Posted on 12/24/2011 11:40:18 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
There was NO cut in the education budget.
let me repeat
THERE WAS NO CUT IN THE PUBLIC EDUCATION BUDGET.
The Texas lege voted a 15% INCREASE in the public education budget for 2013-2013 over the 2010-2011 budget.
I really hate how this lie gets repeated over and over and no media will actually research it to corect it.
The other posts in this thread do a great job of pointing out spending money does not equate a good education. Washington DC spends over 13k PER student and still most fail.
Deacon
You make the best point, each family should contribute something toward their own child’s education instead of expecting gov’t to do it for them.
—Bright children could move forward at their own pace.
— Slower children could review material.
—Adults could review, relearn, or learn for the first time material they may have missed when they were children.
—If a child was sick or otherwise distracted for some family problem could have an opportunity to fill in gaps and catch up.
I believe it is not done because the Marxist administrators running the schools seriously do not want the public to know what is being taught, and they do **not** want children and adults to be able to teach themselves anything.
Oh! One more thing:
**All** school textbooks ( at least one copy) should be in every community public library. This is something that our local library does not do.
Well....Here are a few ideas.
If employers can only hire legal workers, then perhaps landlords can only rent to legal residents. Perhaps only legal residents can obtain a mortgage, car loan. Why not start there.?
And...In Alabama school numbers have dropped due to illegals moving out of the state. Why? The school requests a valid birth certificate and checks the legal residence of its students. However,... regardless of immigrant status no child is denied a place in their local socialist-entitlement school.
By the way, Mc Donald's is public. It is open to all. Our nation's compulsory schools are **socialist** schools. They are the very definition of a socialist and single- payer social entitlement. The government strictly restricts who may or may not use the socialist schooling entitlement.
I am long past sympathy!
Personally, I will **not** have a socialist school teacher or worker for a friend! One more generation of citizens indoctrinated in our nation's socialist entitlement and godless schools and I fear all freedom will be lost! Yes, I believe it is **that** serious!
Our nation's socialist school teachers and workers are, for me, either too evil, too stupid, or too much of a Useful Idiot to be a friend.
What “good” teacher would support a system of compulsory attendance and compulsory funded schools? No one is holding a gun to their heads forcing them to do this. They **willingly** sought the job. Simply by attending children must think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the godless classroom. How could it be otherwise?
And...What “good” teacher would support a system of socialist schools where children risk learning to be comfortable with socialism? These children risk learning that government has great power to take money from a neighbor to give them tuition-free schooling. Well?...Why not use that power to get **lots** of free stuff?
I am **done** with socialist-entitlement school teachers! No more. They are out of my life!
About 79.9% of them are likely illegal aliens. In Texas, we'd solve our school funding issues lickety split if we'd begin enforcing immigration law and shipping these illegals out of here.
I'm still trying to figure this one out: We have a black female administrator for Hispanic programs that doesn't speak a word of Spanish (or any other language besides English) and is paid nearly $200K per year.
One area for savings is a “magnet” school. This is an “experimental” education tool. Two-thirds of the staff make $110K. One-third of the big shots make over $175K to $225K.
So where do the cuts come from? Sports, janitorial staff, teacher's aids, teachers, librarians. Perfectly sensible, right?
How many librarians are paid $225K on your planet?
Also, they must be taught in their native language and more $$$ is spent on them than on English speaking kids.
That isn't common but coaches moving into administrative jobs is common.
Every one I've ever talked to said if they had had bilingual ed when they started school, they would "still be in the valley speaking Spanish."
They are made to teach it and most get paid more. Some districts paid a finders fee to find bilinual teachers when they were scarce..
It figures.
Thanks for the info.
Something the 'investigative reporters' won't even suggest let alone investigate.
No?
Ask me to care once they have.
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Noproblemento brother.
Personally, as a taxpayer, I resent being under government police threat to financial support government minor league teams for the big leagues. That's what high school team sports are! They are a socialist ( fascist really) taxpayer socialist program that saves the big leagues tons of money. Intramural school sports OK, but, honestly, shouldn't the big leagues be funding their own farm teams? Why should the taxpayer be strong armed into doing it?
If team sports were completely privatized:
1) The coaches would likely be better trained, fully focused on coaching, and not distracted with teaching duties.
2) There might be more community “rah rah” with better parades, cheer leading, bands, and drill teams.( And better coaching for them, too.) The towns and cities could be paid **rent** for the use of their playing fields and stadiums.
3) Academics would not be conflated with sports. ( What a cruel joke that is! It degrades the diplomas given to true students. )
4) The coaches and players might finally be paid what they are truly worth in the free market. If the kid wants to use the money for schooling great. Maybe he will waste it. Maybe use for a business, or schooling or training when he is in his thirties.
Hey, the government needs something to distract people from the abysmal state of public education.
And Texans probably would except it is against Fed Law.
We were sued you know for charging illegals for their education but the Supreme Court sided with the illegals.
Only the Federal Government can enforce immigration law and deporting of illegals.
And the 11 million dollars our Universities here in
Texas NET Profit make up somewhat for our expense of education them K-12.
So in-state tuition actually helps Texas get back some of its investment to the tune of a NET $11 Million.
Thanks for that RWGinger. Truth is good.
Here is another tidbit regarding the sports and that the parents should pay.
In my town in Texas during football season, there are typically 3 games played at the stadium and the ticket sales for each game run $ 60,000. each game.
The money, after stadium expenses, goes to the schools athletic departments to support the sports. Not to mention the advertising revenue from the Jumbo-tron.
And regarding this article:
“80% living below poverty level in Pasadena TX?”
I checked out Wikipedia and according to it:
“About 13.2% of families and 16.0% of the population were below the poverty line,”
So, I find it very hard to believe 80% of the people in Pasadena TX are below poverty levels considering that city is an oil and gas exploration + mega industrial region.
It’s clear this is just a liberal hit piece and it is directed at Perry - nothing new under the sun.
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