I thought I was pretty clear.


LOL too perfect that we get this whiny entitled bull****. Oh, did somebody disagree with wipesy? And before he's had his afternoon bar and oxy!

He's a teacher who apparently is entirely ignorant of the entire history of the labor movement and who can barely string a sentence together, but he's, chuckle, not into the union dues thing.

Hahha Inso's wife is a welfare leech on disability because she got punched by a ****ing 8 year old you literally couldn't make this **** up if you wanted

guess I’ll leave now...

Isn't this what the regular public schools do as well?

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Don't worry, she isn't being paid, but we did the medical leave to soak an extra month of health insurance from MPS while we transitioned to mine. So YEAH FREE PONIES!

Your oversimplification of the situation is duly noted, though.

Don't you owe the tax payers some of the money for that insurance back?

It was paid for in blood.

LOL blood. That must've been one vicious 8 year old.

I know none of you are in relationships that would produce children so you have no reference, but 10 year olds aren't as small and innocent l as you seem to think. 4th/5th combo. My wife is a tiny lady.

My 11 year old daughter is 5'6", but that's a bit of an outlier as I am a giant.

No, they don't. Or at least they do so less than charter schools.

Ins0, how many Knockout Game points did the kid who hit your wife get?

I've got a 13 year old. You know maybe the problem was that your wife couldn't maintain control of her students. She's supposed to be the responsible adult in the room. You sound like the type of family that would scam workman's comp. I hope you have adjusters following you everywhere you go.

Yeah, my understanding of the way my school was (and I graduated HS in '04, and I know they've changed some since then), is that they had to take a certain number of Phase 3, Phase 4 and Phase 5 applicants.

I don't disagree with that. Mine was actually quite diverse, though. My guess is that African-Americans were statistically underrepresented as a percentage of the population, but so were white people. We had a lot more students of Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern descent than the statewide population would suggest.

Mine was also a high school, so I think there is a big difference between that and an elementary charter school in terms of racial/class implications as opposed to academic testing.

Granted, I was north of the Mason Dixon line and in the South, I could see the racial aspect being a bigger driver of it.

Financially, I'm pretty sure my school got the amount that would have gone to a public school for our education. We were publicly funded and privately run. So I guess it was basically a voucher-type system.

In theory, this shouldn't disadvantage public school kids who are still getting the same amount spent on them. However, it certainly hurt public school test scores. I'm pretty sure like 97-99% of my graduating class went to college and I think everyone graduated. I know of one or two kids who transferred out and graduated elsewhere.

I'm not sure whether that aspect hurts kids who are in public schools or helps them - in theory it helps the bottom and hurts the middle, but I'm not too sure about it.

Right wingers straight forwardly describing our health insurance system and inadvertently making an argument for single payer is the middle square on Politics Bingo

Damn, if only she had thought of that. Where were you with these pearls of wisdom all these years?

Or, maybe you're just blissfully ignorant as to the state of many urban classrooms in this country.

So sorry to hear your wife was a failure at her profession. If she were a good teacher would she not be employable elsewhere?

"We need strong standards that hold teachers accountable, but not for my wife. None of the failures in her classroom were ever her fault, nor did she contribute to them in anyway. It was the children's fault!"

republicans think that everyone is a lying shady scammer bc they themselves are. thats why they think welfare fraud is ubiquitous and out of control. Since they are not honest, it is inconceivable to them that anyone else is. and this is even more proof.

party of personal responsibility

I know you're intentionally trying to be a dick here, but the answer is yes, she could get another teaching job, just like the countless other teachers that quit MPS every year. She's choosing not to. She's taking her "failure" as you call it rather personally and isn't in a good place. She could've just started phoning it in like others do and contributed to the complacency. That's not how she rolls.


Again, I realize this comes from a place of animus, but it's not quite that simple. At the end of the day, administration has to follow through on the more severe punishments. If that doesn't happen, the kids learn very quickly that there's no reason to follow any established rules of conduct. Teachers can take away lunch within reason, but the question becomes how long are you willing to sacrifice your one 25 minute break every day when it ultimately doesn't change anything? The kids are being punished because they're running around the classroom and being generally disruptive because they don't want to be there. So the option given to the teachers is is to give up your lunch break and make the kids eat in the classroom with you, where they'll still **** around with each other and now also be able to throw food around? Who is being punished here?

Instead, do you let the 8 worst kids just run amok in the halls all day while you teach the rest of the class? No, you can't. There aren't enough special education teachers to take them all, either. 40 kids, one teacher, with one paraprofessional split between 3 classrooms. You do the math.

That said, if you have all the answers on improving urban education, I'd suggest getting them in writing and pitch it to one of the many districts who are dealing with consistent failure. You'll be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams from the consulting fees alone.

Mostly I see charter schools "solving" the problems that were attempted to be solved in public schools and failed, largely because of wealth or racist reasons. For instance,

This end point was the result of conservatives (and wealthy) pushing for local control of public education in order to protect their children from poor children and/or black children. There have been plenty of left wing initiatives to break that, of course. Bussing, regional control, parental choice etc. All failed. So this solution that a child's zip code shouldn't be her destiny is a nice selling point, but it's one that wasn't determined by the public school system, it was determined by the people underlying the public school system and those people still exist, which to be fair the article covers.

So I don't see charter schools really solving any problems that plague our public school system because the underlying issues still exist and continue to exist unless charter schools are willing to ruffling some feathers in a serious way and not just the usual left leaning suspects. The closest thing it comes to changing is simply getting rid of teachers union's which, as we we've seen with the continuous union busting for the last 100 years, hasn't unleashed the creative potential of the American worker.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...m_source=atltw

According to this Brookings report you are correct that charter schools are on average more segregated than comparable traditional public schools, although this is somewhat regionally dependent.

I don't think public education is this zero-sum a struggle. Improvements to education for low-income and minority children don't have to come at the expense of other kids.

What do you think these underlying issues are?

How large are your nostrils?