If it’s broken, throw it out
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| elelady Monday, January 24, 2011: 12:22 pm More from elelady | Most of the Township Assessor's were hired into the County Assessor's office??? I don't think so, you may want to check that out, I think you will be surprised this did not happen. |
| Liberty Monday, January 24, 2011: 2:55 pm More from Liberty | It's will always amaze me that the are these elitist-minded self appointed controllers over all that will not let 10 children escape the educational dungeons that fails them because it will increase the cost of dungeon operations. Further proof this evil minded and are the last who should be around children. To destroy 10 children because just to pay for the imprisonment of the thirty is only acceptable to those who promote abortion. That can only come from an evil person that should never be allowed to be alone with your children. In fact those who are allowed to be alone with your children in the school buildings when you're not there give big money for the abortion cause and teach your children they have a right to kill their own babies if they get pregnant and were to go to do it. Most parents don't even know about that. So, you can see the one's who doesn't even believe your child has a right to live naturally won't allow them to break free from a system designed by their NEA to destroy them. The voucher thing is good only because it helps children. Those who pay 10 times the taxes but only getting half value in vouchers for their children doesn't teach the children a very good lesson but for those who care enough about children to use them I'm sure will be willing to pay more than their fare share to allow a few children to escape and get and education. Now listen to the teachers hired spillage. If 10 students leave an elementary school, how much less money is needed to run that school and its buses? Close off the heat and light to un-needed rooms and park the excess buses. Duh. Will fewer teachers be required? You betcha, :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):) Will the the union the teachers work for lose money to promote abortions and homosexuality? YEP, :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):) Will the students be better off? -- Just the ones whose able to escape through this voucher program. :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):) Parents, don't wait on politicians. Save your children now. Walk down to the building and walk away holding their hands. It will be your most remembered act of loving your child you will ever have memory of. There is one thing about this article I agree with. The title. |
| Liberty Monday, January 24, 2011: 3:30 pm More from Liberty | Three very good links for parents to read. Very informative by PHD's and those who researcher these matters. http://www.americantraditions.org/Articles/Abusing%20Children%20and%20Calling%20it%20Sex%20Education%20and%20Research.htm http://welcometoafreeworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/truth-about-sex-education-pedophilia.html The GEC school system is designed to keep information hidden from parents about these matters. You know what I'm talking about. I was talking to some parents recently who I knew as die-hard supporters of the public school system. I was surprised to find they had rescued their children from the GEC system and put them in private schools recently. They are sacrificing like all get-out to do it. When I inquired about their change of heart they explained it like this. The have always tried to be active in their children school but they said it's become more and more of the attitude of the teachers and the administration that parents needs to stay out of the teachers business in the class room. Their PTA meetings became just talk about " Play Ground Equipment" and talk about how their child was educated became off limits. WOW. Now, I talk with many who have, and are, making the loving mood to save their children all the time but this couple really surpeised me. I kind-of gave-up on them a long time ago. I was really good to see them making the most loving change in their childs life. I recommend everyone to read the linked information above as a continuing education of how destructive the system is to your children. I warn you not to tell any of your government NEA teacher friends about it because they will become vile and hateful. |
| Reality Check Monday, January 24, 2011: 7:40 pm More from Reality Check | Cricket. Chirp. Chirp. Changing the channel.... An ode to Liberty's ignorant rants. |
| Liberty Monday, January 24, 2011: 8:29 pm More from Liberty | Click Below for . The teachers OPPOSING REFORM Performance pay. Charter schools. Tenure reform. Vouchers. The list of the issues the NEA opposes simply because these types of reforms could hurt the NEA financially or dilute its power goes on. Performance pay The concept is relatively simple and plays out every day in the private sector: pay for doing an effective job. But performance pay, and assessments based on individual performance run contrary to collective bargaining, the singular issue that makes the NEA relevant to its members. When President Barack Obama held steadfast to the notion of pay for performance (without providing many details), the NEA issued a video saying he didn’t really mean it. Dennis Van Roekel attempted to explain what Obama really meant. The NEA, like many other unions, doesn’t want to incentivize hard work and an above-and-beyond effort because it dilutes the power of collective bargaining. Kids interests be damned. Charter schools Charter schools are unique in that they have generally demonstrated the ability to outperform traditional, often union-organized, public schools. First championed by former American Federation of Teachers president Albert Shanker as incubators of reform, he later called them a "threat" as he saw they were resisting union representation. Such is the attitude of the NEA. The NEA opposes the freedom of charter schools because they represent competition to traditional public schools. When union interference is not there, direct working relationships exist between administrators and teachers. By maintaining a monopoly on the education system, the NEA (and AFT) there is no incentive to improve performance or enact greater accountability. Tenure reform The concept of tenure originally began in higher education and allowed professors to form a curriculum free from “harassment” from administrators. It spread to K-12 education, where less individual-teacher freedom exists as many school boards or states have more control over what is taught. Thus, tenure has come to protect those accused of non-education related offenses: sexual impropriety, drug crimes, etc. Attempts to reform tenure have been met with stiff resistance from the union because tenure is one of the school unions’ sacred cows. Vouchers/Tuition tax credits The idea is simple: allow the tax dollars collected by the government to educate students to follow that student to the institution that best matches his or her needs. Traditional public school, charter school, private school, or whatever: the government will put the needs of students first. But that is not acceptable to the NEA because it impinges on its monopoly on government funding for traditional public schools. The NEA is so afraid of choice for parents, it took to distorting the record of the Washington, DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. The NEA saying there was no evidence showing success of the program prompted U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) to all the NEA out. See more on the Non-educational Agenda page. ----------------------------------- more proofs to motivate you rescuing your children from the NEA GEC teachers. http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/Special_Report_-_Exposing_SIECUS.pdf http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/2010/08/abusing_childre.html http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm http://townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=6896332f-6381-4154-aaf3-6a1db942e870 |
| Liberty Monday, January 24, 2011: 9:37 pm More from Liberty | An interesting note, the number of home educators will in a short few years over-take the number of NEA teacher memberships. WOW, and just think, the home educators didn't cost us a dime but in fact still pay taxes which means they kind of pay ~ 5000 extra ( above their fare share) each year. The NEA teacher COST the US citizens well over $400 billion dollars each and every year and that doesn't include their pensions and the economic cost to the nation from the failed student they release to society that's illiterate. Check the stats. The US government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information." But their is one thing they knew that most home educated didn't, they knew how to have sex with children in 3rd and forth grade. And that cost us $400 billion plus housing all the child molesters they make. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States |
| Liberty Monday, January 24, 2011: 9:38 pm More from Liberty | fourth |
| KennyD Monday, January 24, 2011: 10:36 pm More from KennyD | Liberty, Okay...I understand your point on all this material you've presented. Truth is I have tried to read some of them and couldn't make it all the way through them. You are not for public education... I get that. I understand you hate the NEA, government, and unions period. I am glad you care that deeply for children and their education. It is nice to know that there are still people like that out there. I think that you would make a good school superintendent for these reasons. I just want to say this in the most polite way possible. I get it, I see your point, and I respect it. It would take a half carton of Camel smokes, 1/5 captain Morgan and 3 days off of work for me to gather enough info to make even one of your presentations...... But for the love of all things holy...... I get the point. Take care |
| Step Up Tuesday, January 25, 2011: 12:17 am More from Step Up | Mitch wants to privatize another public service and bust unions, help Tony Bennett's wife bring a bundle of money into the household through her connection to charter schools but...According to the ranking of all school districts in Indiana based on I-STEP performance, * of the 34 schools where ISTEP pass rates were 50% or less, 2 of them are state run schools, 7 are public school and 25 are Charter Schools. * of all the schools where ISTEP pass rates were 75% or better, of the 72 district...s, 1 is a charter school and all 71 of the others are public schools! |
| Step Up Tuesday, January 25, 2011: 12:24 am More from Step Up | Quoting from the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazett..."Published: January 16, 2011 3:00 a.m. Policing the rush to charter schools Knowledge and learning, generally diffused throughout a community, being essential to the preservation of a free government; it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to encourage, by all suitable means, moral, intellectual, scientific, and agricultural improvement; and provide, by law, for a general and uniform system of Common Schools, wherein tuition shall be without charge, and equally open to all. – Indiana Constitution For perspective on Gov. Mitch Daniels’ education policy, consider the ramifications if a similar policy applied to Indiana’s city police departments. After all, the police departments clearly are failing. Each week, dozens of crimes occur in our city, and many of them go unsolved. As Hoosiers, we cannot allow this record of failure to continue. Remember when we were kids? We could walk to the park without our parents. We could leave our doors unlocked. Clearly, the police departments have gotten worse and worse. What we need is to give police departments competition and to give citizens choices. Indiana should empower a university with a criminal justice program – say, Indiana Tech – to authorize charter police departments. Citizens could choose to have the charter department, not city police, patrol by their homes and answer their calls for help. But that’s not enough. Rich people can hire security guards. Why shouldn’t all Hoosiers have the same access to safety? Let’s give every Hoosier who wants one a voucher financed with our tax dollars to purchase their own security if they choose. Of course, there will be no tax increase to finance these additional police forces, so money will have to come out of the city police department budget. Because the vast majority of that budget goes to salaries and wages, that will mean eliminating positions on the city police department. Liberals may argue that fewer police officers will make city police even worse. But all the city police need to do is look for efficiencies. One way to hold the line on the city police budget is by stopping the huge pay increases officers receive every year – 1 percent in 2011 alone. Police officers should be paid based on their success – the crime rates in the neighborhoods they patrol, for example. Higher pay where crime rates are low, lower pay where they are worse. If that were the state’s approach to police departments, Hoosiers would quickly see some of the faults. For one, the historic increases in crime have much more to do with society than police departments. And in recent years, crime has not been increasing substantially. And most Hoosiers go through the day without being crime victims. Hoosiers would surely see the unfairness of paying police officers who patrol the most dangerous, crime-ridden neighborhoods less than the officers who have the safest streets. Daniels has long called for greater government efficiency, going as far as to advocate for school corporations to consolidate. Where is the logic in spreading limited state money to more and more schools, each with its own principal, its own bureaucracy? There is a fundamental unfairness in this comparison, however. Nearly all of our elected leaders consider running police departments a clear function of government. Practically anyone, it seems, can start a school. Yet, Indiana’s constitution makes no requirement that cities have police departments – or fire departments or street departments or zoning departments. The state’s constitution makes clear, though, that it is a fundamental obligation of Indiana to provide an education through a system of public schools. Why would elected Indiana leaders want the state to transfer resources from the public schools, for which they have a constitutional obligation, to private schools for which Indiana has no obligation? Perhaps our state leaders should focus on better meeting their constitutional mandate to provide education through a system of common schools rather than to encourage parents not to send their children to those very schools. |
| Liberty Tuesday, January 25, 2011: 12:55 am More from Liberty |
Ken, are you a teacher at a public school ? |
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