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Politics : Socialized Education - Is there abetter way? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (1014)	5/5/2013 8:19:46 PM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 1513

DC spends more money per student than anywhere else in the country. Every few years another administrator is caught stealing money from the till. They have the worst schools in the nation, yet Leftists claim there is direct correlation between money spent and outcome. Wrong. Teachers’ unions, meanwhile, don’t like the idea that teachers should take ultimate responsibility for their classroom outcomes, regardless of where their students come from or what their home lives might be. Union leaders prefer to wield urban America’s social ills as a shield against claims of teacher malfeasance or the prospect of even modest reforms. These are Leftist unions of course. These are the same people that lambast racism and that everybody is the same and able to succeed in life. Notice they don't really believe their own tripe based on the above from the article. Notice they are actually closet racists because where their students come from matters once you are in the Union and your pay depends on performance. Leftists are a bunch of frauds, phonies, con artists and thieves. Sickening. I also disagreed with Rhee's statement about going to school hungry. Total BS. They have breakfast programs now and poor kids get fed in addition to all the SNAP and TANF money they get as well. They get a free lunch also.

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (1014)	5/12/2013 12:09:59 PM
From: greatplains_guy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1513

it also sparked a new realization: The reform movement needs a grassroots political arm similar to that wielded by the labor unions. StudentsFirst, the organization Rhee founded after leaving the chancellery, has since grown into a serious political operation, recruiting and supporting ... Michelle Rhea will go down in history as one of the important lightening rods of education reform. The effort to reform education and reestablish real accountability is getting more difficult. Obama's Common Core is designed to make it impossible.