ShadowFrog
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If you see Jim Cantore setting up outside with The Weather Channel then Run for your Life!!
Has anyone seen my specialty plates?
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If you see Jim Cantore setting up outside with The Weather Channel then Run for your Life!!
satis1103
DAOTONPYH EHT LIAH LLA
You know what would be nice?
If we had some sort of new strain of revenue in this state, something heavily taxed, that could funnel money to schools. I don't know, maybe something currently prohibited that doesn't really make much sense as to why...
RollToad
Baylor is Trash.
I would tax all foreigners living abroad.
Boomhauer
Active Member
I read this in Elvis' song voice. Made me lol.
Tom Brown
Active Member
Cool story
Edit: My bad. Your blanket statement drew me off sides. It was incorrect, but it still led me to come out of my stance.
satis1103
DAOTONPYH EHT LIAH LLA
That's one idea... but maybe there's something more... tangible. Or organic...
Tom Brown
Active Member
Prostitution?
RollToad
Baylor is Trash.
Tax Wexahu every time he defends the committee.
Peacefrog
Degenerate
He said "organic" not "orgasmic."
Tom Brown
Active Member
Without being argumentative, i just say in the areas of College and Career Readiness, STEM, and Bilingual Ed, Texas is among the national leaders.
Tom Brown
Active Member
Im down for either legislation.
Peacefrog
Degenerate
Tom Brown
Active Member
Unpossible
tcudoc
Full Member
I read the above quote in Silky Johnston's voice from the time machine skit on The Chappelle Show.
"Honky" is a racial epithet used for white people. It was made popular by a man named George Jefferson in the 1970s. You see, he and his wife, Weezie, owned a dry-cleaning business, so they moved on up to the east side, to a deluxe apartment in the sky. They finally got a piece of the pie.
Purp
Active Member
I don't think the problem is spending related. It's administration related. For what DISD spends per student a parent could send their kid to a very nice private school.
Purp
Active Member
It's not the amount of dollars spent, it's what they do with the dollars spent. There are plenty of good school districts in Texas that spend well below the national average per pupil. Hell, even below the state average. Likewise, there are school districts who spend far more than the average and suck.
Kids don't need brand new buildings and state-of-the-art technology to learn well. I grew up in public school in Kilgore, Texas and we didn't have all the greatest facilities and gadgets, but I was able to get a great education that prepared me well enough to avoid grammar nazi detection on KF.c.
We spend way too much time talking about how much we spend per student and far too little time talking about the other aspects of education that make it suck. Dollars spent per pupil is an easy number to derive and complain about, but the other figures are more nebulous and more difficult to nail down. If you doubled the amount spent per student in DISD you wouldn't fix the problems in that district.
Now you've drawn me offsides. Dammit. I'm going to sit out the rest of the quarter now.
