Posted on 09/13/2005 8:38:05 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
I suspect a lot of that $7,500 per is tied to meeting all these requirements. Some of them are really asinine.
I heard yesterday they were going to drop the standards for the 'refugee' children regarding the standards of NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND. Guess they already know most of these kids can't read or write. Pull your kids out of public school now!!
If they didn't waste the taxpayer's money especially around Houston with their MARBLE entrances and halls and high-price sculptures on the grounds of the palaces to the worshipers of the NEA (aka public schools) --- maybe they would not have to BEG for more money?
Property taxes for schools in Katy (West Houston) heve almost quadrupled in the past 10 years - I paid $1500/year -now costs $9,000
Slightly exagerrated --- it's now $7000/year when you add all the seperate taxes together.
have to pay for the illegal invaders' kids somehow
Oh, fer cryin' out loud. They'll get the money. Just not from FEMA. Sheesh.
The budget is shot...There are no additional funds to appropriate...There are three options...Raise taxes on the middle class, again...Print more money...Don't worry about it because our kids will deal with it later...
Fourth option:
An emergency "Wealth Tax" on the truly wealthy liberals such as Ted Kennedy and Teresa Heinz that live off inherited trust funds they never pay income tax on.
Texas isn't Georgia. Texas puts reasonable limits on class sizes. (For K-4, classes are limited to 22 students per teacher.)
In addition, anyone from the New Orleans public schools is likely going to need special ed and other help. Suburban school districts may need to add additional security personnel.
Some of the Texas public schools provide an excellent education. And the really bad school districts are eventually dealt with.
Hey!
I'll have you know that Georgia schools raised their SATs by 6 points last year and no longer rank 50th among the states. We are tied for 49th.
:)
Oops misformatted the student to teacher ratios for Texas - that should have been 14.9
I attended public schools in Georgia - in some of the districts which were considered good for the state. My 3rd grade class had over 40 students - I managed to get transferred to another school where there were about 30.
It was certainly not my intention to defend the Georgia public school system.
When I was a department head at a private high school we learned not to even interview potential teachers if they taught in the public school system since the odds of them being fully knowledgeable and having good communication skills together with good grades from a good college was almost zero.
But that said there is more to education than class size. Texas has a one third better student to teacher ratio that Georgia but Texas's SAT average is only 2 points higher so clearly there are other factors.
More students in Georgia speak English. I know an elementary school in a nice area where there are 5 pre-K and one K class which are foreign language. The punch line - the foreign language is Chinese.
Of course, the majority of students in districts like Dallas and El Paso are Hispanic. In the Valley, English is a foreign language.
This is just BS.........the president has promised and money has been set aside to offset state and local costs spent to help evacuees
What a very odd comment for a conservative to make.
Surely you are aware that there is no correlation whatsoever between the amount of money spent per pupil, and the quality of the education - or more correctly, the test scores of the students?
Per the Census Bureau report of June, 04, Louisiana was at $6519 per pupil while Texas was at $6746.
Not a huge difference.
Think D.C. students at $13,000 per get that much better an education?
:-)
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