Posted on 10/14/2011 5:40:57 AM PDT by Tribune7
ping
Why?
CHICAGO
Biology class activiies at CPS
http://www.wgntv.com/videogallery/65398957/News/Classroom-fight-caught-on-tape
Parents are suppose to be in charge, not the teachers union.
The teacher unions' job is to create as many social failures as possible, because social failure increases the democrat base.
It's not about the kids any more. It about power, wages, and totally awesome retirement packages. If the teachers continue to create failures, the democrats will continue to toss them the cash. The two scratch each others back.
There's a special place in hell waiting for these people.
The real reason for the "stimulus" was political payoff to public employee unions and others.
The first thing that any state should do once it comes under Republican control is emulate Wisconsin and gut the public-employee unions' powers, especially including the elimination of paycheck deduction of union dues.
The sad thing is those parents actually think they are.
It's only when their kids get stuck with a bad teacher or their circumstances change so they have trouble with their property tax is when reality starts to dawn on them.
Dittos.
These scumbag morons told everyone that if we just approved casino gambling in Pennsylvania that all our school-funding issues would go away.
They told us that property taxes would go down.
They lied.....like they always do.
Last November we put Republicans fully in charge of the state government. We want property tax reform, teacher accountibilty, a tough stand against the PSEA and other education reforms. So far we have nothing. What can they be afraid of??
The schools punish the children when the parents disobey.
If the school wants something, and the citizenry says "no", the schools eliminate gym, art, or shorten the kids lunch break, and blame it on their parents. It's the kids who end up suffering.
They're not only used as dollar signs, they're also used as political tools. It's not about the kids anymore. The kids are now being used as weapons.
How appropriate that this be held at the Performing Arts Center.
One can only hope. I wish they wouldn't get out hopes up like this and then we find out the schools are still public.
Post 15, out = our. Sorry.
It is time for the complete edifice of “public schools” be torn down.
Return local control, get the feds out, and let the parents of school aged children see to the education of their children.
There are SO MANY resources out there, the school system has become as archaic as the medieval scribe. The internet is getting going, and there are TONS of homeschool providers that the brick and mortar, and the pensions of teachers aren’t needed anymore.
Freedom is HOMESCHOOL!!!
May be of interest, ping!
American schools Doomed?
Does that come as a surprise?
American schools have been doomed ever since the teachers union have decided to put their greedy interests before the education of our kids.
Fifteen-year-olds in the U.S. ranked 25th among peers from 34 countries on a math test and scored in the middle in science and reading, while Chinas Shanghai topped the charts.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said recently, The results show that U.S. students must improve to compete in a global economy.
He said, The brutal fact here is there are many countries that are far ahead of us and improving more rapidly than we are, Duncan said. This should be a massive wake-up call to the entire country.
No kidding! Duncan heads a department installed by President Jimmy Carter. A good first step to making American kids competitive again would be to erase the Department of Education.
An excellent second step would be to install a national voucher system that would allow parents to send their children to the school of their choice.
Haverford School Director Larry Feinberg, who was one of the event’s organizers, is obviously unhappy with the thought of school choice and vouchers.
Geez, the idea of giving parents an opportunity of sending kids to a school that provides a decent education can really rub some people wrong.
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