People who ruin neighborhoods (like tkpk) by putting their kids in private school

[Anonymous]

Speaking of slow, the person who wrote “thank god” was obviously kidding. Also no prayer in independent schools either unless you chose a religious school.

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Anonymous wrote:At a certain age you wise up and realize public schools are just a gigantic cash register racket. The voting blocs, the unions, the staff, the worthless admins, all the fat pensions, the multi-millionaire contractors, the real estate scams, and all of the other pigs in the trough. The fake grades, all the behavior the admins cover up. Nobody in them gives a damn about your children.

This^^^

So true. Unfortunately this is the state of public schools and the public school parents let it happen. They let the teacher's unions and such suck the life out of a quality education. Do better please.

All the top performing school districts in the U.S. & the world have strong teachers unions.

Who assist in sucking the life out of a quality education, just the truth. It is bloated and until we stop seeing the teacher's union as our saving grace, things will never change. There is such a better way to manage and run public schools, but we'll have to ask Randy Weingarten if it's okay. JFC, she doesn't even have children.

Why aren’t Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Kansas and Oklahoma killing it academically with their lack of unions & low taxes?

You really want to play this game?

[Anonymous]

The blame game here is interesting. Initially there was blame for public schools placed on private school parents, who have virtually nothing to do with the public schools other than providing funding. I’m still scratching my head.

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Anonymous wrote:At a certain age you wise up and realize public schools are just a gigantic cash register racket. The voting blocs, the unions, the staff, the worthless admins, all the fat pensions, the multi-millionaire contractors, the real estate scams, and all of the other pigs in the trough. The fake grades, all the behavior the admins cover up. Nobody in them gives a damn about your children.

This^^^

So true. Unfortunately this is the state of public schools and the public school parents let it happen. They let the teacher's unions and such suck the life out of a quality education. Do better please.

All the top performing school districts in the U.S. & the world have strong teachers unions.

Allll the poor performing like very very poor performing public school districts have teachers unions. Teachers unions are education destroyers.

The worst-performing states educationally in the U.S. are ALL “right to work” red states.

Somebody needs to brush up on their history and use their brain.

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Anonymous wrote:At a certain age you wise up and realize public schools are just a gigantic cash register racket. The voting blocs, the unions, the staff, the worthless admins, all the fat pensions, the multi-millionaire contractors, the real estate scams, and all of the other pigs in the trough. The fake grades, all the behavior the admins cover up. Nobody in them gives a damn about your children.

This^^^

So true. Unfortunately this is the state of public schools and the public school parents let it happen. They let the teacher's unions and such suck the life out of a quality education. Do better please.

All the top performing school districts in the U.S. & the world have strong teachers unions.

Who assist in sucking the life out of a quality education, just the truth. It is bloated and until we stop seeing the teacher's union as our saving grace, things will never change. There is such a better way to manage and run public schools, but we'll have to ask Randy Weingarten if it's okay. JFC, she doesn't even have children.

Why aren’t Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Kansas and Oklahoma killing it academically with their lack of unions & low taxes?

You really want to play this game?

Of course I do. The best school districts in the US are all in blue states & have strong teachers unions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of slow, the person who wrote “thank god” was obviously kidding.

Phew, at least one person got me

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Anonymous wrote:At a certain age you wise up and realize public schools are just a gigantic cash register racket. The voting blocs, the unions, the staff, the worthless admins, all the fat pensions, the multi-millionaire contractors, the real estate scams, and all of the other pigs in the trough. The fake grades, all the behavior the admins cover up. Nobody in them gives a damn about your children.

This^^^

So true. Unfortunately this is the state of public schools and the public school parents let it happen. They let the teacher's unions and such suck the life out of a quality education. Do better please.

All the top performing school districts in the U.S. & the world have strong teachers unions.

Allll the poor performing like very very poor performing public school districts have teachers unions. Teachers unions are education destroyers.

The worst-performing states educationally in the U.S. are ALL “right to work” red states.

Somebody needs to brush up on their history and use their brain.

That’s you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The blame game here is interesting. Initially there was blame for public schools placed on private school parents, who have virtually nothing to do with the public schools other than providing funding. I’m still scratching my head.

Sigh. You don’t get it.

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Anonymous wrote:At a certain age you wise up and realize public schools are just a gigantic cash register racket. The voting blocs, the unions, the staff, the worthless admins, all the fat pensions, the multi-millionaire contractors, the real estate scams, and all of the other pigs in the trough. The fake grades, all the behavior the admins cover up. Nobody in them gives a damn about your children.

This^^^

So true. Unfortunately this is the state of public schools and the public school parents let it happen. They let the teacher's unions and such suck the life out of a quality education. Do better please.

All the top performing school districts in the U.S. & the world have strong teachers unions.

Allll the poor performing like very very poor performing public school districts have teachers unions. Teachers unions are education destroyers.

The worst-performing states educationally in the U.S. are ALL “right to work” red states.

Somebody needs to brush up on their history and use their brain.

That’s you.

Show me a good school district with no union & I’ll show you ten good ones with a union.

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Anonymous wrote:The blame game here is interesting. Initially there was blame for public schools placed on private school parents, who have virtually nothing to do with the public schools other than providing funding. I’m still scratching my head.

Sigh. You don’t get it.

I would say the same to you.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that people are having conversations about how “horrible” public schools will be for their kids because of all the low-income kids in one of the most affluent counties in the country is so wild. So many people here are reflecting upon their own bad experiences attending high-poverty schools, but did you attend as a low-income or high-income student? That makes a world of a difference.

I am a Whitman alumni and I would send my kids to Blair tomorrow—magnet or not. It’s a fantastic school with a lot of opportunities.

Say what you want about sending your kids to private school, which is your right. But do not disparage the public schools which are doing a tremendous job and produce better results than the privates you pay $$$ for.

It's the public school parents telling the private school parents why they are sending their children to private. I think you need to direct your suggestion to the public school parents to be more confident of their public schools and be thankful the classrooms are not over crowded because some choose private. Your frustration is misguided. These threads are always started by a jealous/unsatisfied public school parent. Look in the mirror.

That’s…not how class sizes, funding or building allocations work.

The consolidate the schools, as they should have done in Baltimore City a decade ago and better target those dollars to a high functioning environment instead of feeding the pork that is the administration of the public school system. The same way you would run a successful business, be proactive with this and the children will thrive.

So where should poor kids go to school? In “consolidated buildings” (like factories)? What happens to students who are expensive to educate?

[Anonymous]

Teachers are paid cr*p as is; I don’t know how non-unionized school districts staff themselves each fall.

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Anonymous wrote:At a certain age you wise up and realize public schools are just a gigantic cash register racket. The voting blocs, the unions, the staff, the worthless admins, all the fat pensions, the multi-millionaire contractors, the real estate scams, and all of the other pigs in the trough. The fake grades, all the behavior the admins cover up. Nobody in them gives a damn about your children.

This^^^

There’s just nothing to romanticize and I don’t get how anyone is gullible enough to be rah-rah about public schools. Public schools are big business. The people who control them only care about power and the money they can extract out of them. It’s so childlike to see them as anything more than cash registers. Your kid’s future or preparation for adulthood does not matter. It’s laughable people think anyone in a public school cares about your kid. They are just per pupil $. That’s it.

As for the PP who said she’d send her kids to Blair tomorrow. Not if her grandparents gave her tuition for Sidwell. It’s easy to say you LOVE public when it’s your only option. You’d put a private sticker on your CRV or Rav-4 tomorrow if you can afford it.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that people are having conversations about how “horrible” public schools will be for their kids because of all the low-income kids in one of the most affluent counties in the country is so wild. So many people here are reflecting upon their own bad experiences attending high-poverty schools, but did you attend as a low-income or high-income student? That makes a world of a difference.

I am a Whitman alumni and I would send my kids to Blair tomorrow—magnet or not. It’s a fantastic school with a lot of opportunities.

Say what you want about sending your kids to private school, which is your right. But do not disparage the public schools which are doing a tremendous job and produce better results than the privates you pay $$$ for.

It's the public school parents telling the private school parents why they are sending their children to private. I think you need to direct your suggestion to the public school parents to be more confident of their public schools and be thankful the classrooms are not over crowded because some choose private. Your frustration is misguided. These threads are always started by a jealous/unsatisfied public school parent. Look in the mirror.

That’s…not how class sizes, funding or building allocations work.

The consolidate the schools, as they should have done in Baltimore City a decade ago and better target those dollars to a high functioning environment instead of feeding the pork that is the administration of the public school system. The same way you would run a successful business, be proactive with this and the children will thrive.

So where should poor kids go to school? In “consolidated buildings” (like factories)? What happens to students who are expensive to educate?

Deep dive into the testing data, sweetie. Spoiler alert: Poor kids and most middle class of all races don’t learn a thing in school. Half the kids who begin college never graduate. Where do you think they come from? It’s poor and middle class public schoolers.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that people are having conversations about how “horrible” public schools will be for their kids because of all the low-income kids in one of the most affluent counties in the country is so wild. So many people here are reflecting upon their own bad experiences attending high-poverty schools, but did you attend as a low-income or high-income student? That makes a world of a difference.

I am a Whitman alumni and I would send my kids to Blair tomorrow—magnet or not. It’s a fantastic school with a lot of opportunities.

Say what you want about sending your kids to private school, which is your right. But do not disparage the public schools which are doing a tremendous job and produce better results than the privates you pay $$$ for.

It's the public school parents telling the private school parents why they are sending their children to private. I think you need to direct your suggestion to the public school parents to be more confident of their public schools and be thankful the classrooms are not over crowded because some choose private. Your frustration is misguided. These threads are always started by a jealous/unsatisfied public school parent. Look in the mirror.

That’s…not how class sizes, funding or building allocations work.

The consolidate the schools, as they should have done in Baltimore City a decade ago and better target those dollars to a high functioning environment instead of feeding the pork that is the administration of the public school system. The same way you would run a successful business, be proactive with this and the children will thrive.

So where should poor kids go to school? In “consolidated buildings” (like factories)? What happens to students who are expensive to educate?

Deep dive into the testing data, sweetie. Spoiler alert: Poor kids and most middle class of all races don’t learn a thing in school. Half the kids who begin college never graduate. Where do you think they come from? It’s poor and middle class public schoolers.

You’re right; we should close down all the public schools tomorrow, and the poor & middle class kids should work in the fields, warehouses & factories for 12 hours/day. Just like in the good old days.