Posted on 12/24/2011 11:40:18 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
Texas doesn’t charge students for Bus service.
But here is a more timely article on the situation. I find it interesting that the found 5 Billion to help pay for EDU.
IIRC Houston was going to lay off a bunch of teachers and when the final budget came in they didn’t have too.
Please notice that there are no administrators in this list.
The admin jobs are the big money jobs....with special retirement and buy out clauses that rip off the taxpayer more than any group of teachers would
Reality is that school cuts are a joke...the big cuts do not get made. Many of the admin jobs end up getting filled by the former politicians
No bi-lingual teachers either...
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The problem across the usa is the overall pay and cost structure. Teachers , admn, staff, etc are grossly overpaid for the amount of work they allegedly do.
Bilingual education needs to GO. It may just get shopped this coming year. We have kids in this state who have been in bilingual education for 6-7 years and still can’t function in English. That would be because bilingual teachers (from Mexico) can speak Spanish but not English.
shopped = “chopped”
Charge all illegals enough to cover their kids school expense.
So?....Why do team sports need to be tax supported? Why not privatize them? This father is willing to pay a $1,000 to have his son play football.
Good point.
The average school superintendent gets more than $200,000 a year plus benefits. The problem is that too many school systems have too many federal and state mandates laid upon them, plus they tend to have facilities too rich for their blood. Then we have the demographic/political problem: the children of immigrants put a huge burden on the school system just to get the kid up to half speed. They hire half-educated teachers who get their jobs because they know Spanish but know little else. I dare say that the teachers in country schools in the 1930s have more knowledge of math and literature than those in the large urban schools.
You missed the sarcasm of my saying they would have to pay. I did not indicate they did. Only sarcastically that they would start having too.
—Give any kid, of any age, who passes the GED a certified and official diploma from his local high school!
— Give any parent $5,000 if they remove their child from government school.
— Put all K-12 courses on the Internet ( contract with someone from India to do it) . If the child passes a qualifying exam in that course he immediately moves to the next level in that specific subject. Even if he is 10 or 11, if he finishes all the courses and passes the GED give him an official diploma from his local high school.
Solution: The fewer kids in school, and the more quickly they move the system, the fewer classrooms and teachers needed. Result? Massive savings.
By the way....Why aren't **all** government school classes filmed and on-line for FREE for anyone of any age to use? Hey! The taxpayers paid for it why hide it like this information was some secret initiation rite?
No bi-lingual teachers either...
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Yep! Good point!
“The problem across the usa is the overall pay and cost structure. Teachers , admn, staff, etc are grossly overpaid for the amount of work they allegedly do.”
Take a look at this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/arlene-ackerman-ex-philad_n_1120637.html
I have often said that Public School Superintendents are the highest paid migrant workers in the country. Most are former PS school teachers who haven’t a clue about managing a business which is what the PS education system is afterall.
If it comes from NPR, then you can be assured that it is BS of the highest quality from the people who produce the most of it.
Just to add to your excellent list of ideas, which I totally agree with. Return to the old way of teaching arithmetic and math. Get rid of sex education altogether and return that responsibility to the parents where it belongs. I am all for moving all schools to the internet, the way you outline it would work well and really cut down on the brainwashing liberals are doing to our children now.
I will feel sympathy for teachers and school administrations when they start being frank about what the body of children born to illegals is costing their school districts.
Why should I go out of my way to ally with them, if they’re going to act as if their schools are in Mexico?
We simply cannot afford to pick up the tab any longer.
The Supreme Court in Plyler Vs Doe ruled that since state consumption taxes fund the public schools, illegals have to have free access to public K-12 schools. The state of Texas had been trying to charge them yearly tuition fees or kick them out entirely, but these efforts were struck down in 1982.
That came to me after I hit post. Sorry!
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