| Posted: Sat Feb 6th, 2010 02:14 am |
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ROP
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The State of Georgia just spent right at $400.000 to send teachers, principals, administrators and others....family members? To a resort in Califnora for a conference? Supposedly paid for with state stimilus money...just how many jobs were created? Pure corruption. Who ever set this up should be fired. Last edited on Sat Feb 6th, 2010 02:15 am by ROP
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| Posted: Sat Feb 6th, 2010 10:27 pm |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 03:29 pm |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10th, 2010 07:08 pm |
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Contentious
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We also have similar abuses in our county. Recently, a school board employee bragged on facebook about taking a county car to go shopping at an Atlanta area mall.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10th, 2010 07:14 pm |
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USNavyVet
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This is why Clayton County ended up.....well, nuff said. Why is it the private schools are so much better, but pay their teachers so much less? We looked & it was $5grand to get a kid in there..... yet we pay taxes for the above to do stuff like that?!?!?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10th, 2010 07:54 pm |
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oldman
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The kids that graduate from the public schools are just as smart as those that go to private schools.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10th, 2010 09:05 pm |
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USNavyVet
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oldman wrote: The kids that graduate from the public schools are just as smart as those that go to private schools.
A kid that graduates with the will to succeed, supercedes even the school. If you look at the data the private schools gave me, the SAT, College placement is much, much higher thn public. I happen to know a couple really good public schools and hope to send my kid there - unless they are furlowed in 2 years....
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11th, 2010 12:34 am |
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Thinking Out Loud
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Contentious wrote: We also have similar abuses in our county. Recently, a school board employee bragged on facebook about taking a county car to go shopping at an Atlanta area mall.
City or County school board employee? Can't believe anyone would be so STUPID as to put something like that on facebook.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11th, 2010 12:41 am |
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daskalos
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"If you look at the data the private schools gave me...."
And if you look at the data Chrysler gives you, a LeBaron is much better than a Honda.
When privates are "better," the biggest difference is that private school kids/families have committed and sacrificed to get there, so are invested in success; whereas publics have many kids/families who are not similarly invested.
Remember that SAT data for privates is higher largely because they don't have the lower 30% of student body -- NOT because their higher 70% is so much better.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11th, 2010 02:23 am |
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USNavyVet
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I agree. Parent investment makes the end result what it is. School is not a daycare or babysitting service. Then at some point shortly after 16 - the will has to be picked up and caried thru by the teen....or learn the hard way.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13th, 2010 05:17 pm |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13th, 2010 05:45 pm |
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While I myself attended public schools and believe that I received a good education. Never think that the investment by parents to keep their children in schools with 15-1 teacher-student ratio, and teach them to succeed not to survive are not doing the right thing. Private schools while hard and expensive give students their best good chance to go to a top-ranked college and and have a successful and fulfilling life. Whoever made the statement that around 16 the student must mature up and work even harder is exactly right. We can lead them to the pure water but we cannot make them drink. Both public and private do their best, but look what public has to deal with in terms of deadbeat parents who are using the schools as a babysitting service and care little as to what the child is learning and what they are preparing for in life.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13th, 2010 11:50 pm |
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hazygray
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ManinBlack wrote: While I myself attended public schools and believe that I received a good education. Never think that the investment by parents to keep their children in schools with 15-1 teacher-student ratio, and teach them to succeed not to survive are not doing the right thing. Private schools while hard and expensive give students their best good chance to go to a top-ranked college and and have a successful and fulfilling life. Whoever made the statement that around 16 the student must mature up and work even harder is exactly right. We can lead them to the pure water but we cannot make them drink. Both public and private do their best, but look what public has to deal with in terms of deadbeat parents who are using the schools as a babysitting service and care little as to what the child is learning and what they are preparing for in life.
Happens in both public and private da
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