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   braindead08 said, 1 day ago

   Nooooo. It’s all for the children. Like every school district.
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   ConserveGov said, 1 day ago

   When Dems and union bosses join forces to enrich themselves and bankrupt the citizens.
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   AshburnStadium said, 1 day ago

   @ConserveGov

   When Republicans and capitalists join forces to enrich themselves and bankrupt the citizens.
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   AshburnStadium said, 1 day ago

   @ConserveGov

   Who stands to profit from privatization? It’s the GOP that wants to privatize EVERYTHING, including prisons!
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   edclectic said, 1 day ago

   Typical circle jerk.
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   Ms. Ima said, 1 day ago

   Spending has gone overboard to ‘teach’. Get back to teaching kids to read and understand math.
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   SpicyNacho said, 1 day ago

   AshburnStadium said: “Who stands to profit from privatization? It’s the GOP that wants to privatize EVERYTHING, including prisons!”
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   The taxpayer does.
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   Adrian Snare said, 1 day ago

   They may be depicted as men…but, in truth, we have a man power shortage in our nation.
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   Adrian Snare said, 1 day ago

   @SpicyNacho

   There is NO gain unless all benefit……
   That includes the prisoners…
   A nation is judged on how well it treats its minorities……this includes the prisoners…
   I hope we are not failing.
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    Adrian Snare said, 1 day ago

    We need a number four man in this picture..
    A man to say to the three other parties “all of US WILL sacrifice 20%” , and from that point we will continue to WORK !
    All others can “go to hell” ..
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    Omnius said, 1 day ago

    @Ms. Ima

    It takes money to teach tea p[arty moron, but then you’re too poorly educated to get the punch line.
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    Omnius said, 1 day ago

    The biggest problem is that worthless republican pedophile pervert hugger Corbett, how stupid the voters in PA were in 2010.
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    ODon said, about 24 hours ago

    What ever happened to paying the best teachers a higher wage? Just feelgood talk as overall teachers continue to lose ground. College enrollment into teaching programs is dropping sharply a simple cause and effect that will soon lead to teacher shortages. Another demonstration of the lack of forward thinking politicians.
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    TheTrustedMechanic said, about 24 hours ago

    @Ms. Ima

    Then repeal “No Child Left A Dime”, I mean no child left behind. When you have teachers at well achieving schools complaining about having to “teach to the test” they have no time, no inclination, no incentive to teach the kids to understand. All they can do is teach the kids to memorize enough to pass the tests. We should have bright enough minds in this country to devise a way to gauge teacher/student progress. But with the current system I can understand (but I do not agree completely) the teacher’s resistance to performance based conditions. When you have the teachers on one side fighting for low accountability, and the republicans on the other side wanting nothing but to destroy public education in general you have no way of finding compromise. What we need is some altruism to find the solution for the students, to hell with the teachers and forget about turning our education system into “for-profit” (read lowest standards we can get away with) enterprises. The students deserve better. When we can find that solution, that best of all possible scenarios then we can say to the teachers, here is the deal, take it or find another profession. If we have a plan where the students get the guidance, assistance and resources to succeed, and we pay the teachers commensurate with their contributions to the end goal then the good ones will stay, because they love the kids, they love the work and they are dedicated to the goal. The rest, the ones who are only in it for the money, the time off, the whatever-else-that-isn’t-the-kids (republicans at heart “It’s all about the money and what’s in it for me ababy”) will find it easier to grift somewhere else. And the ones who decide to “stick it out” and don’t care, well they will become evident and the system will need a way to get rid of them too. But this is all ideal, and it will take many parties committed to finding a solution that does not benefit them, parties that are committed to the goal and will derive reward from the benefits their work provides to society as a whole and to the students in general. It can’t be without compensation, but when “What’s in it for me” is the starting point for those involved, we’ve lost before we even started.
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    jack75287 said, about 22 hours ago

    The most financially strapped cities in the country are governed by who?
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