Wasilla, Alaska, city councilman and state House candidate Mark Ewing is sorry, but if nobody else is going to make the tough choices, he will be the one to stand up and say it: Stop wasting tax money sending disabled kids to school! "We are spending millions and millions of dollars educating children that have a hard time making their wheelchair move
Even without looking at any numbers, it&#039;s simply a definition to say that any additional spending on <i>any</i> specific category of students (special ed, gifted students, teen moms, those with musical talent, and so on) is &quot;disproportionate&quot;. There are important questions that can be asked about any such special programs, such as &quot;how well does it work?&quot;, &quot;how big is the clientele?&quot;, &quot;are the needed resources available?&quot;, &quot;is public school the right place to be providing this service?&quot;
But a discussion of the &quot;Special Education Burden&quot; has to consider <i>how big</i> the disproportion is. Using your example, if you have a school with 13 general and 2 special ed students, then special ed is 50% of the budget. If the population is, say, 1300 general and 40 special ed, then special ed gets 17%. Now, that&#039;s still a substantial number, but my point, such as it is, is that the amount of &quot;disproportion&quot; is the same in both cases -- each special ed student gets 6.5x the staff resources that a general student does.
The overall impact on the school depends on the make-up of the served population
We also have a hard time treating people of various medical issues who use Hoverrounds but we fund their treatment by spending public dollars for Medicare and Medicaid. What a douche. But I&#039;m not surprised since in he lives in the same hell hole as Joan of Wasilla.
is this like Paul RAyn being all opposed to the stimulus and denying he ever asked for stimulus money for his Wisconsin district until somebody actually shows him the letters where he did request it and then he says Hey - that doesn&#039;t really count because I was just asking for the money because I was asked to do that?
Like that there?
Everybody seems to be avoiding RAyn&#039;s bigger lie - that the stimulus package failed. But that&#039;s another story, and one that involves numbers and calcuations and everything. And when they all took the job the reporters were promised there would be no math.
That hair don&#039;t makes him look remarkably like the Milionaire Matchmater dude who turned out to be a complete fake (geez - who could have seen that one coming?) and was just sentenced to prison.
Where he may well meet his match, afterall. So I guess it kinda all worked out.
<blockquote>&ldquo;and, I&rsquo;m sorry, but you&rsquo;ve got to say, &lsquo;no&rsquo; somewhere. ....&rdquo;</blockquote> Ayup. We need to say <strong>NO</strong> to fucks like you who have no concept of human compassion or decency. We need to say <strong>NO</strong> to tax breaks for people making over $250,000 a year. We need to say <strong>NO</strong> to people and corporations stashing money in foreign tax havens without consequences. We need to say <strong>NO</strong> to christianists who want to take everyone else&#039;s rights away. We need to say <strong>NO</strong> to ...
<blockquote> It was a poor decision on my part to not remember what I said used to describe children with special needs.</blockquote>
Way too close to honest regret to be an influential Wasilla public employee...
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<blockquote>Do away with Welfare for the rich and the non Americans living here, seal the border with our troops and shoot to kill.</blockquote>
Since that one was dated May 1, perhaps Joe the not-plumber owes Ewing some royalties. (Well-known Republicans have such a firm handle on that concept.)
Even without looking at any numbers, it&#039;s simply a definition to say that any additional spending on <i>any</i> specific category of students (special ed, gifted students, teen moms, those with musical talent, and so on) is &quot;disproportionate&quot;. There are important questions that can be asked about any such special programs, such as &quot;how well does it work?&quot;, &quot;how big is the clientele?&quot;, &quot;are the needed resources available?&quot;, &quot;is public school the right place to be providing this service?&quot;
But a discussion of the &quot;Special Education Burden&quot; has to consider <i>how big</i> the disproportion is. Using your example, if you have a school with 13 general and 2 special ed students, then special ed is 50% of the budget. If the population is, say, 1300 general and 40 special ed, then special ed gets 17%. Now, that&#039;s still a substantial number, but my point, such as it is, is that the amount of &quot;disproportion&quot; is the same in both cases -- each special ed student gets 6.5x the staff resources that a general student does.
The overall impact on the school depends on the make-up of the served population
We also have a hard time treating people of various medical issues who use Hoverrounds but we fund their treatment by spending public dollars for Medicare and Medicaid. What a douche. But I&#039;m not surprised since in he lives in the same hell hole as Joan of Wasilla.
is this like Paul RAyn being all opposed to the stimulus and denying he ever asked for stimulus money for his Wisconsin district until somebody actually shows him the letters where he did request it and then he says Hey - that doesn&#039;t really count because I was just asking for the money because I was asked to do that?
Like that there?
Everybody seems to be avoiding RAyn&#039;s bigger lie - that the stimulus package failed. But that&#039;s another story, and one that involves numbers and calcuations and everything. And when they all took the job the reporters were promised there would be no math.
Children learn what they live.
That hair don&#039;t makes him look remarkably like the Milionaire Matchmater dude who turned out to be a complete fake (geez - who could have seen that one coming?) and was just sentenced to prison.
Where he may well meet his match, afterall. So I guess it kinda all worked out.
<blockquote>&ldquo;and, I&rsquo;m sorry, but you&rsquo;ve got to say, &lsquo;no&rsquo; somewhere. ....&rdquo;</blockquote> Ayup. We need to say <strong>NO</strong> to fucks like you who have no concept of human compassion or decency. We need to say <strong>NO</strong> to tax breaks for people making over $250,000 a year. We need to say <strong>NO</strong> to people and corporations stashing money in foreign tax havens without consequences. We need to say <strong>NO</strong> to christianists who want to take everyone else&#039;s rights away. We need to say <strong>NO</strong> to ...
<blockquote> It was a poor decision on my part to not remember what I said used to describe children with special needs.</blockquote>
Way too close to honest regret to be an influential Wasilla public employee...
- - -
<blockquote>Do away with Welfare for the rich and the non Americans living here, seal the border with our troops and shoot to kill.</blockquote>
Since that one was dated May 1, perhaps Joe the not-plumber owes Ewing some royalties. (Well-known Republicans have such a firm handle on that concept.)