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The Stupendous Failure Of Big City Education: How Philly Teachers Union Loots The Schools
Zero Hedge.com ^ | 8/29/2014 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 09/02/2014 7:21:41 PM PDT by Beave Meister

It’s that time of year again – when the little juvenile delinquents, future prison inmates, and functionally illiterate junior members of the free shit army pick up their “free” backpacks and “free" school supplies they will never use and shuffle off to the decaying prison like schools in the City of Philadelphia to eat “free” breakfasts and “free” lunches, while being taught government sanctioned pablum by overpaid mediocre union teachers.

It’s a repeat of every year for the Phila school district. As the school year approaches they are shocked to report a massive deficit and beg the State of PA for more funding. The $12,000 per child simply isn’t enough, even though Parochial schools provide ten times the education for $9,000 per child. The district has a slight $80 million deficit this year. Last year they had a $100 million deficit and the mayor proposed a soda tax to fill the gap. It was defeated, so they raised property taxes instead. Mayor Nutter’s name is fitting. He is just another in a long line of Democratic mayors who have ruled Philadelphia since the 1950′s and whose policies of welfare handouts for their voting base paid for by taxing the producers, has resulted in a population decline from 2.1 million in 1950 to 1.5 million today. Doug Casey captures the essence of Philly with this definition:

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; education; fail; fraud; liberals; philadelphia; philly; teachers; teachersunion; unions
And Philly ranks AHEAD of Chicago, New Orleans, DC, & Detroit...
1 posted on 09/02/2014 7:21:41 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

Did you know that under “communist CORE” no high school history is taught after 1900? UCMTU!! They do not want these youth to understand the virtue of the American male soldier. PURE AND SIMPLE.Raise hell or let this country go.


2 posted on 09/02/2014 7:29:18 PM PDT by iowacornman
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To: Beave Meister
Philadelphia is MUCH like many/most public schools.
That's why private/charter/religious schools are so full.
3 posted on 09/02/2014 7:29:51 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Beave Meister
Home school.

Avoid this money laundering cesspool .

4 posted on 09/02/2014 9:03:32 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: 4Liberty

Americans would be shocked to see how little % wise is being spent on actual education


5 posted on 09/02/2014 9:07:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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