By: Zippy the giver

Zippy the giver — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:42:47 +0000

Here’s a thought, we spend a billion bucks on public ed.
We spend 1 billion dollars a year to educate 100,000 kids and we do a crap job of 80% it. That is not effective, you have better odds rehabilitating a drunk and AA does it for free.
There is nothing you can say in defense, we basically extort 1 billion bucks out of the state budget under the threat that there will be more criminals if you don’t give us the money, and that’s exactly what we educate that 80% to do, extort, burgle, embezzle. I saw a news guy, basically explain that over he funding issue of only 57 million bucks on Fox this morning. I know, I don’t usually watch that but it was a monday.
The school system is a travesty, that one billion dollars is not funding the school system, other communities seem to be able to do a much better job with about half of that, communities our size seem to be able to do it with about 1/3 that money. We do a lousy job with too much money and now we argue over 57 million, and to add insult to injury, the layoffs, firings are even bothering people in the news as if they have anything to do with the “imaginary shortfall”.
It’s just a political ploy to try and keep the excessive budget bloated, to keep ripping off the state and federal government for a billion bucks a year.
What are you getting for that billion bucks?
Not much, the stats say you are paying the highest price for total failure to deliver even a substandard education, but, of course, in the same kind of ethos that destroyed america’s banks, the union says they need more money. Well, they don’t need more money, they need to reorganize the school system.
Listen to the loudest voices crying foul over the budget cuts follow the trail of money, and you will see who is stealing the bulk of the budget, because your kids aren’t receiving benefit of it. Worse, Memphians have done nothing to keep a condition like this from happening. Once again damning Memphis by your own hands.

By: Zippy the giver

Zippy the giver — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:15:59 +0000

And when I thnk about it, I could have sabotaged that test easily by feeding any of the good kids with marshmallows for a week till they had developed a sugar dependency. Maybe that’s also what is already happening to the poor, they’re being pumped full of high sugar content food, maybe due to stress of living here under the poverty line.

By: Zippy the giver

Zippy the giver — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:18:37 +0000

WOW!
How much grant money to “RE-figure out” that most people don’t want to work for their future?
NOT NEWS.
Rather well documented in the oldest book.
In fact, THAT is the very purpose of school, to teach the reward system, to work with skill sets to earn, and economics.
If you really concentrate on teaching EFFECTIVELY, these ridiculous things won’t seem like an epiphany in ten years.
I almost fell out laughing.
COMMON SENSE is not very common.

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