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On Jun 21, 12:44*am, JustWait wrote:
On 6/20/2012 11:33 PM, Califbill wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:6fs4u7puom4earek1ujhfrrd7g49b7j15p@4ax .com.... On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:10:43 -0700, "Califbill" wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:4vs2u7pbb9sh913muusopkqdhnv34fq298@4ax .com.... On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:07:37 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: ...income inequality among nations and the society havoc caused by massive inequality. TED is an interesting presentation of talks on a number of subjects by recognized experts in many fields. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html For those who can actually think, it's an eye opener. We all know that statistics can be manipulated to reach a desired result. That said, there are too many illegal aliens and welfare slouches in our country. They skew the statistics considerably and put a bad light on the US. Returning the aliens to their home countries and drug testing the welfare recipients would save the US billions every year. Let's focus the light in a different way. We've stopped taking pride in our elementary to high school educational systems. We turn out not-college-ready candidates who cannot compete with overseas students for the best colleges. We turn out html coders instead of real engineers. ----------------------- And almost all that can be laid on the very liberal, who seem to run the teachers schools these days. They are the ones who want to ban grades and competitive scoring. Self esteem of the child is more important than actually learning. Yes, the "very liberal" are responsible for underfunding schools and fighting to keep their myopic view of science being science and not embracing the fundamentalist fantasy of intelligent design. How much wasted energy has gone into that bull**** and the fight about teaching sex ed? The states with the worst education outcomes are invariably the red states, which also suffer from the highest rate of teen pregnancy. --------------------------------- Schools are not underfunded!!!! And funding does not seem to be related to results. Washington DC has over a 50% dropout rate, and also the highest per student funding in the country. What we have is a bloated bureaucracy sucking up enormous amounts of the school dollar. 20 years ago, there was 3 teachers per non-teaching in the system. Now it is 1:1.. My generation sent man to the moon, using a slide rule for calculations.. We could read and write when we left high school and went to college. Very few had to take bonehead English. We did not have a teachers aid in most class rooms, or 40 sub deans and other administrators. Now it is something like 80% require remedial English and math when entering college. Look at the amount of money the Federal government takes from schools! The Dept of Education has a $68 billion budget. How much waste in that funnel? How many strings are attached to the funds that are returned to the states? You have it right... it's not the teachers, well, a lot of them suck too but the amount of non-teaching jobs within the system. Not to mention this whole bull**** of Teachers, firefighters, and Police really means, town workers, aids, and janitors... Why so against civic employees doing a necessary work? You should try work sometime, you just might like it. |
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On 6/21/12 7:20 AM, North Star wrote:
On Jun 21, 12:44 am, JustWait wrote: On 6/20/2012 11:33 PM, Califbill wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:6fs4u7puom4earek1ujhfrrd7g49b7j15p@4ax .com... On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:10:43 -0700, "Califbill" wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:4vs2u7pbb9sh913muusopkqdhnv34fq298@4ax .com... On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:07:37 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: ...income inequality among nations and the society havoc caused by massive inequality. TED is an interesting presentation of talks on a number of subjects by recognized experts in many fields. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html For those who can actually think, it's an eye opener. We all know that statistics can be manipulated to reach a desired result. That said, there are too many illegal aliens and welfare slouches in our country. They skew the statistics considerably and put a bad light on the US. Returning the aliens to their home countries and drug testing the welfare recipients would save the US billions every year. Let's focus the light in a different way. We've stopped taking pride in our elementary to high school educational systems. We turn out not-college-ready candidates who cannot compete with overseas students for the best colleges. We turn out html coders instead of real engineers. ----------------------- And almost all that can be laid on the very liberal, who seem to run the teachers schools these days. They are the ones who want to ban grades and competitive scoring. Self esteem of the child is more important than actually learning. Yes, the "very liberal" are responsible for underfunding schools and fighting to keep their myopic view of science being science and not embracing the fundamentalist fantasy of intelligent design. How much wasted energy has gone into that bull**** and the fight about teaching sex ed? The states with the worst education outcomes are invariably the red states, which also suffer from the highest rate of teen pregnancy. --------------------------------- Schools are not underfunded!!!! And funding does not seem to be related to results. Washington DC has over a 50% dropout rate, and also the highest per student funding in the country. What we have is a bloated bureaucracy sucking up enormous amounts of the school dollar. 20 years ago, there was 3 teachers per non-teaching in the system. Now it is 1:1. My generation sent man to the moon, using a slide rule for calculations. We could read and write when we left high school and went to college. Very few had to take bonehead English. We did not have a teachers aid in most class rooms, or 40 sub deans and other administrators. Now it is something like 80% require remedial English and math when entering college. Look at the amount of money the Federal government takes from schools! The Dept of Education has a $68 billion budget. How much waste in that funnel? How many strings are attached to the funds that are returned to the states? You have it right... it's not the teachers, well, a lot of them suck too but the amount of non-teaching jobs within the system. Not to mention this whole bull**** of Teachers, firefighters, and Police really means, town workers, aids, and janitors... Why so against civic employees doing a necessary work? You should try work sometime, you just might like it. My guess is that justsnotty tried many times to get a public employee job but was turned down each time. |
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... On Jun 21, 12:44 am, JustWait wrote: On 6/20/2012 11:33 PM, Califbill wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:6fs4u7puom4earek1ujhfrrd7g49b7j15p@4ax .com... On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:10:43 -0700, "Califbill" wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:4vs2u7pbb9sh913muusopkqdhnv34fq298@4ax .com... On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:07:37 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: ...income inequality among nations and the society havoc caused by massive inequality. TED is an interesting presentation of talks on a number of subjects by recognized experts in many fields. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html For those who can actually think, it's an eye opener. We all know that statistics can be manipulated to reach a desired result. That said, there are too many illegal aliens and welfare slouches in our country. They skew the statistics considerably and put a bad light on the US. Returning the aliens to their home countries and drug testing the welfare recipients would save the US billions every year. Let's focus the light in a different way. We've stopped taking pride in our elementary to high school educational systems. We turn out not-college-ready candidates who cannot compete with overseas students for the best colleges. We turn out html coders instead of real engineers. ----------------------- And almost all that can be laid on the very liberal, who seem to run the teachers schools these days. They are the ones who want to ban grades and competitive scoring. Self esteem of the child is more important than actually learning. Yes, the "very liberal" are responsible for underfunding schools and fighting to keep their myopic view of science being science and not embracing the fundamentalist fantasy of intelligent design. How much wasted energy has gone into that bull**** and the fight about teaching sex ed? The states with the worst education outcomes are invariably the red states, which also suffer from the highest rate of teen pregnancy. --------------------------------- Schools are not underfunded!!!! And funding does not seem to be related to results. Washington DC has over a 50% dropout rate, and also the highest per student funding in the country. What we have is a bloated bureaucracy sucking up enormous amounts of the school dollar. 20 years ago, there was 3 teachers per non-teaching in the system. Now it is 1:1. My generation sent man to the moon, using a slide rule for calculations. We could read and write when we left high school and went to college. Very few had to take bonehead English. We did not have a teachers aid in most class rooms, or 40 sub deans and other administrators. Now it is something like 80% require remedial English and math when entering college. Look at the amount of money the Federal government takes from schools! The Dept of Education has a $68 billion budget. How much waste in that funnel? How many strings are attached to the funds that are returned to the states? You have it right... it's not the teachers, well, a lot of them suck too but the amount of non-teaching jobs within the system. Not to mention this whole bull**** of Teachers, firefighters, and Police really means, town workers, aids, and janitors... Why so against civic employees doing a necessary work? You should try work sometime, you just might like it. ----------------------------- There is necessary work and then there is bloat. Most private companies would be out of business if they wasted money like the government does these days. |
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:33:03 -0700, "Califbill"
wrote: "jps" wrote in message ... On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:10:43 -0700, "Califbill" wrote: "jps" wrote in message ... On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:07:37 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: ...income inequality among nations and the society havoc caused by massive inequality. TED is an interesting presentation of talks on a number of subjects by recognized experts in many fields. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html For those who can actually think, it's an eye opener. We all know that statistics can be manipulated to reach a desired result. That said, there are too many illegal aliens and welfare slouches in our country. They skew the statistics considerably and put a bad light on the US. Returning the aliens to their home countries and drug testing the welfare recipients would save the US billions every year. Let's focus the light in a different way. We've stopped taking pride in our elementary to high school educational systems. We turn out not-college-ready candidates who cannot compete with overseas students for the best colleges. We turn out html coders instead of real engineers. ----------------------- And almost all that can be laid on the very liberal, who seem to run the teachers schools these days. They are the ones who want to ban grades and competitive scoring. Self esteem of the child is more important than actually learning. Yes, the "very liberal" are responsible for underfunding schools and fighting to keep their myopic view of science being science and not embracing the fundamentalist fantasy of intelligent design. How much wasted energy has gone into that bull**** and the fight about teaching sex ed? The states with the worst education outcomes are invariably the red states, which also suffer from the highest rate of teen pregnancy. --------------------------------- Schools are not underfunded!!!! And funding does not seem to be related to results. Washington DC has over a 50% dropout rate, and also the highest per student funding in the country. What we have is a bloated bureaucracy sucking up enormous amounts of the school dollar. 20 years ago, there was 3 teachers per non-teaching in the system. Now it is 1:1. My generation sent man to the moon, using a slide rule for calculations. We could read and write when we left high school and went to college. Very few had to take bonehead English. We did not have a teachers aid in most class rooms, or 40 sub deans and other administrators. Now it is something like 80% require remedial English and math when entering college. Look at the amount of money the Federal government takes from schools! The Dept of Education has a $68 billion budget. How much waste in that funnel? How many strings are attached to the funds that are returned to the states? Duh, great funding isn't ever going to make up for extreme poverty. You cite the worst example and expect the rest of your screed to be consummable? |
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On Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:14:42 PM UTC-4, jps wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:33:03 -0700, "Califbill" wrote: "jps" wrote in message ... On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:10:43 -0700, "Califbill" wrote: "jps" wrote in message ... On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:07:37 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: ...income inequality among nations and the society havoc caused by massive inequality. TED is an interesting presentation of talks on a number of subjects by recognized experts in many fields. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html For those who can actually think, it's an eye opener. We all know that statistics can be manipulated to reach a desired result. That said, there are too many illegal aliens and welfare slouches in our country. They skew the statistics considerably and put a bad light on the US. Returning the aliens to their home countries and drug testing the welfare recipients would save the US billions every year. Let's focus the light in a different way. We've stopped taking pride in our elementary to high school educational systems. We turn out not-college-ready candidates who cannot compete with overseas students for the best colleges. We turn out html coders instead of real engineers. ----------------------- And almost all that can be laid on the very liberal, who seem to run the teachers schools these days. They are the ones who want to ban grades and competitive scoring. Self esteem of the child is more important than actually learning. Yes, the "very liberal" are responsible for underfunding schools and fighting to keep their myopic view of science being science and not embracing the fundamentalist fantasy of intelligent design. How much wasted energy has gone into that bull**** and the fight about teaching sex ed? The states with the worst education outcomes are invariably the red states, which also suffer from the highest rate of teen pregnancy. --------------------------------- Schools are not underfunded!!!! And funding does not seem to be related to results. Washington DC has over a 50% dropout rate, and also the highest per student funding in the country. What we have is a bloated bureaucracy sucking up enormous amounts of the school dollar. 20 years ago, there was 3 teachers per non-teaching in the system. Now it is 1:1. My generation sent man to the moon, using a slide rule for calculations. We could read and write when we left high school and went to college. Very few had to take bonehead English. We did not have a teachers aid in most class rooms, or 40 sub deans and other administrators. Now it is something like 80% require remedial English and math when entering college. Look at the amount of money the Federal government takes from schools! The Dept of Education has a $68 billion budget. How much waste in that funnel? How many strings are attached to the funds that are returned to the states? Duh, great funding isn't ever going to make up for extreme poverty. You cite the worst example and expect the rest of your screed to be consummable? Yet you wrote: "The states with the worst education outcomes are invariably the red states, which also suffer from the highest rate of teen pregnancy." Duh, many of those red states are very rural and also have high poverty rates in those areas. From your own assertion, sounds like being "red" has little to do with anything. Is it red, or is it poverty? You blew your own argument right out of the water. |
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On Jun 21, 12:44 am, JustWait wrote: On 6/20/2012 11:33 PM, Califbill wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:6fs4u7puom4earek1ujhfrrd7g49b7j15p@4ax .com... On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:10:43 -0700, "Califbill" wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:4vs2u7pbb9sh913muusopkqdhnv34fq298@4ax .com... On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:07:37 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: ...income inequality among nations and the society havoc caused by massive inequality. TED is an interesting presentation of talks on a number of subjects by recognized experts in many fields. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html For those who can actually think, it's an eye opener. We all know that statistics can be manipulated to reach a desired result. That said, there are too many illegal aliens and welfare slouches in our country. They skew the statistics considerably and put a bad light on the US. Returning the aliens to their home countries and drug testing the welfare recipients would save the US billions every year. Let's focus the light in a different way. We've stopped taking pride in our elementary to high school educational systems. We turn out not-college-ready candidates who cannot compete with overseas students for the best colleges. We turn out html coders instead of real engineers. ----------------------- And almost all that can be laid on the very liberal, who seem to run the teachers schools these days. They are the ones who want to ban grades and competitive scoring. Self esteem of the child is more important than actually learning. Yes, the "very liberal" are responsible for underfunding schools and fighting to keep their myopic view of science being science and not embracing the fundamentalist fantasy of intelligent design. How much wasted energy has gone into that bull**** and the fight about teaching sex ed? The states with the worst education outcomes are invariably the red states, which also suffer from the highest rate of teen pregnancy. --------------------------------- Schools are not underfunded!!!! And funding does not seem to be related to results. Washington DC has over a 50% dropout rate, and also the highest per student funding in the country. What we have is a bloated bureaucracy sucking up enormous amounts of the school dollar. 20 years ago, there was 3 teachers per non-teaching in the system. Now it is 1:1. My generation sent man to the moon, using a slide rule for calculations. We could read and write when we left high school and went to college. Very few had to take bonehead English. We did not have a teachers aid in most class rooms, or 40 sub deans and other administrators. Now it is something like 80% require remedial English and math when entering college. Look at the amount of money the Federal government takes from schools! The Dept of Education has a $68 billion budget. How much waste in that funnel? How many strings are attached to the funds that are returned to the states? You have it right... it's not the teachers, well, a lot of them suck too but the amount of non-teaching jobs within the system. Not to mention this whole bull**** of Teachers, firefighters, and Police really means, town workers, aids, and janitors... Why so against civic employees doing a necessary work? You should try work sometime, you just might like it. Your English is atrocious. Please stop correcting typos until you finish high school. |
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On Jun 21, 9:04*pm, Earl wrote:
North Star wrote: On Jun 21, 12:44 am, JustWait wrote: On 6/20/2012 11:33 PM, Califbill wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:6fs4u7puom4earek1ujhfrrd7g49b7j15p@4ax .com.... On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:10:43 -0700, "Califbill" wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:4vs2u7pbb9sh913muusopkqdhnv34fq298@4ax .com... On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:07:37 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: ...income inequality among nations and the society havoc caused by massive inequality. TED is an interesting presentation of talks on a number of subjects by recognized experts in many fields. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html For those who can actually think, it's an eye opener. We all know that statistics can be manipulated to reach a desired result. That said, there are too many illegal aliens and welfare slouches in our country. They skew the statistics considerably and put a bad light on the US. Returning the aliens to their home countries and drug testing the welfare recipients would save the US billions every year. Let's focus the light in a different way. We've stopped taking pride in our elementary to high school educational systems. We turn out not-college-ready candidates who cannot compete with overseas students for the best colleges. We turn out html coders instead of real engineers. ----------------------- And almost all that can be laid on the very liberal, who seem to run the teachers schools these days. They are the ones who want to ban grades and competitive scoring. Self esteem of the child is more important than actually learning. Yes, the "very liberal" are responsible for underfunding schools and fighting to keep their myopic view of science being science and not embracing the fundamentalist fantasy of intelligent design. How much wasted energy has gone into that bull**** and the fight about teaching sex ed? The states with the worst education outcomes are invariably the red states, which also suffer from the highest rate of teen pregnancy. --------------------------------- Schools are not underfunded!!!! And funding does not seem to be related to results. Washington DC has over a 50% dropout rate, and also the highest per student funding in the country. What we have is a bloated bureaucracy sucking up enormous amounts of the school dollar. 20 years ago, there was 3 teachers per non-teaching in the system. Now it is 1:1. My generation sent man to the moon, using a slide rule for calculations. We could read and write when we left high school and went to college. Very few had to take bonehead English. We did not have a teachers aid in most class rooms, or 40 sub deans and other administrators. Now it is something like 80% require remedial English and math when entering college. Look at the amount of money the Federal government takes from schools! The Dept of Education has a $68 billion budget. How much waste in that funnel? How many strings are attached to the funds that are returned to the states? You have it right... it's not the teachers, well, a lot of them suck too but the amount of non-teaching jobs within the system. Not to mention this whole bull**** of Teachers, firefighters, and Police really means, town workers, aids, and janitors... Why so against civic employees doing a necessary work? You should try work sometime, you just might like it. Your English is atrocious. *Please stop correcting typos until you finish high school. I was talking 'merican to the Ponytail. |
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On Jun 21, 9:04 pm, Earl wrote: North Star wrote: On Jun 21, 12:44 am, JustWait wrote: On 6/20/2012 11:33 PM, Califbill wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:6fs4u7puom4earek1ujhfrrd7g49b7j15p@4ax .com... On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:10:43 -0700, "Califbill" wrote: "jps" wrote in messagenews:4vs2u7pbb9sh913muusopkqdhnv34fq298@4ax .com... On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:07:37 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: ...income inequality among nations and the society havoc caused by massive inequality. TED is an interesting presentation of talks on a number of subjects by recognized experts in many fields. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html For those who can actually think, it's an eye opener. We all know that statistics can be manipulated to reach a desired result. That said, there are too many illegal aliens and welfare slouches in our country. They skew the statistics considerably and put a bad light on the US. Returning the aliens to their home countries and drug testing the welfare recipients would save the US billions every year. Let's focus the light in a different way. We've stopped taking pride in our elementary to high school educational systems. We turn out not-college-ready candidates who cannot compete with overseas students for the best colleges. We turn out html coders instead of real engineers. ----------------------- And almost all that can be laid on the very liberal, who seem to run the teachers schools these days. They are the ones who want to ban grades and competitive scoring. Self esteem of the child is more important than actually learning. Yes, the "very liberal" are responsible for underfunding schools and fighting to keep their myopic view of science being science and not embracing the fundamentalist fantasy of intelligent design. How much wasted energy has gone into that bull**** and the fight about teaching sex ed? The states with the worst education outcomes are invariably the red states, which also suffer from the highest rate of teen pregnancy. --------------------------------- Schools are not underfunded!!!! And funding does not seem to be related to results. Washington DC has over a 50% dropout rate, and also the highest per student funding in the country. What we have is a bloated bureaucracy sucking up enormous amounts of the school dollar. 20 years ago, there was 3 teachers per non-teaching in the system. Now it is 1:1. My generation sent man to the moon, using a slide rule for calculations. We could read and write when we left high school and went to college. Very few had to take bonehead English. We did not have a teachers aid in most class rooms, or 40 sub deans and other administrators. Now it is something like 80% require remedial English and math when entering college. Look at the amount of money the Federal government takes from schools! The Dept of Education has a $68 billion budget. How much waste in that funnel? How many strings are attached to the funds that are returned to the states? You have it right... it's not the teachers, well, a lot of them suck too but the amount of non-teaching jobs within the system. Not to mention this whole bull**** of Teachers, firefighters, and Police really means, town workers, aids, and janitors... Why so against civic employees doing a necessary work? You should try work sometime, you just might like it. Your English is atrocious. Please stop correcting typos until you finish high school. I was talking 'merican to the Ponytail. Nice try, but American's can speak, and type, proper English. |
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On 6/22/12 9:42 PM, Earl wrote:
Nice try, but American's can speak, and type, proper English. Your posts here indicate you are barely literate. "American's," eh? "speak, and type," eh? "proper English," eh? Beyond what is the generally accepted "standard" of English in an Anglophone country, Earl, just what do you mean by "proper English"? Right-wing dumfochs...they're destroying civilization. |
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On 6/23/2012 6:21 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 6/22/12 9:42 PM, Earl wrote: Nice try, but American's can speak, and type, proper English. Your posts here indicate you are barely literate. "American's," eh? "speak, and type," eh? "proper English," eh? Beyond what is the generally accepted "standard" of English in an Anglophone country, Earl, just what do you mean by "proper English"? Right-wing dumfochs...they're destroying civilization. Segway right into you spoutin off some of your book learnin. |
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