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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Money. That is what will solve the school problem. Throw money at the school administration and see what they will do with it...Give themselves raises, no doubt, as has happened in the past. Maybe make the exterior of schools look pretty; granted that doesn't mean that they will shovel the snow and put down salt so the people going to the school don't fall and bust their asses. I know! Listen to the radio in Baltimore and hear the Baltimore City Public School Systems public announcement to 'teach your kids their ABC's, 123's and make sure they can read BEFORE they get to school - to give them a "head's up" in class.' We know what that really means. And what about the kids learning just how to take the MSA's? Those teachers who got into trouble were scapegoats and the school system administration knows it. Teachers have been totally stressed by their individual schools' admin about how the kids must get higher scores on these tests. This is a horrible trickle down effect that doesn't have a happy ending! The kids aren't learning anything but what is on the tests and how to TAKE tests in general. When do the teachers get to teach so the kids can learn...Where is the application of knowledge?!? Bill Gates and his woman are speaking out. Oprah Winfrey is speaking out. Hell! I've been speaking out on this for YEARS!!! Thank goodness, people with money and the media at their disposal are finally saying something that will be our country's demise if nothing is done about it. It's deplorable; despicable and disgusting - the education curriculum that is supposed to prepare our Nation's children in schools. There are those that think paying for their children to go to private school will insulate them from the problem. Or you can be like me...Not complacent but not having the time to worry about other people's kids `cause I got my own and spend money homeschooling. Instead of fighting for what should be our tax-right, just put your child in private school or homeschool them and you can forget about the crisis. School standards are sinking regardless! Not only that but if we must pay taxes for the public school system, it should work. We shouldn't be worried and afraid if our kids are going to get educated or into a fight on a daily basis. It's a behemoth - the big, fat elephant in the room that no one "sees" but everyone is struggling to move around, gasping for breath. Gosh, I could continue this but what's the point? I'm not Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey or Mayor O'Malley or Governor Ehrlich. What can I do besides complain? If I try to ask questions at my daughter's school, I get the Evil Eye and told that I should join the PTA. PTA!?! What a fuckin' joke! All they've been doing for the past 2 years is use Mafioso tactics to get the kids to put on uniforms. It's gonna take a hell of a lot more than uniforms to get the standards up to par. It's gonna take more than money. holla@me |
