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1 posted on 11/19/2011 9:32:23 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
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Well, there goes the janitors union endorsement...


2 posted on 11/19/2011 9:34:13 AM PST by ken5050
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Newt seems to understand the Janitors for Justice movement which morphed into SEIU


3 posted on 11/19/2011 9:35:11 AM PST by Zathras
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Makes sense. Newt is smart, if not consistent. He can out-think Obama, and most of the GOP. The baggage though....


5 posted on 11/19/2011 9:36:22 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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his greater point is right on the mark but the liberal media will run with the headline “Gingrich wants kids to clean up schools” mark my words...


6 posted on 11/19/2011 9:36:43 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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Did You Know?

The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?

Now That You Do, Donate And Keep FR Running


7 posted on 11/19/2011 9:36:57 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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This has to be satire. He is not this stupid. We want to fire the adult janitors and replace them with six year olds? Really? These candidates are losing by themselves. I don’t have to lift a finger.


8 posted on 11/19/2011 9:39:29 AM PST by napscoordinator
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FWIW, all my kids went through elementary school in Japan. It was standard procedure at the end of the day to wipe down the desks, floors, common areas and restrooms. Each kid was expected to bring a half dozen or so thick wipe towels from home and to rotate them regularly.

One result was a huge difference between the respect Japanese kids had for their school as opposed to their American counterparts.

9 posted on 11/19/2011 9:39:45 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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1950's - The eighth graders in our public schools were our traffic cops. Now, they hire growwups.

Of course, in the higher grades, we have cops at the doors and kids are searched for weapons. Don't ask what the demographics are.

10 posted on 11/19/2011 9:39:45 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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I live in an area that grows a lot of apples, cabbages, etc...

rather than having an army of illegals picking the stuff, I always thought - wouldn’t it be much better if High School kids spent 2 weeks doing this instead?

Of course, it will never happen.


11 posted on 11/19/2011 9:43:09 AM PST by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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Why not? They do that in Japan.


12 posted on 11/19/2011 9:46:14 AM PST by struggle
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My grand son is in 6 th. grade and at his school he is sometimes assigned the job of scraping trays after lunch, I'm not clear on whether this is a punishment for some infraction or what but when he does it, his lunch is "free".
14 posted on 11/19/2011 9:47:00 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Of course Obama loves his country but Herman Cain loves mine.)
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What a good idea!


17 posted on 11/19/2011 9:53:40 AM PST by jpsb
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gosh, isn’t newt brilliant?


19 posted on 11/19/2011 9:55:46 AM PST by ken21
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There was a time when being a janitor in a school was a political appointment.


20 posted on 11/19/2011 9:56:41 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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The premise that child labor law harms adolescents and teens is well founded.

I worked consistently from the seventh grade until I graduated from high school at age 17, when I was young. Under current law, I would not have been allowed to hold a single one of those jobs, and would have been broke, and taught to hate the rich instead of do what they did to get rich.

Work.

22 posted on 11/19/2011 9:58:59 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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a good way to tackle failing schools is to try to phase in as many virtual classes as possible. Every child will have an opportunity to have access and be taught by “the best” educator instead of being stuck with the worst. less cost and better results.


28 posted on 11/19/2011 10:05:08 AM PST by snowstorm12
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Parents also need to look at how many people are on the staff of every school in relation to the number of students. One school in Oregon had one employee for every seven students. Once the people found out, they cut way back. There’s a lot of waste out there and the only way to cut it back is for the people to get involved. Ask questions and demand answers.


31 posted on 11/19/2011 10:11:18 AM PST by RC2
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It’s not the Left Newt needs to worry about, it’s his own mouth.


32 posted on 11/19/2011 10:11:47 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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Newt's forte is Education with a capital “E”

Newt is also for more colleges like the College of the Osarks. (been around over 100 years. Student graduate with little to NO student loans.)

He wants every states to start such a college. (Of course that will be fought fiercely as it leaves grads free of government servitude.)

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000056445

http://www.cofo.edu/

34 posted on 11/19/2011 10:13:45 AM PST by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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When I went to elementary school we had school chores. We wiped down our desktops once a week and swept the floors every day. We also dumped out the wastebaskets, washed the blackboards and pounded erasers every day. In the winter we helped shovel the walkways and put out salt. Whenever needed, we cleaned up the school yard of trash that might have blown against the fences.

At the end of the school year we had to clean our books by erasing anything written in them and get them cleaned up for the students coming in the next fall. In the fall we made paper dust jackets for the books before we were allowed to use them. I guess kids these days don’t do any of these little chores that in the past made the school an extension of the home.


35 posted on 11/19/2011 10:16:15 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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