Posted in Shut the eff up, Why Timmy can't read on Mar 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
The government school story of the day comes from Tifton, Georgia. A teacher bites a child and is punished with a week off of work. The child’s family is outraged, yet their only recourse is to appeal to the County Board of Education. The Board says it can’t do anything. Several [...]
Posted in Shut the eff up, Why Timmy can't read on Mar 17th, 2008 No Comments »
A voucher school did this?
Of course not. It was a government school.
A 13-year-old boy was forced to pee in a lunch box during class as his peers and teacher watched. The two heart-warming conclusions to this absurd tale: 1. the child is still forced to continue going to this school. [...]
Posted in This is bullshit!, Why Timmy can't read on Mar 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
Here’s a not-so-heartwarming story from Connecticut:
Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day…
Guess what the Michael did? Punch a teacher in the face? Lewd comments to a girl? Pull A Fire Alarm? Spread libertarian ideas? [...]
Posted in Sweet, Why Timmy can't read on Mar 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Imagine living in a rural town of Arkansas and taking a hour long bus ride to school. You and I would mostly sleep during that hour.
However, a Vanderbilt professor is revolutionizing is home town school bus ride by providing kids with laptop computers and ipods to learn math and science on the way to [...]
Posted in Why Timmy can't read on Mar 5th, 2008 6 Comments »
An interesting question is posed on the front page of today’s New York Times: Can students be paid to excel?
I am curious what Liberty Girl and her readers have to say.
Would it make kids appreciate learning less — or does it create the type of incentive that would lead to a noticeable improvement in [...]
Posted in Shut the eff up, Why Timmy can't read on Mar 3rd, 2008 3 Comments »
So, in Texas bigger is obviously better, well not in this case. Less would be preferred.
The San Antonio Express reports that Texans have paid $2.4 million dollars for shitty bureaucrats, Superintendents, to leave the school system.
Why should taxpayer money be used to compensate the departure of a shitty bureaucrat? Why not have their fancy [...]
Posted in This is bullshit! on Feb 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
A teachers strike that started last Thursday continues in the island. Many Puerto Ricans and students worry that teachers decision to strike, which is is illegal under law, may affect on-time graduation for many high school seniors.
An AP story reports, that 40 percent of high school seniors don’t graduate.
I find it fascinating that the teachers [...]
Posted in Shut the eff up on Feb 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Background:
Yesterday, 40,000 teachers (all union card holding members) went on strike, 11 of the 14 arrested protesters were teachers. El Dia, the Spanish paper in Puerto Rico, reports only 161,688 students of 523,399 enrolled students attended school yesterday.
Over the past several months, the teachers union has being negotiating with the state officials collective bargaining, cap [...]
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