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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 05:13 PM
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The voucher delusion
(Nice AJC find by CatWoman...http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bookman/entries/2008/08/11/the_voucher_delusion.html#comments)

For far too long, education wasn’t considered important here — not by government officials, who feared the taxes required to build a first-rate system; and not by business, which in addition to fearing taxes saw ways to make profits with a lesser educated work force that also demanded lower wages.

That is no longer the case, as many government and business leaders, including Johnson, acknowledge. But decades of neglect under that previous strategy have left Georgia a difficult cultural legacy. Parents who themselves have a poor education often aren’t able to help their children with higher-level math, science and English demanded in a modern curriculum. More importantly, they are also less likely to stress the importance of school and to be involved in their child’s education.

That’s the crux of the problem. If you talk to teachers and administrators, the single most important indicator of a student’s success is the involvement and commitment of their parents. Children of involved parents already excel in test scores, graduation rates, etc., while those of uninvolved parents do not. Those are the children most in need of help.

Unfortunately, that is a hard dynamic to alter, and it can change only over time and generations. But rather than try to address it, Johnson’s approach would compound the damage.

More at link.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 05:18 PM
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1. kickiepoo
:kick:

gotta go feed the cats :)
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 05:24 PM
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2. we may need them to keep it kicked.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 05:37 PM
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3. a kick from Trina
:)

:kick:
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 10:52 PM
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8. Mr. K says hi
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:06 PM
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14. I was expecting some more like
"good riddance" :)
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:08 PM
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15. the "hi" was for you.
He still reveres you for taking Trina. There's even a shrine somewhere downstairs. :D
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:09 PM
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16. LOLOLOL!!!
:rofl:
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:16 PM
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17. three times a day
he faces Stone Mountain and intones something along the lines of "Goddess, I thank thee for relieving my suffering under the batshit crazy kitten, and pray that you make Them overlook the fact that I pissed on the carpet down here again and that you continue to protect my tail from the preschooler, which dost try my patience mightily".
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 05:37 PM
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4. "The magic of competition."
Which guarantees winners and losers.

Guess who the losers are in that scenario?

:grr:
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 06:22 PM
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5. Is Georgia considering voucher use? Let this Arizonan tell you Georgians:
It's DISASTROUS for public schools.

I beg of you, don't let it happen.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 07:42 PM
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7. more than considering - we already have a special ed voucher law
In its second year now.

They don't like to mention too loudly that acceptance of the "scholarship" money legally removes your child from the umbrella of special ed services, but it's written explicitly into the law.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 11:00 PM
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9. Is that why the Russians invaded? (Stay safe, uly.)
:dunce:
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 11:03 PM
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10. ulykashviili say nyet.
More vodka. :hi:
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 06:36 PM
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6. K&R
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 03:28 PM
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11. McCain supports vouchers.
It would matter anyway, but still.

:kick:
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:34 PM
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12. Depending on the audience, Obama does too
Clark was for them in the beginning, and ever since that has always been against them. I don't know what his positon is today.

Religion. Yum.

http://nyceducator.com/2008/02/obama-supports-vouchers.html
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:03 PM
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13. this is a concern, yeah.
With schools starting up around the country, I've been worried that Obama might come out with a voucher plan.
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