REALITY

On 11/01/09, Are you for real? wrote:
> 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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