The Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky School is a notable exception Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is a woman on a mission: She wants to make American public education worse while piling up big profits for people running private "alternatives," because if somebody's making a buck, then you know our children is learning. One of her favorite schemes for transferring education dollars from public schools to private hands is the virtual charter school, where kids can sit at home behind a keyboard and a monitor and get all the education they need without any indoctrination from Marxist teachers. Or, for that matter, without a hell of a lot of learning, either, according to a
OK, that's it . . . you all know people who say "i won't raise kids in an environment like this!" . . . guess what . . . we're getting killed in elections (and on the streets) because the brain-dead are reproducing like rabbits while people who would make good parents and raise bright children are staying out of the gene pool.
You know that, I know that. But the focus groups thought the Roman numeral might scare off parents whose kids hadn't attended the first three Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky Schools.
Especially since they miss the fact that vouchers for private schools come from government money. I pointed this out to my anti-gummit dad and he decided he doesn't like charter schools. For a conservative, he's dangerously attached to critical thinking. He just needs a little help now and then.
It's already having the desired effect in my district. We are the "premier district"(don't ask me what that means, I don't see it) in Illinois, and yet we can't staff our kitchens because we don't offer the same wage as Walmart and the local McDonald's, soon to be Target as well.
The bored housewife and retired grandmas that look to make some easy cash see an overworked, bitter bunch of hags and they don't stay long. It's not because they're awful people, it's because they work understaffed indefinitely and make a shit wage. All to keep our classroom size down. Our custodians are leaving for Amazon. We have some of the highest property taxes per district in the state. We can't pay our workers, and they move teachers around like they're playing timed chess to get rid of them before tenure or to push the elder teachers onto IMRF and off their budget.
The district is going downhill to the point that my wife thinks the positive if her daughter decides to go live with her dad at 14 is she'd get a better education. The district was why we moved here. I own a house in the next county where I would make more money if I had the same job. I have to rent it out so we can live here. But we get nothing that resembles a better education than I could give her homeschooling.
What woolly pockets and other vertical systems do is put the actual planting substrate on a wall--tipping the garden sideways so to speak. They're really hard to maintain if you don't have an automatic watering system. You have to keep replacing or replenishing the soil (like constantly), or rely on fertilizer. They can work, but you have to be really really committed. For that level of effort it's better to go hydroponic. (I've done a lot of teaching on household-scale agriculture). I guess it's fun for kids, but I don't see how it teaches them anything.
The type of vertical growing you're talking about--using structures to encourage plants up instead of out--is different, because the plants are rooted in natural soil (or the equivalent in a raised bed or large pot). This is more a space-saving or aesthetic choice.
OK, that's it . . . you all know people who say "i won't raise kids in an environment like this!" . . . guess what . . . we're getting killed in elections (and on the streets) because the brain-dead are reproducing like rabbits while people who would make good parents and raise bright children are staying out of the gene pool.
You know that, I know that. But the focus groups thought the Roman numeral might scare off parents whose kids hadn't attended the first three Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky Schools.
And the downside would be...?
You had bad math teachers.
My 6th grade teacher, Mrs L., was a master at that.
uhh, overdose of Ein?
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Leaving school would not be profitable!
Especially since they miss the fact that vouchers for private schools come from government money. I pointed this out to my anti-gummit dad and he decided he doesn't like charter schools. For a conservative, he's dangerously attached to critical thinking. He just needs a little help now and then.
Remember when Obama tried to make that point? Good times, good times.
It's already having the desired effect in my district. We are the "premier district"(don't ask me what that means, I don't see it) in Illinois, and yet we can't staff our kitchens because we don't offer the same wage as Walmart and the local McDonald's, soon to be Target as well.
The bored housewife and retired grandmas that look to make some easy cash see an overworked, bitter bunch of hags and they don't stay long. It's not because they're awful people, it's because they work understaffed indefinitely and make a shit wage. All to keep our classroom size down. Our custodians are leaving for Amazon. We have some of the highest property taxes per district in the state. We can't pay our workers, and they move teachers around like they're playing timed chess to get rid of them before tenure or to push the elder teachers onto IMRF and off their budget.
The district is going downhill to the point that my wife thinks the positive if her daughter decides to go live with her dad at 14 is she'd get a better education. The district was why we moved here. I own a house in the next county where I would make more money if I had the same job. I have to rent it out so we can live here. But we get nothing that resembles a better education than I could give her homeschooling.
I prefer GULAG!!!, but truncheon is a good word too.
She owns interests in online charter schools, as the article notes.
She's literally writing herself government checks.
Come the Revolution...
Because a poorly educated population almost always vote GOP.
Sit Down, Waldo
“Americans should be very pleased to know that many of my friends are making a lot of money picking over the bones of our public education system.”
-@RealDonaldTrump
What woolly pockets and other vertical systems do is put the actual planting substrate on a wall--tipping the garden sideways so to speak. They're really hard to maintain if you don't have an automatic watering system. You have to keep replacing or replenishing the soil (like constantly), or rely on fertilizer. They can work, but you have to be really really committed. For that level of effort it's better to go hydroponic. (I've done a lot of teaching on household-scale agriculture). I guess it's fun for kids, but I don't see how it teaches them anything.
The type of vertical growing you're talking about--using structures to encourage plants up instead of out--is different, because the plants are rooted in natural soil (or the equivalent in a raised bed or large pot). This is more a space-saving or aesthetic choice.