Comments on Advance Indiana™: So Why Did The State Board Hold Up Release Of A-F School Grades Until Day After Election?

How on earth would a 100% Voucher system work? So...

2014-11-06T20:15:02.102-05:00

How on earth would a 100% Voucher system work? So ok, say you have 6000 bucks for each child you have. You have two children. So you get 12,000 dollars. So that means that somewhere you've got to find someone to educate your two children in math, reading, writing, social studies, science, art, music, and gym. And they've got to have a building for your children to go to unless you are one of those folk who want your kid to sit in front of a screen all day. Then also for that 12,000 bucks they have to have a bus to get them there. Oh and wait, if your child has a disability, especially one that's severe, good luck finding someone to even take in your child. Oh and what if your child needs a speech clinician or a counselor of some sort? Tell me who is going to do that? Seriously, who is going to do that for 12,000 bucks a year? So ok, maybe you band your child together with 200 or so other kids and you have enough money to pay your teachers and other staff and for programs- then what happens when all you parents disagree on what you want taught or how you want it taught. How you going to keep those other folks who financially support your school from taking a walk because they disagree with you? Really, I'm curious as all heck how you think this could possibly work. But never mind all that, what about parents who don't really care if their child gets an education or not. They get their 6000 bucks and blow it on crack or something. What are you going to do about those people? What's going to happen to those kids? Really, there are so many flaws in your privatized voucher plan, I'm just getting started poking the holes in it.

As long as govt runs schools, this pay-to-play mor...

2014-11-06T06:46:18.332-05:00

As long as govt runs schools, this pay-to-play morass will continue, with ISTA, educrats & edu-teers all wanting a piece of the multimillion dollar pie. An absence of market forces will be filled by rent-seeking. The only antidote is a 100% voucher, parental choice model.

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2014-11-05T23:01:58.536-05:00

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Wasn't Gordon Hendry the only state board of e...

2014-11-05T20:14:44.098-05:00

Wasn't Gordon Hendry the only state board of ed member to vote against delaying the release of the grades at the Oct 15 meeting? Oh, yes.

Wasn't Gordon Hendry behind the effort to revi...

2014-11-05T19:20:31.270-05:00

Wasn't Gordon Hendry behind the effort to revise Carpe Diem's D grade upward at today's board meeting?

Wagner is despicable. She used to run some blog wh...

2014-11-05T17:04:19.752-05:00

Wagner is despicable. She used to run some blog where she was this big lib. It was all just B.S. so she could get herself part of the payoff mafia.

She believes in one thing: politics as an avenue to personal enrichment.

Over the past few years, I’ve measured the cost-ef...

2014-11-05T16:55:35.129-05:00

Over the past few years, I’ve measured the cost-effectiveness of a K-12 school by taking the total dollars spend for all things (e. g. paperclips, salaries & bricks) divided by the number of high school graduates. The results might surprise your readers if they try it on their own K-12 school. Last time I checked on IPS, it looked like they spend an average of about a half million dollars for every high school graduate. Do your own math. Maybe the new IPS board can do a better job and not just come up with better excuses. Probably not.

It hurts because over half of our state and local tax dollars are spend on schools.