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Teacher’s, Teacher’s everywhere and no Children Taught
One of the Democratic’s favorite union, the Teachers Union, is causing some problems and they seem to be getting some help from the local governments:
Narrow political interests stand in the way of improving our schools and easing New York taxpayers’ burdens, says Marcus A. Winters, a Senior Fellow with the Manhattan Institute.
States must develop data sets that track the individual performance of students over time and match those students to their teachers. Unfortunately, New York has deliberately refused to take that step, says Winters:
- The state already has a sophisticated system for tracking student progress,
but it doesn’t allow this statewide data set to match students to their teachers.
- No technical or administrative factors prevent the state from doing so, only political obstacles stand in the way.
- The premise underlying the policies favored by the teachers’ unions, which govern so much of the relationship between public schools and teachers, is that all teachers are uniformly effective.
- Once we can objectively distinguish between effective and ineffective teachers, the system of uncritically granted tenure, a single salary schedule based on experience and credentials, and school placements based on seniority become untenable.
DC Voucher Program laid to rest
While Obama’s children are getting the best education, and always have, the poor families in DC will no longer have a choice in what kind of education their children have.
I first told you about this in March and then again in May. I had hope that this wouldn’t happen, however it looks like it is:
Seventeen hundred low-income kids have attended private schools under the (Voucher) program and their test results have shown notable improvement, especially in reading.
Parents strongly support the program. The mayor is for it; so is the city’s reform-
minded school superintendent. But the teacher’s unions, who have seemingly unlimited sway with congressional Democrats, don’t like the program. They say such voucher systems siphon funds away from public schools which desperately need it. But this program is federally funded and costs the D.C. school system nothing. In fact, it saves money by sending hundreds of students elsewhere.
The real reason seems to be that the program works and thereby threatens the monopoly the public schools and their unions now enjoy. So language to end the program was quietly inserted in that massive trillion spending bill now working its way through Congress.
STD’s in Two Years
A new study that is in the latest Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, published by the American Medical Association shows that 1/2 of sexually active urban teenage girls will have an STD within 2 years after first intercourse. Often the girls are 15 when they get their first STD. So, what is the answer? Easier access to more testing and increased education on getting tested and condoms.
Anyone else confused? The liberals are being successful in getting smoking eliminated from public places. Why? Because smoking in very unhealthy and you may get sick from it. The liberals are trying to ban fatty trans fat from public restaurants. Why? Because eating trans fat is very unhealthy and you may get sick from it. The liberals want all asbestos removed from public and private buildings.
Why? Because being around exposed asbestos is unhealthy and you may get sick from it. See the trend?
However, when it comes to STD’s there is no talk about eliminating the behavior that causes the STD’s. Filters didn’t work with cigarettes and condoms don’t work with promiscuous sex. The CDC has said this time and time again.
In the CDC’s fact sheet on condoms and STD’s it says:
This is education in the U.S.
Duke University is enlisting some of their female students for a very important
Study **cough**.
A campus religious leader is unhappy about a study at Duke University that invites female students to attend parties where they can buy sex toys. The study asks female students over age 18 to attend the events that are similar to Tupperware parties but with erotic toys, lingerie and games. The women complete surveys about their sexual attitudes before and after the parties and get product discounts.
And this is going on because…? Seriously, this is considered higher education?
Marijuana, hammer and sickles – Oh My!
So, what kind of art would you expect to see at an school for K – 8 grades that cost $17,000 a year? Wait! Before you answer that – the school is in Berkley, California. Now what would you expect to see? Well, I for one wouldn’t have guessed this:
Symbols of communism and marijuana and a prediction that "capitalism will fail" aren’t exactly the sort of end-of-year messages you’d expect
from an eighth grader.
But that’s precisely what some students at the Black Pine Circle School, a private school in Berkeley, Calif., chose to include in their "Class of 2007" mosaic.
The symbols, which are prominently displayed outside the school…….have led critics to say they are blatant proof of political indoctrination of young children.
Black Pine Circle bills itself as a day school where students from kindergarten through eighth grade will be "maximally free of all the ‘isms’ which pervade most aspects of the world around them: from racism to sexism to the less obvious forms of discrimination," …..
Wake me up in Time for Work
Michelle Malkin has an interesting article up today. First lets talk about jobs:
We’ve endured five months of bogus Obama math — most recently on display with Dear Leader’s reclassification of the United States as one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. The MSM was finally getting wise to the phony baloney stimulus numbers — and here comes the White House to dump a new load of numerical B.S. into the mix.
125,000 summer jobs for the yoots!
Presto-change-o!
What’s a yoot? Well, all you have to do is watch My Cousin Vinny for that answer: a “yoot” is 
“youths”(I love that movie!). So the stimulus money is going to help 125,000 youths find summer jobs? Well, only if they remember to wake up in time to go:
These economically disadvantaged young people will participate in summer-employment programs funded under the federal stimulus plan. The programs aim to get them ready for employment through training and job experience.
After work-readiness training, each participant will be placed in a summer job with a governmental or nonprofit agency. The programs are for people 16 to 24, with an emphasis on those who are not in school.
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