Nov 2013 elections in COLO (Denver, Pueblo: real estate, transfer, buying)

[artisan4]

Originally Posted by Colorado Rambler

Oh, please with the "throwing money" cliche. I was a faculty member at a Colorado Institute for High Education for years. Wanna know what the money was "thrown at"? Books, computer literacy, and equipment for science labs. Let me count the ways. You want to imply that people like me and my colleagues were just greedy blood suckers? No, you should be thanking me and all the other teachers who helped you learn the alphabet, so you could actually read and respond to this thread. A knee jerk response about "throwing money" is not an intelligent response, it's just a knee jerk response.

Pffft! Just one more thread around here to put on my personal ignore list. Have fun working at McDonald's for minimum wage.

Adios,
- Rambler

The attacks on teachers are coming from the ignorant segment of the population, as directed by ALEC, Faux News, etc.

[artisan4]

Originally Posted by Colorado Rambler

I beg to differ on that point. While the damned Front Range seems to have gone completely to hell, we in the SW Mountains still care deeply for our children and their education. Cortez has already voted for funding to build a new high school and the school districts in our part of Colorado are in favor of amendment no. 66.

Dolores School District RE-4A
Durango School District 9-R Board of Education
Eagle County Schools
Englewood Public School District
Monte Vista School District
Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1

Watch out Front Range! Not only do we control your water supply, we're smarter than you!

Douglas County School Board's gone to hell, the rest of us support our teachers and schools. I think 66 will pass.

[McGowdog]

Merit-based pay, what a good idea.

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

...and paying teachers based on merit... can go pound sand.

[motoracer51]

NO on both.

[McGowdog]

Why both? Why not let the stoners pay some sin tax?

[Mike from back east]

Seems that some people aren't voting on AA.

This is a poll where people CAN vote on more than one choice, i.e., one vote on 66 and another vote on AA.

If you've already voted on an option, you will see your choice shown in italics.

[iknowftbll]

Originally Posted by artisan4

The attacks on teachers are coming from the ignorant segment of the population, as directed by ALEC, Faux News, etc.

Running plays from Alinsky's playbook. Effective, but patently and intellectually dishonest.

[motoracer51]

Originally Posted by McGowdog

Why both? Why not let the stoners pay some sin tax?

Because today they'll tax people that decide to possess MJ and smoke it, tomorrow it might be me and my guns.

The state doesn't need more tax money. It needs to be shrunk in size and scope.

[phetaroi]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

I'll tell you what when Amendment 66 fails, I'll vote for it the next time if it includes clauses for ending teacher pensions, reducing the glut of do nothing administrators, getting rid of the teachers union, eliminating tenure, and paying teachers based on merit...otherwise the public education beast can go pound sand.

What have you got against pensions?

Do nothing administrators. As a school principal (albeit from another state), I usually spent 48-53 hours a week doing what you call nothing.

Much of what workers have in this country is thanks to unions, although admittedly they often went too far.

Tenure at the public school level is pretty much a dead issue. I got rid of a number of teachers who were tenured. You just had to have valid grounds to do so.

You're against merit pay?

[McGowdog]

Originally Posted by phetaroi

You're against merit pay?

I think you got that one backwards. I think he's for that one.