Posted on 02/15/2006 9:04:43 AM PST by upchuck
Bosses, have I got an idea for you: Don't pay your best employees more, don't ease out your least productive workers, and for crying out loud, never fire anyone, not even for the most blatant misconduct on the job.I did all three when I was in business, some more than once.
Absolutely necessary!
Liberals have been killing schools since the 1960s.
Looking forward to next weeks column :)
School district administrations and teacher's unions are a joke.
The people managing these organizations are ex-Teachers that never wanted to teach in the first place...and found themselves a position that pays more while they do less.
School districts need to be dissolved (in my old po-dunk town the Superindendent is paid 200K plus benis, for what?)Just have an overall Federal oversight system (audit committee) and let individual schools stand on their own accord.
You mean you did pay your best employees more and you did fire people for misconduct?
JOhn Stossel had an awesome segment on 20/20 last week. One in which he had Jesse Jackson Jr. It was about hypocites who refuse to vote for school vouchers, yet attended private schools themselves and send their own kids to private schools as well. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s answer to Stossel's question? "I send my kids to private schools because I can afford it."
Stossel didn't let up either, he really stuck it to him. It was great. John Stossel and Brit Hume may be the only "media men" I can trust at all.
The sooner, the better.
Close them all down.
There are graphs showing the growth of the teachers union from the late sixties compared with the dropping of scores, they match almost perfectly.
And just think - Stossel used to be a flaming liberal until not so long ago ... now he's a flaming conservative.
Yes, we need school choice desperately. The public schools have become a disaster, where 70% of the budget goes into administration and bureaucracies of support staffers and lawyers. The public schools are a complete mess in many states, esp. New York and the state where I grew up, the once great state of California. There's no possible logical argument for maintaining the public school monopoly. This is totally political and democRAT politicians are selling out our kids and out future for political benefits for themselves.
I believe John Stossel is a libertarian
Including the use of tense.
Corrected, it should read:
Well, at best a flaming Libertarian. However, I'll take a Libertarian over a liberal any day of the week. The sad thing is, he has said that because of his change of heart he has been shunned by many in the MSM that used to be "friends".
And yet, they keep telling us the media is not liberally biased.
The prospect of taking education courses deters the best students from becoming teachers. Many of these courses teach nonsense and the only way to get through them is to turn off your brain and regurgitate what the teacher wants to hear. Ironically, only those who demonstrate the capacity to absorb and parrot nonsense are considered qualified to teach.
John shouldn't worry about being shunned by those media clowns. They weren't actually his friends. He can show up here any time and make a bunch of new FRiends.
i would love to see some of these graphs. it would be great ammunition to show my clueless liberal girlfriend. any links?
Dude, clueless liberal girlfriends will never admit they are (wrong or without a clue)...best thing to do...is give them something else they can put their hands around.
In Hoc.
He is a smart guy. And it's nice to have him in our corner for a small limited government.
After studying the education system for a college class, I became a full fledged supporter of a privatized system. I can't think of any sane person who wouldn't support paying a business money for a better education. That was one of my main motivations in going backl to college. I want to get a better job so I can afford to send my children to a private school.
I think sooner or later the public education system will crumble. And I hope more sooner than later.
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