Well if the school board would just pay more attention to me, we wouldn't need counseling. And would it really hurt to say "I love you" every now and again? God...if it wasn't for the kids, I'd be packing my bags already.

Alright, who Accidentally Room Service?!

Pocket Ninja: Two things that would immediately improve education in this country:

1) Take the Department of Education out behind the Capitol and shoot it in the head. Then bury it, cement the plot, and landmine the surround.

2) Fire every elected school board in the country.

This illustrates point 2.

Then what.

I think it's time to implement the BR Act, but for school boards only.

D-Liver:
Then what.

Accidentally Room Service, idiot.

People in power often abuse it? No, not in this day and age!

I think teachers get paid too much already. It should be a VOLUNTEER job with MANDATORY daily testing. Drug, AND intelligence. We need to crack down on these namby-pamby-cushy-wushy-TEACHER-WEACHERS. ENOUGH ALREADY!

You think that's bad?
You should see how much money they waste on the public library system there.


/Mr. sandman, send me a dream

I knew the school board was a filthy cheating two timer when it drove an SUV into a fire hydrant, then rammed it into a tree.

You take her to the fancy hotel.
You get her drunk.
You get her naked.
You get photos.
You get her vote.

vudukungfu: D-Liver:
Then what.

Accidentally Room Service, idiot.

Who's talking to you moran.

Wait, wait, wait...there's a 5-star hotel in Colorado Springs???

gmaestro: Wait, wait, wait...there's a 5-star hotel in Colorado Springs???

Never heard of the Broadmoor?

Pocket Ninja: Two things that would immediately improve education in this country:

1) Take the Department of Education out behind the Capitol and shoot it in the head. Then bury it, cement the plot, and landmine the surround.

2) Fire every elected school board in the country.

This illustrates point 2.

So what should we use, just gasoline or should we go all out with napalm?

This is Joe Paramecium.
He's running for school board trustee in my county.

He's running on a "zero tolerance" platform.
He'll probably get in. All the Soccer Moms will vote for him.

Pocket Ninja: Two things that would immediately improve education in this country:

1) Take the Department of Education out behind the Capitol and shoot it in the head. Then bury it, cement the plot, and landmine the surround.

2) Fire every elected school board in the country.

This illustrates point 2.



If I had my way I would cut the budget of every school district by 80%. Money does not equal education, but it does equal waste and fraud.

In Dallas (DISD) there are more 'administrators' then there are teachers.

MaxxLarge: A very reliable source
Reports on the therapy's course.
He says, and I quote:
"By ten-to-two vote,
The board has agreed to divorce."

(ahem!)
\This is getting really annoying

The real problem is that that biatch put Seti screen savers on all the computers.

The Broadmoor???? Yeah OK that's a taxpayer gang rape. They could have sat in folding chairs in a school gymnasium for free.


Hot 5 star hotel action, as opposed to how cold it is right now.

What fun! They can go to the zoo together, see Cave of the Winds and ride the train to the very TOP of Pikes Peak! And all in one day. They will be one BIG happy family!

Probably also the weekend of the DU vs. CC hockey game.

jmr61: There's a REALLY simple solution to this problem folks.

Don't have farking children.

Works well for me.

Well, if your from West Virginia that might be a good idea.

LessO2: gmaestro: Wait, wait, wait...there's a 5-star hotel in Colorado Springs???

Never heard of the Broadmoor?

And we in the springs thank the school board for their tourism dollars.

Oh and if anyone wants to know the rates at Broadmoor, they're all over the place depending on the season and room - $210 to $1485, for what I've looked at so far.

Yes it's near Cheyenne Zoo. A zoo where the animals do horrible things to each other. I guess they do that at all zoos. But the mountain-scaping makes it a more intimate experience when you see a monkey forcefully dig a booger out of another monkey's nose and eat it.

The Broadmoor is teh bomb! My wife and I stayed there over several weekends thanks to the business she worked for. Room service was killer. It IS pricey, though. Way above our regular pay grade.

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: Why are they wasting money on this when they COULD AND SHOULD be wasting it on discussions of "evolution" versus the Jesus

/Intelligently designed flame on

Colorado fundies care more about teh ghey. And not paying taxes. Evolution is way down on their list.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: skinink: I knew the school board was a filthy cheating two timer when it drove an SUV into a fire hydrant, then rammed it into a tree.

Too soon, my friend.

Too soon.

:-/

Yeah Brett Farve deserves better than that

The Broadmoor is the bees friggin knees. I cannot blame them.
Got a free week stay there in late early May of 2007. Fantastic.

"It's a legitimate expense!"

/hotter than bacon

Terryg999: Pocket Ninja: Two things that would immediately improve education in this country:

1) Take the Department of Education out behind the Capitol and shoot it in the head. Then bury it, cement the plot, and landmine the surround.

2) Fire every elected school board in the country.

This illustrates point 2.



If I had my way I would cut the budget of every school district by 80%. Money does not equal education, but it does equal waste and fraud.

In Dallas (DISD) there are more 'administrators' then there are teachers.

Really now. Let's analyze that.

There are, in Dallas ISD, about 35 high schools. Take the average enrollment of those schools as being at 1500. Some are higher, some are lower - let's average at 1500.

That makes 1500x35 or 52,500 students enrolled in high school in Dallas ISD. Extrapolate those numbers over the rest of grades and you get about 170,000 students in DISD. (52,500/4 grades * 13 grades, obviously not counting pre-k)

State law in Texas requires teacher loads of no higher than 1:32 for secondary. For primary, it's 1:18. Let's assume that for sake of argument there is one teacher to every 30 students in DISD.

That means there are approximately 5,687 teachers in Dallas.

You're saying there are about *six thousand* adminstrators in DISD? Either you're (1) full of crap, (2) have no idea what you're talking about, or (3) resorting to hyperbole to make a point.

Which is it?

dlewis6: Pocket Ninja: Two things that would immediately improve education in this country:

1) Take the Department of Education out behind the Capitol and shoot it in the head. Then bury it, cement the plot, and landmine the surround.

2) Fire every elected school board in the country.

This illustrates point 2.

So what should we use, just gasoline or should we go all out with napalm?

Waste even more money on gas? My friend, we are already wasting far too much money on these blowhards, and you want to spend even more?

Put them up for cockpunches. On Pay Per View. One punch costs $50 and all the money goes towards teachers.

I love the smell of rage in the morning.

Seriously, why won't these people be fired?

TheAbstractor: Pocket Ninja: Two things that would immediately improve education in this country:

1) Take the Department of Education out behind the Capitol and shoot it in the head. Then bury it, cement the plot, and landmine the surround.

2) Fire every elected school board in the country.

This illustrates point 2.

(3) Privatize all public schooling and turn any and all public educational funding into vouchers to lower-income families to pay for said private schooling.

Yeah, cuz that what every-farking-one of these countries that dominate and humiliate the US when it comes to education did.

/Oh wait, no, not even close.

But many will tell us that anyone who thinks they should pay less in taxes or tries to reduce their tax liability is a freeloader who doesn't want to pay their fair share.

Dinodork: And we in the springs thank the school board for their tourism dollars.

Yeah, well you have James Dobson and Ted Haggard.

Enjoy.

hyperflame: dlewis6: Pocket Ninja: Two things that would immediately improve education in this country:

1) Take the Department of Education out behind the Capitol and shoot it in the head. Then bury it, cement the plot, and landmine the surround.

2) Fire every elected school board in the country.

This illustrates point 2.

So what should we use, just gasoline or should we go all out with napalm?

Waste even more money on gas? My friend, we are already wasting far too much money on these blowhards, and you want to spend even more?

Put them up for cockpunches. On Pay Per View. One punch costs $50 and all the money goes towards teachers.

I like you

D-Liver: Who's talking to you moran.

u iz, palooka.

Meh, you should see what Montreal school boards do. (google it I'm lazy) Never mind the fact that Montreal is run by the mob, the school boards here make the mob look like the peanuts gang.

While I have some issues with the Cato Institute, they outline some very interesting research on one likely reason why public schools suck so incredibly hard in this country:

The nonteaching bureaucracy has mushroomed; it grew by 500 percent between 1960 and 1984. Over the same period, the number of teachers and principals grew by a comparatively puny 57 percent and 79 percent, respectively.(11)

The situation is markedly different for America's independent schools. For example, in 1987, while there were 3,300 employees in the central and district offices of the Chicago public school system, a mere 36 administrators oversaw the schools of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, although its student population is 40 percent of that of the public schools and it serves a much larger geographical area.(12) In the nation's largest school district, New York City, John Chubb of the Brookings Institution found an even more striking contrast: 6,000 administrators in the government schools and only 25 in the Catholic schools, although the Catholic schools served about one-fourth the number of students the government schools did.(13) Evidence on that point continues to mount; just recently, the Baltimore Sun reported that the Baltimore Archdiocese manages 34,000 students in 101 schools with 7 administrators, while the nearby Harford County public schools need 64 administrators to oversee 36,000 students in 51 schools.(14)

Massive school bureaucracies divert scarce resources from real educational activities, deprive principals and teachers of any opportunity for authority and independence, and create an impenetrable bulwark against citizen efforts to change the school system. The school systems have become susceptible to influence only from special-interest groups, notably the teachers' unions and other elements of the education establishment. Like factories of the former Soviet Union, America's government schools are technologically backward, overstaffed, inflexible, unresponsive to consumer demand, and operated for the convenience of top- level bureaucrats.

It's an interesting read, even if it is quite dated now - I'd imagine it's probably only gotten worse.

Fark the school board. Counseling ain't gonna help. Maybe you shoulda just, I dunno, NOT farkED MY BROTHER IN THE FIRST PLACE?

You're dead to me. Whore.

LessO2:

Yeah, well you have James Dobson and Ted Haggard.

Enjoy.

We like our fundies crazy AND entertaining!

/Where's brother Jim?