Posted on 10/18/2016 8:23:18 AM PDT by mainestategop
In Massachusetts, the only other New England state that's the left of Maine and Rhode island, there is a popular ballot measure that needs every patriotic American's support. That is question 2, the measure that would remove the cap on charter schools in the state of Massachusetts and give 32,000 struggling students in failing and dangerous schools (and there are many of them) an opportunity to learn in schools that are efficient, safe and wholesome.
But the liberals and the teachers union bums would not have any of it. The only ones who oppose question 2 besides the usual cadre of uneducated, public school neutered underachieving trash has been the unions. Mainly the teacher unions like the NEA.
In fact the bum teachers are so scared of this measure passing that they have gotten help from out of state. In fact bum unions all over America have paid over 18 million dollars to promote deceptive communist propaganda to fight this measure and to keep our kids in dangerous failing schools so they can eat our money and squeeze us a lot more.
The majority of donations opposing question 2 come from the teacher unions in Washington DC. The District of Columbia has one of the strongest unions in the nation and not surprisingly, one the worst school systems in the nation. DC is also among the most corrupt cities in the nation.
The teachers unions in DC and other Democrat controlled wastelands and swamp lands are scared that if Question 2 passes, it will spread to other states and endanger their communist monopoly over our children's education and children's futures, making it difficult to indoctrinate them to hate America and hate capitalism
It is thanks to the unions that reforms to education are being blocked and bad teachers who often abuse their students are protected and not removed or held accountable in anyway.
The only help that the pro question 2 crowd has gotten has been from private donors but its biggest ally has been an unlikely one, the Walton family that owns Wal-mart corporation.
Sam Walton's descendants have never been one to hop on the charity band-wagon like Bill Gates and others but the Walton family has begun to involve themselves in helping other in need. Educational opportunities have been the Walton foundation's biggest funding targets. Approximately seven million dollars have been pumped into the Yes on 2 Campaign by the Waltons in order to help combat communist propaganda aimed to force illiterate underachieving kids to stay in failing dangerous schools and thereby become apathetic, failing underachieving adults like most Generation X'ers and Millennials (my generation) have already become.
Not only that, the usual cadre of communists have demanded no on 2 and have threatened to attack those who support question 2. The communist party of Greater Boston has gone around threatening those handing out pamphlets and rallying in the streets of Boston for support. The SEIU has also given support for opposition to 2.
The propaganda is vicious and deceptive, lies about schools being cut and shut down, of schools desperate for cash being robbed to pay for charters schools that serve a few privileged wealthy kids, of children being dumbed down and uneducated.
In truth, money is not taken out of the public school system. In fact our schools get paid too much. It all goes to the filthy lazy bums who we call, teachers. Teachers are in my opinion the worst kind of people imaginable. Deplorable bums who have failed our children time and time again and then line up for more of our cash.
All over America, children are subjegated to bullying, abuse, failure and are dumbed down. They get more quality education from watching television and playing nintendo than they do in a class room! That's no lie speaking as a former public school student and having met people who have been let down by public schools.
If the NEA and the school districts are so worried, they need to get off their lazy butts and do their jobs! THE JOBS WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PAY THEM FOR!
VOTE YES ON 2 FOR SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY!
Off topic but here’s another reason to distrust the left wing, power hungry jack booted thuggery of Massachusetts.
Yesterday, I was driving down the highway in DELAWARE. I changed lanes in front of an unmarked black Ford Expedition police car with MASSACHUSETTS plates to make a left turn exit.
The moron power thug actually lit me up so HE could go faster. What a moron.
policemen do this all the time especially in major cities. They run intersections, speed and fail to set an example to the public. This is considered legal BTW.
From what I understand, in Massachusetts, the money must follow the child, so if that child leaves the public school (funded locally via local and state funds) to go to a charter school (funded by the state) then the state money that goes to that budget pool for that public school (for that student) is reallocated to the charter school.
I would be 100% okay with this if I knew that money won't be taken from other local funds (obviously, won't be the Police, and won't be the Firefighters, and it won't be a decrease in the town bureaucratic staffing) to make up the decrease in the budget pool at the public school, but long experience has told me that, with large bureaucracies (such as the school systems) the funding rarely, if ever decreases. It always stays the same or goes up, at least in Massachusetts, and I suspect, many other places.
The reality is, I fear that if it is approved, they won't cut back on costs at that public school, they won't get rid of teachers...my property taxes are simply going to go up. If the process worked, and the schools lost money and teachers were laid off, I would be fine with that. But experience tells me it won't happen that way.
I find myself on the same side as disgusting liberals, but for completely different reasons. As I said, the political structure with the Mass Teachers Association (I almost misspelled that "Teatcher" which would seem oddly appropriate) and their massive political clout in this state ensures that the free market principles that would cause the public school to wither on the vine and die as students migrate to the charter schools simply won't happen, because that free market principle won't be allowed to have its natural effect.
As I said, I am taking a narrow view of it, and would welcome other views on this. If the argument is that charter schools are simply better, I can't be on board just pumping more money into the education system which I already feel is already burdening the taxpayers here, and this will simply mean more money for all education, because I think that will be the end result.
It is hard for me to imagine more corrupt and liberal places than Massachusetts, but Delaware and Maryland give it a run for the money.
CALIFORNIA
ILLINOIS
RHODE ISLAND
In fact I plan to do a series about them and the most corrupt and communist states in America. If you live there, you have no rights anymore. You are outside the jurisdiction of human rights and constitutional liberties.
This guy was five states out of his jurisdiction and was just rolling at the speed limit. He was trying to catch his buddy in a similar truck a few cars ahead.
They are both pretty corrupt. My county doesn’t have speed or traffic cameras.
I thought about calling the cops and reporting a guy in an Expedition impersonating a police officer.
Not allowing school choice, especially to poor inner city kids, is a contributing factor to the problems in those areas. Trump has pointed this out many times and is for school choice. I wish this and common core would have been discussed a little at a debate, but of course it wasn’t.
The public schools won’t wither on the vine and die, that is the union scare tactics. School choice is very important for the future of our country, as anyone can see the public schools have failed our kids.
As a taxpayer, hold the officials feet to the fire. If the teacher’s union is bribing or threatening it, inform other taxpayers and parents. The people need to stand up to these public employee unions that are ruining our country.
A key part of the left’s drive for absolute power is control of teh children. Charter schools, private schools, religious schools, and home schooling threaten that. This is why they hate any kind of alternative school, and they hate school choice. It reduces their control and provides an escape hatch from teh underclass.
A key part of the left’s drive for absolute power is control of the children. Charter schools, private schools, religious schools, and home schooling threaten that. This is why they hate any kind of alternative school, and they hate school choice. It reduces their control and provides an escape hatch from teh underclass.
A key part of the left’s drive for absolute power is control of the children. Charter schools, private schools, religious schools, and home schooling threaten that. This is why they hate any kind of alternative school, and they hate school choice. It reduces their control and provides an escape hatch from the underclass.
I know those underperforming schools won’t wither on the vine and die...but that is what SHOULD happen, they SHOULD wither and die if there is an outflow of students from an underperforming school, their census drops, and the state money into it decreases.
That is what SHOULD happen.
But I don’t think that is GOING to happen because they will be propped up with funds from somewhere else (my property taxes, probably!) because they sure as hell won’t take those funds from Police or Firefighters, because they use the same union scare tactics as the teachers unions.
I was on one of my trips to DC to visit with my DC Free Republic Chapter Friends and counter-protest the Code Pinkos outside Walter Reed, and on my way home, I got stuck in three hours of traffic after exiting the Baltimore Harbor tunnels northbound.
I was nearly crazy, and when the traffic finally eased up at a specific point and you could get back up to highway speed, I, like everyone else, did just that.
Little did I know they had a trailer set up right there with hidden cameras, taking pictures of car license plates and issuing speeding tickets by mail.
I got one.
I’ll tell you, I was madder than Hell. But I couldn’t envision a way to not pay that ticket.
Those were the famous Jeep speed cams. They posted that they would ticket you at 12+ mph over the limit. Pretty much everyone drove 11 over.
I got tagged once too and just paid it.
The bizarre thing is that Maryland has multiple police agencies patrolling the highways. State Police and the Tunnel Cops, who work for the Maryland Transportation Agency. Total thugs.
I got pulled by a state trooper once for not moving over when he was on the side with his lights on. I was slowing for a light, doing maybe 20 mph and there was a car in my blind spot.
I was actually looking forward to taking that one to court but he only gave me a warning.
Another time, a trooper pulled out right in front of me on the freeway. I took evasive action, hit the horn and yelled at him. Later I called his barracks and told the duty sergeant that he needed a remedial driving course in the use of mirrors and turn signals.
Then there’s the troop who did the same thing to a friend then pulled him over for unsafe driving. When he returned with the ticket, my friend was talking on his cell phone. The trooper said he’d wait while my friend finished his conversation. My friend replied that he was done but that the troopers commanding Officer wanted to speak with him, then my friend handed the trooper his phone.
I think former trooper is the operative word there.
Tim Barnes Phares - Don’t know who makes me more nervous - Khalstani jihadis (your boss, Paramjit Ajrawat) and foreign organizations (like your Council of Khalistan) or Marxists.
The charter plan is supposed to allow 12 schools every year. That would mean 120 schools in ten years.
Massachusetts has a combination of BIG College along with Big Government.
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