Posted on 09/22/2022 7:08:52 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
Senate hopeful John Fetterman has cast himself as a champion of Pennsylvania's public schools, telling voters he will "make sure our public schools have the funding they need." But his tax records tell a different story. In fact, as mayor of Braddock, Pa., Fetterman failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes on time to his local school district, one of the poorest in the state.
Woodland Hills School District, which serves Braddock, placed nearly three-dozen tax liens against Fetterman totaling $18,692 for unpaid property taxes from 2006 to 2019, according to records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The district sued Fetterman twice over the unpaid bills, resulting in default judgments against Fetterman totaling $3,769. Fetterman has since paid off the liens, but in some cases it took him more than six years to satisfy the debt.
The delinquent tax payments undercut Fetterman's claim to be a champion for public schools. In 2018, he said he opposed school vouchers, claiming they would divert funds from public schools to charter and private schools. Fetterman says on his campaign website that he will fight for public school funding if he’s sent to Washington so that "teachers aren't shouldering so much of a burden." He recently called on state lawmakers to "invest more" in Pennsylvania's public schools.
In failing to pay taxes to Woodland Hills, Fetterman deprived funding for one of the poorest and academically challenged districts in the Keystone State. The district's three elementary schools are in the bottom 15 percent of academic achievement tests. Seventy-one percent of Woodland Hills students in the 2021-2022 school year were low-income, one of the highest rates in Pennsylvania, according to state education department data.
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HOME SCHOOL...we did.
I agree with almost everything you say.
BUT......
Being paid based on performance, at least initially, would be a problem initially. I think the system would need overhauled before that could be implemented.
Right now, aberrant behavior, ADAD, medically compromised to include quadriplegic, severely hyperactive, mental disorder , and severely low IQ students(crack, fetal alcohol syn babies) are put in regular classroom situations.
No teacher, no matter how good, (sorry to say), will ever make exemplary students out of these children. Yet Admin caves to the parents of such for them to be in regular classrooms taking away from children who ARE capable, everyday kids who excel. All these aforementioned kids will be state reg tested and expected to reach a minimum proficiency. That just WILL NOT happen due to student physical/mental limitations, yet the teacher will look as if they are NOT doing their job, which is rubbish in most instances.
Mainstreaming was the start to the destruction of primary education. Throw in an over reaching union, and destruction of basic manners, and no backbone Administrators, and we ARE IN A MESS!!!!!!!!!!
And I left out one HUGE issue such as english as a second language kids. That’s another whole story.
But yes, agree with most of your analysis.
“That’s how you end up with a Tranny as your health secretary.”
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Exactly, but the Low IQ people don’t care.
“HOME SCHOOL...we did.”
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I’m a 100% behind the Home school movement, if done right!!
We were pretty lucky in our PA school district. Was/Is still pretty conservative. It is changing a little but still happy. If I was in some woketard district, home schooling would have been a major probability.
My youngest is now a HS senior, and happy to say MAGA kinda kid!
(if I were) ughhh!
Go Oz! Uncle Fester IS A DISGUSTING DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We started HS'ing SoCal..finished in OK...
Both of them are successful....
If they are that stupid, then they get what they deserve! IMO Barnette was a potential disaster and we dodged one by her not being the nominee.
“If they are that stupid, then they get what they deserve!”
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Those anti-Oz trolls used to show up on every Fetterman thread. Not so much lately. Maybe they’re finally embarrassed by people telling them they’re morons.
I’ve done my part with shaming them. It’s ridiculous...someone defended one of them...Hamilton Jay...by saying he’s posted here for years and I pointed out that getting on here everyday and complaining about Biden accomplishes nothing...we have an election and a chance to keep a crucial seat to hurt Biden and if you don’t put up now then shut up later! I’m glad you are dialed in...beat of luck out there!!!
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