Your Government School System in Action

Jake · #1 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007, 10:08 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250020,00.html

A school employee in New Jersey, the roosting place of corrupt democrasses, has been paid $130,000 a year - even though he's been dead for 33 years.

SenaxFlatulus · #2 (**permalink**) 02-03-2007, 08:20 AM

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CAMDEN, N.J. — Talk about lying down on the job!
A recent audit of cash-strapped Camden, N.J. school district's finances found it was paying an employee $130,000 annually — and he's been dead for more than three decades.

City officials were shocked by the discovery.

The independent audit of Camden schools found fiscal mismanagement and lax controls for payroll, purchasing, and accounts payable, reported WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.

Camden has been plagued with scandal and is known as the nation's poorest city.

Truth-Bringer · #3 (**permalink**) 02-03-2007, 09:12 AM

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A recent audit of cash-strapped Camden, N.J. school district's finances found it was paying an employee $130,000 annually — and he's been dead for more than three decades.

City officials were shocked by the discovery.

ROTFLMAO!!! Classic. The government bureaucracy in action...

It truly is the "Public Fool System."

Truth-Bringer · #4 (**permalink**) 02-03-2007, 09:45 AM

The Underground History of American Education

http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

SenaxFlatulus · #5 (**permalink**) 02-03-2007, 09:58 AM

Are you for school vouchers then?

Truth-Bringer · #6 (**permalink**) 02-03-2007, 10:39 AM

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Are you for school vouchers then?

As the sole answer to the problem? No. If I knew it would be an intermediary step to getting government completely out of education, then I'd support it, but looking at the track record of government spending, I'd say that's a bad idea.

I'm for one thing that the Republicans used to claim they were for in their "Contract with America" and that is abolishing the Dept. of Education

In the final equation, I'm for separation of school and state. The government screws up everything it does, and schools are no different. Get the government out of the equation and they'll improve immensely.

Another article for your reading pleasure:

http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/wua3.shtml

"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year... It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
- Albert Einstein

This is the society that government schooling has left us with:

Americans Don't Read
"80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year."

http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html

But you can bet most can tell you the latest on Paris Hilton or Reality TV.

No wonder we continuously lose freedoms in this country:

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson

JohnnyDestroyer · #7 (**permalink**) 02-03-2007, 05:49 PM

"well if you dont like Socialistic schools, how bout a voucher system thats also a sham."

I hear that from both sides, and I think its terrible, you dont always have to agree with bush or palosi, Turban Durban has some great veiws on education.

higher standards, and more liability for wages are the two key problems, neither dems nor repugs want to give up the Liquor and Gambling money thats tied in with schools..

Greed Wins, the American youth suffer.....

so its either that, or a voucher program that will disproportionately effect poorer regions, which are typically white rural areas (Ghetto's get lots of money through gambling)

YAY...thats progress, never mind we cant crank out an engineer to save our flux capacitor.

SenaxFlatulus · #8 (**permalink**) 02-03-2007, 07:30 PM

Both Johnny Destroyer and Truth-Bringer are charter members of the "none of the above" party. Nevermind the absence of a plan to fix the problem. They just moan and complain about both parties and harp at any attempts to change things like two magpies competing for a fresh road kill.

Let's hear your solution, Einsteins.