Jindal sues Federal Govt.
 

Bobby Jindal sues federal government over the Common Core

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/0...377.html?hp=l1

I fail to understand these Republican governors. Are they looking out for the well being of their citizens or themselves only. Don't these guys take an oath office?

For all we know this is more of the same from GOP in harassing Obama administration and waste of taxpayer money. The comments at the end of the news story is good reading.

The RW scaremongers have found it useful to stoke resentment and paranoia centerd on Common Core. They have actually had a far bit of success at this, so Jindal sees he can makes points with the base by riding this horse.

It's crazy and stupid, but that's not important.

He was for it once but his party apparatchiks put out that it was not on the conservative agenda anymore and the Tea Party Polituburo is now happy he is suing the feds.

It's just a game costing taxpayers untold billions of dollars.

Greg Abbott says he has sued Obama administration 25 times

Here’s a typical workday for Texas’ attorney general: "I go into the office, I sue the federal government and I go home," Greg Abbott was quoted as saying to a tea party group in an April 30, 2013, Associated Press news story.

Speaking to FreedomWorks Texas in Austin on April 27, Abbott said, "I’ve sued the Obama administration now 25 times, over the last four years."

When I'm king...public education will be completely removed from local and state control. One federal, centralized system, just like all the country's who's kids are kicking our kid's assess in math and science have. Where every kid gets the same quality of instruction, the same quality materials, the same quality measures of progress, regardless if they live in Winnetka or Gary.

He wants to make damn sure his state remains #48 on the list of best state school systems. Couple lousy education with shitty health care and he'll have done his part in securing the American dream for residents of his state. :rolleyes:

Every state gets an F.

Not if you grade on the curve....

I know it's a popular meme that all public schools suck, but I'm actually quite pleased with the public schools around here. FWIW, Maryland schools rank as the best in the country with a B+ (at least by this recent survey). The Maryland State Board of Education unanimously adopted the Common Core over 4 years ago.

My three kids (all engineering majors in college) remarked at how well prepared they were in college compared to their peers, many of whom went to some of the most prestigious private/prep schools in the country. Around here, private schools are for people who have more money than brains and who wish to instill a sense of elitism in their kids. They often end up with inferior educations, however.

Thanks for telling me about the all public schools suck meme.

The popular meme in my neighborhood - the public schools my kids attend are good. And they are, in no small part due to parental involvement.

No question about that.

Fixed. ;)

There are public school systems in the Chicago area that are top notch. There are also individual schools in less "productive" districts that do a good job. And there are individual teachers, the real heroes IMO, in shit schools that have amazing success with some of the kids. (Like the blonde when she was a classroom teacher on the West Side of Chicago.)

But the fact remains that students in certain districts are at a distinct disadvantage, particularly in math and the sciences and related courses of study such as engineering. A few clinical mental health workers I knew started out wanting to go to medical school, and didn't make it. They mostly came out of either poor urban or rural school districts. All of them reported that they just couldn't keep up with kids from the high ranking districts in certain Chicago suburbs in the pre-med course of study. So they settled for a master's level mental health degrees.

That wouldn't be happening in a system where the teacher quality, materials quality, teacher salaries, and administrative functions are the same across the board and controlled by a centralized public school administrative service.

Thanks, I need a brain scan.

In the Pub I just edited a your to you're.

Do you mean for making the typo, or for editing it?

Actually it's wasn't a typo. If not attentive, I often interchange your/you're and there/their/they're. Plural/possessive switches occur far less often, but I think they're related.

I'm the apostrophe Nazi...:o

Apostrophe this S. :D


Regarding brain scans:

I have discovered, by deduction, that the brain operations involved in typing include first a part that decides what words to type, and then a part that takes the input from the first, and turns it into movement orders for the fingers. That part knows some things--what words sound like, and what they look like, but it knows nothing at all about what they mean. As time goes by, this part has gotten less accurate in it's work. It seems like it takes the words it gets, and goofs up the orders to the fingers for some reason. Instead I get words that sound like the intended word. Regular homonyms to begin with, as in 'your' for 'you're,' but more recently, words that just sound a lot alike. In these cases it often seems a common word is substituted for an less common one, as 'horse' for 'hearse,' for example. Likewise, sometimes I get words that seem to look like the intended word, so I might get 'explain' instead of 'explode.'

Basically, the finger-controlling subsystem seems to not get it's orders clearly, or to forget them, but it presses on, taking it's best guess.

I like that new gal who's running the NEA. She came after the pols with both barrels, "Leave the educating to the professionals" was her opening salvo. :)

The same professionals who don't want their performance evaluated?;):eek:

I was getting worried about you Finn...;)