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Well, sounds like the average European education.

I find it impossible to be concerned with two things at once, so I will take this opportunity to rail against the food served in your average American school cafeteria.

FTFA: Gillis sent home a letter to parents explaining the move. The school district is facing $70 million in cuts. The non-profit CollegeInvest will pay $30,000 a year for the ad space.

Well, way to make a real dent in the shortfall there, guys.

/and they got an "A" in Algebra?

GOP killed the kids education in America.

/Retards vote Republican, right......
//So much easier to brainwash stupid kids to vote GOP.
///Thank Saint Ronald Reagan for allowing FoxNews to be able to broadcast propaganda as an actual news item.
////Red States? That sounds like a Communist color.
///Life begins at the application of lube for masturbation.
//Drill Baby Drill, is more than just McCain nailing Palin from behind.
/Alcohol fuels my power cells.

Best bang for the buck.

/hot
//not obscure at all

C Plus?!?

/brought to you by Red Ryder BB guns and Ovaltine

And for the lower scoring kids...



LINK

Proves that the trickle-down theory works! The Bush tax cuts finally trickled down to public education, with the overwhelming majority of Colorado residents saying "If the wealthy don't want to pay to educate our youth, why should we?"

I recently had a nightmare I was back in school.

Terrifying.

They need extra cash to pay for the bridge to nowhere (new window)

illannoyin: I recently had a nightmare I was back in school.

Terrifying.


Man I hate those. Like the one where you've been enrolled in a class all semester but never went and now it's time for the final and you know you'll fail the class regardless of how you do because you didn't complete any other assignment.

b0rg9: illannoyin: I recently had a nightmare I was back in school.

Terrifying.


Man I hate those. Like the one where you've been enrolled in a class all semester but never went and now it's time for the final and you know you'll fail the class regardless of how you do because you didn't complete any other assignment.

Mine are more like you're late for class, you can't remember where it is, and you don't remember where you put your schedule...

This seems oddly reminiscent of a book I've read...

IlGreven: b0rg9: illannoyin: I recently had a nightmare I was back in school.

Terrifying.


Man I hate those. Like the one where you've been enrolled in a class all semester but never went and now it's time for the final and you know you'll fail the class regardless of how you do because you didn't complete any other assignment.

Mine are more like you're late for class, you can't remember where it is, and you don't remember where you put your schedule...


I have the "show up after 3 weeks of skipping and there's a major test" dream.... probably cuz that happened to me.... twice... apparently the first time didnt make enough of an impression.

I also have one where I get a call from either my high school or college and they say "We've been going of old transcripts and it seems you missed a course and shouldnt have graduated - you need to come make it up right now or you lose your job/house/degree...."

/ugh

Someone is thinking outside the box.



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Mexican schools do better at teaching reading than our schools in the U.S. at a tenth of the cost.

Brawnd-o??

those school buildings are really well put together. add a few bars, turn those unused art, music and band rooms into cells and cash in on the country wide incarceration craze. show the kids what they have to look forward to while earning much needed revenue.

^^^You know for the idiocracy^^^^

Fizpez: I have the "show up after 3 weeks of skipping and there's a major test" dream.... probably cuz that happened to me.... twice... apparently the first time didnt make enough of an impression.

Holy crap THIS!!

Been a while but god those are awful!

Alleyoop: And for the lower scoring kids...

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LINK

At least Mcdonalds is a low budget investment that you know what you're getting when you go in. I hope this collegeinvest isn't some shady thing that's going to destroy some family's savings.

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Gyrfalcon: aerojockey: FTFA: Gillis sent home a letter to parents explaining the move. The school district is facing $70 million in cuts. The non-profit CollegeInvest will pay $30,000 a year for the ad space.

Well, way to make a real dent in the shortfall there, guys.

/and they got an "A" in Algebra?

Per school? That could add up, you know.

Well, if the school district has a thousand schools, they could make up about half the cuts. Somehow I'm guessing a non-profit called CollegeInvest won't have the capital to buy $30 million in ads, though.

Seriously, though, $30,000 per school will barely buy each one an extra janitor. If you face $70 million in cuts, you probably (and unfortunately) need to do more drastic things than selling ads on report cards. Like house prisoners.

Who Is CollegeInvest?
CollegeInvest is a not-for-profit division of the Colorado Department of Higher Education, with the goal of helping Coloradans achieve their higher education goals.


Those sellouts!

/It's not news, it's Fark

or wait, is the real news that the bad guys on Wall Street have convinced the Dept of Higher Ed to fund a division whose sole purpose is convince schoolchildren and their parents that the best way to get through life is to lock their money away in FDIC-insured accounts that the banks can then use as leverage in schemes to extort financial bailouts from taxpayers everybody who's dumb enough to keep their money in US dollars?

They're selling adds for ONE company. A college investment company.

Oh, what the hell. Feel free to derp away.

/Remember Book-It?

It's sad that they have to resort to this, but it makes sense and as long as they're getting revenue and not embezzling it.
The ads on the buses I'm fine with as well. Just as long as it's not for some night club.

The non-profit CollegeInvest will pay $30,000 a year for the ad space.

30,000!? WTF thats not very much money for what is essentially the best ad-space on earth. Besides a woman's breasts of course.

don't underestimate this shiiiiaaaat

your education is meaningle$$

If you have three Pepsis and drink one, how much more refreshed are you?
Pepsi?
Partial credit!

It's probably not "per school", maybe per city or in AZ, NV, UT, or WY..., per county. (As cheap as they can get away with, as always.)

Well thought headline there subby. 1

Fizpez: I also have one where I get a call from either my high school or college and they say "We've been going of old transcripts and it seems you missed a course and shouldnt have graduated - you need to come make it up right now or you lose your job/house/degree...."

/ugh


Oh yeah I've had that one too! Probably because it took me six years to get my bachelor's and for a while there I thought I'd never get it all completed.

After having one of those it's nice to walk into the home office and see the degree hanging on the wall.

aerojockey: If you face $70 million in cuts, you probably (and unfortunately) need to do more drastic things than selling ads on report cards. Like house prisoners.

Or cut some of the umpteen layers of administration who are making six figures and never step foot in a classroom.

Have you been to a public school lately? They might as well be housing prisoners. Architecturally, my son's school and the county jail are basically indistinguishable. Seriously. The county jail is right next to the animal shelter, and when we went there last caturday to get a new cat, my son thought it was a school.

When the Congress earlier this month was debating our national motto did anyone suggest
"America -- Where everything is for sale"