"The people" are a bunch of idiots letting (Federal) Congress/Executive Branch (Approves) spend wildly on issues that should be left to the States.
Posted on 12/15/2008 9:28:37 PM PST by conservativefromGa
resident-elect Barack Obama will name Arne Duncan, the superintendent of schools in Chicago, to be his Secretary of Education, a senior Democratic official and a second person close to the decision said.
Mr. Duncan is a Harvard graduate whose friendship with Mr. Obama began on the basketball court and flowered into frequent discussions of education policy.
He has seven years’ experience as chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest school district, where he has earned a solid reputation for confronting pressing issues in public education, like how to raise teacher quality, how to transform weak schools and when to shutter those that are irredeemably failing.
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Because they pay their kids to go to school?
Very few, then, it is.
For the first time I met Niels Bohr in Göttingen in the summer of 1922, when Bohr held a series of lectures at the invitation of the faculty of exact sciences, which we liked to call the 'Bohr Festival'. Sommerfeld, my teacher in Munich, had taken me along to Göttingen, although I was at that time only a 20 year old student in my fourth semester. Sommerfeld was warmly interested in his students, and he had noticed how strongly Bohr and his atomic theory interested me. The first impression of Bohr still remains quite clearly in my memory. Full of youthful excitement, but a little self-conscious and shy, his head a little to one side, the Danish physicist stood on the platform in the auditorium, the strong Göttingen summer light streaming in through the open windows. He spoke softly and with some hesitation, but behind every carefully chosen word one could discern a long chain of thought, which eventually faded somewhere in the background into a philosophical viewpoint which fascinated me.
They push their kids to be #1. Their entire culture is math, math, math.
In the US, kids and parents only get instant results from sports so the kids play to be the best in sports. If you are into math, you must be one of the nerds from the “Big Bang Theory” show. And this is the attitude of the mid/upper class white Americans.
How did this happen? During the 60’s, there was a massive push to get a man on the moon before the Soviets and we’ve slacked off ever since.
So you think fifty bucks for an A is going to beat an entire culture of MATH, MATH, MATH ?
yes, if you start as early and as often as possible. Kids will quickly learn that math is what really pays, not TV or video games. They won’t complain that long division is “useless.” It’s just part of the deal.
Is this the official that stated that a special high school must be built in Chicago for sodomite (that’s “homosexual” for people from So. Chicago) students? There was a recent posting on FR regarding this.
Teach venality, and they will learn venality, not math. This goes back to your original point about school being a job. Kids will instantly recognize this for the lie that it is. Paying for grades is not a wage, it’s a bribe.
... and long division is useless! You can’t bribe your way out of that.
“... and long division is useless! You can’t bribe your way out of that.”
Tell that to the kid who is laughing his way to the bank while his lazy friends get nothing.
Besides, long division is not useless. I need it in order to figure out what day of the week it will be 40 days from now. I needed to know the algorithm in order to to have a foundation for long division of polynomials, which comes later. But most 4th graders won’t appreciate that they are preparing for algebra.
Ah—because everyone knows Chicago schools are safest and best in the nation.
Hussein is such a dolt.
Bringing the success of the Chicago school system to a town near you.
Are you ready?
To home school!!
I like how you forgot the 'P' there...
Gee, it's nice to know that he has "confronted" those pressing issues. Has he actually succeded in addressing any of them, or is he all about "process" with no regard for actual outcomes? (rhetorical question only - Democrats never actually 'solve' problems, they only use them as vehicles for acquiring power or the public's money or both)
That of course means a 60% or higher drop out rate in the "urban" centers, increased gun violence and shootings in schools, riots, more drug problems, and decreasing national test scores.
Yep, that Arne Duncan has done one HELL of a job in the Chicago Public Schools!
The District bought $3 million + worth of specialized media servers. They did not purchase the classroom equipment to make it work, just the head end.
863 schools, no media standardization, each Principal gets to choose whatever they like for any reason. Almost 100 schools did not even have a single projector, and almost none had a projector for each room so the project would work.
Walter Payton High was an exception, but rapidly getting out of date.
Bids had to be approved by the technology committee (good), purchasing (follow the bid rules), a legal team (useless) and then a diversity committee (the ultimate brother-in-law job).
All for a district that pays in Net 90 or longer.
A friend won a job as an Oracle consultant by becoming the subcontractor to a State Senator's son who added 50% to the invoices. The kid started a programming company for this one Oracle project but couldn't program a cell phone. My buddy thinks he can stretch out the Oracle job until he retires.
And these are the people in charge of Washington next year....
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