Protesting for higher taxes!
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I can only speak to what I know. I know a few teachers who are making $50K+ that are far from *most* stressed. And thanks to the taxpayers they will continue to receive their full salary once they retire. I can imagine what a stress nightmare that must be. I know nobody outside public employees with that kind of benefit.
So, $50k a year for what, 40 years of work and 20 of retirement ? I don't even have a degree, my work is not stressful at all, and I make three times that. So, again, a teacher has a lot more stress relative to income than most people who have a job that requires a degree. Sure, these people you know may have decided to play the game and not to care, but how is that the best outcome for the kids in their care ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote:
I guess if someone can find a way to live in the system and not care, they will get through.
This leads right back to my initial complaint. It was these very people that were demanding taxes be raised "for the children."
Christian Graus wrote:
Question is, why is that all that American kids not rich enough for private school are worth ?
There are probably countless ways to improve the school system. But rubber stamping new taxes seems to be the only answer people around here are willing to try. Money fixes everything right? Throw more of that at the fire.
thrakazog wrote:
There are probably countless ways to improve the school system. But rubber stamping new taxes seems to be the only answer people around here are willing to try. Money fixes everything right? Throw more of that at the fire.
Well, to be honest, given how underresources schools are, and how underpaid teachers are, it seems like an obvious move to me. I can't think of any other moves that are likely to fly. How about letting teachers punish parents for their kids bad behaviour ? How about cash fines if your kid is a consistent trouble maker ? Make the parents pay and see how they back the schools up then ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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So, $50k a year for what, 40 years of work and 20 of retirement ? I don't even have a degree, my work is not stressful at all, and I make three times that. So, again, a teacher has a lot more stress relative to income than most people who have a job that requires a degree. Sure, these people you know may have decided to play the game and not to care, but how is that the best outcome for the kids in their care ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
but how is that the best outcome for the kids in their care ?
It isn't. I'd fire their asses if I could. Back to the stress thing. You might be right, but I'm betting people that work for walmart or mcdonald's make far less and with more stress. But we're really arguing things that are pretty much impossible to measure.
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thrakazog wrote:
There are probably countless ways to improve the school system. But rubber stamping new taxes seems to be the only answer people around here are willing to try. Money fixes everything right? Throw more of that at the fire.
Well, to be honest, given how underresources schools are, and how underpaid teachers are, it seems like an obvious move to me. I can't think of any other moves that are likely to fly. How about letting teachers punish parents for their kids bad behaviour ? How about cash fines if your kid is a consistent trouble maker ? Make the parents pay and see how they back the schools up then ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
For pie in the sky ideas I'd like to see a voucher system setup. Every kid gets X dollars for education per year and where the parents choose to send them determines what school receives that money. Then you might see schools fighting for students and competing to give the best education. Might be worth a try, it'll never happen.
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Christian Graus wrote:
but how is that the best outcome for the kids in their care ?
It isn't. I'd fire their asses if I could. Back to the stress thing. You might be right, but I'm betting people that work for walmart or mcdonald's make far less and with more stress. But we're really arguing things that are pretty much impossible to measure.
My caveat on that was that teachers require a college degree. Anyone can work at Walmart.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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For pie in the sky ideas I'd like to see a voucher system setup. Every kid gets X dollars for education per year and where the parents choose to send them determines what school receives that money. Then you might see schools fighting for students and competing to give the best education. Might be worth a try, it'll never happen.
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Yes, people who are for tax increases are on the receiving end of them.
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That's a bit simplistic. Governments provide may services, most of which we've come to expect, and the money has to come from somewhere.
Steve
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Yeah, because of all the professions you can enter with a degree, teaching has probably the most stress and certainly the lowest pay. These people are obviously in it for the money.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
These people are obviously in it for the money.
Most BEd teachers I have known would be virtually unemployable elsewhere, they seem only to function in a school-like environment, first as a student, then as a teacher. The better teachers have been those with a degree in their chosen discipline, some experience of its application in business or research, plus 6 months teacher training. (The best had the above, plus military experience. :) )
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How'd you learn to read? How'd you learn math? Private school? If not, stfu. You and millions of other kids learning was the demand. If you did go to public school, you are a hypocrit of the highest order. Hell, I will be nice and point out how screwed school teachers are in little words. What does a babysitter make? Let's be a scrooge and say $3/hr. (This is way low) Now have that babysitter take care of a kid from 8am until 3pm. Now have them do it for, say, 21 kids. $63 an hour, times 7 hours. $441/day 5 days a week. How many teachers make $2205 a week? That's in the order of 114.6K a year. We are paying teachers less than babysitters. And babysitters don't teach our kids multiplication, english, history, or any of the other skills needed to succeed, they just make sure the kid doesn't manage to kill themselves while we are away. Shoot, I used a big word. multiplications means special math.
you'll get used to his ilogical rants and learn to ignore them
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Please speak from knowledge. According to The Wiki (all hail)[^], DOD is 2nd, after Social Security, which is almost 30% higher. Summed SS, Medicaid, Medicare, SCHIP, Unemployment & Welfare is over half of the budget. The problem is lies,damn lies, and statistics. The defense budget is a HUGE portion of *discretionary* spending (since we have made laws that require the funding of those programs listed above, a big part of that 50+% of the budget 'does not count'). People such as these,[^] will show the DOD budget as percent of selected portions of discretionary plus non-discretionary military related funds, and say > 50%. It is all in how you want the numbers to end up. The pie chart I showed did not include VA benefits, the GWOT, DHS or intell agencies as part of the DOD budget. I didn't set it up that way, it was literally the first one I found, and illustrates how statistics can work any way you want them to.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
RichardM1 wrote:
The pie chart I showed did not include VA benefits, the GWOT, DHS or intell agencies as part of the DOD budget. I didn't set it up that way, it was literally the first one I found, and illustrates how statistics can work any way you want them to.
Yea, I wasn't entirely kidding about that zenu bit, I've seen defense anywhere from 10% to 40% of our budget, and no matter which of those is true, we still spend more than any other country on earth. That's pretty disturbing to me.
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For pie in the sky ideas I'd like to see a voucher system setup. Every kid gets X dollars for education per year and where the parents choose to send them determines what school receives that money. Then you might see schools fighting for students and competing to give the best education. Might be worth a try, it'll never happen.
Ugh, See, there's a problem with assuming free-market and education are going to work together. Look at the fights across the country related to education right now. From what I've seen most of them are in two groups, The ones where people don't want to pay for someone else's kids education and the ones based purely on politics. Creationism, sex ed, and a few that are nothing but fronts claiming religious persecution by Christians who are suing just to do what they already can. Vouchers are just another political tool to undermine already struggling institutions. Rather than fixing them, people will do what they always do, if they can afford it they'll go somewhere else, leaving those who can't trapped there with inferior institutions, and then they'll wonder why the area goes to shit. Or we can go the purely political bull end of the spectrum where parents feel they shouldn't have to teach their kids a thing, and most assuredly should still have complete control over anything the child is taught. Vouchers are not a solution, they're a way to dodge the problem.
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Christian Graus wrote:
but how is that the best outcome for the kids in their care ?
It isn't. I'd fire their asses if I could. Back to the stress thing. You might be right, but I'm betting people that work for walmart or mcdonald's make far less and with more stress. But we're really arguing things that are pretty much impossible to measure.
thrakazog wrote:
You might be right, but I'm betting people that work for walmart or mcdonald's make far less and with more stress.
I've heard far more stories of people managing to amuse themselves on their employers time/dime from food service(I'll never eat a taco bell again) and supermarkets than teaching. Most of what I've heard brings it down to the boss and the quantity of idiot customers. Now imagine you're locked in a room with 20+ idiot customers for an hour at a time six times a day, oh and you're expected to teach them something. It may be different in areas where people are actually interested in being educated, but it certainly was about that where I went to school.
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Gotta love people who are dumb enough to think teachers only work during the school day.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
It was going to be a 1-2 punch for pillowpants. Point out that they should be getting 110k+ JUST for the babysitting and then show all the unpaid hours they put in. ;) But, well... he has to not run away from a logical fight that he can't win.
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you'll get used to his ilogical rants and learn to ignore them
you haven't been following moron and I in this room much? :) For me it is fun. I get to stress test a moronBot.
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For pie in the sky ideas I'd like to see a voucher system setup. Every kid gets X dollars for education per year and where the parents choose to send them determines what school receives that money. Then you might see schools fighting for students and competing to give the best education. Might be worth a try, it'll never happen.
All the bigot parents will move their kids out of schools with minorities. Those schools will not have the funding they need and the education will suffer. Those kids will be worse. I worked for a school district for 8 years. One of our schools had the rather hilarious distinction of having the absolute richest neighborhood along with a slum owned by someone in the neightborhood. You had kids with parents working 2 full time jobs and still barely able to afford bus passes next to kids who's parents could afford a new mercedes every year. The rich parents tried to get their kids open enrolled to a "better" school and were turned down. Since the only other options were christian schools with small class sizes you still have some rich kids sitting in the schools. These schools are pretty much all white. Vouchers in theory are nice, in practice they would allow the rich people to get a discount on doing what they already do.
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you haven't been following moron and I in this room much? :) For me it is fun. I get to stress test a moronBot.
I used to try the stress test method and then he gave a personal insult so i ignore him period now.
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I used to try the stress test method and then he gave a personal insult so i ignore him period now.
It's part of the programming. I think we figured it was part of the "They used logic I can't actually argue against." subroutine. I just like that somehow it stores some personal detail in memory for use as an insult later. That was a nice touch.
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It's part of the programming. I think we figured it was part of the "They used logic I can't actually argue against." subroutine. I just like that somehow it stores some personal detail in memory for use as an insult later. That was a nice touch.
yes thats him.. "They used logic I can't actually argue against." that subrountine is fantastic and it impresses me i want to know does it come with a tin foil hat to stop the bunnies from outer space scanning my brain? :laugh:
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yes thats him.. "They used logic I can't actually argue against." that subrountine is fantastic and it impresses me i want to know does it come with a tin foil hat to stop the bunnies from outer space scanning my brain? :laugh:
You know, MIT did research and concluded tin foil hats actually help mind control beams...
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You know, MIT did research and concluded tin foil hats actually help mind control beams...
I had to google that :laugh: the things people dream up to research.
