Destroy a building rather than let a charter school use it
A Michigan school district, strapped for cash, preferred demolishing an empty school building rather than sell it to a private charter school for several million.
The district eventually backed down to public pressure and made the sale, but this story is very instructive. You have to watch the video report at the link to find out who really led the opposition to this sale, and why. I wonder if you can guess.
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A Michigan school district, strapped for cash, preferred demolishing an empty school building rather than sell it to a private charter school for several million.
The district eventually backed down to public pressure and made the sale, but this story is very instructive. You have to watch the video report at the link to find out who really led the opposition to this sale, and why. I wonder if you can guess.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
This “skool” district has unwittingly created a large group of involved parents that no longer believe “Its for the children”
These problems and almost all of the problems in our governmental systems can be solved almost instantly by the simple measure of banning public sector unions.
As the socialists who infest our government do what they always do, that eventuality of failure becomes more and more certain.
There is not enough whitewash to mask the failure of every single socialist policy in the last century without the general public eventually becoming aware that their own experiences do not match the progressive narrative.
We are getting closer every day and I believe that the Obama presidency has accelerated the process. I just fear what the socialists will do when they suddenly realize their power is slipping away. They WILL punish their former sycophants.
> almost all of the problems in our governmental systems can be solved almost instantly by the simple measure of banning public sector unions.
As former DC Chancellor of Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, pointed out, the school unions represent the adults, not the children.
The socialist policies in our schools have resulted in dramatically reduced results in education. Colleges are now having to give remedial English and Math classes for the freshmen who did not get an adequate education in high school.
Yes, Peter, education is only one of the many areas in which socialist policies have failed dramatically. We now pay much more than ever before for our government services, but the services we receive are worse than ever, and the schools are a very visible example. The government and its unions are not on the side of We the People, they are on their own side, *against* We the People.