[aruanan]

NJEA president at rally accuses Gov. Christie of trying to start a 'middle-class civil war'

Here's what he's really saying: "Our 'middle-class' public sector employees are deriving their income and all their benefits from taxes taken from the rest of the NJ middle class. Christie is pointing out to the non-public sector middle class that their income and quality of life are decreased to benefit the 'middle class' public sector employees and that public sector pensions wrangled by 'middle class' public sector employees through their unions' financial support of Democrat politicians using money obtained from union dues obtained from public-sector unionized salaries obtained from public money obtained from taxes mostly from the private sector middle class is going to wreck the state and the livelihood of all those private sector middle class folks. That evil guy is trying to start a civil war."

Sounds to me like Christie is pointing out a scam that needs to be stopped dead in its tracks.

[wintertime]

Sounds to me like Christie is pointing out a scam that needs to be stopped dead in its tracks.
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Every governor in this nation should go further.

Every governor should demand that government school “educators” **prove** with scientifically controlled studies that their services are effective and actual produce the outcomes promised!

Questions:

1) Where are the studies the PROVE government schools work at all?

2) How much is due to the efforts of parents and children IN THE HOME?

3) Are government kiddie prisons ( oops! “schools”) merely sending home a tuition-free curriculum for the parents and child to follow IN THE HOME?

It is my observation ( anecdotal) that there is little difference between the home and study habits of academically successful institutionalized children and homeschoolers! Both academically successful home and institutionalized children are spending the **SAME** amount of time working at a kitchen table or bedroom desk, and both home and institutionalized successful children have parents who value education who provide an academically rich environment for their children.

My conclusion: If anyone knows an academically successful childrn, either home or institutionally educated, then that child has done nearly all of the hard work IN THE HOME!

So....Where are the studies that difinitively PROVE where learning has happened? **WHO** is doing the hard work? Is it the prison guard ( oops! “teacher”) or is it the parents and the child with outside tutoring help from friends, family, paid tutors, and/or study groups?

If government schools are ineffective in providing the outcomes promised then:

** Academically successful children are wasting a lot of their lives in these prison-like structures. The government school may actually be retarding their academic and social progress. These kids might be far better off if they spent less time in their institutional school and more time IN THE HOME.

** It is complete idiocy to expect any success for children from dysfunctional families if they attend these prison-like schools. How we educate these children needs a fresh approach. ( By the way, KIPP schools are having success. What are they doing?)