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To: tejek who wrote (700595)	2/23/2013 6:31:43 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579133

>> Cost of living. And old schools are more expensive to maintain. And poorer kids require more attention because they don't get the parental support than more affluent kids. There are more reasons but those are just off the top of my head. What a crock of shit. You don't know a damned thing about this subject. Cost of living is all over the place if you compare it for the worst-performing cities and states. And if the problem were simply "old schools being more expensive to maintain", then why did DC react violently to Michelle Rhee when she tried to close 15% of DC schools that were operating at 25% or less of their capacity? The problem here is teachers and their unions. Rhee went to the unions and proposed a doubling in compensation for good teachers in exchange for the "right" to fire lousy teachers by eliminating tenure-based protections. The unions raised hell, and DC decided to stay with the failed program, and of course, fired Rhee. The problem isn't the school facilities. The problem isn't a shortage of money. The problem is piss-poor management by incompetent school boards; management which is essentially in bed with the unions. As usual, you're wrong and unwilling to admit it.