Refuse to send your kids to school in the ghetto = jail time.

[jklaughrey]

Yes, she should but since she teaches at a Title1 school so she doesn't get it because the State Superintendent just cut their pay by 4%, raised insurance costs by 20%, and cut all reimbursements and doesn't allow performance increases for Title 1 schools. But gave himself a 16% pay increase and gave money to the schools in his home district. Tell me again how my wife gets more money? PS, we have performance pay for non Title 1 schools and her union is good, but had to negotiate to save jobs for special education and funding for disabled learning students. Hence why they took pay cuts, in order to HELP THE STUDENTS!

[BrianS]

Yes, she should but since she teaches at a Title1 school so she doesn't get it because the State Superintendent just cut their pay by 4%, raised insurance costs by 20%, and cut all reimbursements and doesn't allow performance increases for Title 1 schools. But gave himself a 16% pay increase and gave money to the schools in his home district. Tell me again how my wife gets more money?

I don't think we have any argument. Like I said the problem is mainly with the bureaucracy and the entrenched unions that fight against performance based pay and school choice. My experience in school was that about 1/4 of the teachers were outstanding and probably deserved to make more, about 1/2 were so so and the other 1/4 should have been fired and their pay given to the ones who are truly gifted at what they do.

[jklaughrey]

That I can agree with. There are always shit birds in any state/gov't agency just living off the fat, and the difficulty the boards have to fire a tenured educator. But performance based pay won't work across the board on the whole, due to subjective reviews. Hence why Title one don't get them is because the students score lower on average than the state and federal mean of the standardized tests. Performance is based solely on how many students you can make pass a test, not on your teaching ability.

[armakraut]

Git on back tuh Uncle Sam's plantation... *whip!*

[Armati]

With any luck, this will will go to the SCOTUS.

Under 'separate but equal' geographical districting will be found unconstitutional and any school district will have to accept a student from another district. Oh fun!

This should lead us down the road to 'school choice'/vouchers in short order.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

If a local private school were smart, they'd give her kids a free ride. If you care about your kids that much, its worth it to give her a shot.

My mom is the school secretary for an affluent suburban grade school and they are serious about education. They have like two or three Nobel prize winners that went there. She is responsible for ferreting out the people that don't belong in the district. It really comes down to resources. The more of these kids that get in, the less resources there are for 'native' kids. Property taxes ain't cheap and adding in people not paying their share just makes the situation worse.

$30,000 grand in back tuition or 10 days in jail. Uhmm, I think I can keep my cheeks clenched for 10 days. So when she is in jail, do the kids live with the grandpa in the good school district?

[TehLlama]

With any luck, this will will go to the SCOTUS.

Under 'separate but equal' geographical districting will be found unconstitutional and any school district will have to accept a student from another district. Oh fun!

This should lead us down the road to 'school choice'/vouchers in short order.

I REALLY like the way you think...

Odds are that jackwagon school district pays the PI more than it would cost to educate that kid from K through 12.


School districts should be merely the default option - I was a rare case where I was the academic version of sport stud - I could bring in enough hardware to go to the school of my choice, but it took thousands of dollars worth of grants I won for my middle school to convince them of that.

[kartoffel]

Public schools are for the children of the residents in that school district. If you don't want your kids to go to a free school in "the ghetto", (a) move somewhere else, or (b) send them to a private school.

[Armati]

Public schools are for the children of the residents in that school district. If you don't want your kids to go to a free school in "the ghetto", (a) move somewhere else, or (b) send them to a private school.

Again, 'separate but equal' has already been declared unconstitutional. Many people live physically closer to a school in a better locality but are districted in a worse school district.

To take it down to brass tacks, I wait with baited breath for 'integration' of predominantly white school districts by black students from other districts. Oh, fraptious day!

The fact of the matter is that most 'open minded' people are wildly bigoted, they just don't like to be forced to admit it.

I live in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. I see everyday where people drive two hours to work so they can send their kids to a whiter school district in PA, DE, or VA. Most of these folks have very good govt jobs in and and around DC but they will not live there because they don't to send their kids to schools in that area. Basically, people are FULL OF SHIT.

All we need now is a SCOTUS decision. Hopefully ol' girl lodges an appeal.

[variablebinary]

Nevermind

Just know, zoning is bullshit.