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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-10 12:31 AM
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19. Wow, That Deserves It's Own Thread
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  -Jazz Great John Legend says it better than I could - schools. johnaries  Oct-05-10 11:07 PM   #0 
  - K&R and the counter stayed at '0.'  Octafish   Oct-05-10 11:29 PM   #1 
  - Apparently, some people care more about protecting their memes  johnaries   Oct-05-10 11:44 PM   #4 
     - Time's running out for another generation.  Octafish   Oct-05-10 11:49 PM   #7 
        - Well, don't worry.  madfloridian   Oct-05-10 11:51 PM   #9 
  - Oh, yes.  madfloridian   Oct-05-10 11:35 PM   #2 
  - Did you read either the quote or my statements?  johnaries   Oct-05-10 11:41 PM   #3 
  - I said perhaps we should.  madfloridian   Oct-05-10 11:49 PM   #6 
  - What public schools need are resources: Authority. Money. People. Ideas.  Octafish   Oct-05-10 11:45 PM   #5 
     - Why don't they have the money? Do you know where it is going?  madfloridian   Oct-05-10 11:51 PM   #8 
        - You are wasting your time...  demmiblue   Oct-05-10 11:55 PM   #10 
           - People understood it when Bush was doing it. Now they accept it.  madfloridian   Oct-06-10 12:03 AM   #11 
           - well our party invented it  Johonny   Oct-06-10 12:18 AM   #16 
           - Agreed. The original idea for charters, like Al Shanker's, were thoughtful.  madfloridian   Oct-06-10 12:23 AM   #17 
              - Touché  Dinger   Oct-06-10 12:29 AM   #18 
           - True, however, I think that some of the people complaining NEVER understood what is really at stake.  demmiblue   Oct-06-10 12:35 AM   #20 
           - Please don't speak for me as I welcome new knowledge and treasure public education.  Octafish   Oct-06-10 08:03 AM   #22 
           - Yes, some people will never understand. Because they choose  johnaries   Oct-06-10 10:31 PM   #31 
              - Only 17% of charters "test better" than public schools.  Catshrink   Oct-06-10 10:44 PM   #33 
  - If public schools are freed from regimentation they could experiment, too  csziggy   Oct-06-10 12:05 AM   #12 
  - You are being selective and using that to paint a broad brush statement.  johnaries   Oct-06-10 10:41 PM   #32 
     - You totally ignored the main point of my post  csziggy   Oct-06-10 10:57 PM   #38 
  - My God, where have you been the past, oh, sixty, seventy, one hundred years?  MadHound   Oct-06-10 12:10 AM   #13 
  - Self-Delete, Accidental Dupe nt  Dinger   Oct-06-10 12:31 AM   # 
  - Wow, That Deserves It's Own Thread  Dinger   Oct-06-10 12:31 AM   #19 
  - Where have YOU been? Have you actually had a child in the  johnaries   Oct-06-10 10:02 PM   #26 
  - He did an ad for charter schools? That's disappointing.  EFerrari   Oct-06-10 12:11 AM   #14 
  - No, he didn't "do an ad". And it's pretty obvious that you should  johnaries   Oct-06-10 10:27 PM   #29 
     - Bullshit. n/t  EFerrari   Oct-06-10 10:28 PM   #30 
     - Still condescending and clueless.  Catshrink   Oct-06-10 10:46 PM   #35 
  - free of traditional bureaucracy -- cause that's been known to work when?  Johonny   Oct-06-10 12:13 AM   #15 
  - Kicked and Rec'd. I had no idea that John Legend was an expert on this topic  Number23   Oct-06-10 12:46 AM   #21 
  - We know how to fix our schools. We just need to DO it.  LWolf   Oct-06-10 08:07 AM   #23 
  - "Throwing money" at public schools won't work. So we "throw money" at charters.  madfloridian   Oct-06-10 10:55 AM   #24 
  - Your sarcasm betrays you. The difference is between  johnaries   Oct-06-10 09:43 PM   #25 
     - The ideas are not working. Yet they keep pushing them...  madfloridian   Oct-06-10 10:46 PM   #36 
  - Just a non-topical quibble: John Legend is not a jazz artist......  marmar   Oct-06-10 10:06 PM   #27 
     - Fair enough! He's also not an educational expert.  johnaries   Oct-06-10 10:23 PM   #28 
        - So, Legend is neither a jazz artist or educational expert .... why is he being quoted?  kwassa   Oct-06-10 10:46 PM   #34 
           - Because everyone who's anybody knows more about education  Catshrink   Oct-06-10 10:49 PM   #37 
 

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