Posted on 02/10/2002 3:23:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:22 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NEWTON - This suburb of high-priced homes and high-flying MCAS scores is not the sort of place that wants its renowned public schools to be called ''Somewhere Else, USA'' - especially not by its own superintendent.
Yet Jeffrey M. Young flashed the label at a recent meeting, hinting that millions in proposed budget cuts would saddle Massachusetts' 10th-largest school system with ''paperbacks bound with duct tape, textbooks from the 1980s, and microscopes that should be in the Smithsonian.''
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Delayed returns show Humble school bond vote too close to call --"Stand Up for Kids, a grass-roots group fighting the bond proposal, supports …"
Galveston's school bond plan falls short --"...a group called Taxpayers Against Higher Taxes for Poorer Education."
Groan.
I live in a town with similar demographics to Newton. We currently have been having tax limit override "campaigns". Last Fall, it was defeated 2:1.
They are back: We have another vote this month. They never, never stop. Worse, they use OUR money to lobby US, using the taxpayer's materials and facilities to print handouts, and propagandize the students.
Let one pail of slop miss the trough, and the squealing starts!
We need more teachers, and fewer "Education Professionals" .... A town of 23,000, with THREE superintendents.
Perhaps if Newton were to skip an occasional Fisting 101 course.....Ahh, you know the rest.
No I don't, but check this out. This school district is about halfway between the aforementioned two. Clear Creek Independent School District Taxpayers.org
They raised the alarm here but the bond issue passed. Maybe next time. I know there will be a next time.
The school board said there is nothing they can do because the Robin Hood Act takes from the affluent districts and we need to make up that shortfall.
There sure are a lot of useless people kept on the payrolls at school systems. Take the janitors for instance. Schools could save a ton of money doing what most companies do, just outsource some cleaning service to come in after school hours to sweep the place up. When I went to school in the 1970s, all the janitors ever did was amble around the corridors with a mop and be the butt of jokes. One janitor was a pedophile, he would hang out in the boys room and leer at us.
I can go on and on, don't get me started on school systems!
I like it more widely known how much administrators make and their educational background, as in subjects (the teacher's too). I know it's all educat-psycobabble.
This special education is a scam. They pick over each student looking for some thing, anything, that will give them a reason to "place" them in some "special" class.
Years ago I was contacted by the elementary school. They told me that my daughter, who has an ever so slight lisp, needed to be "placed." I told them, What?! I said it was cute and she didn't need to be placed. And that was that. She graduated from TX A&M and holds a very responsible job.
Getting kids into lunch programs and special ed classes and bi-lingual education, etc. just expands their pool of money and employees more LIBERALS.
It's all about social engineering and driving the LIBERAL agenda.--Teachers union adopts resolution to protect gays
Bump!
Let's see. You have an excellent school system, but you have to keep tinkering to stay "cutting edge?" I'm sure that's not the whole problem here -- the special ed thing is out of control in a lot of places -- but the attitude is revealing. It is easy to lose sight of basics if you are locked into a "what's new" mindset. Suddenly you're off chasing trendy bells and whistles and forgetting that teaching 5-6-7 year olds to read hasn't changed much.
And they need to get the word out to the community. The educrats will fight tooth and nail and the community needs to work hard to combat local LIBERAL media who spin for the teacher's union and the campaigning in classrooms by teachers. Oh, and let's not forget the "My Child Is A Genius" bumper stickers--the panacea for parents that everything is just fine.
It really is that simple but just teaching doesn't put more of our money into their pockets and into the hands of Democrat politicians.
(June 22, 2000)- NEA's Political Activities Detailed--[Excerpt] WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's largest teachers union, which reports to the IRS that it spends no union dues on politics, spent millions of dollars to help elect ''pro-education candidates,'' produce political training guides and gather teachers' voting records, internal documents show.
The National Education Association documents reviewed by The Associated Press provide a rare window into the internal workings of one of the most powerful unions in the country. The union said Thursday it believes it complied with the law.
The documents state that the union since 1994 has budgeted or spent money from its general account -- funded by about $200 million a year in teachers' dues -- on activities ranging from recruiting teacher-friendly candidates to helping state affiliates raise political action committee funds.
A July 1999 strategic plan states the union budgeted $4.9 million for the 2000 election for such things as ''organizational partnerships with political parties, campaign committees and political organizations.'' [End Excerpt]
That's the truth, look at Washington D.C. schools.
Dallas just passed a $1.3 Billion bond package as a stop-gap meansure.
Now that's a screwed up district!
No more phone calls..................we have a winner.
Btw... I wonder if Madeline Aucoin is married to someone who might be the son of my old Social Studies teacher, Miss. Aucoin. That would be interesting.
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