dagblog - Comments for "51% of Children in School Live in Poverty-Shame on USA"

No, by all means go ahead;

Richard Day — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 05:32:58 +0000

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No, by all means go ahead;

I just bet a thousand bucks not long ago;

I MEAN, WHO WON?

Neo liberals for chrissakes.

I am an OLD LIBERAL.

hahahahaha

There is a point here.

I knew folks who went to community college, worked hard and received their AA degree and were accepted at the local U.

And I also believe, that a hard working student could receive 90% of his or her education on the web for those first two years. A couple days a week in front of a TA and all would be well.

There are many ways of looking into these educational issues.

Without even getting mad!

Momoe is living this mess.

My kids are grown they did just fine.

We must trust in folks like Momoe and my kids.

I HAVE HOPE.

There is no reason, no reason at all for a middle class youngster to spend a hundred grand attempting to achieve a BA.

Oh, and in answer to your last question:

I KNOW WHO WON.

But I am more interested in the question:

WHO WILL WIN? OR WHO CAN WIN?

To finish:

IT IS FUN BEING A COMMIE, TRY IT SOMETIME!

After all, there is no wall anymore.

Thank you,

trkingmomoe — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 05:07:46 +0000

In reply to I just read two (out of ten?)

Thank you,

Oh, these little tablets were like i-pads. They hook up to wifi and have little keyboards. The kids can now use them as e-readers. I do wish they could have been the paper kind. They are really neat but my poor little savings account is suffering. I get up every morning and choose to make the best of it. The emergency fund will recover.

Supplying a better education

Peter — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:57:11 +0000

In reply to 51% of Children in School Live in Poverty-Shame on USA

Supplying a better education for these children will do little to change their future situation. They are the Great Recession Generation and are part of the surplus population just as their parents are. They will serve to siphon more profits as they enter the Bill Gates private charter school system but their future in the low-pay service industries that end-stage Capitalism offers is bleak.

Even many of those who beat the odds and get a university education will end up in a similar situation, plus a huge debt, as others due to austerity policies and other neoliberal manipulations. They will also be competing with their own parents for these marginal jobs because they can't retire and pay their bills.

This is Class Warfare and guess who won?

I just read two (out of ten?)

Richard Day — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 02:01:39 +0000

In reply to 51% of Children in School Live in Poverty-Shame on USA

I just read two (out of ten?) blog sites discussing this issue.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/10/most-educated-states-neighborhoods-findthebest_n_4922412.html

This link is seven months late but I read some other links that name Mississippi (what a strange thing that is) and Arkansas and all the rest of the South, as being lacking in SAT scores and holy cow am I now amazed.

The curriculums and the monies available to the student just astound me.

I am going to get a new notebook (which I purchase every two years or so) to help me get a grasp upon what I am doing.

But kids need PC's and proper software and proper help from their parents and....

And now....

Half of our children are in poverty?

I am unable to get to the other links right now but...

Minnesota will prevail.

NY will prevail along with California.

Texas will continue to sell some old myths to their chidlren and eventually fail.

Ignorance and funding is the key.

But in the end, like repubs like to underline:

Parents are of import.

Parents must vote, parents must appear at PTA, parents must monitor the homework....

But STATES MUST PROVIDE THE PENCILS AND THE PAPER AND THE PC ACCESSIBILITY OR WE ARE ALL DONE!

I was going to go into another rant. but who needs it?

To have gone through what you go through every day, no one on FOX will ever hear.

GOOD JOB.

IN THE END YOUR CHILDREN SHALL SURVIVE JUST FINE!

Oh and I had this thought.

A kid can get into Community College without any funds, like my son ($4,500) in debt when he matriculated and then go on to bigger and better things later on in order to get his BA and Our Prez is hoping to help those peeps like my son.

Obama is suggesting that two years of tech school or community college can help. Without the debt.

I am done.

Great blog!

This is unacceptable. What

synchronicity — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:15:20 +0000

In reply to 51% of Children in School Live in Poverty-Shame on USA

This is unacceptable. What we have been doing is giving us the results we have today.

It is time for a revolution of Massive Participation!

The public has been told that

trkingmomoe — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:31:13 +0000

In reply to Not to mention that when you

The public has been told that educators are wasteful with the money and are of poor quality. That the free market can do it better. The GOP came up with this to be appealing to the segregationists in the south. .They wanted to move money into private schools that did not have minorities. That charter schools really promote segregation and in practice that is what is happening. Charter schools actually hurt public educations financially because it pulls dollars out of the system..

My kids rent their books from

trkingmomoe — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:19:46 +0000

In reply to A small bit of research has

My kids rent their books from a on line source or buy e-books. They also have sources directly from China. After the first semester they didn't buy from the college. They use Paypal account for China. Some elective classes are avoided because of the cost of the books. They haven't borrowed any money for school so they are careful about the cost.

You are right about the books and it has been like that for a long time. It is a system that needs to be changed. Making education affordable should be top priority not profit making. They need to pay the instructors better also.

A small bit of research has

NCD — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 16:32:59 +0000

In reply to 51% of Children in School Live in Poverty-Shame on USA

A small bit of research has reinforced my experience that students, who have more outstanding debt than all US credit card debt by hundreds of billions, are ripped off for required textbooks.

Basic college physics has not changed since the 1940's. Force, power, acceleration, basics of electricity etc. Good enough for Oppenheimer and the guys who built the atomic bomb in their Freshman year at college. Probably good enough for Physics 101 today.

NO! that is boring old physics. You could sell the books for practically nothing! (Shocker-They might even be better written than the ones today.)

Solution - The education/publishing complex comes out with new texts every few years to make money, lots of money.

The colleges and schools make money off the books too in the bookstores. The price can be a hundred or 2 hundred dollars for one book.

Not so in Europe. One example:

US - University Physics with Modern Physics - price $225.85 (the 'modern' stuff includes how ATM cards and touch screens work...big f* deal)

France - Collège Physiques - prices start at 5 euros. Highest price 20 euros.

Not to mention that when you

Michael Maiello — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 06:01:37 +0000

In reply to It goes on because only 20%

Not to mention that when you bring this up, you wind up being told that public education is "free." It isn't. We all pay for it. We generally start paying for it before we even have kids. On the federal and local levels, we've all paid. The problem is that our tax dollars have been diverted to less useful purpose. Education has a return on investment that the Pentagon doesn't. But we send our money to the Pentagon anyway. Our only problem is that our priorities are warped.

It goes on because only 20%

trkingmomoe — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 02:26:00 +0000

In reply to It's both heartbreaking and

It goes on because only 20% of the population in this country has children in school. Young families are being shut out of the recovery. There is a whole generation that has gone to school that has not gotten the education they needed because of the conservative mind set of being selfish. Racism is being used to promote selfishness as a virtue.

We are asking our parents to foot a big portion of the cost of education. Tablets, laptops and internet service is not cheep. That has left me scrambling coming up with sources this fall. This family had to come up with 3 tablets, 1 laptop, card stock, printer ink and paper. I have even had to spend $40 on a years subscription for internet web site for music home work. Like you said the school should be paying for the tools needed for homework. Or at least offering them at wholesale prices. It is morally wrong to do educations as a profit only process.