Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle now wants tax payers to foot the bill for 8th graders who:
sign the pledge form are promising to maintain a B average through high school graduation, stay out of trouble, perform community service, meet college entrance requirements and apply for financial aid.
So, what happens to a kid who:
1. Gets in a fight...liberal answer.."oh, its just one fight, please don't do it again"
2. Has a 2.8...."thats close to a 3.0"
3. Who is going to keep track of "community service"
4. Almost no MPS students meet college entrance requirements
5. Many can not fill out the application for financial aid
When the standards are too high and kids don't meet them, Democrats will do what they do best...lower the standards so lazy people who don't deserve more and more and more and more free money from hard working tax payers can get paid.
Doesn't this get you mad? I guess only if you believe people should earn what they have and you don't have white guilt I guess...
Monday, May 07, 2007
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We’ve got a similar program in our state (100% funded by the lottery). It seems to be working well.
Of course I live in a solidly red state where there’s a tendency to hold people responsible for their actions, instead of searching for reasons to excuse those actions.
I can see the potential problems with such a program in a blue state.
Your suggestions are ludicrous. They have no basis in fact.
The program seems absolutely sensible. What exactly are your objections?
well Jim, you obviously have no clue whatsoever as to what happens in an inner city public school...add it to the list
Jim
Exactly what "has no basis in fact"?
You answered not one of Game's concerns, no, not a one.
Putz
You people kill me, you try to take the "high line" in a debate, but you can't quite get there. Of course, if you spent time answering valid points, your whole house of cards would fold. Did I say fold? Excuse me, I meant to say collapse.
Blamin', what concerns would those be? I'm concerned that you will spend the night masturbating to a picture of Ann Coulter. You could go blind and grow hair on your palms. I'm concerned about that, but I have no factual basis for this concern.
Oooh Jim
You've got me pegged!!! Instead of answering my questions, you've actually figured out my secerat fantasy! But you've got one thing wrong, it's not a picture, it's an actual video!!!
But just so you know, I'd take Ann out for oysters and crab-legs in a skinny minute! And if she appreciates jazz - all the better.
Ya see, a "bear trap" mind is a big turn on for me. I understand you're turned on by a Ken doll kind of Edwards persona, (not-that-I'm-saying-there's-anything-wrong-with-that), to each his own, as they say.
I don't even know what Jim is talking about now. He obviously has no clue what he is talking about as usual. I know what happens in MPS, I know what happens in inner city public schools, period, fact, end of story.
While I was coaching basketball at an MPS high school I had a nice talk with a student who I had coached at my son's parochial school while he was in grade school.This young man was a poor student,who was usually ineligible in grade school sports because of bad grades.He worked hard and usually fixed his grades by the next report card.I asked him how he was doing at the high school level with his marks and he said he was on the honor roll with a 3.3
grade point average.I said that was wonderful and congratulated him.Sheepishly,he said of course,he
had to be honest about what was going on.I asked him what he meant.
For example,he said,the U.S.History
grade he had was an A,but they used the same text book in tenth grade that he had used in sixth grade at the parochial school.So he was reviewing the work he had done four years earlier.This is what goes on in today's watered-down MPS school system.Most kids won't try to even handle that.So my
player went on to college lasting less than a year because again he couldn't handle the material.How
"jumbled"it would be for more taxpayer money to be spent when kids who are the minority by working hard in MPS are falling short even with the classes they try to complete.The dullard doyle is as clueless as ---hole Andrekopolous and anyone who would
support this ridiculous idea.
game,
Jim is playing out his frustrations at being wrong all the time and trying to construct a strawman he could defeat. The strawman defeted Jim this time.
I don't like ANY program funded on funding mechanisms like Cigarette taxes, gambling revenue, etc. There is no thought given to the vagaries of the revenue stream.
The taxpayer gets socked with an ever growing entitlement and ever growing tax burden. What happens when smokers or gamblers go elsewhere with their money?
What I'm saying is that Game is making assertions about "liberal" policies or actions that don't exist and that he doesn't present evidence of. Where is the actual history that these things that Game is "concerned" about? Otherwise it's just typical liberal bashing.
Well, the only debate is one and two...
state standardized tests and statistics about MPS students in college proves me correct about number three.
I watch adults fill out applications for students at school all the time, making four true.
Number one is true based on the story I posted about today. When students get in trouble they are given chance after chance after chance. It was proven in the paper today.
Number two is possibly just going along with liberal ideals that we have to lower standards...proof..MPS used to have a graduation test...too many kids failed it, so they got rid of it...
Damn, I am so right and Jim is so wrong.
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