fixing schools

[Truthmatters]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57573747/report-$542b-needed-to-repair-modernize-schools/

 

[Truthmatters]

State of our Schools

 

[Truthmatters]

http://centerforgreenschools.org/Li..._Our_Schools_Report_Recommendations.sflb.ashx


key recomendations

 

[Truthmatters]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57573747/report-$542b-needed-to-repair-modernize-schools/

 

[Oldguy]

In the first place, anything with Bill Clinton's name attached to it is suspect.

In the second place, this is from a public interest group which advocates for "green" schools. Their goal isn't to green schools to the point that they have edible roofs, or other such nonsense, but to help schools achieve savings and to be better stewards of the public dollar by simply doing thing smarter. The Poudre School district in Ft. Collins, CO is a good example of what they can achieve.

This report, however, includes upgrading existing buildings to greener standards as a part of their cost projections. While that might be a great idea, it skews the results by making it look as though the cost of fixing what's broken is higher than it might otherwise be. There's a difference in fixing something which is broken and upgrading to something better. For instance, a leaking roof is something which needs fixed, but re-wiring the room at the same time isn't a part of the cost of that fix, is it?

In any case, many of our schools are run down and poorly maintained, but that's mostly a local problem which is best addressed locally. And, of course, as the article points out, better facilities do not better students make.

 

[Truthmatters]

Hey I didnt start two threads on this subject

 

[Truthmatters]

The original link I tried to post was refusing to work so I went and got the exact study.

I DID NOT START two threads

 

[Truthmatters]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57573747/report-$542b-needed-to-repair-modernize-schools/

this link just refuses to work for some reason

 

[Mad Scientist]

Communist Goal #17:

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

 

[Newby]

Merged. If another thread is started in Politics where it doesn't belong, it will be trashed. Newby

 

[Truthmatters]

I didnt start two thread and school funding and infrastructure are poltical

 

[Newby]

The first two posts in this thread are the two Ops that started both threads in Politics, so yes you did start two threads, I merged them. It's about education, or environment, not politics.

 

[Truthmatters]

I did not.

It must have been some kind of site glitch

 

[Newby]

Okay.

 

[Truthmatters]

hey this site has glitched on me serveral times.

Its glitched and changed the title of my threads and even glitched and completely messed up my rep.

Its glitched and completely dismantled my rep account.

It glitches all the time here

 

[Truthmatters]

State of our Schools

Like all other infrastructure left to rot by the right our schools are crumbling.


I guess they are readying them for the bath tub

 

[psikeyhackr]

The entire classroom format is obsolete anyway.

The question is what to load on these:



https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.everycircuit&hl=en

psik

 

[Agit8r]

If only Southerners believed some things they used to

"We oppose sumptuary laws which vex the citizen and interfere with individual liberty; we favor honest Civil Service Reform, and the compensation of all United States officers by fixed salaries; the separation of Church and State; and the diffusion of free education by common schools, so that every child in the land may be taught the rights and duties of citizenship.
"While we favor all legislation which will tend to the equitable distribution of property, to the prevention of monopoly, and to the strict enforcement of individual rights against corporate abuses, we hold that the welfare of society depends upon a scrupulous regard for the rights of property as defined by law."
-- from 1884 Democratic Platform

 

[lonelygirl8]

Nice thread! Thanks for always sharing ideas.