Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Publik skool math?

Portland schools keep fingers crossed awaiting Senate fund vote
Just when it appeared all hope had been lost, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday cleared a major hurdle toward approving a bill that will prevent mass teacher layoffs across Oregon and the rest of the country.

The Senate ended debate and set a vote Thursday afternoon on a bill that will provide $10 billion to keep teachers on the job, including $117 million for Oregon schools. Of that money, $6 million will go to Portland Public Schools, saving 64 teachers’ jobs.

Do the cheerleaders in the media bother to do the math on this? That's $93,750 per underpaid teacher who gets summers off, a week in spring, two weeks at Christmas (winter solstice) and every holiday known to man.

But we'll just keep our fingers crossed that all hope is not lost.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ya Daniel, but its a thankless job. They are shaping the minds of the next generation, blah blah blah...oh and most of them aren't very good at it. What a crock.

Anonymous said...

Check any middle school and high school. Count the total classrooms and the total teachers employed there. Typically there will be 1.5 times more teachers then classrooms. That is if your school has 12 classrooms it will have up to 18 teachers. What happens to those additional 6 teachers when class is in session? Some sit in the teachers breakroom, some are in fact never in a classroom but are used in non-teaching jobs. The point is that simply decreasing the number of teachers does not increase the number of students in the classrooms. This phony issue is used by the teachers unions time and again and our MSM fails to do their job and expose it as a lie.

Anonymous said...

Greece is the word... and the one trick pony marches on.

Anonymous said...

If Daniel is a typical example of what our public schools produce, then I agree: They are a total, complete failure.

Anonymous said...

303 Got a mirror? Perhaps you need to take a long look at yourself and wonder.. Why am I so ugly to other people?

Pinkie

Anonymous said...

I give up, Pinkie. Why are you so ugly to other people?

Anonymous said...

Pinkie, you have the terrible misfortune of being as stupid as Miglavs, but none of his wit. Why say anything at all? Why call attention to yourself?

Anonymous said...

933 that is a valid question. Too bad you are too immature to answer.

Pinkie