The city of Huntsville has announced over 150 teachers are being terminated as the economy struggles...and Madison County is doing better than the rest of the state. Crowded class rooms are in your child's future.
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quote:Got a text from a teacher friend in Mississippi tonight and they are laying off dozens just from Baldwin County.......great job Obama!
quote:What do you wanna bet no football coaches or programs are scrapped?
quote:Originally posted by Sofa King:quote:Got a text from a teacher friend in Mississippi tonight and they are laying off dozens just from Baldwin County.......great job Obama!
Oh please. The teacher situation in all sates have nothing to do with Obama (who inherited this mess, remember?).
In Alabama, you can blame the people YOU elected to office who continue to place education at the bottom . . .OK, perhaps in the middle of the list. Until education is a top priority in this state, we will continue to lose teachers in this horrible manner.
quote:The first finger needs to be pointed to the AEA.
quote:Originally posted by barbaros45:
I agree that things are in a mess, but truthfully, it didn't start with Obama...it will define his presidency, but this deficit started with Bush...all heck will break loose in classrooms...too many kids for one teacher..uncontrolable
quote:Originally posted by thomaswayne0907:
and i think they should raise sales tax 1 cent to go to education. i mean think about it, you spend 100 dollars at the grocery store and your total will go up all of ONE dollar, yet most people would raise hell if someone wanted to raise sales tax 1 cent. but apparently education for our children isnt that important to some people. "oh no i won't be able to afford cigarettes"
quote:Originally posted by teyates:
The first finger needs to be pointed to the AEA. They have manhandled the legislature and pushed thru junk bills in the past, leaving a bad taste in the mouths of most Alabamians. I for one will not support any bill that raises the taxes further for the benefit of the AEA, as long as Paul Hubbard sits in Montgomery and basically runs the state legislature. They did this to themselves. It was just last year that we had reports of a teacher who was still on the payroll, sitting in jail for a felony. As long as things like this go on, how can they expect a sympathetic public.
The honesty of the situation is that the teachers, like the doctors and the rest of the country, are going to be expected to do more with less for less reimbursement.
And yes, Obama is just as much to blame as George Bush. His "stimulus" plan was nothing more than a temporary band-aid, and now that it is being ripped off, it is going to hurt a little. Look for more taxes......
quote:Originally posted by justice:
Alabama lottery would have saved jobs but our elected officials and that knucklehead Riley dont think the people of Alabama have enough sense to even Vote for ourselves.
quote:Originally posted by Sofa King:quote:What do you wanna bet no football coaches or programs are scrapped?
Why would you cut a program that is self-supporting and brings so much to the schools? That's like wondering why we don't cut lunch programs.
quote:Got a text from a teacher friend in Mississippi tonight and they are laying off dozens just from Baldwin County.......great job Obama!
quote:Originally posted by daybeggar:
Hey Sofa King,
You evidently have bought into the prevailing philosophy that the primary purpose of Alabama's public school system is to function as a farm team for the Alabama and Auburn football programs, which in turn act as farm teams for the NFL.
quote:Originally posted by dd75:
We voted to renew our mil tax. the idiot teabaggers in madison convinced the voters there to vote against renewal. it was not a new tax. it was a renewal of an existing one which benefited the schools by funding education.
another example of the teabaggers cutting off their noses to spite their face.
quote:Originally posted by teyates:
The one thing that some of you do not understand is that throwing money at a problem does not necessarily fix it. Raising taxes and increasing millage will not contribute one iota to the education of an Alabama child, though it may pad the pockets of a corrupt Union leader or some of thier administration.
People are tired of the same old mantra of "we need more money for schools", "we need more money for defense", "we need more money for public parks, and the arts, and to study the problem of bovine flatulence".
Throwing money at something when the system is broke will not fix it.
Will increasing a class size from 20 to 22 children make a huge difference in what is taught, or what is learned? IMO, it starts at home, and it is a child with a good attitude who wants to learn and will be respectful to the teaschers that will make a whole helluva lot more difference than another million dollars collected for Montgomery.
quote:Originally posted by teyates:
The one thing that some of you do not understand is that throwing money at a problem does not necessarily fix it. Raising taxes and increasing millage will not contribute one iota to the education of an Alabama child, though it may pad the pockets of a corrupt Union leader or some of thier administration.
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Will increasing a class size from 20 to 22 children make a huge difference in what is taught, or what is learned?
quote:IMO, it starts at home, and it is a child with a good attitude who wants to learn and will be respectful to the teachers that will make a whole helluva lot more difference than another million dollars collected for Montgomery.
quote:the tea party idiots here in the Shoals nearly defeated a renewal of a tax that was specifically for schools. Had they succeed, the shoals would be in the same sad shape as Madison. They were successful in Madison with predictable results. Now the same people that voted down the tax are calling for the resignation of the superintendent over there because she had to do what she had to do. Its madness.
quote:Originally posted by dolemitejb:quote:the tea party idiots here in the Shoals nearly defeated a renewal of a tax that was specifically for schools. Had they succeed, the shoals would be in the same sad shape as Madison. They were successful in Madison with predictable results. Now the same people that voted down the tax are calling for the resignation of the superintendent over there because she had to do what she had to do. Its madness.
I have had no involvement with any Tea Party activity, so I don't know if what you're saying is even true, but it is telling that you believe people voting to keep the money they've earned qualifies those people as "idiots." I don't care where they money goes. It's not yours and you are wrong if you believe you are more qualified than another person to tell them how their money should be spent.
quote:I trust that you have/would send your child to a private school and university.
quote:Originally posted by dolemitejb:quote:I trust that you have/would send your child to a private school and university.
That's a weak argument. The state steals money from peoples' paychecks to create "public goods." Opposing that does not mandate a boycott of the public goods, especially considering people now have less of their own money with which to make their own choices.
quote:Your argument is circular. you must love god and country, as long as someone else is paying for it. I suppose you also pass the plate along as others tithe.
the same folks who do not want to support the mil tax are the same ones who are anti lottery due to moral reasons while they drive there gas sucking luxury suv's to be seen at church on sunday and defend bp for polluting the gulf as just the cost of doing business.