On 10/31/09, I Second That, Cyn wrote:
> Thank you Cyn, I was getting ready to write a response to all
> these previous posts. Yes, education is important to us, but
> let's face it - we have two wars going on right now which may
> very well spill in to other areas. If you have loved ones
> fighting right now I think you would also agree that the
> military needs all the help they can get. Besides, education in
> this country, especially in the south is a lost cause. Teachers
> do need adequate pay. The problem is the discrepancies in the
> appropriation of money - I'm finding that it has absolutely
> nothing to do with how "broke" a district is. Really, is a
> district suffering from a budget deficit when the teachers' pay
> is cut but the super and the other admin are given pay raises?
> It's all about how education has become a huge bureacracy and
> how it knows that it can bully teachers. The kids have become
> an afterthought. Maybe the government has the right idea. Give
> the military more money, because the kids are going to have to
> join up anyway because there are fewer opportunities for them to
> actually learn in the classroom, and there aren't any jobs for
> them when (or if) they actually graduate.

Wow. What a nihilist you are!!! God help your students. Honestly.

NC Teacher
>
> On 10/29/09, Cyn wrote:
>> I think the military deserves anything they can get. Keep on
>> rewarding them, I say! I think the US and GA have
>> established priorities. Unfortunately, education is not one
>> of them. Nevertheless, the military earns its money. Until
>> we see education as a matter of life and death, nothing will
>> happen. Think on this.
>>

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