Out here in CA, we've fixed all of that with the lottery....(extreme sarcasm)
55% of those polled are morons?
It’s not true all over the USA but I familiar with many counties where teachers are way overpaid when the 9 month work year, pensions, bennies are factored in. They are greedy effin thieves who get their way due to the aura of sacrifice and “doing it for the children”
Repeat-— Not all teachers have this racket going
Out here in CA, we've fixed all of that with the lottery....(extreme sarcasm)
Results from people who don’t know a thing about the NUMBERS!!!
What a load of BS.How much more of the municipal budget is enough?50 percent,60,70,How much.It seems the more we spend on education the more uneducated kids get.
If these educators would stick to the 3 R’s instead of all of the feel good socialization classes our kids would be way ahead of where they are now.
Remember the Bush/Kennedy 2001 ‘No Child Left Behind’ for us taxpayer chumps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act
‘Since enactment, Congress increased federal funding of education, from $42.2 billion in 2001 to $54.4 billion in 2007. No Child Left Behind received a 40.4% increase from $17.4 billion in 2001 to $24.4 billion. The funding for reading quadrupled from $286 million in 2001 to $1.2 billion’.
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Yeah, look at what D.C. gets for all the money spent on their schools. Half+ of America is stupid or at least ignorant.
This is jaw-droppingly stupid of the American people.
Unfortunately, most of those 55% were educated, or as I like to say Feducated, by government schools. Those of us who were past school age when local control was relinquished and the Communists took them over yelled and screamed foul but parents were too busy working to pay sky rocketing taxes and pay to listen. The more money poured into education the less true education resulted. Suddenly Johnny couldn’t read. History books were revised. God and His wonderful Handbook To Happiness was forbidden. Classes which taught self discipline such as penmanship were discarded. Or that taught home making skills were dropped. Instead of being taught how to think, kids are taught what to think. The latest trend is to bypass recess so that the kids won’t get the physical activity and fresh air needed in order to focus well in the classroom! And now we are witnessing the grave results. 55% of people think we should throw more money at the schools, and 49%
think our Communist president is doing a good job! Can we be far from the Soviet States of Amerika, or are we already there?
Ugh, people are so gullible.
I, and most of my friends who homeschool, spend anywhere from $200 to $2000 per year to school our kids.
Some excellent private schools around here charge $6000 per student yearly.
Our school system here spends some $10,000 to $14,000 per child yearly.
The first two groups score higher on standarized testing than the third.
Money does not good education make.
First thing we do then is cut out school lunch program spending and put it on EDUCATION itself.
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it’s not the money foolish citizens
How many of these people know how much is spent?
If you told them that, for example, Minneapolis schools get 12K per student would they thing that a quarter million dollars is not enough to educate a single class room of 20 kids? Really?
Charter schools do a better job with only a fraction of the financial resources and they are subject to the same rules.
What???
Translation: my local property taxes are too high, so I want everybody else in the country to chip in to pay off the whining teachers’ unions.
Sadly, I think is the crux of the ignorance. Of course you can count on most apartment dwellers to be all for paying teachers more. Most of them don’t realize the costs get passed to them as well.
Being a public school employee in CA, it is my opinion that the government, for what we are getting for our money, is spending way way too much on education. IMHO education needs to be just that - teaching children K - 12 that which they need in order to be contributing adults; that is, how to read, how to write, and how to compute mathematics. Education has become less and less about educating children and more and more about indoctrination.
It is not that government doesn’t spend enough. It is what it gets spent on. Administrative costs at the district level- assistants to the assistant and so forth- are a big problem. Also, the staggering salaries of school superintendents and the like- a single such person usually comes at the price of several teachers- which do you get the most use out of? Also, efficiency- the sheer amount of paperwork as well as useless things that do not pertain to the classroom- means that the taxpayer’s buck is not being spent on what it is raised for. You pay a guy to teach history- not do paperwork or fill out reports, nor to babysit malcontents. To require such is wasting the taxpayer’s money.
Incidentally- not all of us are union thugs, liberals, communists or other such trash, nor do all of us have a humongous salary and great retirement. (They might up there in them Yankee schools....) Across the board the problems in public education exist to some degree in most places, with the difference being severity.