, When it is finished, you will know. The only person with balls big enough to put his foot down was Jesse Helms. He refused to sign off on it until there was a dollar amount and they admitted that they didn’t know. Everyone was ‘afeared’ to say no to the project because they knew they would be labeled racist.
I am pretty sick of these Hip Hop Rap Crap schools, the muslim schools that we, the taxpayers, are paying for. Let me guess who is approving the funding. It sickens me that Christians have to pay for their own schools that have done just fine thankyouverymuch without going under from fraud.
And I hope they find the woman who is behind this and hold her accountable. But I won’t hold my breath.
Looks like school officials worked at their own pace too.
You have to wonder who the people are that approve of this rubbish. But, the real problem is the grant program, one in which people think it’s all just more free gubmint cheese.
I don’t wonder at all. Anyone like to take a crack at just how big a bureaucracy would be necessary to police government grants. IMHO it would take generally one person per grant to properly police the who what when why where and the daily particulars that need overseeing.
This is why you and I both agree, government should not be in the grant business.
Yet charter schools promoted by businesses that teach business skills get shut down because school boards don’t think these programs are useful.
They just fired a bunch of teachers in my son’s high school. Got rid of business, law and marketing classes in order to save the performing arts program. And the board is complaining that the sports program, which develops leaders and brings in revenue, need to be cut.
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