wait for it......
..... the 8th graders out-scored the TEACHERS!!!
High time to unleash RICO on Baltimore pols and school officials....twenty-seven ATLANTA educators get nailed under RICO. Here's how.
Rhonda Cook one of the ace AJC reporters who bird-dogged the Atlanta story reported: The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about “the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements,” so it adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law.
NOTE RICO is often used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in the beginning, was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members. But in recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to government officials accused of using their offices for personal gain---such as -the various former and current Atlanta public school officials.
TAXPAYER ALERT To bring a case under Georgia’s RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies — such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among others). RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the self-same indictment, and to charge that they were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.
Anybody can bring a RICO....taxpayers are prime litigants since there are reams of evidence....pols telling taxpayers that throwing money at this or that program will fix the problem.
It means that more than 60% of the Baltimore teachers live outside the city limits in predominantly white and middle class school districts.
We should quit rebuilding Afgan and Baltimore schools.
If we stopped all funding of public schools, then kids who want to learn will find a way to learn (w/parental help).
If we increased public school funding, the kids who don’t want to learn, still won’t.
All the money in the world cannot offset dysfunctional families and communities. Those kids, or most of them, are doomed pretty much from birth.
That's $433,225 for a classroom of 25 students. Let's say the teacher makes $100k gross including medical+SS+retirement. Mark that up 25% to allow teachers to have work periods and for substitutes. So we're at $125k.
Add on a classroom at about 600 square feet. Now double that to handle common areas. Around here office space is about $12/sq. ft./year, so that's $14,400 for the space. So the total is $139,400.
Textbooks last a few years so I'll add on two new textbooks per student at $100 each. $144,400 total.
Let's say each kid gets a ream of paper copied per year. At $0.10 per page (probably overstated) that's $1250 more. $145,650.
Where does the rest of the money go to jump from $145,650 to $433,225? Transportation will cost some. Administrators will cost some, but even if you figure one administrator for every two teachers that is still under $200k. Is it spent on repairs to the school because the kids break everything? Special education? Did I greatly underestimate some price?
You can lead a horse to water...
Not surprisingly, entrants to “Education Major” programs score in the bottom 25-percentile of all SAT testers.