[Rhodes22-list] Slim's issues

[Steve Alm]

Sorry, Bob, I'm not letting you off that easy.  You said, "Every private
school student pays the public school tuition."  Not quite.  Every homeowner
pays taxes that go to the school system, but the money is distributed to the
schools on a per-head basis.  So when these extra students show up for
science or phy ed (the two biggies) the already overloaded and underfunded
school has to take them.  The public schools are forced to do all the heavy
lifting, while private schools can kick bad students out, ignore national
standards, provide no accountability and run roughshod over their teachers
and staff.  

Slim


On 10/5/04 5:03 PM, "Bob Weber" <ruba1811 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> My LAST Comment and I am back to blissful ignorance.
> 
> Slim wrote: They truck their
> kids off to the public school building for science.  And the public school
> has to take them and pay for them even though they get no money for that.
> 
> Slim - Every private school student pays the public school tuition.  Public
> schools would be in a world of hurt if the private school students were not
> paying 2 tuitions and only using one.
> 
> Public funds is not FREE funds - they are your funds with a large percentage
> lost in the process.
> It is elementary but I honestly think people forget or just don't realize.
> 
> Ok Im done, who wants to talk sailing, beaches, jokes
> 
> Bob
> 
>> From: Jim White <jdwhite at utpa.edu>
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>> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Slim's issues
>> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:14:26 -0500
>> 
>> At 03:52 PM 10/05/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>> 
>> Slim wrote:
>>> It's pretty hard to comment on the schools in SC, IL or Texas when all my
>>> experience has been in MN, but I'll take a crack at it.  First, Texas.
>>> All
>>> I know about Texas schools is what I read from Texan, Molly Ivins who
>>> blames
>>> Gov. GWB for all that mediocrity that Jim refers to.  He dumbed down the
>>> tests in order to raise the percentage of passing scores, making Texas
>>> look
>>> better against other states.  He has the same idiotic plan for the rest of
>>> the country.
>> 
>> Actually, and strictly historically speaking, the tests in Texas (and
>> teacher competency assessment as well) were first initiated by Ross Perot
>> as the TAAS test (Texas Assessment of Academic Skills) back in the 1990's,
>> it was a pretty watered down test, and many teachers were up in arms about
>> having to prove their own competency. Under GWB that test evolved into the
>> TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) test, a much more difficult
>> test. This test was conceived under Bushs' governorship, but implemented
>> under our current (and much less effective) governor: Rick Perry.
>> 
>> Just for the record.
>> jw
>> 
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