http://www.breitbart.tv/houston-teacher-...g-student/

(05-12-2010 09:38 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  http://www.breitbart.tv/houston-teacher-...g-student/

That can happen in a public, private or home schooling situation. Of course, you want to bring in a few isolated examples to "show" that public education "bad" and "home schooling" is good. Not sure if you were home schooled or what type of school you went to but it is obvious that it failed in its goal of educating you.

That was a charter school, not a public school. If you ask me, more students need to get the beat down like this....

(05-12-2010 01:50 PM)uhmump95 Wrote:  That was a charter school, not a public school. If you ask me, more students need to get the beat down like this....

Thanks for the info.

Is it just me, or do (private) charter schools in Texas seem highly corrupt attempts to take state $$ and offer nothing in return?

True in some cases i45, but KIPP is a prime example of "getting it done"

(05-12-2010 04:37 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  True in some cases i45, but KIPP is a prime example of "getting it done"

Early this year I read a story about ProVision, a charter school in Houston. Very commendable.

I should've qualified my statement as indicating that some are just child-care mills. The news story up here indicates that this teacher has been fired, but will not lose her teacher's license because she never had one.

I was half-listening to an interview with Bill White (Texas gubernatorial candidate) or someone associated with him where someone indicated where they talked about getting a call from a girl who was a Katrina refugee and was happy because she would get her high school diploma from a charter school - they had her take a test where they gave her the questions before hand along with the answers.

I think the way that Texas monitors/certifies charter schools, it is prone to abuse and is often abused. That isn't to say that it can also provide successes, but it seems to me that a high percentage should be shut down and/or administrators jailed for fraud.

Ohio has many of the same issues with their Charter Schools, I45. I've read about some of them being nothing but training facilities for athletes... specifically basketball players. They do nothing but practice basketball, take little to no classes... borderline "prep" schools for kids who can't get through their HS.

(05-12-2010 04:05 PM)I45owl Wrote:  Is it just me, or do (private) charter schools in Texas seem highly corrupt attempts to take state $$ and offer nothing in return?

I don't know about the charter schools but government of Texass seems like a highly corrupt attempt to take federal money and offer nothing in return except for the threat to succede(personally, I think the US should just let Texass go on their own).

(05-13-2010 11:44 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(05-12-2010 04:05 PM)I45owl Wrote:  Is it just me, or do (private) charter schools in Texas seem highly corrupt attempts to take state $$ and offer nothing in return?

I don't know about the charter schools but government of Texass seems like a highly corrupt attempt to take federal money and offer nothing in return except for the threat to succede(personally, I think the US should just let Texass go on their own).

Another example of you making a post just to piss people off. *******.

(05-12-2010 04:37 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  True in some cases i45, but KIPP is a prime example of "getting it done"

Don't you mean "git 'r done"?

(05-13-2010 06:32 AM)I45owl Wrote:  I should've qualified my statement as indicating that some are just child-care mills. The news story up here indicates that this teacher has been fired, but will not lose her teacher's license because she never had one.

Many teachers at some of the best private schools don't either. Again, its the people, not the license.

Quote:I think the way that Texas monitors/certifies charter schools, it is prone to abuse and is often abused. That isn't to say that it can also provide successes, but it seems to me that a high percentage should be shut down and/or administrators jailed for fraud.

won't argue with that

(05-13-2010 11:47 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(05-12-2010 04:37 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  True in some cases i45, but KIPP is a prime example of "getting it done"

Don't you mean "git 'r done"?

No, Robert. I don't. Sounds like someone from DE-cab to me.

(05-13-2010 02:51 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-13-2010 06:32 AM)I45owl Wrote:  I should've qualified my statement as indicating that some are just child-care mills. The news story up here indicates that this teacher has been fired, but will not lose her teacher's license because she never had one.

Many teachers at some of the best private schools don't either. Again, its the people, not the license.

Quote:I think the way that Texas monitors/certifies charter schools, it is prone to abuse and is often abused. That isn't to say that it can also provide successes, but it seems to me that a high percentage should be shut down and/or administrators jailed for fraud.

won't argue with that

(05-13-2010 11:47 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(05-12-2010 04:37 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  True in some cases i45, but KIPP is a prime example of "getting it done"

Don't you mean "git 'r done"?

No, Robert. I don't. Sounds like someone from DE-cab to me.

Palin isn't from DeKalb.

Btw, it isn't pronounced like the county in Georgia(which is the way you pronounced it in your post). It is pronounced "di-KALB", with an L sound, as opposed to a silent "L".

(05-14-2010 02:25 AM)RobertN Wrote:  Btw, it isn't pronounced like the county in Georgia(which is the way you pronounced it in your post). It is pronounced "di-KALB", with an L sound, as opposed to a silent "L".

I did not know that. Thanks.

I thought it was dɨˈkælb ILL NOISE.

(05-14-2010 02:25 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(05-12-2010 04:37 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-14-2010 02:25 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(05-12-2010 04:37 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  True in some cases i45, but KIPP is a prime example of "getting it done"

Don't you mean "git 'r done"?

No, Robert. I don't. Sounds like someone from DE-cab to me.

Palin isn't from DeKalb.

Btw, it isn't pronounced like the county in Georgia(which is the way you pronounced it in your post). It is pronounced "di-KALB", with an L sound, as opposed to a silent "L".

I meant YOU. and it isn't pronounced DE-cab by many of the same people who say "git 'r done"

Subtlety is a bit lost on you I guess. You spend an awful lot of time making fun of people from various places and stereotyping them, but then suddenly get cultured when it is turned back on you

I mean, as if there aren't any stereotypical "Illinoise" accents

(05-14-2010 06:17 AM)Paul M Wrote:  I thought it was dɨˈkælb ILL NOISE.

Paula, I thought you lived in Rednecklahoma?

(05-13-2010 11:44 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(05-12-2010 04:05 PM)I45owl Wrote:  Is it just me, or do (private) charter schools in Texas seem highly corrupt attempts to take state $$ and offer nothing in return?

I don't know about the charter schools but government of Texass seems like a highly corrupt attempt to take federal money and offer nothing in return except for the threat to succede(personally, I think the US should just let Texass go on their own).

There are two things that Texas does better in preparing students than whatever collective you grew up on. One is spelling.




The other, well, ...

(05-14-2010 11:53 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(05-14-2010 06:17 AM)Paul M Wrote:  I thought it was dɨˈkælb ILL NOISE.

Paula, I thought you lived in Rednecklahoma?

And we thought you lived on the Pakistan - Afghanistan border.