That'd buy a whole lotta this.
Posted on 01/07/2009 3:13:45 PM PST by originalbuckeye
They’ve been in charge for a long time already. Decades. The next four years are not going to be any different - it’s just that conservatives may finally be waking up. Too late, I am afraid. If you are a parent and do not want your children brainwashed, get them out of government schools now, or don’t complain when your children reject your values and cherished beliefs down the road.
That'd buy a whole lotta this.
They ordered frivolous machines that schools didn’t ask for, they skirted the rules to close competitive bidding (ie awarded the contract to ONE bidder), they overpaid. All of which begs the question - who was the vendor? And then, who in Chicago schools got the kickback?
And therein lies the problem. The federal government should have NOTHING to do with the education system. If only Reagan had followed through and done away with the federal DOE..........
They have already spread their model to Washington State. The voters elected a man who heads a branch of the SEIU as the WA State Superintendent of Schools. He stated in his resume that he was a former lawyer for the teachers’s union, which was bad enough, but then we find out that he is the head of the WA SEIU, a direct off shoot of ACORN.
Sheesh, Chicago vole schools training the next generation of baristas for Starbucks. Sure helps Starbuck’s bottom line to have the taxpayer handle the training for them. Now Obama’s nominee can bring this up to a national scale.
Excellent connection :)
Why the hell would any public school need expresso machines?
True, the machines might not have been that high in comparison, but the REAL question....why do schools need cappuccino machines??????
They don’t. Period.
This is so asinine. A $20 Mr. Coffee machine is fine for any faculty lounge, etc. If people want a $2,000 espresso machine they can put up the money themselves.
Expensive espresso machines for vocational schools? Starbucks will give them all the training they need in one day, with no cost to the school district. How about teaching auto shop, rather than espresso-making? A person could actually make a good living after learning how to fix cars.
Vocational training. Barista is one of the fastest growing jobs in the food/beverage service industry. It takes much more skill to brew a double half-caf, grande soy latte, than say, make a Big Mac.
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