Posted on 05/07/2008 10:17:40 AM PDT by Disturbin
How many other bloated government agencies are NOT being threatened with cutbacks?
In the middle 80’s when my husband was transferred to that horrible state on an AF Education with Industry assignment, we moved to the Groton, MA, area and were told that we had to transport our own kids to school as there was no more room on the buses and there would be no more buses.
Had always taken the kids to school so that was no problem but I did ask if we would receive a rebate since we were not allowed to use their transportation. They didn’t think that was funny but it didn’t hurt to ask.
My opinion of education under Dukakis and his wife is not much. Worst education my daughter received in the public schools was that one year in Groton that wasn’t even a full year as we were transferred at the end of May and they went to the middle of June.
When I was a kid (in Boston), we walked to school (one school I went to was about a mile away) and brought our own lunch, which we ate at our desks. The school sold those little half-pints of milk, I guess at cost. IIRC, each school had a full-time principal, but the vice-principal was a classroom teacher -- no other administration.
I'd be tempted to tell them what they can do with their Homosexual programs but, well, you know.
I was very active in the MA school voucher movement ten years ago. Back then, the per-pupil expenditure in Boston was $10k/student. I can't imagine what it is now.
One reason for this outrageous cost is teacher union salaries (twice that of private, i.e., Catholic, schools). Another reason is administrative overhead. Typically, city gov't schools have 100 times as many administrators as Catholic schools. A Catholic archdiocese might have 4 or 5 administrators, in comparison to 4-500 administrators for gov't schools.
To make matters worse is the fact that the schools teach a smorgasbord of worthless PC dogma, they can't deliver the three R's, and they prohibit the free exercise of religion by forcing the children of religious parents into "God-free zones" for 6 hours per day. Finally and ultimately, any form of education that purports to prepare children for life, yet ignores the final end of human life, eternal life with God, is not true education at all, but child abuse.
The whole contemptible system should be abandoned and replaced by just about anything else, vouchers being the obvious, but union-hated solution. The system does more harm than good. Future generations will look back at 20th century gov't schooling the way we look back at the dark, satanic mills of the 19th century.
“and it’s essential that kids are properly fed at school.”
That is mom and dad’s job.
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