Tuesday - February 01, 2005

More Education Nonsense

We all know the nature abhors a vacuum, right?  If there is space to fill, it will be filled.

Now take that argument to education and funding for said effort.

The US government will spend almost $70 billion in student aid in 2005. “ Where is it going?” “What results do we get from the expenditure of all that money?” Well, grasshopper, good question!

Colleges and universities are not stupid.  As soon as they see the Feds raising spending guess what they do?

Yep!  Increase fees, tuition, etc. And has anything changed other than to have become more expensive?

Right again!!  OF COURSE NOT!

As so accurately pointed out:

Anyone who has taken a remedial economics course knows that if you subsidize something, more people want it. This increase in demand will push up the price. Former Secretary of Education William Bennett recognized this in 1987 when he argued that increases in federal aid have “enabled colleges and universities to blithely raise their tuitions, confident that federal loan subsidies would help cushion the increase.”

Which is the premise of this article.

One more from the “Who’s Surprised?” department.

For years I’ve been railing against efforts at schools to HAVE to put computers in the school classrooms and in some cases, schools are buying laptops for kids!  (Yep, this happens in Hernando County!)

SIDEBAR: another really irritating feature of all this computer buying is that the educrats don’t just buy some cheap computer.  NO!!!!  They have to go out and spend $2000 for each one!  FUCK ME!!  I bought a NEW computer for $350.  Why does an elementary school kid need something so expensive?  To surf for the latest skateboarding accessories or the newest teen heart throb?  (gets off soapbox)

Anyway, this article is about cyber-school kids who drop out of the regular schools and take classes via computer.  For the most part they are misfits.  But what pisses me off is that some hare-brained educrat decided that Colorado needed to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “NEW SYSTEM” (educrats LOVE new systems!) without applying any measure of common sense.  We all know that as adults any long distance learning entails an INCREDIBLE amount of dedication simply because we are not in the “structure” of a classroom.  We find ourselves distracted by any little thing.  But somehow these fucking mental midgets thought that KIDS would focus better. 

What blithering moonbat idiot fuckwads!  They should be taken out back and shot!

“And what, pray tell does this have to do with computers in a standard classroom?” you may be asking?

Simple.  The same concepts apply.  Put kids in front of a computer under the guise of “researching via the internet” and that’s most likely the LAST thing they will be doing.

I will admit to a certain prejudice against this since the concept of computers was brought to the schools to help out those kids who may not have computers at home but when new computers can be bought for the price of 2 pair of Air Jordans, I don’t want to hear about it.  Elementary kids need to spend much more time on basics, not computer skills which they already most likely have much more of than their own teachers.

Here’s one where the educrats are acting like spoiled little children having a temper tantrum.

A spelling bee was canceled at a school because administrators think it does not meet the criteria for “no child left behind.”

You know, if these half-witted forons would spend more time actually TEACHING kids rather than acting like a bunch of whiners our children might actually know how to make change and spell simple words like “cat.”

Straight form the horse’s ass’ mouth:

“It’s about one kid winning, several making it to the top and leaving all others behind. That’s contrary to No Child Left Behind.  A spelling bee is about “some kids being winners, some kids being losers.”

The only losers here are the school administrators. Incompetent petulant moonbats.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 02/01/2005 at 06:47 AM   
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