It's About The Kids? Thoughts on Teachers and Education Reform

[marigolds6]

Here in St Louis, we have an unusual entity called the special school district. They manage the special ed funding for every district in the county. (And only the special ed portions; the districts still have to manage the regular education expenditures for those students.)
Their expenditures, just for that special ed portion?

$400M for 22,000 students. That's $18,000 per student with an average of 1 in 6 students enrolled in the special district. Out of that $8,500 per student, over $3,000 of it is going to special ed only.

[Philip T]

Originally Posted by lhpartridge

I appreciate your coming clean with this. It's very much like what Stephen Colbert said about the US being a Christian nation: “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.” — Stephen Colbert

Yeah, Jesus and our Christian Nation.

If He came back -- this time it would be the Electric Chair. Technology advances and all.

Few hundred years later, folks would be wearing little Gold and Silver chair necklaces. TV Preachers would be talking about the miraculous healing power of Holy 'Legtricity.

It's very refreshing to find someone who is willing to say that relegating millions of poor American children to a third-world education is just fine. Most people try to deny the fact that those conditions exist and are actually widespread. Thank you for your year of service also. One is better than none.

Just because I am calling it what it is and in my small part helping make it so -- does not mean I think well of it. But overall, we will just wrap the crap in the flag and call it Holy, and bury it all out back with the rest of the bodies.