They just want to know WHY ?

[ProPokerPlayer]

This should be the 2nd biggest story on the news today...but you wont find a mention of it nor the #1 story anywhere....

When introducing his education destroyer the POTUS said The only guideline for funding in this dept is "does it work" He then cut off funding for this program that CLEARLY WITHOUT A SHADOW OF DOUBT was working....and working for the very people he still today promises to help make a better future. He did it purely because HIS PARTY DOESNT SUPPORT IT....He gives a flying crap about if something works or not...."Your precious tax dollars"..another lie from this Father of all Lies...

 

[ProPokerPlayer]

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[mplastered]

Private school is OK for his kids, just not for yours. Good luck to those parents and kids. They're gonna need it.

 

[gtc08]

isnt pro poker player the guy who said an assassin should step up and kill the president?

 

[mplastered]

You should whisper when you say that.

 

[Willie99]

Killing an education program that is working and that helps the poor inner city people that keep the Democratic Party in power.

that's liberal thinking for you

Obama and the Democrats want to make sure school choice is only available to those who can afford it.

 

[barman]

PPP agreeably served a time out for his ill-advised post last month. He remains as welcome as any other RxForum member who can use the PoliticoPub without profane flames towards other members and/or overtly racist or anti-semitic commentary.

 

[Romanowski]

isnt pro poker player the guy who said an assassin should step up and kill the president?

whats that have to do with this thread?

gtc lol

 

[mamatried]

Private school is OK for his kids, just not for yours. Good luck to those parents and kids. They're gonna need it.

Private school is OK for anyone if they can afford it. Just don't expect the taxpayer (i.e., ME) to pay to send someone else's kid to some toney private school.

 

[ProPokerPlayer]

Your dollars already pay for every kid in the country to go to failing schools......And these are not free rides. they are for the most part Tax Credits, meaning they are deducted from taxes paid not hand outs..

 

[barman]

Your dollars already pay for every kid in the country to go to failing schools......And these are not free rides. they are for the most part Tax Credits, meaning they are deducted from taxes paid not hand outs..

Spare us the blasting of the public school system in the USA

In the coming month, well over two million American kids will graduate public high schools sufficiently educated to compete in the job market, to go onto college, or some combination of both.

At the same time, there will be several hundred thousand kids who were in the public school system who will NOT graduate nor be prepared for the workplace and/or higher education.

And the vast majority of that latter group bear responsibility for their own choices to not take better advantage of the 12+ years of free education that was made available to them.

Teaching our young people personal responsibility means we give them credit when they succeed. But it also means we give them credit when they choose to not succeed. Blaming student failures on the "public school system" is not only foolish, it's downright lazy.

 

[mplastered]

Barman, something tells me you were never jumped and beaten, and left in a puddle of your own blood for your lunch money. Makes getting through those last 4 years of public school pretty tough.

 

[Willie99]

Bar, the inner city schools have major problems that can't be sugar coated. They have horrendous drop out rates and have failed far too many students.

The smaller private and charter schools in those neighborhoods have done remarkably better, there is really no dispute. There is a reason why the very large & poor African American community in DC is upset that Obama is ending a very successful program that was initiated by a racist and out of touch Republican President.

BTW, I can't help but to laugh at the obvious political hypocrisy on this issue. The truth is the polar opposite of what Democrats and their enablers want you to believe.

 

[barman]

The mega-challenges faced by inner-city (maybe 5% of the US public school population) public schools are founded in a combination of student and parental apathy, as well as simple parental inadequacy.

The latter is for the moment, a generational spiral of adults who were failures in their own school experience and who now have no spark or ability to inspire the current crop of teenagers to experience fresh success.

Nonetheless 95% of American public schools are not only well funded, they are staffed by and large by competent instructors and (albeit top-heavy) adminstrators.

Kids failing in those schools have no one to blame but a combination of themselves and their parents. And those failures would not be helped simply by picking them up and moving them down the street to a privately owned facility.

 

[steaktartar]

Barman, something tells me you were never jumped and beaten, and left in a puddle of your own blood for your lunch money. Makes getting through those last 4 years of public school pretty tough.

hno:

 

[Willie99]

Bar turning his back on the people that keep his party in power.

It's a Democratic thing, just ask Cindy Sheehan

 

[mplastered]

hno:

Meaning?

 

[barman]

Bar turning his back on the people that keep his party in power.

It's a Democratic thing, just ask Cindy Sheehan

Yeah...it was the voters in this DC district who tipped the balance of power to the Democrats last year. I am a freakin' traitor

 

[Daheavy1]

Spare us the blasting of the public school system in the USA

In the coming month, well over two million American kids will graduate public high schools sufficiently educated to compete in the job market, to go onto college, or some combination of both.

At the same time, there will be several hundred thousand kids who were in the public school system who will NOT graduate nor be prepared for the workplace and/or higher education.

And the vast majority of that latter group bear responsibility for their own choices to not take better advantage of the 12+ years of free education that was made available to them.

Teaching our young people personal responsibility means we give them credit when they succeed. But it also means we give them credit when they choose to not succeed. Blaming student failures on the "public school system" is not only foolish, it's downright lazy.

This may be the first post of Bar's I've ever agreed with. :toast:

 

[Willie99]

Yeah...it was the voters in this DC district who tipped the balance of power to the Democrats last year. I am a freakin' traitor

No Barman, not just DC, but just about every major US City.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/scho-a03.shtml

The study, sponsored by America’s Promise Alliance and prepared by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, also shows a staggering difference between the drop-out rates in major urban school districts and those in adjoining and more affluent suburban districts. Overall, high school graduation rates are 15 percentage points lower in urban schools as compared to those in the suburbs. In twelve cities, the disparities exceed 25 percentage points.
In some cases, the gap between the cities, with their large concentrations of working class and poor residents, and the suburbs is even greater. The widest discrepancies cited in the report are in Baltimore, Maryland, where only 34.6 percent of public high school students graduate, and its suburbs, where 81.5 percent acquire diplomas after four years, and in Columbus, Ohio, with a graduation rate of 40.9 percent as compared to 82.9 percent in the suburbs.
The city-suburb split is also immense in such metropolitan centers as New York (47.4 percent vs. 82.9 percent), Cleveland (42.2 percent vs. 78.1 percent), Philadelphia (49.2 percent vs. 82.4 percent), Chicago (55.7 percent vs. 84.1 percent), Los Angeles (57.1 percent vs. 77.9 percent), and Atlanta (46.1 percent vs. 61.8 percent).
A separate chart showing the graduation rates for the principal school districts in the 50 largest US cities points to the virtual collapse of public education in major urban centers.
Detroit, by many calculations the poorest US city, graduates less than 25 percent (24.9 percent) of its public high school students. Indianapolis Public Schools graduate 30.5 percent of their students, and the figures for the Cleveland Municipal City School District and the Baltimore City Public School System are 34.1 percent and 34.6 percent respectively.


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A who's who of the cities that keep the Democrats in power. Without their overwhelming democratic vote, many electoral votes would switch sides.


NYC, LA, Chicago, Detroit & Phil are 5 cities that help keep the Dems in power that would benefit as much as DC has with similar programs. But the Dems can't let it happen, they would piss off another major supporter, teacher unions.