conservative america

[dherd]

25-Year-Old Textbooks and Holes in the Ceiling: Inside America’s Public Schools

We invited America’s public school educators to show us the conditions that a decade of budget cuts has wrought in their schools.

We heard from 4,200 teachers. Here is a selection of the submissions, condensed and edited for clarity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

THIS IS WHAT CONSERVATISM HAS DONE FOR AMERICA

 

[Brushy Bill]

How much of your after tax disposable income do you send in to the government to help supplement these programs you love so dearly?

 

[ohio herd]

help me out DHERD. Education is dominated by Liberals for the most part. Your heading should blame Liberals for this. The conditions that are listed all happened prior to Trump taking over. Does Obama bare any blame?Do students who tear the crap out of books deserve any blame? I will say I thought it was interesting that one teacher made 110,000 in Boston and another made 33,000 in Las Vegas. Maybe the teacher in Boston could take a cut in pay and send some of their salary to the gal in Vegas.

 

[raleighherdfan]

Obama’s fault.

 

[HerdBuckeye]

Education is the responsibility of the states always have been. I have said it on here dozens of time. There should be no federal department of education. Republicans have been beating that drum forever but never eliminate it.

 

[i am herdman]

How many years have conservatives run the education system? Probably, never?

 

[ThunderCat98]

If only the dems had control of the executive and legislative branches at some point in the last 24 years . . .

 

[HerdBuckeye]

There is no way you're a conservative if you support the department of educations existence

 

[Y.A.G Si Ye Nots]

How many years have conservatives run the education system? Probably, never?

And I wonder why the best schools in the country are overwhelmingly in blue states.

 

[i am herdman]

And I wonder why the best schools in the country are overwhelmingly in blue states.

I wonder why so many people leave those blue states?

 

[Herdfaninnoke]

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which compiles educational data from nations across the globe each year. In 2010, the U.S. spent nearly $12,000 per student on elementary and secondary education, almost 40% more than the OECD average of $8,500. College spending, including technical schools and universities, was over $25,000, nearly double the average spending of other countries in the OECD. Total U.S. spending averaged $15,171 per student, slightly more than Switzerland’s $14,922 per year and 30% more than the average for all of the countries included in the OECD.

 

[extragreen]

I wonder why so many people leave those blue states?

Sunshine, beaches, palm trees, and retirement. But not for better education.

 

[HerdBuckeye]

I wonder why so many people leave those blue states?

Two words West Virginia

 

[i am herdman]

Sunshine, beaches, palm trees, and retirement. But not for better education.

Lot of Yankees down South with young kids in schools. My neighbors on side are from NY, other side from Mass. Two houses down from Conn, across the street from California, other side of them from PA.

 

[raleighherdfan]

Cary NC.

Confinement
Area for
Relocated
Yankees

 

[i am herdman]

And, when they get power the Yankees love to start raising taxes and building government. And, talk about how great it is where they are from and how they do things better. But, they would never go back.

 

[extragreen]

Lot of Yankees down South with young kids in schools. My neighbors on side are from NY, other side from Mass. Two houses down from Conn, across the street from California, other side of them from PA.

Well I guess that proves your point, except there are lots of young people in the north with kids in schools.