Vouchers will help public schools - Fear loss of MONEY - But what of “for the children?”

Christian Science Monitor ^ | August 28, 2003 | Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Survey: few men, minorities seek teaching careers***The NEA report, the "Status of the American Public School Teacher," aims to help education groups shape their agendas and mold the country's image of teachers. Updated every five years, the report draws its latest findings from the 2000-01 school year. The NEA and others are pursuing ways to improve diversity, such as trying to improve college access for minorities and encouraging classroom aides to get teacher certifications.***

[samtheman]

The NEA does not care about education or children. Organizational power is all that matters to them. They will block any action that threatens that power, even if it means making the kids suffer.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yes. The NEA and local teachers' unions it's absorbing, are little more than a wing of the DNC political machine.

[tcostell]

This shocking news just in:

Competition can provide motivation to improve service.

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"We have your children... so don't make any trouble."

The NEA.

[trebb]

The NEA does not care about education or children.

So true - a few years ago, I saw a TV interview with the guy Clinton had in charge of education. When asked if he thought it was Ok to keep implementing the "alternative" teaching styles, which had a terrible record of not imparting knowledge to students, he said he thought it was also "important for teachers to self-actualize, so yes, it was a good thing to leave these methods in place even if it meant students didn't learn." This was on TV and I never heard any uproar...

[Ed_in_NJ]

"No child left behind" is very appealing to parents thaqt want government to raise their kids.

I wish there were a national "Leave my kid alone" movement.

[tkathy]

Does anybody worry about vouchers being used for Islamic religious schools?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

If it's plastered on the car it must be true. Unfortunately, grades do not reflect knowledge learned.

Honor Student Stickers

School Bumper Stickers

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It stands to reason that making public schools earn their resources ensures that public-school students will be better served overall.

Responsibility and authority must never be seperated. That's another way of saying that you never blame someone for something they didn't have control over.

In the context of schools and other government agencies, money is authority--and nothing less than the possibility of loss of funding can constitute responsibility.

The Democratic Party exists to displace all responsibility onto the scapegoat known as "middle class white men". Naturally such a movement requires southern white male front men such as x42 to succeed electorally. It doesn't look like the Democratic Party has the ability to nominate a southern white male to head their ticket next year--and if not they will undoubtedly lose big.

All the Republican Party must do is stand proudly and adamantly for the middle class as a reality and a realizable universal aspiration against the rich. The Warren Buffet rich, the Pinch Saltzberg rich, and the Jesse Jackson pseudopoor rich.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Does anybody worry about vouchers being used for Islamic religious schools?

Public schools are turning out anti-Ameican kids now. Schools competing with public institutions are being very closely scrutinized because LIBERLS fear a stampede. So I'm sure it would be something that could be monitored. A lot of kids go to Catholic schools who aren't Catholic and who don't convert to Catholicism. Look at Jihad Johnny. After he came to light, it was exposed how public school teachers are teaching Islam and having students dress up and pick out new names. Time to shake-up this fraud called education.

[woofer]

- Fear loss of MONEY - But what of “for the children?”

Pick any school district in the US. When it comes down to "how much" each kid's attendance is worth in funds from the state versus how much knowledge can be imparted to the student, the cash will win out every time, everywhere.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Democratic Party

[Cincinatus' Wife]

the cash will win out every time, everywhere.

Students are merely the vehicle to transport it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I have always understood that many parents would have killed for honor-roll-class report cards for their children such as we were able to take pretty much for granted for our own kids. For that reason, I think,

Honor Student Stickers

. . . have always struck me as somehow tacky.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

important for teachers to self-actualize

I keep seeing this phrase - does it actually have a meaning, or is it just Lib feelgood newspeak?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Honor Student Stickers . . . have always struck me as somehow tacky.

But it a cheap way to keep parents happy and their kids in public schools.

[9999lakes]

Does anybody worry about vouchers being used for Islamic religious schools?


Not Me.

Nor do I worry about parents who choose to send their children to schools because they have a good football team, a good arts program, a superior math education, a great science program, or even because the school has a reputation for being a party school.

Those are reason parents and students choose colleges. Wh not high schools. Just let the parents have the choice. I think in most cases they will choose wisely.

[netmilsmom]

I have no problem with Islamic religious schools. Do you?
We have an Islamic charter in Michigan. No terrorists are coming from there. Just because they are teaching the religion does not mean they are making terrorists.

[VermiciousKnid]

As the parent of two Catholic school children who also pays a whopping $9,000/year in school taxes (for a 4BR cape on 1/3 acre), I have asked the following question of every politician I see:

Why is it OK to use "public money" to pay for sending my kids to Notre Dame University, but NOT OK to use "public money" to send them to Notre Dame High School?

None of them has been able to give me an answer yet. Of course, that would require them to admit that all that "public money" is really MY money in the first place, and they certainly aren't going to admit THAT.

Regards,

[AppyPappy]

Does anybody worry about vouchers being used for Islamic religious schools?

No. It doesn't bother me a bit.