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What’s the difference?

Most of these principals are simply about keeping their positions until they retire. They don’t want to rock the boat and do things like deal with the thugs that run their schools and tell parents of dangerous/disruptive students to take a hike when and if the school and teachers try to discipline them.

Most of them are pretty Liberal as well, so have no desire to impinge upon the spirit of the noble teenage savage anyway.

A lot of this could be fixed by building reform schools, forcing students to apply for entry into high school based upon past grades/discipline and requiring uniforms.

Schools should have to compete for students and if parents were more involved with that process, I think you’d see these kids screwing around a lot less.

One can blame principals for much, but ultimately it’s the parents of the kids who fail to achieve who are to blame.

They should “resign or go commit suicide”.

Winner.

i would suggest taking that money and ohh
hiring more teachers (this is where i depart from the republicans)…

i wouldnt give the principle more money as that isnto going to help

jcila on March 19, 2009 at 3:20 PM

Hiring more teachers is like putting new tires on a car with a blown engine.

It’s a broken system. You can add anything to the public school system and it won’t change the fundamentals.

Their processes are demonstrable failures. Until the entire system is overhauled, there is no hope for success.

You can have a one student to one teacher ratio and public schools would still suck.

The guy is a kid in a candy store using Monopoly money to pay for his treats.

To be perfectly honest he, Pelosi and the Franks gang are ruining our country.

i wouldnt give the principle more money as that isnto going to help

PLEASE !!! Its time to shut down the public schools!

Agree.

Democrats like Europe so much, how about we take a page out of Belgium’s playbook (and Sweden’s as well, I believe) and privatize all of our schools.

The only thing public should be the funding.

And in private schools we could prevent the kids from being propagandized with Secular Humanism, and goofball theories like evolution, global warming and Keynesian economics. And kids are actually able to read after attending private schools.

I disagree with these statements. I went to a public school, and yes, I was exposed to the ideas of secular humanism, evolution, and global warming. Tons of global warming. My parents, though, taught me otherwise, and they have had a stronger influence on me. Because of them telling me that not everything that I was told was true, I am now able to discern what is truth from fiction. I have become a productive skeptic. It’s especially helpful when listening to the President or the Speaker.

I am a very conservative person, but I do not understand why it is assumed that public schools can be run like a business. Schools and their administrators are not a for profit business. If districts pay their teachers less, the administrators do not make more money. This is a myth made up by the teacher unions. The principles should not be punished for being in charge of a failing school. Schools are able to hire their employees, yes, but they have no control over their raw materials: the students. If a house made of moldy rotten wood falls down, do you blame the builder? No, you blame the lumber manufacturer.

And about school vouchers: I cannot support them. How is a public school supposed to make a budget if they have a varying number of people entering and leaving their school? I understand the argument that the parents are paying taxes for their children to be educated, so they should choose where their child goes to school. In what other situation is this applicable, though? Do I get my taxes back for never traveling over a bridge that cost millions of tax dollars? Likewise, I cannot expect a turnpike voucher because I decide to not take the slower city streets.

I am a very conservative person, but I do not understand why it is assumed that public schools can be run like a business. Schools and their administrators are not a for profit business. If districts pay their teachers less, the administrators do not make more money. This is a myth made up by the teacher unions. The principles should not be punished for being in charge of a failing school. Schools are able to hire their employees, yes, but they have no control over their raw materials: the students. If a house made of moldy rotten wood falls down, do you blame the builder? No, you blame the lumber manufacturer.

And about school vouchers, I cannot support them. How is a public school supposed to make a budget if they have a varying number of people entering and leaving their school? I understand the argument that the parents are paying taxes for their children to be educated, so they should choose where their child goes to school. In what other situation is this applicable, though? Do I get my taxes back for never traveling over a bridge that cost millions of tax dollars? Likewise, I cannot expect a turnpike voucher because I decide to not take the slower city streets.

There’s little incentive for good people to work at these schools. The bonuses need to be just enough to get them to work in these hellholes initially, with bigger rewards later if they can turn things around. That’s a merit based system, and beats paying people based on, say, seniority.

While many classroom teachers are fearing for their jobs, there are legions of consultants, bureaucrats and administrators who continue to cash-out from the $11,480 per child public school spending.

PLEASE !!! Its time to shut down the public schools! There is no question that private schools could do a much much better job of educating the kids at a third of that cost.

And in private schools we could prevent the kids from being propagandized with Secular Humanism, and goofball theories like evolution, global warming and Keynesian economics. And kids are actually able to read after attending private schools.

Public schools, what a tragedy they have produced for our kids and our nation.

Pay attention kids – this is what we call “link whoring.”

TheUnrepentantGeek on March 19, 2009 at 1:20 PM

Didn’t fall for the bait.

That superintendent should be fired.