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RE: Temp Jobs Becoming A Lasting Part of American Economy
Boo hoo. Boo hoo. I have been out of a job. I have been underemployed. I have lived paycheck to paycheck. I worked to get out of that lifestyle. I am by no means wealthy, but I am not as poor as I once was either. If you don't like state taxes, move. If you don't like your school, move. And don't give me this I can't move. If you have nothing, it costs nothing to move.

Everybody else should not be responsible for making improvements to your local area. If the state funds X per school, and some schools want to locally fund theirs more, how is that an issue? It has been proven time and again that money does not fix all problems in education. You need outside factors that we cannot control to be present.
08-08-2013 03:16 PM
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RE: Temp Jobs Becoming A Lasting Part of American Economy
You are correct that money does not fix all problems but those it can fix yield to nothing else. Money buys well equipped schools like new state of the art computers for all classrooms and labs. It has provided the means to hire from a list of hundreds of qualified applicants to fill every vacancy instead of having a list of vacancies which outnumber the few applicants.

Money provides a district with choices it otherwise doesn't have. Learn from the facts illustrated by the success of the most highly supported schools that sound financial support will pay educational dividends for the whole state.

No one has suggested that anything be taken away from the highly performing districts but it is obvious that those with the least are performing at the lowest levels around the state. The top schools are not populated by superior students who are somehow "better" than those in "failing schools". Those at the top are benefitting K through 12 from having better opportunities than is being provided to those at the bottom, and some want to blame those at the bottom for what the state and its powerful people have brought about by benign neglect - or purposeful design.

We don't have perfect knowledge of how children learn, but they are not generally stupid. They know from the actions of the government (rather than the "lip service" words) of our state leadership how we actually feel about educating ALL children and they react accordingly. The best financed schools have the lowest dropout rates in the state, and the least funded have the highest.

Then this year our legislature sets up provisions for cutting funding for the poorest schools, siphoning off funds to give to other schools as punishment for their "failure". If the Republican leadership follows through with announced plans for the 2014 session (stated by Rep. Brubaker), every parent with a child in any private school will enjoy the $3500 tax credit provided in the AA law. What will happen to UAB (as an example) if the state has to cut per pupil funding for a sixth and seventh consecutive years since 2008?
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08-08-2013 04:18 PM
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Would you be willing to bet that there are more broken homes in the lower income schools than the upper income areas?
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(08-09-2013 07:40 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  Would you be willing to bet that there are more broken homes in the lower income schools than the upper income areas?

I would imagine that there are several social negatives found more among the poor than among the upper income areas. Single parent homes may be just one of them. Complicating this is the fact (from state social services sources), that over 50% of Alabama's absent parents pay ZERO child support and a large per cent of those that do often pay an amount far below what is legally set by a Family Court judge (if the matter even goes to court). In order to get a child support judgement enforced, a custodial parent usually must pay hundreds of dollars up front to a lawyer before he/she will handle the case which may then drag on for about a year before it gets to a judge [my wife sued her "ex" in early Sept. - paying $400 up front to her lawyer in 1984 - and the case went to court (there were no continuances) in mid May,1985].

There is also the economic factor that the poor can't access the legal system as easily as the upper group which puts them into a situation where the only alternative to outright penury is various governmental programs like ADC and WIC and then the Federal School Lunch program to care for their kids. A large part of the "welfare expense" is these and similar programs to try to keep kids fed and healthy in their formative years. Not to be overlooked is that there are thousands of hard working Americans from the farmer to the food processor to the truck driver and the retail food merchant whose income in no small way derives from these payments which keep the poor involved in the American economy.
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