Posted on 02/23/2014 2:00:50 PM PST by TurboZamboni
The schools will never have enough money. That should be clear by now. Trying to get a handle on what public education costs us is like trying to get a handle on Bigfoot, a large, out-of-focus monster that has never been successfully photographed.
Remember, as the union activists from the St. Paul Federation of Teachers dutifully put on their red T-shirts to tell us of their current distress, that we just went through something similar as recently as 2012. That time, we were told we had to vote for a levy increase so the kids could have better access to technology. And in 2006 we had to pass a levy for money to better prepare the kids to enter first grade. OK.
This time around, it is not a levy, but a contract that the teachers want because now is the time to fight and to seek more funds for more counselors and social workers and nurses and smaller class sizes and librarians and social workers and language specialists and substitute teachers and special-education teachers and more art and more music and more libraries.
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not true..
a church or charity that is wasteful of the funds given them will simply be cut off by those giving to them.
Now.. try that with a school district. In our state they will take your house for not paying the property tax (that goes to Schools among other things)
When I was in fifth grade there were about 50 kids in the class and one nun!
Then I moved to the Catholic HS, and annual tuition was $36 for the first kid; and 18$ for the second kid, and the third child got in free!
Those nuns sure knew how to run schools.
Amen to that!
It seems that every few months we have another school bond issue for some fancy project they dream up, and they always pass! It’s for the children, you know. They schedule these votes at off times, and alert people to them by means of the school district newsletter (which, I assume, is paid for by taxpayers).
Nobody ever bothers to ask what they are doing with all the money they already have. It infuriates me.
Not only the 1950s, but if you look at books and tests from the 1800s to the turn of the century, schools produced far better results in the days of one-room schoolhouses on the prairie, with teachers not much older than the students, (and those teachers made so little money they had to board with someone.) And there were so few books, many kids brought a Bible or almanac from home to learn how to read. There were no social workers, field trips, computers, counselors, etc., etc.
no, the teachers unions will never have enough of our money.
Agree; then parents will start making sure their kids are learning something and bullying will stop since the schools could be sued for failing to protect students from harassment.
Teachers weren’t perving on the kids and families had a purpose, a sense of direction.
They got want they wanted. 9% raise and more social workers and smaller classes.
Meanwhile their average is 68k/year , 92k if you count benefits.
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