here is another gripe for you to consider. Years ago, the school provided materials needed for class: pencils, paper, paints, books, etc. Now, you not only have to pay for it, you have to go to the store with a list for each grade and buy it yourself, and they also want the kids to wear uniforms, and you have to buy them also. In this little corrupt area the private schools siphon off public school money to build their schools even. Case in point: a private school fund drive was $1,500,000 short for its building fund (I knew, because I was friends with a member of the finance committee). A public school was about to be refurbished. Work was even scheduled to begin, when all of a sudden a "study" was called for by certain officials, and the end result was they decided to build a new school on another piece of property not too far away. It was much smaller than the original and the cafeteria was so small they had to eat in shifts, and they had to add outbuildings (which are still there), and there was not enough room in the cafeteria even for PTA meetings, where there was room left over in the original school.
On top of all that, the air conditioning broke down before the end of the second year. Come to find out, they were used units. New ones went to that private school that they were building, now, 'cause they had the rest of the money... My landlord's daughter went to that private school, and I had to tutor her because she wasn't learning what she needed to pass the tests for passing to the next grade. The school in question was not bad, and in better shape than one just like it that had the refurbishment in another town where my ex GF taught. I am friends with someone who was on the school board and found out herself that public money was going to private schools, and she soon lost her backing and many "friends" gave her the cold shoulder. I wasn't going to talk about this, but some people quitting because of their hypersensitivity over the teacher thing just doesn't cut it with me. I had to tell several of my youngest son's teachers to stop whining and teach. To me, if he's making all A's without doing all of his homework, what's the beef?? Give him something HARDeR TO DO!!! He is in the beginning of the 5th grade and scored at nearly the 7th grade level, and they still haven't given him the tests for gifted, and what they will to to challenge him I have yet to see. It appears that he has at least one better teacher this year. BTW he loves to ride on the back of my 450 as long as I don't goose the throttle in 1st or 2nd. His brother is just the opposite... ________________________________ From: Allen Thomas <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, August 24, 2010 7:41:54 PM Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] I have to go.. Wouldn't it be better to not have to move to a county with a good school system, and instead just send them to a good school near where you want to live. That is the problem with taxing people more money than a private school charges and providing a canned one size fits all education. On 8/24/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > My wife and I are looking to move. Our biggest consideration is how good is > the school system. Very interesting stuff on a motorcycle board. > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:12:53 > To: <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: I have to go.. > > Why would you want to give your kids the same education as everyone else??? > Im shure theres something that you can teach the kid something they wont > learn in school, so think of it as you teaching them all that you know, then > the school as a supliment to the things you cant teach as well..... > > As far as the people that are "smart" and went to collage teaching there > kids..... As someone else here stated school is much more then books, its > alot about social development. So if a kids education is soley book learning > at home how will they act in social situations.... And (im going to catch > grief about this but.....) book learning is very ridgid, where the school of > life teaches more about thiking outside the box, so kids being social and > learning non book stuff only expands there potental... > > > Yeti > > > -----Original Message----- > Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:49:02 pm > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: I have to go.. > > > I did finish high school, but not with that good a grades. I can't spell > that good. If the school expects me to teach my kids they are at a > disadvantage. Why should my kids have a disadvantage because I didn't have > good grades and go to collage? It should be the school systems job to teach > the kids and not send the work home for the parents to teach them. > > rodhall > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Nolte <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, Aug 21, 2010 10:56 pm > Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: I have to go.. > > > Parents refusing to be involved in their kids education after school is > another big one. "Do your homework or I'll beat your butt" isn't good enough > involvement. Blaming everything on the teacher is another disturbingly > common trend, and incentives based on test scores alone is another big > detriment to the system as a whole. > Sorry about getting touchy about it, but it has become a sensitive subject > for me over the years, and now we have a candidate for Governor this fall > who is so anti Public Education that I fear what will happen if she is > elected. > As for the mandatory thing... my take on it, as a childless man who never > plans on having kids, is that the money I pay into public education is a > community investment, helping to improve tomorrows engineers, doctors, > researchers and programmers who will be tasked with improving and fixing the > world after us. The better I can equip them, the better the world will be. > Sorry for the thread hijacking, Kim, and best of luck to you on the coming > year! > -Kurt > > On Aug 21, 2010 8:32 PM, "Kyle Munz" <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a frequent Paddlee I would like to second that. > > -Kyle > > > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The biggest problem with the s... > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > > -- Sent from my mobile device -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. 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