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The one thing that always shukes me is that they have these occasional strikes over their contract. Do teachers not just get a raise each year that's inline with inflation or maybe a little more? That seems fair to me and is transparent in terms of what you should expect to make in the future when you're deciding to become a teacher.
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An uneducated populace would have a significantly lower life expectancy, for numerous reasons.
We've already experienced a society without mandated healthcare, and it didn't move the needle too much in terms of life expectancy. Part of the reason for this the fact that we had an educated populace who were able to find jobs that provided healthcare in one manner or another.
I was talking about Medicare, and Medicaid. Those two groups of people, who today have care provided by the State, are by in large too old or too uneducated or too sick to find jobs that provide healthcare. My point was if we take that away today, from those ~120M Americans, we'd have thousands of deaths, possibly hundreds of thousands of them, simply due to losing that coverage. That's a pretty big "cost", depending on how you define the term.
It looks like our football stadium is probably going to turf in the near future. Two high schools use it, as will the new middle School. The stats cited shows it actually saves money but I'm not sure if everything was included or the accuracy of the numbers.
The way they promoted it was it would save something like $30-40K a year in maintenance costs to take care of the existing grass field. Not sure where that number came from (although it seems excessive). The field turf people said the artificial surface should be replaced after 10 years. Not sure if that is accurate either, but that's what I remember hearing.
Also, that's not really true, either. Here is US life expectancy by year since 1960. Medicare and Medicaid were signed in 1965, and then greatly expanded in 1972. US life expectancy went up faster than it ever has the following 7 years. Not giving all the credit to those two programs - but it's not just a coincidence, either.
I spoke with a woman the other day who is a high school guidance counselor. She makes $75K a year to get half the year off (and most days be done working at 2 or 3 o'clock). She wanted to find a position that would allow her to spend more time with her kids. So she wanted to start looking for schools that would hire her to work 3.5 days per week for the same amount of money (not the same hourly rate, the same yearly total).
They are a leech on public money, it is essentially a publicly funded private school.Where do you think most charter schools get their money from?
Let me educate you.
Could be. I just know that LAUSD spent millions of dollar on attack ads and misinformation against charter schools last year, and people are buying the false info. This is money that could have been spent on district teachers and students. Charters also typically take on a large number of special education students that district schools don't want or can't help; 15-25% of total enrollment is common. People need to stop smearing charters just because it's fashionable to do so.
There's more, but that charter school reality and lack of academic standards directly leads to the problems that currently exist in many of their schools - enrollment and grades with little over sight is their fuel. That's a lethal combo. You're not wrong when it comes to failing public school districts, but this isn't the answer.
If I had to guess, the bold would still be a sticking point with a lot of people.
People from South America and Central America would try to cross into "our" southern Mexico border.
oh...no, it's not actually the physical border....it's the people crossing it. That demographic would not change
Charter schools are kind of a hybrid and how closely they resemble public or private depends on the State. If a charter school is failing, their status depends on the State laws. Same with public schools. In Michigan, an entire school district near me shut down a couple years ago to financial problems while there have also been news reports of charter schools failing year after year but staying open. Charter schools are complicated and different from State to State.
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And then when they're down there, we take over Canada, too? I like your style of thinking. We could conquer this entire hemisphere by 2026 leaving another 6 years for President Kanye West to focus on more important things.
Even if I gave you the immigration thing how does overthrowing Mexico fix our drug crisis? I'm shuked.
What city? What are living expenses there?
Well, homeowners insurance covers fire loss, right?Some towns have a Fire Service fee.
Someone chose to opt out of the Fire Service fee saying they felt it was unnecessary.
Then their house caught on fire and then proceeded to burn down because since they didn't pay the fee they get no fire trucks.
I think then they tried to sue
It's time to unite the Americas.Then we liberate those countries, too.
