The Cartel - Corruption in Public Schools

[AwWDesignZ]

this is why New Jersey taxes are the highest!!!

[woodenmajor]

the only solution to the onerous criminal monopoly of the educrats is the school voucher system ..remember a vote for the democrats is a vote FOR the corrupt education cartel ..

[jamesartre]

If we would swap this "butts in seats" payment system for one that relies solely on performance and accountability, via a neutral third-party, non state affiliated accounting firm, then perhaps we could begin to see some real changes occur. So long as you let the State audit itself, then you'll never have true accountability.

[odemata87]

The benefits of charter schools can has been done in public schools. Difference is one is better funded while the other constantly has its funds cut. Cut of budget means impending doom. Look at and see the connection of public schools that are better funded and the level of affluence of its surrounded community. Charter schools are not the be all end all solution to this multiplicative problem of race, economics, social dynamics, and bureaucracy

[queenofabnormal]

Homeschooling saves tax-payers money. No corruption in our school at home. You don't pay for our lunches through federal programs. You don't buy our books. You don't pay for our gas for field trips. You don't pay for inflated union contracts. Homeschooling should be openly accepted by the public, it's the corrupt system that doesn't want the general public to accept it. If the public felt free to use their free will they couldn't control us or our families.

[CharterSchoolRadio]

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[elementswi2007]

i weep as i watch this... i knew it was true before this, but this only reinforces my belief that unions are theft from taxpaying citizens of the united states. this is enough to make me openly cry to myself. and i am a 21 year old male from the united states of america... never did i think this is how it would end. lincoln, jefferson, washington etc would turn over in their grave if they saw this... god save us

[cHoFiS4]

I just watched this documentary and was in complete shock at how little these school officials and teachers care about the children who's lives they are ruining.

[thefredsays]

New Jersey is really corrupt.

[Two7One]

New Jersey can't be compared to middle America can it?

[abcwritestartread]

Aside from all the corruption in school systems, there is also a corruption in the shopping and buying curriculum. A good example of this is NYC which had all teachers use "Teacher's College" Reading program by Lucy Caulkins. It doesn't take a super bright person to see that this reading program is the failed WHOLE LANGUAGE program!!! 1.1 million children using a program that is NOT research-based! NO ONE gets sued, no one is accountable for buying this junk for the kids. Parents do not know

[rickster348]

public school, (and the UNIONS), can't teach Johnny how to read,

but they can sure help him find his, "inner gay identity", lol.

[tjenkins83]

As a former educator, a parent, and the spouse of a teacher, I can tell you that they are not making up these stories. We are beginning to seriously consider homeschooling our daughter unless we can find a suitable private school.

[abcwritestartread]

@tjenkins83 Homeschooled kids are WAY ahead of Public School kids. My sister did it and her kids are in the top of their class! It's a great option for parents who can afford the time in. I'm a public school teacher and would do it if I had kids!

[bonfirejovi]

what is wrong with vouchers!??

[TruthBTold69]

Another reason I'm happily successful in homeschooling my child.

[503mindst]

i think anyone who has recently passed through the public school system can attest to the fact that there is something wrong. pro union people can threaten and argue all they want but its simply impossible to ignore as a student. One of the schools that has received more money than any other in the district is closing down this year, they keep cutting programs, and all the while teachers keep demanding more and more money for churning out poorly educated young adults, and working 8 mo a year.

[sfldd]

@503mindst Since you know so much about education, tell us what the teachers are doing wrong in the classroom. Don't make a bunch of empty statements. Be specific. If you were a teacher in the classroom full of twenty five kid, tell us what you would do that's not being done right now.

[503mindst]

while i never said i knew anymore than i wrote, I would certainly take heed of the advice of the filmmaker. let parents choose where their kids go to school, instead of the arbitrary rule that your zip code determines your education. if a parent feels a teacher is not preforming, they have the right to put them into a different situation. the knowledge that you can actually be fired for not preforming (as in most other professions) would encourage competition, and therefore growth.

[503mindst]

@503mindst in other words, if a school administrator sees that a certain teacher looses 2 or 3 students a semester, they would eventually look at the situation, and if need be, replace the teacher with one that could do the job well, or at least better. if one has no worry whatsoever about loosing their job, they will be more likely to do the bare minimum. just my opinion, not that its worth much, but hopefully my statements seem a little less empty.

[sfldd]

@503mindst You're first sentence says it all. You really don't know what you're talking about, so anything you say afterwards is based on ignorance. And what does that mean to "loose" students?

[503mindst]

@sfldd what union do you belong to.

[503mindst]

@sfldd also, what is wrong with bringing competition into the schools. instead of calling me ignorant, why not respond with an argument., id love to here the argument for unions in schools as im sure there are some valid ones. but either way.

cheers

[phillskiss]

@503mindst amen!!!!!! ...libs keep wanting to throw more money at everything instead of fixing whats wrong. I love the analogy: if a liberal has a car that breaks down (and only needs a 20.00 part) they rent anothother car until this one gets fixed and then never fixes the car. Then complains that rental cars should be free from the government because all these poor people need rides to work.....orrrr ya could fix the 20.00 part..

[2001Horatio]

@phillskiss Yeah!!! It's dem damn Libs! If it weren't for all them Libs can you imagine how far this country would be along the road to totalitarianism!

[jamesartre]

And some people are stupid enough to believe they want the Government to run their Healthcare? You are absolutely insane, naive or brain dead!

[Wormtail81]

So, is this a national problem?

[elbuggo]

The Cartel? Sounds like a mafia to me.

[EEFisher1]

Same applies to Arizona!!!

[sfldd]

This clip again shows the importance of tenure. It shows how corrupt some administrators are, but most of all it gives the example of Ms. Jones complaining about a terrible school policy. Without tenure, she would have been fired. Tenure maintains integrity so that teachers can complain when there is misguided school policy, or if a principal tries to lean on a teacher to give an undeserved grade to a student whose parent is politically connected.

[mjfolkerts]

@sfldd administrative corruption isn't a good reason to have a system like tenure. Education is one of the few "businesses" were you don't get paid for your performance. Tenure creates situations were teachers, who are unfit to be in the classroom, are allowed to continue to work in the classroom. If there was a more free market environment for education, teachers could leave places of corruption or places where they weren't being treated fairly. They could find a job somewhere better.

[sfldd]

@mjfolkerts What percentage of teachers is unfit to teach in the classroom?

[dbreidenbach]

@sfldd The percentage is 100%. We homeschoolers get the job done, at our own expense, without being leeches on the system. Kind of defeats your idiotic argument, loser! Teacher unions are only advocating what they can suck out of the people, nothing else. If they were in the real world, they'd be fired for incompetence. Thank God for those of us who actually teach!!!!

[sfldd]

@dbreidenbach Define unfit.

[sfldd]

@dbreidenbach I'm waiting for an answer. What's unfit? Where's your proof that 100% of the teachers are unfit and leeches to the system? Let's go. Tell us what unfit is and demonstrate for us how every teacher is unfit. What is every teacher doing or not doing to make us unfit? Tell us how you would teach a class of 25 kids all from different backgrounds. Let's go. Enlighten us all.

[sfldd]

@dbreidenbach By the way, is that what you teach your home schooled kids - to call anyone who disagrees with you a loser?

[sfldd]

@mjfolkerts I asked you a month ago, and you still haven't answered. What percentage of teachers are unfit? And while you're at it, define for us what unfit is.

[Rosardo]

@sfldd This is laughable. With this logic, every employee should have tenure because of some outlandish hypothetical situation involving management, as if there were no remedies in existence for improperly firing someone.

[sfldd]

@Rosardo You haven't a clue to what goes on in the school system. Where do you get off by saying that it's a hypothetical situation? Do you work in a school?There are many administrators who just want the people under them to be mindless yes men.I know because I work in a school, and I have seen it, and I have heard about it from others who work in other schools. Where's your proof? How can you justify saying it's hypothetical? Come on man, where's your proof?

[sfldd]

These are all examples of official corruption. What does it have to do with teachers or the NEA?

[Ma3lst0rm]

@sfldd It has plenty because they defend this kind of crap and constantly ask for more money. Also the NEA cares more about spending money promoting liberal causes than helping teachers and their students.

[sfldd]

@Ma3lst0rm The NEA is a teachers union. By law it's supposed to be advocating for its members, the teachers. The children already have three groups that are supposed to be advocating for them: the teachers, the parents and the local community. And in most cases, of those three groups, the only group that actually does any advocating is the teachers.

[IWantMyVisionBack]

It Sucks that my parents are Programmed and force me to attend Public school or as I like to call an "Indoctrination Center"

[rodrick4500]

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