YouWinGameOver said:
That isn’t what I said. I am not going to defend myself on this one because you all have very different views on the subject matter than I do. You will all also bash what ever I have to say so on that note consider this my response.
That’s a bull*edited* answer and you know it. If you can defend that position in front of people who lost family members during the attack why is it so hard to defend it here? I would think this would be the less biased and more open minded of the two venues. The truth is that after all the smoke and dust settled, there is no sane reason to believe that we caused the attack. Some of the same people pushing that garbage out are the ones that later claimed the Bush was behind the attacks himself.
Southpark was dead on. “1/4 of the population is retarded.” Unfortunately that numbers seems to get larger every day.
As far as teachers go, they are getting EXACTLY what they deserve. I know it’s harsh but hear me out. No matter what market or industry it is, a union kills any hint or shred of fairness. Teachers don’t care because they don’t get paid to care. If teachers were paid based on their performance, instead of based on passing percentage and years “of service” you’d see alot more teachers trying to help their students to succeed by any means necessary. Yes the problem is usually the student, you can’t argue against that, but saying that poor schools are suffering because they can’t afford good teachers is stupid. They all get paid the same, the union ensures that. Throwing more money at schools doesn’t fix anything, I know this because I watched another high school where I live get tons of money and still not beat my high school in gratuation rates or EoC scores. They had more AP classes, some really nice labs, and even offered a Cisco certification class but parents still sent their kids to my school because our teachers were better. They kept increasing their budget until they realized money wasn’t the solution and redrew the district lines to send a sizable portion of public housing to my already 120% capacity school to “balance the opportunities and test scores of the county”. Oddly enough though sending them to the poorer school actually helped the students.
Four years later, the richer school still has declining scores while my school has about peaked at well above state and national averages.