Posted on 02/21/2011 10:21:51 PM PST by Frantzie
You sound like a RINO begging for money to me! You also sound very much like a California State or Local Government employee to me too!
Sucks to be you!
My mistake. I forgot that Snyder was elected. And the Canadian witch is gone. Nothing wrong with Canadians but leftist ones s*ck.
Is this is why this is happening? Snyder said no more $$?
What is the state house/senate like post 2010? Still lots of Dems?
Nobody attends Detroit schools anyway.
Well, I was being halfway snarky and halfway literal.
When people see or hear of 60 kids on a classroom in Detroit, their heads will explode.
Now....whether they will be able to make the connection between liberals >> broke >> 60 kids per class, that remains to be seen. There may be an excess neuron demand in that connection.
It’s more likely they will think 60 kids per class >> broke >> need more money >> raise taxes on the rich.
But we can hope. WI could be quite the belwhether situation. I am very impressed with the governor and I think he will stick to his guns. [oops, I can’t say that any more]
He is also right that Calif will not get better until it hits rock bottom. The alcoholic analogy. What is sad is much of CA if not liberal. Illinois I think is the worst in the country. The level of fraud, theft, graft, corruption and evil, etc is staggering.
Aside from the obvious problem of having an average class size of 60 students, I suspect we’ll see an increase in fights and other problems in these schools because the consolidation will almost surely bring students from rival schools - and probably a few rival gangs - into the same building.
I saw it happen in my home town when just one or two schools were closed and students shunted to rival schools. One school had at least a dozen incidents the first week - everything from fistfights to a incoming student being robbed at knifepoint. Multiply that to half the schools in a major city and there’s potential for some serious headaches here. Ya couldn’t pay me enough to be a teacher in the Detroit school system.
Detroit schools are closing because it’s just time, heck it’s BEEN time. The people have given up on having schools. Those pictures didn’t happen over night. The whole city looks like Dresden after WWII. Some glorious properties and sites have turned to trash. I’d say it started with that wall back in the 1940s. Hatred. Anger. Ambivalence. Race riots of the 60s. (I’ve heard that some of the charter schools have done well.)
Many schools and communities in the state are in trouble mostly because of the loss of auto industry jobs and taxes along with the mistake of thinking the factories, and the employees, would pay those taxes forever. Some cities gave HUGE incentive packages to the industry and now all that’s there are huge buildings taking up property space. Retirees don’t pay as much in taxes. The Detroit side of the state put all of its eggs in one basket.
I hear you and get it. I think it will be even worse when those “teachers” and their endless administrators get pink slips. They you will see heads and things explode.
Anyone know the GOP states post 2010 election that can start hammering this union govt workers crap?
1. WS
2. OH
3. Indiana
4. Florida?
More states need to open up fronts to relieve pressure off Wisconsin. We need to stretch the enemy’s resources.
What is weird is they are protesting in WA with that Dem gov who steals the election each time but they know now that Federal money is drying up since Jan (swearing in House GOP). Cuomo is talking cuts as is Brown.
What is weird is you look through the pictures of interiors of office buildings, schools, hospitals etc and it is like one day they fled for their lives before the plague was going to arrive the next day. Stuff was just left there.
Looks a bit like the photos in Chernobyl after the people fled.
More pix of Detroit. Special series on abandoned/burned out apartment buildings.
Hmmmm.....kids OUT of publik skools....they might LEARN something!
“I met someone contracted by the state to help audit the Detroit Public School District. He said the bulk of the $327 million deficit was due to theft by employees at all levels.”
Well, it is somewhat amazing that the books were auditable. See? There’s hope!
“Looks a bit like the photos in Chernobyl after the people fled.”
Detroit might be a good place to develop “best practices” for post-nuclear demolition and reconstruction. Seriously.
Time for individuals, families, churches and charities to step in and REALLY educate the children.
As a son and grandson of American Indians we see the same problem on reservations as there is in Detroit. Socialist politicians promising utopia for the last 60 years and hellholes is all they return. All the while they live in walled off and gated communities with their private schools to avoid the evil they created.
Myself and family never looked into that crystal ball of welfare slavery. We own products, trademarks and live & love each day in the best country God ever allowed to exist.
It begins and ends with Blacks coming to the party. America in 2011 and for at least a few generations has been wide open to all races. ALL. Forget about the past.
I looked at some of the pictures of the buildings just outside downtown. They had some rooftop shots from old hotels less than a mile from downtown.
There is all this green area with vacant lots where homes and buildings were. It is very strange because it is shrinking. It is looking more and more like a smaller rural Midwest town from some rooftop views like Topeka, Kansas or something.
I think they should make more of the surrounding area farmland.
Why the heck can’t students learn with 60 or even 600 kids in a classroom? I simply don’t get it.
My 1-12 classes were at least 30+ per room, and I learned. My college lecture halls held hundreds and were often pretty full, and I learned. My med school class had 104 in it, most attended most lectures, and most of us learned a heck of a lot.
You plunk me down in a stadium of 80,000 and I’ll learn if someone gives a lecture or projects the blackboard on a screen.
What you have is undisciplined kids who don’t want to learn, and therefore shouldn’t be wasting the taxpayers’ money at schools in the first place - and the crazy-a$$ Children-of-the-Sixties (and Seventies, etc.) parents, who spawned these spoiled little feral monsters, and who then keep demanding everyone else needs to pony up their money for a worthless educational system that fails to educate. Class size my arse. Home school them if you think that’s important.
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He or she knows that. They have to live with it every day. Getting robbed daily by the taxes and corruption.
How do you define “worst deficit”? California has 10% of the population of the country, so our debt, in absolute dollars is the highest, but if you do the math, on a per capita basis, we aren’t the worst. California is also a net Federal tax “looser.” That is, we get less than a dollar back for a dollar sent to Washington while places like Mississippi have the reverse situation. So in a real sense, we are actually paying your bills, if you, in point of fact, are living in one of the states that get more from the Feds than you spend. So it is specious on its face to single out the “larger ones” for your retribution. And, just so you know where I am, I don’t want anyone other than the residents of each state to be held responsible for their own state’s debt. I also am not at all sure that the “smaller states” want to address their indebtedness more or less than the so-called “larger ones.” Lastly, it would be a disaster for the country as a whole to have Zero and his bunch print money to bail out any state. And you can bet that he would have to underwrite all the states if he started down that road. I guess guys like you stick in my gut because you practice the “blame game.” We are all in this problem together, so it really pisses me off when people of your ilk see California being cast adrift as a just and noble idea. In our sorry financial condition, we are still the seventh largest economy in the world by ourselves. Do you really want to have that economic strength go into the crapper?
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