According to the left.....

[Cant_Be_Faded]

hey look
"im Cant Be Faded, love long walks on the beach, confuses govt deficit with economy to discredit reaganomics, and am unoriganal pawn and tool of the tin hat foil brigade who loves NbaDan's man chowder...Look! i can spout worn out cliches.. i also adore and love !"

Reaganomics did nothing for the economy except give the rich more money to spend...

you're such a culo

[jochhejaam]

Charter schools, in general, aren't much better than a good public school. Many are just average schools, like some public school, some charter schools have even lost their state accreditation. The thing about Charter schools is that they can discriminate based on grades, parental involvement, or some other criteria, depending on the school. Public schools don’t have that advantage; they are forced by law to take everyone, no matter their handicap or mental level. So many grade schools use specialists depending on the child’s challenge that Charter schools couldn’t afford.

Dan, you may be confused with Private Schools which Charter Schools are not. They are funded in the same way that the Public Schools are and are therefore subject to the same anti-discrimanatory policies that the Public Schools are subject to. Charter Schools are relatively new and academically are matching or exceeding the public schools with comparable ethnic and racial makeups. My wife teaches at a Charter School and there entry qualifications are equal to those of the Public Schools, they have disabled, special education and many students that are more than one grade level behind.

One advantage in the Charter Schools is that they do not have to deal with teacher unions. The teachers sign a one year contract and if they like the job you do they sign you to another one year contract. Your raise is tied in to your previous teaching years success.

Contrast that with the fact that in the Public Schools in our area it costs the school system over $300,000 dollars if they fire a teacher and the teacher union fights the firing. Guess how many teachers, competent or not, are fired?

[Nbadan]

One advantage in the Charter Schools is that they do not have to deal with teacher unions. The teachers sign a one year contract and if they like the job you do they sign you to another one year contract. Your raise is tied in to your previous teaching years success.

Contrast that with the fact that in the Public Schools in our area it costs the school system over $300,000 dollars if they fire a teacher and the teacher union fights the firing. Guess how many teachers, competent or not, are fired?

Since school districts in the state base their pay on supply and demand, teachers are paid their market rate. Nothing wrong with that especially when you consider that most teachers work from 7am till 4:30-6:00pm., they require advanced degrees and continued training throughout their careers. You won't find to many private businesses paying their mid-level managers less than 50K per year in combined salary and benefits.

Since each District in the State sets their own pay rates, teacher's Unions in Texas are mostly just political en ies which support legislation and candidates favorable for teachers. If the teacher chooses to join the Union (not required) he/she will be represented by the union if the teacher feels she has been unfairly fired or otherwise disciplined.

Each school is required in Texas to keep at minimal a acceptable rating in standardized testing or risk losing kids and State funding. Therefore, Principals in poor preforming schools are under extreme pressure by school boards to hire new teachers and keep the ones who are performing in the school. You are mistaken in your belief that teachers never get fired. If a teacher does not preform to the districts standard, or even if there is a personality conflict with the administration, he/she will likely not be offered a contract for the new school year.

[jochhejaam]

You won't find to many private businesses paying their mid-level managers less than 50K per year in combined salary and benefits.

You are mistaken in your belief that teachers never get fired. If a teacher does not preform to the districts standard, or even if there is a personality conflict with the administration, he/she will likely not be offered a contract for the new school year.

I certainly didn't imply that teachers are overpaid, they aren't, and I didn't say "teachers never get fired" so you shouldn't have posted that as my belief (I know how hard it is for you to post without spin ). Things are done a little differently here in Northwest Ohio, you don't just "not offer" a Union teacher a new contract. It's almost like they are tenured professors.

[RandomGuy]

[RandomGuy]

hey look
im a delusional mexican who thinks reagonomics worked!

All "reaganomics" did was to make us today spend 16% of our federal tax dollars on debt payments. This means that our taxes are 16%+ higher than they would have been otherwise. Now we get the irresponsible Bush administration that has continued along the same lines.



I guess if you like tax hikes to pay for interest payments, Reagan and Bush were great presidents...