We’re clearing the catch cache around here afore it gets too smelly ripe mature! There’s some nasty tasty bits for sure!
– More on Obama’s speech: Questioning the Patriotism of High School Drop-Outs
This is an intriguing passage from last night:
And dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It’s not just quitting on yourself, it’s quitting on your country – and this country needs and values the talents of every American.
Another party heard from.
– Someone wants D.C., vouchers dead. Who?
Critics of the program complain that, after its first two years, it had still not raised overall student academic achievement by a significant margin (though parents are happier with their voucher schools). What is less well known is that the program has proven to be dramatically more cost effective than the DC public schools. While voucher and non-voucher students are performing at about the same level, DC public schools spend more than four times as much per student. Total per pupil spending in DC was $24,600 in 2007-08, while voucher schools receive an average of less than $6,000.
If you could save 75 percent on a purchase, get the same quality of service, and know you’d be happier with the result, wouldn’t you do it?
– Ann Althouse is irritated. About teachers. And students.
Take responsibility. You teachers are making the students act like that. Don’t blame them and don’t blame their parents. Set high standards and apply them. And don’t let them ask for a grade change.
– Lastly, and as a public service, we’re issuing a secretion alert! The Cough-and-Sniffle Question.
Or as Dr. Hall put it: “Taking one child out of the school who sits next to your child is going to do little when your child goes into the lunchroom and there are secretions all over the table. You cannot focus on one sick child because there’s a world of much cleverer microbes.”
That certainly clears things up!