[F.O.A.D.]

On 5/22/13 9:40 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:
On 5/22/2013 9:14 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"JustWaitAFrekinMinute" wrote in message
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On 5/22/2013 7:24 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 5/22/13 7:18 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:
On 5/22/2013 6:02 PM, John H wrote:
On Wed, 22 May 2013 15:14:36 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

On 5/22/2013 2:52 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:30 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:18 -0400, "F.O.A.D."
wrote:

Years of the Bush Recession plus wasting public money on private
charter
schools erodes the funds available for public schools.

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Public schools are not failing from lack of funding. They are
failing from lack of parental committment to the educational
process.
When sports and student "self esteem" are a schools top priorities,
the parents are inevitably to blame.

A big part of the problem is the number of kids who do not have
functioning families.


A big part of the problem is teachers and districts that spend too
much
time preaching and not enough time teaching, expecting the families
and
kids to make up for it at home at night. It's not like it used to be,
our names are not all Cleaver, and a lot of kids don't have a mom or
dad
at home at night to guide them. With the money and resources we give
them, they could do a lot more.

Homework is part of education. How many folks do you think graduate
from a decent program in college
without homework?

And yes, parents should be making sure the work gets done.

John H.


In college no problem, and even in public schools.....



.... thirty years ago... Families are not constructed to "do homework"
anymore, it's just a fact of life. My mom realized that some 40 years
ago and helped insititute unwritten policy that stands in my home town
to this day and I rarely saw my girls come home with more than a
half to
one hour of work, and many times, none... At the same time, our town is
a high rated system when it comes to diplomas... so, it can be done. At
the same time they don't fool around with a lot of ****, everybody gets
a voice, I will leave it at that.

So, the policy of generous social promotions that got you a diploma is
still in effect?

At least I have a diploma... It's sitting right here in front of me on
the wall. Did you ever earn one?

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LOL! (Sorry). I think you are the first person I've ever heard of
that has his high school diploma on display on a wall.



Bull****.. My mom put it up there some 30 years ago along with a few
trophies and other objects of my childhood? That might be forign to you,
but my mom was pretty proud of me, I do call bull**** that you couldn't
deduce that or something similar all by yourself though. snerk

I bet you have some momemtos on your wall somewhere of things in your
life you are proud of, I bet your mom did too.. Sorry if your "things"
are better than mine... you don't even see... oh forget it.. LOL! Hope
you never do...


Did she save that sweatshirt that said *High School* ?

http://www.80stees.com/images/produc...Shirt-link.jpg