No, actually I'm a teacher, from a long line of teachers

[notaDUmmie]

This is scary - this isn't the subject line of the thread, but rather of a post by MadHound in the "We just voted "no" -- for the first time in our voting history -- on the school levy" thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7674273


Here is this "teacher from a long line of teachers" in an earlier post on the thread (bolding mine):

MadHound  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-09-10 01:03 PM
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7. This is why school funding needs to be disentangled from direct popular vote
 Because too many people like you have no kids in school, so they figure why bother, it isn't going to effect you. Except that it does effect you, has effected you and will continue to effect you. Want your property value to go up, well a large part of that is based on the quality of schools. Want to attract jobs to the area, how well the local work force is educated is a large part of that decision for most corporations.

So the difference between the last levy and this one was $450. Let's see, spread that out over 12 months, that's a $37.50 increase in your escrow account. Not that terribly much.

One reason that they're having this sort of increase is probably past levies got voted down time and again. If you're district is anything like mine it takes a super majority for any sort of school bond to go through. Which is why our schools are perpetually underfunded. There are enough people like yourself that don't want their taxes raised and time and again they vote the bond down.

These are the reasons they need to take school funding out of the hands of the voters. Far too many are simply short sighted and selfish. And our kids are the ones who pay the price.

 

If this person is a teacher, it goes a long way towards demonstrating why Johnny can't read, or more specifically, why Johnny can't write.  Using "effect" instead of "affect" not once but four times?  Really?

And MadHound, if you read here...punctuation is your friend - embrace the comma!

[The Village Idiot]

Your post makes a good and effective point. I am sure you're aware. Sometimes I mess those up too. At least I try to affect changes effectively when I do. You bet your bottom dollar on that.

[notaDUmmie]

Your post makes a good and effective point. I am sure you're aware. Sometimes I mess those up too. At least I try to affect changes effectively when I do. You bet your bottom dollar on that.

 

Normally, I'm not a spelling/usage Nazi, but I admit that it does grate on me when I see a self-proclaimed teacher writing like this.  Especially DUmmy teachers, who are always so eager to talk about how only public school teachers are worth a damn.

[AllosaursRus]

We pump more money/kid than any other country in the world into our educational system, and we get DUmmies! No wonder people are rebelling against levies!

[Wineslob]

Normally, I'm not a spelling/usage Nazi, but I admit that it does grate on me when I see a self-proclaimed teacher writing like this.  Especially DUmmy teachers, who are always so eager to talk about how only public school teachers are worth a damn.

While on a jury trial last spring, we had 2 public school teachers that loved to bitch about charter schools. It affirmed my conviction that charters are better.

[The Village Idiot]

While on a jury trial last spring, we had 2 public school teachers that loved to bitch about charter schools. It affirmed my conviction that charters are better.

Charter schools are basically privately managed public schools aren't they?

We've had some bad charter schools in Texas and its almost impossible to yank their funding apparently.

[GOBUCKS]

Teachers like Madhound, P2b, and Pam Dawson always screw up plurals, homonyms, possessives, punctuation, "ect".
Their why are chirren is not learning. Their loosers.

[Splashdown]

If you are taxed and get no say in it, isn't that taxation without representation? Didn't we have an argument over that about 235 years ago or so?

[thundley4]

upi402 (1000+ posts)             Tue Feb-09-10 02:29 AM
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2. I supported school levies all my life, even without kids
   
Edited on Tue Feb-09-10 02:32 AM by upi402
I voted no for the first time as well. And I have a kid in a prime school district, albeit a fundamentalist righty district.

My home value dropped a lot but my real estate taxes went up. The county gave no forgiveness in hardship times.

My kid's school threatened to send me to a collections. I sent a check to PRE PAY for school lunch. Then WaMu was about to collapse and DUers forewarned me. So I changed banks and waited for my new checks. In the meantime the WaMu check went NSF as my account was closed when they were bought by Chase. So the school district sent a threatening letter telling me to pay up or they would send me to collections, and told me there would be fine now too. On the PRE PAID lunches! I didn't owe them money.

I sent a letter explaining the banking collapse and told them I'd get a check to them as soon as I got my new bank's checks. They sent a stern letter instructing me to pay the fee as well and that I only had X days left to pay.

But I didn't owe them, this was extortion. That beast needs to be starved. Sorry. I am their benefactor. These draconian asshats are in charge of children?

They were after you for sending them a bogus check. What kind of idiot closes a checking account before being positive that all checks have cleared?

[Wineslob]

Charter schools are basically privately managed public schools aren't they?

We've had some bad charter schools in Texas and its almost impossible to yank their funding apparently.

Yes. The two that my daughter was/is in were/are heads above the public schools that did nothing but teach the kids how to pass the state mandated yearly testing so that the school would keep/increase it's funding.

I haven't heard of a bad charter yet. Put it this way, the numbers of parents lining up to get their kids into a charter completely outstrips the available seating in our town.

[Ralph Wiggum]

They were after you for sending them a bogus check. What kind of idiot closes a checking account before being positive that all checks have cleared?

Remember that this is a DUmmy you're talking about.

[AllosaursRus]

When Chase took over WaMu, they sent out letters stating the only thing changing was the name. It would not effect your accounts at all!!!! Hell my credit card still states WaMu on the front! This DUmmie just wrote a hot check and is looking for sympathy!

[The Village Idiot]

I haven't heard of a bad charter yet. Put it this way, the numbers of parents lining up to get their kids into a charter completely outstrips the available seating in our town.

The Morning News did a big expose on them a couple years back, inner-city charters in Ft Worth and Beaumont and Houston. The kids basically did no work, they were given the answers to the TAKS tests or TASS or whatever they were called back then. Written right on the blackboard. The charter "owners" were pocketing a lot of cash. I'd like them to change the law to state that Charter schools have real boards made up of parents whose kids go to the school. A Council of Governors if you will.

[Freeper]

This is scary - this isn't the subject line of the thread, but rather of a post by MadHound in the "We just voted "no" -- for the first time in our voting history -- on the school levy" thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7674273


Here is this "teacher from a long line of teachers" in an earlier post on the thread (bolding mine):
 

If this person is a teacher, it goes a long way towards demonstrating why Johnny can't read, or more specifically, why Johnny can't write.  Using "effect" instead of "affect" not once but four times?  Really?

And MadHound, if you read here...punctuation is your friend - embrace the comma!

I'm not a spelling or a grammar nazi but, yes when a teacher makes mistakes like that it is telling. Not to mention the DUmmies always accuse us freepers of not being able to spell or, use grammar correctly.