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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I really don't get this. revenues mean what? little kids would assume a school should be whatever their school is- poor facilities they wouldn't know. If the school has textbooks, even old ones, shouldn't those be useable? Math and science and english haven't changed much- there could be a handout with all the proof on global warming. and I don't mean schools shouldn't be better funded, I just don't see how revenues possibly explain the horrible reality of our schools.
Schools are fucked up because teachers are allowed to be substandard. Democrats play politics with the issue while another generation of poor kids is doomed to producing the next.
It is criminal. We broke the air traffic controllers union, we should outlaw unions for teachers other than negotiation of contracts.
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I will repeat what the libertarian on the bus told me: If you want to fix the schools, you need to stick it to the teachers to take away their freedom to teach whatever the hell they want and you need to fix the curriculum. You need to fix the curriculum so that the teachers are all teaching the same things, and so that it's the right things. To do this, you need to spend a lot of money to buy new books.
He said that trying to set standards to get rid of teachers is a lost cause because (a) no one is in the classrooms watching them, (b) it's very hard to tell from tests whether the teachers are doing well or they just started with good/bad kids, and (c) it's not like the administrators rating them are rocket scientists either.
I don't know enough about the subject to say whether any of this is right, but it sounded right, and "a pox on both houses" was not what I expected this fellow to say. I had been watching him try to get other people on the bus to take his copies of the National Review and obscure libertarian tracts for several months.
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