I won’t completely cosign this, but I agree the breakdown of the family and terrible parenting explain the why behind a lot of failures in public education.
Iowa school district shuttering...
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That's fair. You acknowledge what the radicals on this board seem to ignore.
You're the fool in this discussion, Honorable Gov Kim Reynolds wasn't the one to disband the Orient Macksburg School District it was the local school board. If anything, this will save the taxpayers money and provide a better educational environment for all involved.
Once again Iowa is on the cutting edge in all thing's education!
School consolidation was happening in Iowa long before I became a teacher. I don’t think it’s realistic or feasible to try to keep really small schools running independently. Not sure what there is to be outraged by.
The fact remains giving public money to fund private school education is still an absolutely disgusting and disgraceful idea and criticism of such an absurd policy stands on its own merits. Complaining about school consolidation in service of that is counterproductive.
The fact remains giving public money to fund private school education is still an absolutely disgusting and disgraceful idea and criticism of such an absurd policy stands on its own merits. Complaining about school consolidation in service of that is counterproductive.
I acknowledge it because I live it daily.
I’m biased, but I think many of us teachers excel at doing more with less. Parents are the worst enablers of students. It’s only gotten worse.
That’s why I always say: Raise your kids, you will spoil your grandkids. Spoil your kids, you will raise your grandkids.
I don’t know how they can think that they are providing a service to their constituents compared to larger districts.
Why do think consumer choice in education would be 'absolutely disgusting and disgraceful'?
You are afraid to admit what I said is fact, you are just to blind or ignorant to acknowledge it.
Is that what’s happening in Iowa? Or are well-off people pocketing more money from the government while most Iowa kids, particularly in rural areas, don’t really have any private school options within a reasonable distance?
It’s been a decade and a half since I lived in Iowa, but I can’t imagine a plethora of private schools have cropped up in rural areas of the state, making a private school education a realistic option for many Iowa families.
Regardless, public funding should never go to private schools. I can’t believe that’s even argued. But if private schools do accept public funding, then they shouldn’t be allowed to discriminate against anyone. Clearly, that’s not the case.
So, yes, it’s absolutely disgusting and disgraceful, regardless of your ridiculous attempt to reframe it into something more palatable. Absolutely shameful and reprehensible.
Should public funding of food stamps be allowed to go to private grocers?
Is that good or bad?
If someone with food stamps disrupts business in a grocery store and threatens other customers to the point the grocer could lose those customers, can they kick the disrupter out and deny their business?
Is that good or bad?
And that’s one of the nice things you can say about it.
Goddamn this has been explained to you guys ad nauseum. It’s not a choice for everyone. It’s a grift for the well off children. A grift. It isn’t helping poor kids or children with disabilities.
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No, I’d like to see your honest answers. Trying to understand how you arrive at your conclusions.
Would it be better to not offer food stamps, but have centralized, government run cafeterias (based of course on political districts) to provide food for those unable to afford their own?
We could then ensure they followed federally approved nutritional guidelines, right? Or at least let their neighbors vote on what they eat at the district cafeteria board meetings.
Is there a reason we should eschew that approach and just hand them purchasing power to supplement their diets as their see fit? What if they buy junk food?
If don't bring anything else to this forum, you bring one thing... sarcasm.
In your eyes, Reynolds can do no wrong.
We predicted the policies of this Governor would decimate rural areas. Just underestimated how quickly it would begin.
We tell these clowns what will happen ahead of time and when it does they STILL have to argue. None of them are capable of saying, “You were right.”
It is so dumb when posters say, ‘where are all these new private schools?!’
…When the program is only in its second year and not yet even fully implemented yet.
A new school wouldn’t even be complete yet if they started building when they first heard of this possibility passing the legislature.
First they’ll fill up. Then they’ll expand. Then they’ll build new when needed.
…When the program is only in its second year and not yet even fully implemented yet.
A new school wouldn’t even be complete yet if they started building when they first heard of this possibility passing the legislature.
First they’ll fill up. Then they’ll expand. Then they’ll build new when needed.
STFU. You’ve never been right on this. You’re precisely who I’m talking about.
You seem mad. I’ve been right on this, and families love this program. Teachers don’t…
Bad teachers like Tom Paris hate the fact that parents now have an affordable choice to send their kids to a school that actually delivers on its promise to take care of and educate students.
One of the private schools (K-8) in central Iowa, not Des Moines, is already planning a $4 million addition. They raised tuition to match the state handout and are bringing in far more money than they were before this bill was passed.
And without a doubt providing a better education than those students received at the public school they escaped from. School choice should be the law of the land.
In your eyes, Reynolds can do no right. OCD.
White families that don't want their kids going to school with too many minorities love this. Everyone else sees it as what it is, an attempt to resegregate the schools.
Agree w a lot of this. However most everyone in society that has a real job and life is doing more with less, not just teachers
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Across this country we know that some schools are engaged in discussions of race, privilege, oppressor/oppressed, etc...
Perhaps some parents aren't pleased when little Jimmy or Janey are being vilified.
I mean I agree re: school funding but 2 things can be true.
You can despise Reynolds like I do but also realize tiny districts closing isn’t really her fault and is actually a financial necessity.
Funding schools that actually have students is a different topic.
I agree.
A lot of regular Americans in many professions do extraordinary work under difficult circumstances.
I am biased in favor of teachers and police officers and other public servants—provided they uphold the honor and integrity of the profession—because many of us are unfairly scrutinized by society.
No link, I am a member of the church congregation that the school is associated with and housed by.
I actually blasted Alice Cooper on my way home the last day teachers reported! 😝
Yet again, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Those rogue teachers are rarer than the horny female teachers getting boinked by 16-year-old boys.
Be better.
