Posted on 09/16/2009 4:44:33 AM PDT by IbJensen
More money.
We need to give the education system much more money.
More for horrible and useless teachers, more for larger administration depts.
More for teacher unions.
and continue to watch our children not able to read write or do math.
Good deal.
This particular case could go a bit further if this teacher was named, or the specific school was mentioned, or even if there was an actual link. Otherwise, it is a collection of possibly true anecdotes, with emphasis on possibly.
Bump
Send them all back and shoot the ones that try to return.
While you say that this e-mail is “possibly” true, if you live in a community that has a large illegal population, it is exactly what we who do live with every day!
If the school was named they'd know who she was.
I have heard what happens to the the free lunches from others and know what the illegals get for nothing.
If they're anecdotes they're true.
Billions are thrown at education that wastefully spends it on free lunches and breakfasts because it is felt in Washington that the parents are too damned stupid to feed their children.
Since the problem is in Washington, and in some state legislatures, then it's proof that the Department of Education needs to be abolished.
Now where can we find a candidate with the guts to run on that issue? Even further, where is the candidate that says "Vote for me. I'll take a meataxe to the central government, but give me the Congress that will get the job done!"
That's what it really takes to get this nation out of the swamp and back on the road to recovery and better health!
Instead of a fence we could dig a large moat and fill it with Florida alligators.
The schools are less institutions of learning today, than they are B&Bs and UN social clubs.
Maybe someday, the schools will actually go back to the business of educating kids.
What a concept!!
Good job.
The problem is that if and when the schools are enabled to go back to the basic business of education it will be too late for the millions of kids who entered the sausage grinder and came out illiterate and indoctrinated.
Just saying though that this needs to be taken and used carefully - as a generic state of condition. FWIW, Snopes has this entered from early June with a status of "Undetermined".
Under so much of our problems as a country is a large and growing class of people who have little or no hope of making it without a huge, and also growing, federal government that started out as a safety net but has turned into a fishing net. It's not PC or polite to point out this class and how increasingly incapable they are of being responsible for themselves. And it's NOT a racial thing, any more than a crack band from a high school that has mostly black students playing a rousing rendition of Stars and Stripes forever makes John Phillip Souza a writer of soul music.
It NOT a matter color, race, religion, etc. Show me an un-married, female teenager, with a child or children who have no male, let alone father, presence in their lives and I will show you a ‘family’ that's is destined to live poverty. Government has become the father in these families and it's an arrangement that's not working well for them or society as a whole.
Don't get me wrong. The problems reach much further than the above outline. There are millions of families with intact male and father figures in place but who live almost entirely on the government handout. At one time they were the working poor, but with the increasing scope of public dole they have had to work less and less.
Until we find the political will to turn back the clock a decade or two, and return to the principles that made us the greatest nation in history, we're on the long slippery slope to the dust bin of formerly great countries and societies.
Listen to the drivel coming out of Congress these days. Every other problem is blamed on racism. Calling a liar a liar has nothing to do with race. A lie is a lie, regardless of who tells it. And it's lie even if the ‘decorum’ of the venue in which it's told finds it improper to call out the person for the untruth.
Sept. 12 was a great start! But unless we keep up the pressure on them, and increase it as necessary, they will batten down the hatches and ride out the storm.
He does mention the particular schools. What more do you want - retribution against him?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Excellent analysis.
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PICTURES!
Need pics of the wasted food, fat students and cell phones.
Pics worth 1,000 words each!
No argument there.
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