Why Republicans Lose

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

In Florida the funding is tied to property taxes.

So the ares with high dollar real estate (white republicans) have awesome schools. And the areas with low dollar real estate (black, brown, and white trash) get to suck hind tit.

Here we keep bumping up against the cynical and corrupted Prop. 13 when it comes to property taxes. Corporations got their mitts on it and pay artificially low property taxes. Locally, Disneyland has their rates super low even though old Walt has been dead for decades. Bank of America too.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Here we keep bumping up against the cynical and corrupted Prop. 13 when it comes to property taxes. Corporations got their mitts on it and pay artificially low property taxes. Locally, Disneyland has their rates super low even though old Walt has been dead for decades. Bank of America too.

IGM, FU.

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[finnbow]

And now, David Boies (the famous Democratic lawyer), agrees to head the organization that is challenging the counterproductive tenure system in public schools. Needless to say, the NEA is going ballistic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/04/us...er-tenure.html

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by finnbow

And now, David Boies (the famous Democratic teacher), agrees to head the organization that is challenging the counterproductive tenure system in public schools. Needless to say, the NEA is going ballistic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/04/us...er-tenure.html

The flip side is teachers being summarily dismissed for doing their job instead of promoting popular religiously based dogma, such as creationism, as education.

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[Tom Joad]

Here is one example of the kind of thing that is screwing up our public education.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0...Jefferson_Whos

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Here is one example of the kind of thing that is screwing up our public education.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0...Jefferson_Whos

I remember this from 2011, Texas orders enuff to swing the content for the rest of the districts using the same suppliers and they well know this.

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[icenine]

If you start treating teachers as disposable you will just have a worse teaching environment. All of us here (with the exception of Beam On who I assume went to school in India) are products of teachers who had job protection via tenure. I think we turned out OK.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by icenine

If you start treating teachers as disposable you will just have a worse teaching environment.

As it will have a negative impact on any other work environment.

But the "Disposable employee" seems to be the new norm for the American business model.

[piece-itpete]

Finn a couple cities ago the local district where I was living tried to make teachers pay 1% of their health insurance. The teachers immediately struck, and their signs were 'for the children'

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

No shit.

Things have really changed since I was in school.

Back then we only had two rules.

Rule number one: "The Teacher is always right"

Rule number two "If the Teacher is wrong, refer to rule number one."

No kidding.

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

In Florida the funding is tied to property taxes.

So the ares with high dollar real estate (white republicans) have awesome schools. And the areas with low dollar real estate (black, brown, and white trash) get to suck hind tit.

Here it's property taxes too. It's been declared unconstitutional by the state SC a few times.

Pete

[Rajoo]

Let's take this into consideration also.

Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/ed...pagewanted=all