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North Dakota oil patch schools say they are in crisis
Bismark Tribune ^ | June 1, 2012 | Bismark Tribune

Posted on 06/02/2012 8:22:52 AM PDT by thackney

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1 posted on 06/02/2012 8:23:01 AM PDT by thackney
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They need a new education model not run by teachers unions, but by private enterprise.
2 posted on 06/02/2012 8:26:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: thackney

This is the result of loose immigration laws. If people had to apply to move into a state,county or city then we wouldn’t be having this conversation.


3 posted on 06/02/2012 8:27:07 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Of course I'm right. Sometimes I'm righter than others.)
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Are you suggesting we would be better off requiring the governments permission to move into a new area?


4 posted on 06/02/2012 8:28:22 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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In 1971 our little school was outgrown and they dragged in a couple of mobile homes with open, two or three room floorplans. I had a few classes in those every day and learned everything 6th grade had to offer. I suppose these boom and bust towns will want huge brick and mortar schools with outstanding, pace-setting architectural design innovations so they can double as oil boom memorials in the coming years.


5 posted on 06/02/2012 8:35:45 AM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It ain't rocket science. We dealt with the same thing when the baby boom generation was coming of age back in the 1960's.

Communities had to plan on whether the increase was permanent or temporary.

If permanent, you built more buildings and/or brought in trailers as satellite classrooms.

If temporary, you either brought in trailers, erected low cost Quonset huts or even contracted with local churches to use their space for the overflow.

Some schools guessed wrong and found surplus buildings on their hands at the end of the boom. Some communities converted them into senior centers. Others sold them to local farmers for pennies on the dollar to convert to hog barns.

Average class size for that era was close to 40 kids. Most of the teachers had to work during the summer to make ends meet. They weren't a separate government pampered unionized elite who earned more in nine months than most of the parents of their students earned in 12.

And, still, we managed to produce better results than most of our modern counterparts. Why do you suppose that is?

6 posted on 06/02/2012 8:36:21 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: BipolarBob

“Let me see your papers pleeeezzee!” (Said with the Nazi accent of the Gestapo guy in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”)


7 posted on 06/02/2012 8:38:43 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“They need a new education model not run by teachers unions, but by private enterprise.”

Maybe then we would have more engineers like we need instead of captain Planet brainwashed idiots we don’t.


8 posted on 06/02/2012 8:41:40 AM PDT by Wildbill22
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I was being facetious. However if a fair mechanism could be found to prevent extreme fluctuations in students to a district, I’d be willing to consider some novel approaches.


9 posted on 06/02/2012 8:45:07 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Of course I'm right. Sometimes I'm righter than others.)
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However if a fair mechanism could be found to prevent extreme fluctuations in students to a district, I’d be willing to consider some novel approaches.

Economics tends to be a good balancing tool. Along with higher demand comes higher prices which brings more suppliers.

In addition to oil, this works for teachers as well. Climbing prices also then to slow down the demand.

10 posted on 06/02/2012 8:48:12 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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ONLINE education for most of what they need!!!! Just do NOT get the teacher’s unions tied into this!!! Perfect opportunity for someone to break the system!


11 posted on 06/02/2012 8:57:15 AM PDT by goodnesswins (What has happened to America?)
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Here’s a thought. Give them all vouchers that will pay for 1/2 of their tuition. If they decide to go online, pay 100 percent.


12 posted on 06/02/2012 9:15:52 AM PDT by appeal2 (Don't steal, the government hates competition.)
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If people had to apply to move into a state,county or city

You mean like they had to in the former Soviet Union?

13 posted on 06/02/2012 9:18:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp

ND has some of the worst laws for homeschooling. Change that and tons of kids can go virtual.


14 posted on 06/02/2012 9:18:51 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
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Let educators set up their own charter schools. Private enterprise can act quicker than the Govt. Here is a good use for some of the FEMA trailers. That $67,000 per kid send them to Harvard.


15 posted on 06/02/2012 9:27:57 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Ineptocracy; the Obama way.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Good points — how did America cope in the era of 40 kids in a class, much weaker teacher unions, and other issues? Yet it seems that kids got a better education back then compared to now, in spite of those problems.

I recently saw some talking head show on TV. An older black man was there; I don’t remember his name or why he was there. But anyway, he said that he grew up in the south in the days of segregated schools, and that he got a better education in his segregated school than kids get today in our major cities.


16 posted on 06/02/2012 9:29:42 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Ten years ago the crisis was not enough kids. Hell they we’re talking about letting the upper Midwest revert to prairie because of the falling population.

Look up the “Buffalo Commons” idea from the 80’s


17 posted on 06/02/2012 10:04:57 AM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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Economics tends to be a good balancing tool.

In this case taxes is the balancing tool. Build a big expensive state of the art school and the watch the boom go to bust over an Obama/epa ruling. Guess who gets stuck with the bill? (Hint: not the ones who caused it)

18 posted on 06/02/2012 10:16:29 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Of course I'm right. Sometimes I'm righter than others.)
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Guess who gets stuck with the bill?

The people who voted those idiots into office that made that decision?

19 posted on 06/02/2012 10:19:21 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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$200,000,000 for 3,000 kids? That over $66,666 per kid. Additionally, 3,000 kids is just three regular sized schools. Somebody is jerking our chains.


20 posted on 06/02/2012 11:39:37 AM PDT by fini
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