Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was a public community college actually. As with the charities the amount of money spent on services of every type per student per semester is exhorbitant but the students don't see any of it. It's all spent on the staffers in their name. I have no idea how the public schools work. Then there's the tenure thing, by which inepts and freeloaders can secure employment, collecting paychecks for life and protect themselves from scrutiny by hiding behind academic freedom. Downright criminal if you ask me! Javier - --- Ken Wilcox <klw.51@comcast.net> wrote: > Where is this? It does not reflect MY experience as > a public school > teacher. Any trip that I took (out of state) during > the 28 years of > my career was at my personal expence or funded by > another group, such > as the COSN or the National Science Foundation. The > only financial > support that I received from from the school was > that they did not > dock my pay for being gone. > > The only computer that my school provided me was a > (dispite the fact > that for many years I was the technology consultant) > was a plain low > end Windoz machine, and that wasn't till after the > computer labs were > WELL equipped with far better computers. > > The fact is that most teachers in my state werre not > provided ANY > computer until a state program was begun to buy for > their use a > cheepy laptop, > > Public school teachers in this country are a very > hard wokring, > underpaid and under appreciated group. Inflamitory > postings like > yours add the problem. Teacher bashing is alive and > well in the US. > > Ken Wilcox > > At 5:20 AM -0700 4/29/02, Javier Perez wrote: > >Hmm > >Good point > >Let me jump in > >I didn't catch the beginning of this but when it > comes > >to funding schools, let me tell you; I worked in a > >school and saw first hand the voracious apetite for > >funding that existed on the part of the educators > and > >administrators. Every penny spent was spent on them > in > >the name of the students. I'm talking then top > class > >Pentium machines for all the teachers so they could > >learn to use the > >internet and pass the knowledge on to the students! > >All this while the students were strapped down to > 8mb > >486dx33s with 640k unaccelerated vga boxes that > took > >10 minutes to boot into 3.1 if they didn't crash > along > >the way. > >Then there were the field trips to places like Cuba > >done in order to promote understanding between the > >them and them others. Entire delegations would > travel > >at taxpayer expense. A few students were thrown in > for > >good measure. > >When questioned about their spend thrift > proclivities > >each group would blame the other and nothing ever > got > >solved. > >Anyway there are far better things to spend your > money > >on than schools that don't teach anything. > >Javier > > > > > > > >--- Christer Almqvist <chris@almqvist.net> wrote: > >> >snip). I think it would work well if no one > felt > >> the need to send > >> >more than one message on this topic. > >> > >> .....and sending more than a total of three > messages > >> per day (five on Sundays). > >> > >> Chris ;-) > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Christer Almqvist > >> D 20255 Hamburg and / or > >> F 50590 RegnÈville sur Mer > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe, see > >http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness > >http://health.yahoo.com > >-- > >To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > -- > _____________________ > Ken Wilcox > klw.51 at comcast.net > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html