Posted on 12/09/2017 7:07:30 AM PST by Kaslin
I realized my post sounds very negative. We know that some of these kids have basically no parenting or such screwed up living environments that it is not their fault. You try & make their 8 hours at school good ones.
In public school the biggest sin a teacher can commit is to say it is the culture & lack of parenting. You might as well send your resume to Waffle House that day!
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I believe that the vouchers themselves would solve the problem. Most parents would get the money and begin seeking the best education they could get for their children, adding from their own funds if need be.
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Sorry, but vouchers are welfare by any other name and will grow/morph into more of the same. Just a way to keep govt ‘in the mix’ and in control.
Nothing positive will come if/until the bill is paid by those utilizing the service.
NOBODY spends $$$\time better than the one paying the bill.
Common core is the antidote for home/private schooled students excelling on standardized testing. It negates the advantage those who escape the public school morass have.
Actually, if they give me a voucher for education, it is my money that I am spending. I pay quite a lot in taxes and have educated five children with two left in the nest.
We home school, so the first three have been on my dime while still paying taxes and property taxes.
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Actually, if they give me a voucher for education, it is my money that I am spending.
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Sorry, a voucher != tax cut. (keeping your own $$).
A voucher is a “govt check”. Could be less, or even MORE [aka EITC], that you were taxed.
Debunked? The woman was stabbed, she was raped, she was murdered. The only question is whether more people should have recognized what was going on and helped to stop it.
I would guess the New York Times used the event to take cheap shots at the middle-class people of Queens. The Times is rarely reliable. That does not change the central events or the big question.
No, the murder occured and I think you know I wasn’t referring to her murder which, indeed, happened. The killer was not from that neighborhood and was basically a serial killer. He left his wife’s bed to seek out a vulnerable woman. 45 people did NOT witness the murder and fail to call the police. It happened around 2:00am or so and her screams awoke several people - two of whom called the police. One who heard the screams, yelled out the window and the killer ran away. (Only to re-track her.) The rest were startled out of deep sleep, looked out the window and saw nothing. Anyone who lives in a NYC apt. has heard screams, looked at the window, and seen nothing. Between tall buildings, deep shadows and the typical sounds of a city, it’s not unusual to hear something but see nothing.
The killer re-tracked her to her apt. and proceeded to murder her in her hallway. Her neighbor and friend, an older woman, came out and cradled Kitty while she was dying.
Her own brother has debunked the myth of a cold, unfeeling city life and yet people still cling to this hoary old myth. Stupid.
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