On 08/18/2010 09:24 PM, Big China Blue wrote:
In r.com,
Day wrote:

Maybe you missed it; but the problem testing revealed in Arkansas is
that local schoolboards were treating teaching jobs as political pork,

That's has nothing to do with the teachers, just the management.

Real teachers were ****ed.

Good teachers quit in favour of higher paying jobs elsewhere.

That isnt what actually happened after Gov Clinton signed the teacher
testing bill. Your analysis fails to recognize how many teachers liked
living and working and raising their kids in small towns that dont have
strangers with candy or drug dealers on the corners.

Arkansas is RURAL state, and has a very low cost of living so higher
salaries elsewhere are not that attractive. Good teachers, who care
about kids and safe, crime free, drug free schools, where their own kids
go, dont giva **** how much money you want to pay them to move to a
major metro area.

They do care about the quality of education their kids got from other
teachers, and were delighted to see the well connected unqualified
teachers replaced. The problems they had with remediation dramatically
declined. Thanx to gov Clinton.

Clinton also started the "Our Kids First" healthcare so parents, who
dont make that much money in Arkansas, can get appropriate treatment for
their kids. Thus I had a granddaughter who moved here with her mom get
eye surgery they never could have afforded in Florida. As a result, the
kid can see the blackboard better, and her grades improved.

Have you EVER admitted anything Clinton did that was positive?