Something's Rotten in the State of Cahleefohrneeiah
not that I’d expect a state-educated kid to get the reference...
The Rand Corp. has revealed that Cahleefohrneeiah is at the bottom of the national barrel in academic achievement. Researcher Steve Carroll [LAT - any relation?] attributes this to the high teacher/student ratio and the dollar amount spent per student. Never mind those other, repeated studies demonstrating that, past a certain point, those factors mattered not at all. We are well past that cut-off point in Cahleefohrnieeiah.
In fact, our county system is so far past that minimum funding point that they toss out piles and piles of 2-3 year old Macs every year—G4s and those kewl titanium laptops, last year. And the administration building is oft called the Taj Mahal. It’s sure prettier than the Apple campus or Xerox Park. But that’s not important, now.
Rand Researcher Carroll goes on to place the blame squarely on Prop 13. Another weight on the scales…
Mr Carroll is mistaken. It is not the amount of money—it is how the money is spent. Attempting to find a usable history text for my step-daughter a few years ago proved impossible. We brought home every single state approved text the teacher could find and not a one of them was readable. To me. So much had been taken out or cluttered up with PC, the effect was semantic content nil. Sentence after sentence after paragraph after chapter with no information, no meaning, nuttin’. Bare as Mother Hubbard’s cupboards.
G’head—throw a million dollars per student at that—it will getcha no where.
It is so time to find a nice Red State home. At least we know where all those Moonbats come from: the Cahleefohrneeiah Ignoratti—our biggest export.
Right on as usual Claire. Keep on writting it and posting it. The NEA has ruined 3 gererations of children. I was aghast myself when I returned to college at age 42 and what hit me immeadiately were the ‘names’ that were being used in the text and the B.C. was changed to C.E. (Common Era. Kiss my prehistoric bookmarker!) And then the PC stuff. And the education. All outcome based.
The left isn’t fooling me with all their education claims. It’s pure BS.The Left really shots themselves in the foot by “graduating” little mindless robots for their ideology, they get out and see what the real world is like and they can’t even get their people elected. They’re too dumbed down! Fine with me. I don’t ever want no one doing my thinking for me.
I believe the Left will continue to make fools of themselves so they can revisit the same questions in 2008 as to why they lost-
A-GAIN! Darn. Those people in ‘Jesusland’ did it again!Donks.
p.s. I’m going to use your ‘Ignoratti’ Ilike that term.Posted by on 01/04/05 at 01:02 PMAmen, Claire. I moved to Phoenix from LA after 20 years there. I stayed just long enough to vote for Ahnold then I was out of there.
LA looked really good in the rear view mirror.
So when do I get to try the “glorious baklava” you keep bragging on in the ‘About’ section? Sounds good.
:©)
Posted by on 01/04/05 at 01:18 PMWell, now that we know where they’ve all been comming from, we need to figure out how to eradicate them. I say get you to move to the right coast (closer to my neck of the woods), cut off the nest and let it float out to sea
Posted by MoFiZiX Gr4FiX on 01/04/05 at 01:41 PMBTW, I noticed that my e-Biscuit profile needed updating and so I’d just gone and updated it.
Posted by MoFiZiX Gr4FiX on 01/04/05 at 02:01 PM*All* those Moonbats?
Ha, mind your audience. I could show you some local talent.
And if you want to go totally conspiratorial with me, try to find a Dick and Jane. Anywhere. They’re gone. Poof.
Posted by HelenW on 01/04/05 at 02:27 PMPoint taken, Helen—yikes! How close did he get....? *shudder*
Lloyd—you’re welcome to it—spread that word!
ScottP—We who are left behind thank you for that vote. [oh, and I’m working on cheesecake right now—blalaklava later...]
; >Posted by Claire on 01/07/05 at 03:00 AM
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