Ive had threads before about the stupid shit they build around here for schools like HUGE sports parks, 2 football stadiums that cost OVER 20 million each, and now they don’t have any money.
So lets RAISE taxes.
Whoever decided giving school districts taxing authority was a good idea needs to be tarred and feathered.
You know we gotta spend over 20 million on all these football stadiums so they can play a few games a year there…but then we gotta cut special education teachers because they cost too much.
I drive by their newest stadium and its always sitting idle except for a few friday nights a year. It can’t be used for anything else since it doesn’t have a track around it. This one HS has SIX fields.
So the forefather’s raged a revolution against the world’s greatest superpower over taxation without representation, what do you think they would think of shit like this?
No they couldn’t be smart, and say schedule games to use one stadium for multiple teams. Each HS has to have its own giant football stadium. If you zoom out you can see how close they are.
All within 10 minutes of each other. But we gotta cut teachers that actually make a difference in kids lives learning basic things and its entirely beyond us to cut out the BS like multiple 20 million + stadiums that get used a few times a year, and we gotta raise taxes!
Then we wonder and ponder why districts don’t have any money, and gotta raise taxes & lay off actual beneficial employees. But those fields gotta stay and we gotta keep building them!
There was more than one Roman scholar that made the correlation between the exorbitant income of mere entertainers and the demise of their civilization.
Not mine, Belmonts. This is just one example of how money that is required by law to be paid by Joe tax payer is wasted. This type of missconduct is rampant. If it’s happening at your local ISD athletic department then just imagine how much worse it is at the highest levels of goverment. :help:
Each speaker will be limited to three (3) minutes.
Yes thats PLENTY of time to ask why they are spending 20 million PLUS on all these stadiums, why these HS’s have so many fields, and actually get anywhere.
I can just imagine the interest the school board will have in answering these questions within 3 minutes. Im sure it will be a cornucopia of positive answers and questions, explanations, and in the 3 minutes Ill get a a full answer to my questions. I mean I may have to attend 20 meetings X 3 minutes to get just an hour with the prestigious board and Im 100% positive I will get straightforward answers and they will hold themselves accountable to spending over 40 million dollars on 2 football fields used a few times a year while they are laying off teachers who really do make a difference.
Entertainers, unlike teachers, get paid exactly what they are worth.
The 800 pound gorilla that no one wants to point out is that teaching is a low level skill profession that nearly anyone could do with really minimal training.
The teaching profession has continually inflated education requirements to make it “seem” to be a much higher level skill than it really is.
Unfortunately, teachers, and teaching has successfully placed a mantle of sainthood upon itself that makes it unassailable by critics.
It is no coincidence that teaching qualification requirements have gone up while their product has gone down in quality.
Locally run schools, run by high school educated teenage schoolmarms were the pinnacle of US education. Huge, centrally controlled schools taught by MA/MS/PhD level schools and “administered” (whatever in fuck that means) by 6 figure earning bureaucrats have and continue to fail in their core mission, all while conveniently blaming the parents and the students.
And you wonder why kids don’t take education seriously when they see schools spending this much on a sports facility. Can you imagine the science and engineering facilities you could build- or even just shop classes.
It even gets worse when you go to colleges. Kids choose schools that have the best dorms, excercise facilities and party life.
Maybe when we finally get our economic teeth kicked in and even middle class people have to struggle to buy an iWhatever people will start to take education seriously and we’ll get more accountants, chemists, engineers, architects, biologists, doctors, nurses and physisicts.
But I also think its a representation of society at large, and you have to have a degree mentatlity to be anything but a McDonalds cook.
My dad does not have a degree because at the time he was in school, one semester away from graduation, his company (who he still works for) offered him a job. He could teach his job easy enough even though he doesn’t have a degree, and they still pay him well over 20k a month.
Now everyone needs to feel special, and “you aint shit unless you have at least a BS and masters”. So teaching 3 periods a day plus coaching 1 team means you need to make all this money, the sports teams need professional level stadiums, and they also need money to travel and do all this shit just for HS. Yet our academics are falling behind and becoming less relevant. The real producers in this country are becoming 2nd hand to entertainers and celebrities. No one celebrates scientific achievement, and look at the state NASA is in. Id like to see one school district put the amount of money they do into sports (entertainers) they do as into science and such. Lets see a 22 million dollar science lab for once.
I posted in my previous threads I had a girl from the choir come to my door asking for donations. Never had a football star come to my door. I assume all their shit is paid, and they get padded grades. Thats the way it worked at my school. I was friends with quite a few and it wasn’t a big secret the jocks grades were padded. Did I care? No… Now that Im a parent I just find it amazing no one seems to care or notice how money is spent.
I may just go to these board meetings and video it.
The responsibility here is on the adults not the teens and kids.
Im serious. Im going to go to one of these board meetings and ask questions. I only get 3 minutes to speak, though, so Im sure Ill get all the answers I need.
Actually, you’re right. It IS a reflection on society.
Starting in the 1920s, there has been a systematic effort by Socialists to “dumb down” society to build a reliable and stupid, non-critical thinking voting bloc. The implementation of welfare and other entitlements breaks up traditional family structures, including extended families, which weakens child rearing, which results in stupider kids, which results in teachers having an excuse for failing in the classroom.
Which they grab with both hands, and pull out every time they need an excuse for their non-performance.
I’ve taught “at risk” students, however, and refuse to pull out the excuse card. It has some validity, but it is not constructive or in “my lane.” There is a paucity of hard nosed teachers out there, in my opinion. Way too many tender hearts and well-meaning idiots.
I am amazed at the sizes of bureaucracies and stupid shit school systems spend their money on as well.
With out a doubt. We live in a society where we the family unit is continually attacked and we live in neighborhoods where we barely know our neighbors. The glue that holds us together is getting weaker and weaker.
Oh yes. I have long lamented the inability of the average person to apply logic or critical thinking. Now that I’m a little older and more cynical, I’ve realized WHY people don’t have those skills.
My HS has one large field plus a simple baseball field. ALl the other fields are just grass fields with chalk lines for field hockey, soccer, etc. And the football field did not cost $20M. It looks to be better now than when I was there almost 30 years ago actually. Some of those chalk fields on the left look new and the football field looks redone.
In New England they practice the direct democracy in all towns with “Town Meeting.” Any and all appropriations, including schools, have to be voted on by those in attendance. It sometimes acts as a deterrent to stupid spending. But not always, as the school supporters tend to stack the meetings, make a motion to move the school budget to the first item of business, so that they can then all go home.
Yep. In my state the union made it so that teachers had to have a masters degree, even for teaching elementary school, which is laughable.
Then they use the requirement that they pushed for to bump their pay, “We aren’t making what other people with Masters Degrees are making.” No shit Sherlock, you are teaching kids their ABC’s, how to read, counting, basic math, etc.
