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		<title>By: johnnywood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best thing we can do for &quot;public education&quot; in this country is to disband the Dept. of Education,(which educates no one) and all teachers unions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best thing we can do for &#8220;public education&#8221; in this country is to disband the Dept. of Education,(which educates no one) and all teachers unions.</p>
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		<title>By: nimbii</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nimbii]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Congressional Black Caucus and race hustlers polarize their constituents and alienate them to the point that most will not have much chance of success. 


But, for the CBC and race hustlers, as long as they vote every two years and hit the streets when needed where&#039;s the downside?


They are turning their constituents into &quot;kept&quot; people.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Congressional Black Caucus and race hustlers polarize their constituents and alienate them to the point that most will not have much chance of success. </p>
<p>But, for the CBC and race hustlers, as long as they vote every two years and hit the streets when needed where&#8217;s the downside?</p>
<p>They are turning their constituents into &#8220;kept&#8221; people.</p>
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		<title>By: truebearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 03:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly. The Left has to maintain an underclass that they can use to demonize the majority. If they don&#039;t have poor uneducated people to recruit for their revolution, all they&#039;ll have is professors and Hollywood actors. Marxism requires poverty and failure as an incubator of envy and hate. Without widespread failure, they have no hope of ascending to power. They know education is the passage out of their prison, so it must be stopped.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Exactly. The Left has to maintain an underclass that they can use to demonize the majority. If they don&#8217;t have poor uneducated people to recruit for their revolution, all they&#8217;ll have is professors and Hollywood actors. Marxism requires poverty and failure as an incubator of envy and hate. Without widespread failure, they have no hope of ascending to power. They know education is the passage out of their prison, so it must be stopped.</p>
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		<title>By: Chiron_Venizelos</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chiron_Venizelos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 03:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No good deed goes unpunished.
Amazing thing about unions--competent people don&#039;t need them; it&#039;s only the slackers who need a union to bargain in their stead.  &quot;Collective&quot; bargaining--a term common to socialism.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No good deed goes unpunished.<br />
Amazing thing about unions&#8211;competent people don&#8217;t need them; it&#8217;s only the slackers who need a union to bargain in their stead.  &#8220;Collective&#8221; bargaining&#8211;a term common to socialism.</p>
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		<title>By: cathnealon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cathnealon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[sorry-&#039;liberal globalists&#039;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>sorry-&#8217;liberal globalists&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: cathnealon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gates funded Bill Ayers Small schools initiative with Mike Klonsky. Gates is a leftist--he may not know what the Marxists using his money are up to but one thing for sure he and his wife are libral globalsist. Nuf said.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gates funded Bill Ayers Small schools initiative with Mike Klonsky. Gates is a leftist&#8211;he may not know what the Marxists using his money are up to but one thing for sure he and his wife are libral globalsist. Nuf said.</p>
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		<title>By: Johnny</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnny]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus they are in bed with the teachers unions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Plus they are in bed with the teachers unions.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason P</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason P]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree with this separation. And charters help the process.

My point was that the union doesn&#039;t address these issues. When I was a teacher I was concerned with changing the institution so that we could do better. I wanted to be a good teacher and not just a baby-sitter. My union failed me. I left the field.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with this separation. And charters help the process.</p>
<p>My point was that the union doesn&#8217;t address these issues. When I was a teacher I was concerned with changing the institution so that we could do better. I wanted to be a good teacher and not just a baby-sitter. My union failed me. I left the field.</p>
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		<title>By: A Z</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Z]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not true. My cousin had boy, who had not learned to read at level by 3rd grade. The masterful &amp; ever benevolent public school teachers said it could not be done. 

He was enrolled in a Lutheran school and he learned how to read at level. 

I for one am not impressed by the teacher&#039;s unions or public schools.  Maybe it had something to do with being whacked for being left handed by a public school teacher.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not true. My cousin had boy, who had not learned to read at level by 3rd grade. The masterful &amp; ever benevolent public school teachers said it could not be done. </p>
<p>He was enrolled in a Lutheran school and he learned how to read at level. </p>
<p>I for one am not impressed by the teacher&#8217;s unions or public schools.  Maybe it had something to do with being whacked for being left handed by a public school teacher.</p>
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		<title>By: aemoreira81</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[aemoreira81]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What those children who cannot get into charter schools need is for the troublemakers to be segregated out of mainstream public schools, so that the learning of students who desire to make something of themselves and be contributors in the world is not impeded. Once that distraction is out of the way, mainstream public school performance will improve.

Charter schools and private schools can choose their enrollment and can exclude troublemakers; public schools do not currently have that out.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What those children who cannot get into charter schools need is for the troublemakers to be segregated out of mainstream public schools, so that the learning of students who desire to make something of themselves and be contributors in the world is not impeded. Once that distraction is out of the way, mainstream public school performance will improve.</p>
<p>Charter schools and private schools can choose their enrollment and can exclude troublemakers; public schools do not currently have that out.</p>
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		<title>By: glpage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[glpage]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree that the parents have to be involved in their children&#039;s education; if the kids and their parents aren&#039;t interested in education the chance of success is very slight.  

We see charter schools are succeeding; most of the kids who go to charter schools to well.  This indicates the parents are involved.  However, not all parents who want to get their kids into a charter school can.  Do those parents automatically decide to not be involved in their kid&#039;s education?  I doubt it.  Yet, their kids end up not doing as well as the kids who are lucky enough to get into a charter school.  So, something beyond the parents involvement is happening.  That difference probably has something to do with public schools and the teachers unions.

This country has been spending more and more money per student per year and there has been a negative return on that money.  On the average, kids aren&#039;t as well educated as they were 40 or 50 years ago.  So, why should we give more money to a system that isn&#039;t working?  And why destroy a system that is working?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree that the parents have to be involved in their children&#8217;s education; if the kids and their parents aren&#8217;t interested in education the chance of success is very slight.  </p>
<p>We see charter schools are succeeding; most of the kids who go to charter schools to well.  This indicates the parents are involved.  However, not all parents who want to get their kids into a charter school can.  Do those parents automatically decide to not be involved in their kid&#8217;s education?  I doubt it.  Yet, their kids end up not doing as well as the kids who are lucky enough to get into a charter school.  So, something beyond the parents involvement is happening.  That difference probably has something to do with public schools and the teachers unions.</p>
<p>This country has been spending more and more money per student per year and there has been a negative return on that money.  On the average, kids aren&#8217;t as well educated as they were 40 or 50 years ago.  So, why should we give more money to a system that isn&#8217;t working?  And why destroy a system that is working?</p>
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		<title>By: glpage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[glpage]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only interest the left has in minorities is keeping them on the plantation to continue voting left.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only interest the left has in minorities is keeping them on the plantation to continue voting left.</p>
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		<title>By: aemoreira81</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[aemoreira81]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Except that in many cases, they are burdens...not only on teachers, but on students who want to learn. For a school to succeed, the indolent members of the student body must be purged first and isolated in their own trouble schools.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Except that in many cases, they are burdens&#8230;not only on teachers, but on students who want to learn. For a school to succeed, the indolent members of the student body must be purged first and isolated in their own trouble schools.</p>
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		<title>By: aemoreira81</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[aemoreira81]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The teacher unions can&#039;t get the schools up to par without student cooperation. They can only do so much.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The teacher unions can&#8217;t get the schools up to par without student cooperation. They can only do so much.</p>
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		<title>By: aemoreira81</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[aemoreira81]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That should not be seen as a problem, and this is why: the problem is rarely the teachers or teacher unions. Most of the time, failing students make a conscious choice to fail. The only thing that can really be done is to segregate them from the students who want to learn. The school where the teachers are above a quaternary contributing factor to failure, if that, is extremely rare. The true problem is that students are ill-prepared to succeed in cases where they are failing; the preparation must be done at the level of the household.

Students  have representation: &lt;b&gt;their parents&lt;/b&gt;. If the parents are not doing their job, the parents need to be changed. The teachers really are the scapegoat. The teaching methods are not the problem; the students are the problem, harsh as that may sound. As for &quot;more money&quot;...they would bolt for schools where the students desire to learn at the first chance, even if said school is non-union.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That should not be seen as a problem, and this is why: the problem is rarely the teachers or teacher unions. Most of the time, failing students make a conscious choice to fail. The only thing that can really be done is to segregate them from the students who want to learn. The school where the teachers are above a quaternary contributing factor to failure, if that, is extremely rare. The true problem is that students are ill-prepared to succeed in cases where they are failing; the preparation must be done at the level of the household.</p>
<p>Students  have representation: <b>their parents</b>. If the parents are not doing their job, the parents need to be changed. The teachers really are the scapegoat. The teaching methods are not the problem; the students are the problem, harsh as that may sound. As for &#8220;more money&#8221;&#8230;they would bolt for schools where the students desire to learn at the first chance, even if said school is non-union.</p>
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		<title>By: Habbgun</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Habbgun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If these teachers had to compete to get and hold students would they see them as loyal customers with faults as opposed to the burdens that teachers always complain about?

Educators are like any other business. They are after money and may seek unfair advantages. Like all monopolists they hate truly free markets.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If these teachers had to compete to get and hold students would they see them as loyal customers with faults as opposed to the burdens that teachers always complain about?</p>
<p>Educators are like any other business. They are after money and may seek unfair advantages. Like all monopolists they hate truly free markets.</p>
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		<title>By: PAthena</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[PAthena]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I grew up in Washington, D.C. (1940-51), the public schools were racially segregated - and the white and colored schools were excellent!  Dunbar High School, the coloured academic high school, was one of the leading high schools in the U.S.  Our teachers were usually elderly women who had gone into teaching when it was one of the few professions open to women, so very intelligent women went into it.  Now, the bottom 25% of high school students go into it, thinking of it as babysitting.
The charter schools do much better now than the public schools, which is why the teachers union is opposed to them.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I grew up in Washington, D.C. (1940-51), the public schools were racially segregated &#8211; and the white and colored schools were excellent!  Dunbar High School, the coloured academic high school, was one of the leading high schools in the U.S.  Our teachers were usually elderly women who had gone into teaching when it was one of the few professions open to women, so very intelligent women went into it.  Now, the bottom 25% of high school students go into it, thinking of it as babysitting.<br />
The charter schools do much better now than the public schools, which is why the teachers union is opposed to them.</p>
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		<title>By: chuckie2u</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[chuckie2u]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I personally believe by stopping tenue we would see a marked difference in the quality of educators rise in proportion to the quality of education of students. The basic premise all children are going to be college material is dead wrong. By the 8th grade those without the desire or academic skills to reach college should be trained in vocational schools,tech schools or other areas to be productive members of society.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I personally believe by stopping tenue we would see a marked difference in the quality of educators rise in proportion to the quality of education of students. The basic premise all children are going to be college material is dead wrong. By the 8th grade those without the desire or academic skills to reach college should be trained in vocational schools,tech schools or other areas to be productive members of society.</p>
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		<title>By: chuckie2u</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[chuckie2u]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heavens to LBJ ! You nailed the problem.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heavens to LBJ ! You nailed the problem.</p>
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		<title>By: Bamaguje</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bamaguje]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In other words Charter schools compliment public schools, particularly failing ones.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In other words Charter schools compliment public schools, particularly failing ones.</p>
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