Posted on 03/13/2011 6:06:56 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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Chicago’s pitifully short school day is getting even shorter.
At five and a half hours, Chicago’s school day is already the shortest of any of the 50 largest districts in the nation. During the mayoral campaign, both Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel and a rival, Gery Chico, brought that up. Mr. Emanuel noted that a child in Houston gets four more years of K-12 instruction than one here.
But now comes “Breakfast in the Classroom ” for 410,000 students.
Most schools already offer a cold or hot breakfast before the start of classes. It’s free for the 86 percent of public school students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. My first grader, who has breakfast at home, has attended two C.P.S. schools, and they both offer breakfast at 8:30.
For several years, about 200 elementary schools have participated in a voluntary program to offer breakfast in classrooms at the start of the instructional day. In January, the Board of Education made it mandatory, meaning about 300 more elementary schools, including my son’s, must institute it. A student need not partake of breakfast but must sit there as others do.
The $41 million expense may make vendors happy, but it reduces instructional time.
Norman Bobins, a longtime school board member and esteemed former bank president, struggled before voting yes — caught between the nutritional benefits and the time lost from education. Mr. Bobins said his gut told him that improving nourishment for poor children should override.
But school officials also told the board that breakfast could be completed in 10 minutes. That is preposterous, but it was a line repeated when, calling as a parent, I contacted the office in charge.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Do parents who get free breakfasts and lunches for their kids from the schools get their food stamp allotments cut to compensate? Of course not.
bttt
Where do *your* kids learn? *Not you personally, reaganaut1, that's an impersonal you.
“””Mr. Emanuel noted that a child in Houston gets four more years of K-12 instruction than one here”””
When your new leftist mayor is negative about school breakfasts, you know that the program is really bad.
At the end of the story it states the school year is only 170 days.
In public schools. We pay a lot of income, sales, and property taxes and do not feel guilty about sending our three kids to public schools. Do Freepers collecting Medicare and Social Security feel guilty? Of course, we pay for their meals at school. We will not qualify for "need-based" college financial aid, so we need to save a lot of money for their college expenses.
Pardon the insufficient precaution. I was hoping you’d notice the “impersonal you” notice. Next time I’ll put it in quotes or a graphic.
The state will provide for your every need.
If you can’t feed your kids, stop having them.
"The other guy does it too" is not a valid argument, but even so, Medicare and Social Security are not (yet) as directly toxic as public education.
Public education is welfare. Free babysitting from abusive babysitters. If the govt put dangerous chemicals in your tap water, and called it free while raising your taxes to provide poison to your home...would you let your children drink it?
You have pure spring water on your property, and the well is called Homeschool.
*Only the impersonal "you" is used in this post.
I may have to steal that for my next homeschooling graphic... :)
I went to public school for the regulation time and frankly I feel that I got cheated. I learned more in my first two semesters of community college than I did in four years of IB crap. Even so I understand where he’s coming from. Private school is costly and home schooling is time consuming especially if you have two working parents.
As long as he’s making sure his kids get a counter to the indoctrination crap in public school and they have a good grasp of the Rs he’s doing the best he can.
Liberals - people who want to use your money for their great ideas while they jet down to the Bahamas.
I guess English needs a different form for the impersonal you. Somehow "Where does one's child go to school?" doesn't cut it.
Perhaps I'll fashion a tagline with the warning, or simply start another account with user name "Impersonal You."
What do impersonal you think? ;)
Counter! Like iodine for radiation. All you one needs is a means to quantify the indoctrination crap accurately, to measure the dosage...and some means to determine efficacy. For a regimen lasting twelve years.
Well, there's a little more to it, indoctrination crap is just the entree, there are lots of side dishes as well.
Liberalism is a mental disease. I saw a story recently that Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. wants the government to provide iPods and laptops to the poor little chirren to stimulate the economy.
And, pay for your own kids education. If you can afford to, stop having them.
Enough of this education welfare. Get the government out of the education business.
(Dosteovsky's Grand Inquisitor.)
Don’t breed them if you can’t feed them.
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