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Posted on 04/26/2008 8:14:53 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A Florida school board member is drawing fire from some parents for saying they should spend money on school clothes for their children instead of buying alcohol and cigarettes.
School board member Jay Wheeler's comments were made in an e-mail response to parents’ complaints that they cannot afford the new uniforms mandated by the Osceola County School District, according to MyFOXOrlando.com.
"Everyone can afford Wal-Mart and if they can’t, they need to think about turning off their cable TV or stop buying alcohol or cigarettes and spend their money on their children," he wrote.
Parent Maria Quintana says Wheeler’s e-mail is insulting.
“I have a job and sometimes it's really hard. You have to struggle," Quintana told MyFOXOrlando.com. "And to have them say something like that is really degrading."
Wheeler stands by his comments, saying people should get serious about education and put their children first.
"I thought it might be a wake-up call and I think it's something people want to say but were afraid to,” he said.
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Wheeler stands by his comments, saying people should get serious about education and put their children first.
Bravo.
What do you think of this? I say good for this guy!
Finally. A good man!
Don’t mess with my(six-pack)stimulus package!
This guy tells it like it is. He says what many of us have been thinking but might be afraid to say. He has my support.
what percentage of your students are ILLEGAL???
Already on a local blog he's being screamed at, how DARE he suggest people pay for anything themselves, etc etc...
And lottery tickets.
We aren’t allowed to ask if they are legal, but from the remarks the kids let drop themselves, I’d say at least 30% of my ESL students are illegal.
Jay Wheeler for President! Finally someone who will tell parents that the government isn’t going to raise their kids for them. If you don’t want to provide for them, if you’re not willing to make sacrifices for their welfare, don’t have ‘em in the first place!
“Wheeler stands by his comments, saying people should get serious about education and put their children first.”
If they put their children first, they would be educating them at home and not sending them to the government indoctrination center. As for Wheeler, what does he expect from the parents, given that they were largely products of government indoctrination centers, where self-direction and taking responsibility for one’s own destiny are hardly one of the lessons being taught.
http://www.wanderings.net/notebook/Main/SevenLessonsTaughtInSchool
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm
The Underground History of American Education
A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into The Problem Of Modern Schooling
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/historytour/history1.htm
The Makers of Modern Schooling
The real makers of modern schooling weren’t at all who we think.
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For Cowboy Action?
Finally a school board member who isn’t afraid of speaking the truth. I have kids in my classroom that want to dress like gangbangers and hip hop artists. I swear this generation of boys will be walking fun when they grow up. They won’t know how to walk properly when they start wearing pants that actually sit where they are supposed to sit.
We have a school policy dress code as well: no baggy pants, no undies (male or female) showing, skirts to bottom of finger tips, but it does little use. I live/teach in a middle class suburb of Illinois and most of the parents side with their children. They think we are being too strict. The parents are part of the problem...stop buying them inappropriate clothing. The school is left to be the solution. Some of the kids feel they have the right to say, “stop looking if you don’t want to see them” and parents support that behavior.
Truth hurts, I think. And that's why people are so ticked off about it. They don't like having their noses rubbed in their own poor choices.
Yes, it’s depressing. The boys strut around exactly like they are in a prison yard looking for a fight, and the girls perch nearby in visitor’s room mode. The whole culture is devolving to a lifetime of institutionalization.
His point is not that you shouldn’t buy what you want with your money, it’s that you shouldn’t buy what you WANT and then demand that tax payers buy what you NEED.
Putting children first is now controversial?
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