Comments on Advance Indiana™: Dr. Ferebee Gets His Huge Pay Raise For A Job Not Well Done

One of the hallmarks of a totalitarian regime is t...

2016-02-26T10:55:00.347-05:00

One of the hallmarks of a totalitarian regime is the destruction of and reformatting of the education system. It is no accident that Hitler and Stalin recognized this and set out to destroy the educated opposition by any means necessary.

Here in the USA we destroy the education system by privatization and in the process some people can get rich. Our corrupt campaign finance system virtually guarantees the election of well funded candidates to elected office. Sabotage of the Public Education System would not be beyond the profiteers. A good way to sabotage the system is to find useful dupes to run it, or staff it with people who has as a goal to get rich off it. It's like pouring sand into the gears of a motor.

Is anyone whining yet about Super White? When foo...

2016-02-26T10:21:15.841-05:00

Is anyone whining yet about Super White? When fools ask of schools to be "all things" they are always surprised that all indexes of performance decline. Is there clarity in the "mind" of the public as to what, exactly, IPS is supposed to accomplish? I don't think so. The public, as such, does not think. "Educators" are not much better, being drafted for the most part from the bottom of the SAT score universe (one clown complains of a teacher shortage?). IPS is organized on a socialist model like all other government schools (except charters). Who among us will cast the first stone at a socialist system that cannot perform well in comparison to all of the market based entities who perform similar services? Who would have the temerity to even suggest that a socialist model could perform well(aside from Groth and other true believers in bs).
What, then, is it reasonable to expect of IPS...what attainable goals could they possibly meet? Education need not be expensive....many poor churches have excellent schools, for instance, where kids actually learn to read. Such schools probably don't have a "mission statement" or a surplus of "administrators", or a zillion rules and regulations imposed on them by fools, some of whom change their "minds" every legislative session.

The school board is getting a superintendent that ...

2016-02-26T09:39:13.572-05:00

The school board is getting a superintendent that is doing the job they want him to do, the real question is what are the goals of the school board? One of these goals could be to gut IPS and turn all of it into one giant profit center for the charter school companies