People are still trying to figure out what Standard & Poor’s School Evaluation Services meant last week when it identified 16 Kansas school districts as “highly resource-efficient,” as part of a study commissioned by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. One interesting observation by The Hutchinson News, though: Of the “Sweet 16” districts, seven have graduation rates lower than the state average; seven also have lower-than-average attendance rates. Turns out those factors weren’t part of the Standard & Poor’s study. But it’s fair to expect districts being held up as models to be getting students to class and graduation day.
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Another education “study”? And more wasted dollars, it seems, given the uselessness of the results.
Education consultants and studies are the biggest scam in the USA. Our country already spends close to $1 Trillion dollars annually on public and private education at all levels.
Public education is the biggest industry in the country. It uses more fossil fuels than any other business or activity. It contributes to global warming on a massive scale. It is the biggest employer of bottom-scraping college graduates. It herds them into unions that form an incestuous relationship between the government and their member-voters. It takes children for 12 years and only manages to teach them the alphabet, minimal reading skills, barely any writing skills, less arithmatic, a few points of history and geography (er,, “social studies”, for you PC types)
More money, more money, more money.
And too much of that trillion dollars goes for “studies” by and for people with an agenda to get more money.
Yes SS,The educational system does have it’s failures. Sorry you had to be one of them. Try to remember that it has it’s successes too, and listen to them. you might learn what you missed in school.
You have to wonder about all of these education studies. I thought we already employed professional educators. How is it that they need some outside group to come in and do an evaluation? Don’t they already know how to be resource-efficeint?
When someone has to come in and tell you how to do your job, it means you don’t know how to do your job.
This study didn’t focus on which districts were teaching the best and graduating the most. It was a study on who spent the least. On what, I am not sure…administration or students?Unfortunatly, 7 of the districts it praised were 7 of the worst for dropout rates and test scores.
We don’t need no stinkin’ statistics!
Jed once again proves that he has nothing whatsoever to contribute, except an empty, ad-hominem rant — which is all that he and his delusional comrades ever manage to contribute here.
What a waste.
Now watch the comrades all say that I do it, too. The difference here is who started it in this thread.
You see, kids; if all you give me to work with is an ad-hominem rant, then the subject becomes you, and you aren’t worth another thought. I am done with discussing the real topic with you.
You were never interested in discussing it anyway.
Too many threads end with the sensible contributors wandering away in disgust, while the imbeciles gloat and flail and exercise their idiocy to the end.
You are right Sudden, but nothing on here makes any difference anyway. I make comments with a grain of salt in them. See the humor in a lot of the posts and chill out. Or you can do what Connie Morris and I do; smoke some good dope. lol
Of couse, it doesn’t make a difference. I’ve hardly seen anyone revise a position based on the posts here, even the good ones. Oh well. Time to lighten up then.