Response to all the school funding issues. Truth be told, the per capita spending on education is the highest here in the United States than any other industrialized nation. What is really hard for us to swallow is the fact that we are also getting the poorest grades on educational quality. Where does all the money go?
It does not take a genius to figure out that the system is inefficient and top heavy. Money is not the issue, and I hate how often it is used as the red herring. The issues will never be solved by spending even more money on a system that is not working. I liken this togiving drinks to alcoholics. I refuse to "enable" the system to flounder along. I have voted "no" to the last two referendums.I will not fundraise for the school system in any way. The system is ill, and terminally so. I am not here to praise Caesar. I am also not here to argue about the particulars. I find that most board members and school administrators like tonit-pick the small issues until they end up doing nothing about the larger issue. They pretend to be interested in what the opinion of the tax payers might be, then do as they will, no matter what. (Like give a bonus to the Superintendent of Schools that is greater than the median income of the people she allegedly serves. I call that "self-serving".) I have been told time and again that as a parent I must subscribe to their ideal of what constitues a "good parent". Yet, I have more than one example of English teachers (even one that laughingly billed himself as a "Language Arts" teacher) that are not capable of writing coherent sentences. They certainly do not subscribe to my ideal of what constitutes a "good teacher". I still have two children attending the Minneapolis Public Schools. I take pity on us all.... Jean Brown Cooper/Longfellow _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
