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Not all politicians send their kids to private school. Some do it because of security & their positions to their kids at higher risk.Then you are being hypocritical towards these Senators....who are NOT expecting to mooch off of government to get a voucher. You have kids, it's your call as to which kind of school to send them to. Can't afford the school of your choice.....why did you have kids then?I believe in school choice for all American kids......even poor kids trapped in the very schools these democrats have destroyed.......that is why those poor kids should get vouchers for the full expense of their public education and should be able to attend the same schools the kids of these Senators go to......
So these government employee's aka. Politicians kids are not going to school on the tax payer dime ?
Can't afford the school of your choice.....why did you have kids then?
Had me a good chuckle over this one I bet a gazillion dollars your one of those living wage zealots.
No, dumbass. Are you sniveling brats going to school on your employer's dime? Do you think your employer should dictate where your kids go to school?
Just because a person works for the government does not mean freaking morons like you get to control their lives.
'My God, how the did you get this stupid.
So you don't have a problem with politicians who tell you where you have to send your kids...but don't send theirs to the same schools? It's akin to a politician telling their constituents that the local water is safe to drink and don't pay any attention to the fact that I don't drink that water but instead have water shipped in for myself and my family!
The reason those politicians don't send their kids to public schools is because they KNOW those schools suck!
Most public schools are good.
SO? There's gambling going on upstairs? No repubs? You can still be for public schools and send yours to private. Where would you Send your kids if you made $250000. / yr? Such an extensive cut and post. You must have lots of time sucking off your socialist VA, SS and medicare benefits.Yes...the democrats will condemn minority kids to hell holes for schools.......and happily send their own kids to private schools...from the salaries we pay them....
Well, well, well........the fake indian princess sent her kids to private schools....
Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat representing Minnesota who was once an unfunny comedian with bit parts on “Saturday Night Live,” has two children who attend The Dalton School in New York City — 1,018 miles from Minneapolis and 226 miles from Washington, D.C.
The cost of a single year of tuition for students in kindergarten through 12th grade at Dalton is $44,640. This amount, which represents slightly more than the average household income in the state of Alabama, is “among the lowest of our peer schools,” the posh Upper East Side school trumpets. On Friday, lunch at Dalton scrumptiously featured sustainable green tea salmon, anasazi bean salad, fresh organic papaya yogurt and a pasta bar with both marinara sauce and puttanesca sauce.
Dalton is most famous because its administration called off this year’s ice-skating party after a large group of parents refused to send their children to the Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park for political reasons. (RELATED: ‘Liberal Moms’ Make Fancypants Manhattan Prep School Cancel Ice Skating Party At Trump Rink)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, has a granddaughter who rubs shoulders with the children of movie stars at the trendy Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California. Tuition at Harvard-Westlake costs $35,900 each year. There’s also a $2,000 fee for new students.
Harvard-Westlake offers a bevy of amazing opportunities for students including study-abroad programs in Spain, France, China, Italy and India. There’s also the Mountain School, “an independent semester program that provides high school juniors the opportunity to live and work on an organic farm in rural Vermont.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat representing Rhode Island and himself a private boarding school product, has two children. His daughter attended the Wheeler School, a coed day school in Providence where a single year of tuition for sixth grade through 12th grade currently costs $35,215.
Sixth graders at Wheeler spend a segment of the school year romping around at a 120-acre farm owned by the school. The “unique, place-based experience” includes “vigorous scientific leaf studies” and “examinations of poetry, art, and mathematical models deepened through the context of” the school-owned farm.
Whitehouse, who has owned stock in a for-profit charter school company, also sent his son to a St. George’s School, a private boarding school in a gorgeous hamlet on the seaside.
Annual tuition at St. George’s is currently $39,900. Boarding students pay $58,000.
St. George’s offers a special program which allows students to sail around the world for several week on a 69-foot sailboat “traveling in a grand loop from Rhode Island across to the Azores and Spain, through the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece, back to the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat representing New York and herself an alumna of the tony Emma Willard School, sends her two school-age children to Capitol Hill Day School, according to The Washington Post. Tuition at the private, progressive bastion currently runs $30,300.00 per year for sixth through eighth grades, $28,700.00 per year for first through fifth grades and $28,000.00 per year for preschoolers.
Instruction in French and Spanish begins in preschool at Capitol Hill Day School. Also, performing arts is a big deal. There are “operas based on children’s books,” for example, and the sixth graders put on a musical theater production.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat representing Connecticut, sent one of his four children to Brunswick School, a private, all-boys day school in Greenwich, according to the Connecticut Post. A year of high school tuition at Brunswick currently costs $40,450. Tuition for preschoolers costs $30,930 per year.
On Tuesday, grade school kids at Brunswick will enjoy a delicious lunch of barbecue antibiotic-free chicken sandwiches on Texas rolls.
Blumenthal sent another one of his kids to Greenwich Academy, an all-girls day school where high school tuition currently runs $41,890. A single year of prekindergarten at the private institution costs $37,470.
Tuesday’s lunch at Greenwich Academy includes potato leek soup, baked macaroni and cheese and braised red cabbage.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat representing New Hampshire, has two children. Her daughter attended Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the most notable fancypants private schools in the United States. Hassan’s husband, Thomas, was the principal of Phillips Exeter at the time. The cost for a year of tuition and fees at Phillips Exeter is currently $37,875. Boarding students pay $48,550.
The lunch menu at Phillips Exeter features “authentic recipes from around the world” and “more than 5,000 recipes in regular rotation.” Dinner selections for boarders include “grilled steak tips, fettuccine alfredo, palak paneer or quinoa with nuts.” Also, all dining staffers — “from chefs to dishwashers” receive “training in food allergens.”
Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat representing Pennsylvania, sent his daughters to Scranton Preparatory School, a private Jesuit school where a year of tuition costs $13,400. Casey is also an alumnus of Scranton Prep.
Every classroom at Scranton Prep offers cutting-edge technology and contains “the very latest in interactive instructional technology.” There’s also a very impressive 34,000-square-foot building dedicated to the arts and sciences which features “state-of-the-art science classrooms and laboratories as well as a magnificent theater that seats 875 people.”
Read more: Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
Maybe they boycotted because they had contractor relatives who had been stiffed by Don the con. Or female relatives who have been groped by himYes...the democrats will condemn minority kids to hell holes for schools.......and happily send their own kids to private schools...from the salaries we pay them....
Well, well, well........the fake indian princess sent her kids to private schools....
Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat representing Minnesota who was once an unfunny comedian with bit parts on “Saturday Night Live,” has two children who attend The Dalton School in New York City — 1,018 miles from Minneapolis and 226 miles from Washington, D.C.
The cost of a single year of tuition for students in kindergarten through 12th grade at Dalton is $44,640. This amount, which represents slightly more than the average household income in the state of Alabama, is “among the lowest of our peer schools,” the posh Upper East Side school trumpets. On Friday, lunch at Dalton scrumptiously featured sustainable green tea salmon, anasazi bean salad, fresh organic papaya yogurt and a pasta bar with both marinara sauce and puttanesca sauce.
Dalton is most famous because its administration called off this year’s ice-skating party after a large group of parents refused to send their children to the Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park for political reasons. (RELATED: ‘Liberal Moms’ Make Fancypants Manhattan Prep School Cancel Ice Skating Party At Trump Rink)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, has a granddaughter who rubs shoulders with the children of movie stars at the trendy Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California. Tuition at Harvard-Westlake costs $35,900 each year. There’s also a $2,000 fee for new students.
Harvard-Westlake offers a bevy of amazing opportunities for students including study-abroad programs in Spain, France, China, Italy and India. There’s also the Mountain School, “an independent semester program that provides high school juniors the opportunity to live and work on an organic farm in rural Vermont.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat representing Rhode Island and himself a private boarding school product, has two children. His daughter attended the Wheeler School, a coed day school in Providence where a single year of tuition for sixth grade through 12th grade currently costs $35,215.
Sixth graders at Wheeler spend a segment of the school year romping around at a 120-acre farm owned by the school. The “unique, place-based experience” includes “vigorous scientific leaf studies” and “examinations of poetry, art, and mathematical models deepened through the context of” the school-owned farm.
Whitehouse, who has owned stock in a for-profit charter school company, also sent his son to a St. George’s School, a private boarding school in a gorgeous hamlet on the seaside.
Annual tuition at St. George’s is currently $39,900. Boarding students pay $58,000.
St. George’s offers a special program which allows students to sail around the world for several week on a 69-foot sailboat “traveling in a grand loop from Rhode Island across to the Azores and Spain, through the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece, back to the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat representing New York and herself an alumna of the tony Emma Willard School, sends her two school-age children to Capitol Hill Day School, according to The Washington Post. Tuition at the private, progressive bastion currently runs $30,300.00 per year for sixth through eighth grades, $28,700.00 per year for first through fifth grades and $28,000.00 per year for preschoolers.
Instruction in French and Spanish begins in preschool at Capitol Hill Day School. Also, performing arts is a big deal. There are “operas based on children’s books,” for example, and the sixth graders put on a musical theater production.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat representing Connecticut, sent one of his four children to Brunswick School, a private, all-boys day school in Greenwich, according to the Connecticut Post. A year of high school tuition at Brunswick currently costs $40,450. Tuition for preschoolers costs $30,930 per year.
On Tuesday, grade school kids at Brunswick will enjoy a delicious lunch of barbecue antibiotic-free chicken sandwiches on Texas rolls.
Blumenthal sent another one of his kids to Greenwich Academy, an all-girls day school where high school tuition currently runs $41,890. A single year of prekindergarten at the private institution costs $37,470.
Tuesday’s lunch at Greenwich Academy includes potato leek soup, baked macaroni and cheese and braised red cabbage.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat representing New Hampshire, has two children. Her daughter attended Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the most notable fancypants private schools in the United States. Hassan’s husband, Thomas, was the principal of Phillips Exeter at the time. The cost for a year of tuition and fees at Phillips Exeter is currently $37,875. Boarding students pay $48,550.
The lunch menu at Phillips Exeter features “authentic recipes from around the world” and “more than 5,000 recipes in regular rotation.” Dinner selections for boarders include “grilled steak tips, fettuccine alfredo, palak paneer or quinoa with nuts.” Also, all dining staffers — “from chefs to dishwashers” receive “training in food allergens.”
Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat representing Pennsylvania, sent his daughters to Scranton Preparatory School, a private Jesuit school where a year of tuition costs $13,400. Casey is also an alumnus of Scranton Prep.
Every classroom at Scranton Prep offers cutting-edge technology and contains “the very latest in interactive instructional technology.” There’s also a very impressive 34,000-square-foot building dedicated to the arts and sciences which features “state-of-the-art science classrooms and laboratories as well as a magnificent theater that seats 875 people.”
Read more: Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
Omg, the Dems are totally to blame? Kids would still be working under looms at 8 if the repubs had anything to do with it "Nothing more dangerous than a man with no doubts" seems like you have a steel shut mind. Ever do any advanced research where you have to examine all sides? Guess not.So...you don't believe in School Choice.Yes...the democrats will condemn minority kids to hell holes for schools.......and happily send their own kids to private schools...from the salaries we pay them....
Well, well, well........the fake indian princess sent her kids to private schools....
Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat representing Minnesota who was once an unfunny comedian with bit parts on “Saturday Night Live,” has two children who attend The Dalton School in New York City — 1,018 miles from Minneapolis and 226 miles from Washington, D.C.
The cost of a single year of tuition for students in kindergarten through 12th grade at Dalton is $44,640. This amount, which represents slightly more than the average household income in the state of Alabama, is “among the lowest of our peer schools,” the posh Upper East Side school trumpets. On Friday, lunch at Dalton scrumptiously featured sustainable green tea salmon, anasazi bean salad, fresh organic papaya yogurt and a pasta bar with both marinara sauce and puttanesca sauce.
Dalton is most famous because its administration called off this year’s ice-skating party after a large group of parents refused to send their children to the Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park for political reasons. (RELATED: ‘Liberal Moms’ Make Fancypants Manhattan Prep School Cancel Ice Skating Party At Trump Rink)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, has a granddaughter who rubs shoulders with the children of movie stars at the trendy Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California. Tuition at Harvard-Westlake costs $35,900 each year. There’s also a $2,000 fee for new students.
Harvard-Westlake offers a bevy of amazing opportunities for students including study-abroad programs in Spain, France, China, Italy and India. There’s also the Mountain School, “an independent semester program that provides high school juniors the opportunity to live and work on an organic farm in rural Vermont.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat representing Rhode Island and himself a private boarding school product, has two children. His daughter attended the Wheeler School, a coed day school in Providence where a single year of tuition for sixth grade through 12th grade currently costs $35,215.
Sixth graders at Wheeler spend a segment of the school year romping around at a 120-acre farm owned by the school. The “unique, place-based experience” includes “vigorous scientific leaf studies” and “examinations of poetry, art, and mathematical models deepened through the context of” the school-owned farm.
Whitehouse, who has owned stock in a for-profit charter school company, also sent his son to a St. George’s School, a private boarding school in a gorgeous hamlet on the seaside.
Annual tuition at St. George’s is currently $39,900. Boarding students pay $58,000.
St. George’s offers a special program which allows students to sail around the world for several week on a 69-foot sailboat “traveling in a grand loop from Rhode Island across to the Azores and Spain, through the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece, back to the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat representing New York and herself an alumna of the tony Emma Willard School, sends her two school-age children to Capitol Hill Day School, according to The Washington Post. Tuition at the private, progressive bastion currently runs $30,300.00 per year for sixth through eighth grades, $28,700.00 per year for first through fifth grades and $28,000.00 per year for preschoolers.
Instruction in French and Spanish begins in preschool at Capitol Hill Day School. Also, performing arts is a big deal. There are “operas based on children’s books,” for example, and the sixth graders put on a musical theater production.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat representing Connecticut, sent one of his four children to Brunswick School, a private, all-boys day school in Greenwich, according to the Connecticut Post. A year of high school tuition at Brunswick currently costs $40,450. Tuition for preschoolers costs $30,930 per year.
On Tuesday, grade school kids at Brunswick will enjoy a delicious lunch of barbecue antibiotic-free chicken sandwiches on Texas rolls.
Blumenthal sent another one of his kids to Greenwich Academy, an all-girls day school where high school tuition currently runs $41,890. A single year of prekindergarten at the private institution costs $37,470.
Tuesday’s lunch at Greenwich Academy includes potato leek soup, baked macaroni and cheese and braised red cabbage.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat representing New Hampshire, has two children. Her daughter attended Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the most notable fancypants private schools in the United States. Hassan’s husband, Thomas, was the principal of Phillips Exeter at the time. The cost for a year of tuition and fees at Phillips Exeter is currently $37,875. Boarding students pay $48,550.
The lunch menu at Phillips Exeter features “authentic recipes from around the world” and “more than 5,000 recipes in regular rotation.” Dinner selections for boarders include “grilled steak tips, fettuccine alfredo, palak paneer or quinoa with nuts.” Also, all dining staffers — “from chefs to dishwashers” receive “training in food allergens.”
Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat representing Pennsylvania, sent his daughters to Scranton Preparatory School, a private Jesuit school where a year of tuition costs $13,400. Casey is also an alumnus of Scranton Prep.
Every classroom at Scranton Prep offers cutting-edge technology and contains “the very latest in interactive instructional technology.” There’s also a very impressive 34,000-square-foot building dedicated to the arts and sciences which features “state-of-the-art science classrooms and laboratories as well as a magnificent theater that seats 875 people.”
Read more: Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
I believe in school choice for all American kids......even poor kids trapped in the very schools these democrats have destroyed.......that is why those poor kids should get vouchers for the full expense of their public education and should be able to attend the same schools the kids of these Senators go to......
Yeah, right! Let them take a few thousand dollar voucher and try to get into any one of those schools. First, they would not pass the entrance requirements.
You people are ridiculous sometimes!
Omg, the Dems are totally to blame? Kids would still be working under looms at 8 if the repubs had anything to do with it "Nothing more dangerous than a man with no doubts" seems like you have a steel shut mind. Ever do any advanced research where you have to examine all sides? Guess not.So...you don't believe in School Choice.Yes...the democrats will condemn minority kids to hell holes for schools.......and happily send their own kids to private schools...from the salaries we pay them....
Well, well, well........the fake indian princess sent her kids to private schools....
Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat representing Minnesota who was once an unfunny comedian with bit parts on “Saturday Night Live,” has two children who attend The Dalton School in New York City — 1,018 miles from Minneapolis and 226 miles from Washington, D.C.
The cost of a single year of tuition for students in kindergarten through 12th grade at Dalton is $44,640. This amount, which represents slightly more than the average household income in the state of Alabama, is “among the lowest of our peer schools,” the posh Upper East Side school trumpets. On Friday, lunch at Dalton scrumptiously featured sustainable green tea salmon, anasazi bean salad, fresh organic papaya yogurt and a pasta bar with both marinara sauce and puttanesca sauce.
Dalton is most famous because its administration called off this year’s ice-skating party after a large group of parents refused to send their children to the Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park for political reasons. (RELATED: ‘Liberal Moms’ Make Fancypants Manhattan Prep School Cancel Ice Skating Party At Trump Rink)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, has a granddaughter who rubs shoulders with the children of movie stars at the trendy Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California. Tuition at Harvard-Westlake costs $35,900 each year. There’s also a $2,000 fee for new students.
Harvard-Westlake offers a bevy of amazing opportunities for students including study-abroad programs in Spain, France, China, Italy and India. There’s also the Mountain School, “an independent semester program that provides high school juniors the opportunity to live and work on an organic farm in rural Vermont.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat representing Rhode Island and himself a private boarding school product, has two children. His daughter attended the Wheeler School, a coed day school in Providence where a single year of tuition for sixth grade through 12th grade currently costs $35,215.
Sixth graders at Wheeler spend a segment of the school year romping around at a 120-acre farm owned by the school. The “unique, place-based experience” includes “vigorous scientific leaf studies” and “examinations of poetry, art, and mathematical models deepened through the context of” the school-owned farm.
Whitehouse, who has owned stock in a for-profit charter school company, also sent his son to a St. George’s School, a private boarding school in a gorgeous hamlet on the seaside.
Annual tuition at St. George’s is currently $39,900. Boarding students pay $58,000.
St. George’s offers a special program which allows students to sail around the world for several week on a 69-foot sailboat “traveling in a grand loop from Rhode Island across to the Azores and Spain, through the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece, back to the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat representing New York and herself an alumna of the tony Emma Willard School, sends her two school-age children to Capitol Hill Day School, according to The Washington Post. Tuition at the private, progressive bastion currently runs $30,300.00 per year for sixth through eighth grades, $28,700.00 per year for first through fifth grades and $28,000.00 per year for preschoolers.
Instruction in French and Spanish begins in preschool at Capitol Hill Day School. Also, performing arts is a big deal. There are “operas based on children’s books,” for example, and the sixth graders put on a musical theater production.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat representing Connecticut, sent one of his four children to Brunswick School, a private, all-boys day school in Greenwich, according to the Connecticut Post. A year of high school tuition at Brunswick currently costs $40,450. Tuition for preschoolers costs $30,930 per year.
On Tuesday, grade school kids at Brunswick will enjoy a delicious lunch of barbecue antibiotic-free chicken sandwiches on Texas rolls.
Blumenthal sent another one of his kids to Greenwich Academy, an all-girls day school where high school tuition currently runs $41,890. A single year of prekindergarten at the private institution costs $37,470.
Tuesday’s lunch at Greenwich Academy includes potato leek soup, baked macaroni and cheese and braised red cabbage.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat representing New Hampshire, has two children. Her daughter attended Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the most notable fancypants private schools in the United States. Hassan’s husband, Thomas, was the principal of Phillips Exeter at the time. The cost for a year of tuition and fees at Phillips Exeter is currently $37,875. Boarding students pay $48,550.
The lunch menu at Phillips Exeter features “authentic recipes from around the world” and “more than 5,000 recipes in regular rotation.” Dinner selections for boarders include “grilled steak tips, fettuccine alfredo, palak paneer or quinoa with nuts.” Also, all dining staffers — “from chefs to dishwashers” receive “training in food allergens.”
Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat representing Pennsylvania, sent his daughters to Scranton Preparatory School, a private Jesuit school where a year of tuition costs $13,400. Casey is also an alumnus of Scranton Prep.
Every classroom at Scranton Prep offers cutting-edge technology and contains “the very latest in interactive instructional technology.” There’s also a very impressive 34,000-square-foot building dedicated to the arts and sciences which features “state-of-the-art science classrooms and laboratories as well as a magnificent theater that seats 875 people.”
Read more: Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
I believe in school choice for all American kids......even poor kids trapped in the very schools these democrats have destroyed.......that is why those poor kids should get vouchers for the full expense of their public education and should be able to attend the same schools the kids of these Senators go to......
What do you propose? Cabs from the inner city for everyone? Free fancy homes in all white suburbs for inner city parents? Such stupidity.
Yeah, right! Let them take a few thousand dollar voucher and try to get into any one of those schools. First, they would not pass the entrance requirements.
You people are ridiculous sometimes!
The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
What is it exactly that you DO for those 80 plus hours a week?
Why should I bother telling you? Honestly, you know so very little about what goes on in education, you would not understand anyway. But here is my typical week.
I arrive at school at 7 am at the absolute latest every day. Class starts at 8 and I teach until 3pm. That's 40 hours a week right there. I tutor three days a week after school for my students. That's 43 hours. I grade papers for at least 2 hours each day, sometimes staying at school until after 6 pm. We'll be generous and say that I don't stay late on Fridays, so we will add another 8 hours, so we are up to 51. Each night I write my lesson plans and that takes about 2-3 hours because I teach 3 separate classes. Because we have no textbooks, I write SmartBoard presentations, edit worksheets for their classwork/homework, and then make up handouts containing notes and formulas we use. We'll go conservative and add another 10 hours. That's 61 hours. I also have to do a book study for my new teacher orientation classes because I am new to this district, despite having taught 20 years. That's a few hours a week, We'll add three for that so we are up to 64 hours. On Sundays, I have to watch professional development videos to get my required 24 hours in this year, so we'll add another 2 for that. That's a total of 66 hours. Oh, BTW, because my district held their professional development in the summer before I was hired, I paid nearly $200 out of pocket for the video courses that I am using.
I also sell tickets for sports events at school as part of my other assigned duties. I watch the restrooms between classes, which is about the only time I get to use those facilities. I do not have my own classroom because we are building a new school on-site and I am the new kid on the block. I push a cart with all of my instructional materials to 4 different classrooms throughout the day. Our teachers lounge contains two copiers, a refrigerator, a microwave (donated by yours truly) and our mailboxes. There are no chairs or desks. My planning period has me sitting at my desk/cart near an electrical outlet in a hallway so I can use my printer (bought and paid for by yours truly).
That's as a teacher. Now imagine being an administrator and having to supervise all of the after school sports and other activities,
Now, how about those apples?
You knew all that you are whining about the day you decided to teach in a government school.
You made the choice to ignore all of the sacrifices that teachers make, dismissing them as union pawns who don't care about their students. I find your ignorance of reality very disturbing.
You're wrong.
I have great respect for teachers in government schools. I have no respect when they start whining and belly aching about how hard they have it when they KNEW, GOING IN, DAY ONE, what they were signing up to do.
I empathize with them that their job and responsibilities are miles away from what they were fifty years ago. Nonetheless, they know this going in which is why I hold them responsible for doing the same thing expecting a different result.
Primarily the government, teachers unions, and local school districts are responsible for the massive failure.
The only problem I have with my job is the abuse I take from wannabees like you that could not last five minutes, much less a year in a classroom. You think it is so easy? Be part of the solution instead of the chorus of know-nothings. You are no better than the liberals who want nothing better than to destroy rather than build.
You blame the government? How about Catholic Charities that houses large numbers of refugees in one school so that the vast majority of the students don't speak English? How about parents of students who do not want them held accountable for their behavior?
Teacher's unions are the education basher's scapegoats. You don't even begin to understand their purpose, much less the fact that that have almost zero impact on the educational process.
Local school districts are part of the problem, so why don't you concentrate on fixing those problems and leave the rest of us who are out there very day, fighting the good fight, and doing the best job we can making chicken salad out of the chicken shit that often walks through the doors. The local districts water down school discipline so that it is impossible to expel students unless they commit murder. They assault teachers with impunity and you wonder why we have unions?
Let's face it. You have no solutions other than tactics that have been tried before and failed. Because you know nothing of the educational process your ability to think of new ideas is wallowing in a mire of your ignorance.
The system Betsy De Vos helped create in Michigan was no better than the public school system, and in fact some of the public schools were outscoring the charter schools. Education is not something I want to see sold to the lowest bidder. I want well paid teachers in order to attract a high class of teacher. I want well equipped labs with computers, audio visual. The American obsession with the cheapest possible option is what gets you into trouble every single time.
Yeah, right! Let them take a few thousand dollar voucher and try to get into any one of those schools. First, they would not pass the entrance requirements.
You people are ridiculous sometimes!
The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
No....wrong.......vouchers give the parents power to choose schools.....and schools will open to get those vouchers.....you are thinking that only public schools will exist....you don't take into account new schools opening in response to the freedom the parents will have to send their kids to other schools...right now, the public school system is a monopoly, unless you are rich, you have to send you kid to the school in your district...or you move.....vouchers end that prison system.....and open up opportunities for new schools to open to compete, and actually educate children.
That you morons would want to trap these kids in schools that are not educating the Children now......is insane....these inner city schools are not educating these children...I repeat....these inner city schools are not education these children now......and you want them stuck in those schools for some insane reason....
Thousands line up to get into lotteries for Charter schools.....and you guys say the parents don't care......you are insane...and with vouchers...charter schools will just be one of many options for education kids...and the quality will go up, and the cost wil go down...
Just like your fucking I-Phone...
The ultimate solution....
Make it a law that the sons and daughters of every politician have to go to the worst performing school in their state....that should fix the problem.
Omg, the Dems are totally to blame? Kids would still be working under looms at 8 if the repubs had anything to do with it "Nothing more dangerous than a man with no doubts" seems like you have a steel shut mind. Ever do any advanced research where you have to examine all sides? Guess not.So...you don't believe in School Choice.Yes...the democrats will condemn minority kids to hell holes for schools.......and happily send their own kids to private schools...from the salaries we pay them....
Well, well, well........the fake indian princess sent her kids to private schools....
Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat representing Minnesota who was once an unfunny comedian with bit parts on “Saturday Night Live,” has two children who attend The Dalton School in New York City — 1,018 miles from Minneapolis and 226 miles from Washington, D.C.
The cost of a single year of tuition for students in kindergarten through 12th grade at Dalton is $44,640. This amount, which represents slightly more than the average household income in the state of Alabama, is “among the lowest of our peer schools,” the posh Upper East Side school trumpets. On Friday, lunch at Dalton scrumptiously featured sustainable green tea salmon, anasazi bean salad, fresh organic papaya yogurt and a pasta bar with both marinara sauce and puttanesca sauce.
Dalton is most famous because its administration called off this year’s ice-skating party after a large group of parents refused to send their children to the Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park for political reasons. (RELATED: ‘Liberal Moms’ Make Fancypants Manhattan Prep School Cancel Ice Skating Party At Trump Rink)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, has a granddaughter who rubs shoulders with the children of movie stars at the trendy Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California. Tuition at Harvard-Westlake costs $35,900 each year. There’s also a $2,000 fee for new students.
Harvard-Westlake offers a bevy of amazing opportunities for students including study-abroad programs in Spain, France, China, Italy and India. There’s also the Mountain School, “an independent semester program that provides high school juniors the opportunity to live and work on an organic farm in rural Vermont.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat representing Rhode Island and himself a private boarding school product, has two children. His daughter attended the Wheeler School, a coed day school in Providence where a single year of tuition for sixth grade through 12th grade currently costs $35,215.
Sixth graders at Wheeler spend a segment of the school year romping around at a 120-acre farm owned by the school. The “unique, place-based experience” includes “vigorous scientific leaf studies” and “examinations of poetry, art, and mathematical models deepened through the context of” the school-owned farm.
Whitehouse, who has owned stock in a for-profit charter school company, also sent his son to a St. George’s School, a private boarding school in a gorgeous hamlet on the seaside.
Annual tuition at St. George’s is currently $39,900. Boarding students pay $58,000.
St. George’s offers a special program which allows students to sail around the world for several week on a 69-foot sailboat “traveling in a grand loop from Rhode Island across to the Azores and Spain, through the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece, back to the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat representing New York and herself an alumna of the tony Emma Willard School, sends her two school-age children to Capitol Hill Day School, according to The Washington Post. Tuition at the private, progressive bastion currently runs $30,300.00 per year for sixth through eighth grades, $28,700.00 per year for first through fifth grades and $28,000.00 per year for preschoolers.
Instruction in French and Spanish begins in preschool at Capitol Hill Day School. Also, performing arts is a big deal. There are “operas based on children’s books,” for example, and the sixth graders put on a musical theater production.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat representing Connecticut, sent one of his four children to Brunswick School, a private, all-boys day school in Greenwich, according to the Connecticut Post. A year of high school tuition at Brunswick currently costs $40,450. Tuition for preschoolers costs $30,930 per year.
On Tuesday, grade school kids at Brunswick will enjoy a delicious lunch of barbecue antibiotic-free chicken sandwiches on Texas rolls.
Blumenthal sent another one of his kids to Greenwich Academy, an all-girls day school where high school tuition currently runs $41,890. A single year of prekindergarten at the private institution costs $37,470.
Tuesday’s lunch at Greenwich Academy includes potato leek soup, baked macaroni and cheese and braised red cabbage.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat representing New Hampshire, has two children. Her daughter attended Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the most notable fancypants private schools in the United States. Hassan’s husband, Thomas, was the principal of Phillips Exeter at the time. The cost for a year of tuition and fees at Phillips Exeter is currently $37,875. Boarding students pay $48,550.
The lunch menu at Phillips Exeter features “authentic recipes from around the world” and “more than 5,000 recipes in regular rotation.” Dinner selections for boarders include “grilled steak tips, fettuccine alfredo, palak paneer or quinoa with nuts.” Also, all dining staffers — “from chefs to dishwashers” receive “training in food allergens.”
Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat representing Pennsylvania, sent his daughters to Scranton Preparatory School, a private Jesuit school where a year of tuition costs $13,400. Casey is also an alumnus of Scranton Prep.
Every classroom at Scranton Prep offers cutting-edge technology and contains “the very latest in interactive instructional technology.” There’s also a very impressive 34,000-square-foot building dedicated to the arts and sciences which features “state-of-the-art science classrooms and laboratories as well as a magnificent theater that seats 875 people.”
Read more: Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
I believe in school choice for all American kids......even poor kids trapped in the very schools these democrats have destroyed.......that is why those poor kids should get vouchers for the full expense of their public education and should be able to attend the same schools the kids of these Senators go to......
What do you propose? Cabs from the inner city for everyone? Free fancy homes in all white suburbs for inner city parents? Such stupidity.
I guess they don't have public transportation in Chicago...right? Moron. And if parents have the money to spend on a school, new schools will open in their very neighborhood if the public school sucks......so they won't have to travel....
Giving the parents control over the money...that just drives you left wingers bat shit crazy......you are supposed to control them......right?
Omg, the Dems are totally to blame? Kids would still be working under looms at 8 if the repubs had anything to do with it "Nothing more dangerous than a man with no doubts" seems like you have a steel shut mind. Ever do any advanced research where you have to examine all sides? Guess not.So...you don't believe in School Choice.Yes...the democrats will condemn minority kids to hell holes for schools.......and happily send their own kids to private schools...from the salaries we pay them....
Well, well, well........the fake indian princess sent her kids to private schools....
Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat representing Minnesota who was once an unfunny comedian with bit parts on “Saturday Night Live,” has two children who attend The Dalton School in New York City — 1,018 miles from Minneapolis and 226 miles from Washington, D.C.
The cost of a single year of tuition for students in kindergarten through 12th grade at Dalton is $44,640. This amount, which represents slightly more than the average household income in the state of Alabama, is “among the lowest of our peer schools,” the posh Upper East Side school trumpets. On Friday, lunch at Dalton scrumptiously featured sustainable green tea salmon, anasazi bean salad, fresh organic papaya yogurt and a pasta bar with both marinara sauce and puttanesca sauce.
Dalton is most famous because its administration called off this year’s ice-skating party after a large group of parents refused to send their children to the Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park for political reasons. (RELATED: ‘Liberal Moms’ Make Fancypants Manhattan Prep School Cancel Ice Skating Party At Trump Rink)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, has a granddaughter who rubs shoulders with the children of movie stars at the trendy Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California. Tuition at Harvard-Westlake costs $35,900 each year. There’s also a $2,000 fee for new students.
Harvard-Westlake offers a bevy of amazing opportunities for students including study-abroad programs in Spain, France, China, Italy and India. There’s also the Mountain School, “an independent semester program that provides high school juniors the opportunity to live and work on an organic farm in rural Vermont.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat representing Rhode Island and himself a private boarding school product, has two children. His daughter attended the Wheeler School, a coed day school in Providence where a single year of tuition for sixth grade through 12th grade currently costs $35,215.
Sixth graders at Wheeler spend a segment of the school year romping around at a 120-acre farm owned by the school. The “unique, place-based experience” includes “vigorous scientific leaf studies” and “examinations of poetry, art, and mathematical models deepened through the context of” the school-owned farm.
Whitehouse, who has owned stock in a for-profit charter school company, also sent his son to a St. George’s School, a private boarding school in a gorgeous hamlet on the seaside.
Annual tuition at St. George’s is currently $39,900. Boarding students pay $58,000.
St. George’s offers a special program which allows students to sail around the world for several week on a 69-foot sailboat “traveling in a grand loop from Rhode Island across to the Azores and Spain, through the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece, back to the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat representing New York and herself an alumna of the tony Emma Willard School, sends her two school-age children to Capitol Hill Day School, according to The Washington Post. Tuition at the private, progressive bastion currently runs $30,300.00 per year for sixth through eighth grades, $28,700.00 per year for first through fifth grades and $28,000.00 per year for preschoolers.
Instruction in French and Spanish begins in preschool at Capitol Hill Day School. Also, performing arts is a big deal. There are “operas based on children’s books,” for example, and the sixth graders put on a musical theater production.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat representing Connecticut, sent one of his four children to Brunswick School, a private, all-boys day school in Greenwich, according to the Connecticut Post. A year of high school tuition at Brunswick currently costs $40,450. Tuition for preschoolers costs $30,930 per year.
On Tuesday, grade school kids at Brunswick will enjoy a delicious lunch of barbecue antibiotic-free chicken sandwiches on Texas rolls.
Blumenthal sent another one of his kids to Greenwich Academy, an all-girls day school where high school tuition currently runs $41,890. A single year of prekindergarten at the private institution costs $37,470.
Tuesday’s lunch at Greenwich Academy includes potato leek soup, baked macaroni and cheese and braised red cabbage.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat representing New Hampshire, has two children. Her daughter attended Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the most notable fancypants private schools in the United States. Hassan’s husband, Thomas, was the principal of Phillips Exeter at the time. The cost for a year of tuition and fees at Phillips Exeter is currently $37,875. Boarding students pay $48,550.
The lunch menu at Phillips Exeter features “authentic recipes from around the world” and “more than 5,000 recipes in regular rotation.” Dinner selections for boarders include “grilled steak tips, fettuccine alfredo, palak paneer or quinoa with nuts.” Also, all dining staffers — “from chefs to dishwashers” receive “training in food allergens.”
Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat representing Pennsylvania, sent his daughters to Scranton Preparatory School, a private Jesuit school where a year of tuition costs $13,400. Casey is also an alumnus of Scranton Prep.
Every classroom at Scranton Prep offers cutting-edge technology and contains “the very latest in interactive instructional technology.” There’s also a very impressive 34,000-square-foot building dedicated to the arts and sciences which features “state-of-the-art science classrooms and laboratories as well as a magnificent theater that seats 875 people.”
Read more: Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
I believe in school choice for all American kids......even poor kids trapped in the very schools these democrats have destroyed.......that is why those poor kids should get vouchers for the full expense of their public education and should be able to attend the same schools the kids of these Senators go to......
What do you propose? Cabs from the inner city for everyone? Free fancy homes in all white suburbs for inner city parents? Such stupidity.
I guess they don't have public transportation in Chicago...right? Moron. And if parents have the money to spend on a school, new schools will open in their very neighborhood if the public school sucks......so they won't have to travel....
Giving the parents control over the money...that just drives you left wingers bat shit crazy......you are supposed to control them......right?
Yeah, right! Let them take a few thousand dollar voucher and try to get into any one of those schools. First, they would not pass the entrance requirements.
You people are ridiculous sometimes!
The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
No....wrong.......vouchers give the parents power to choose schools.....and schools will open to get those vouchers.....you are thinking that only public schools will exist....you don't take into account new schools opening in response to the freedom the parents will have to send their kids to other schools...right now, the public school system is a monopoly, unless you are rich, you have to send you kid to the school in your district...or you move.....vouchers end that prison system.....and open up opportunities for new schools to open to compete, and actually educate children.
That you morons would want to trap these kids in schools that are not educating the Children now......is insane....these inner city schools are not educating these children...I repeat....these inner city schools are not education these children now......and you want them stuck in those schools for some insane reason....
Thousands line up to get into lotteries for Charter schools.....and you guys say the parents don't care......you are insane...and with vouchers...charter schools will just be one of many options for education kids...and the quality will go up, and the cost wil go down...
Just like your fucking I-Phone...
Yeah, right! Let them take a few thousand dollar voucher and try to get into any one of those schools. First, they would not pass the entrance requirements.
You people are ridiculous sometimes!
The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
No....wrong.......vouchers give the parents power to choose schools.....and schools will open to get those vouchers.....you are thinking that only public schools will exist....you don't take into account new schools opening in response to the freedom the parents will have to send their kids to other schools...right now, the public school system is a monopoly, unless you are rich, you have to send you kid to the school in your district...or you move.....vouchers end that prison system.....and open up opportunities for new schools to open to compete, and actually educate children.
That you morons would want to trap these kids in schools that are not educating the Children now......is insane....these inner city schools are not educating these children...I repeat....these inner city schools are not education these children now......and you want them stuck in those schools for some insane reason....
Thousands line up to get into lotteries for Charter schools.....and you guys say the parents don't care......you are insane...and with vouchers...charter schools will just be one of many options for education kids...and the quality will go up, and the cost wil go down...
Just like your fucking I-Phone...
My child is not an iPhone. I'm not sending her to the cheapest school I can find, I'm sending her to the best school I can afford. There is no reason why you can't have quality public schools, but you have to have the equipment, the computers, the books and the resources for children to learn.
Yeah, right! Let them take a few thousand dollar voucher and try to get into any one of those schools. First, they would not pass the entrance requirements.
You people are ridiculous sometimes!
The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
No....wrong.......vouchers give the parents power to choose schools.....and schools will open to get those vouchers.....you are thinking that only public schools will exist....you don't take into account new schools opening in response to the freedom the parents will have to send their kids to other schools...right now, the public school system is a monopoly, unless you are rich, you have to send you kid to the school in your district...or you move.....vouchers end that prison system.....and open up opportunities for new schools to open to compete, and actually educate children.
That you morons would want to trap these kids in schools that are not educating the Children now......is insane....these inner city schools are not educating these children...I repeat....these inner city schools are not education these children now......and you want them stuck in those schools for some insane reason....
Thousands line up to get into lotteries for Charter schools.....and you guys say the parents don't care......you are insane...and with vouchers...charter schools will just be one of many options for education kids...and the quality will go up, and the cost wil go down...
Just like your fucking I-Phone...
My child is not an iPhone. I'm not sending her to the cheapest school I can find, I'm sending her to the best school I can afford. There is no reason why you can't have quality public schools, but you have to have the equipment, the computers, the books and the resources for children to learn.
You need a lot more than that, and I'm not talking about $$$
Yeah, right! Let them take a few thousand dollar voucher and try to get into any one of those schools. First, they would not pass the entrance requirements.
You people are ridiculous sometimes!
The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
No....wrong.......vouchers give the parents power to choose schools.....and schools will open to get those vouchers.....you are thinking that only public schools will exist....you don't take into account new schools opening in response to the freedom the parents will have to send their kids to other schools...right now, the public school system is a monopoly, unless you are rich, you have to send you kid to the school in your district...or you move.....vouchers end that prison system.....and open up opportunities for new schools to open to compete, and actually educate children.
That you morons would want to trap these kids in schools that are not educating the Children now......is insane....these inner city schools are not educating these children...I repeat....these inner city schools are not education these children now......and you want them stuck in those schools for some insane reason....
Thousands line up to get into lotteries for Charter schools.....and you guys say the parents don't care......you are insane...and with vouchers...charter schools will just be one of many options for education kids...and the quality will go up, and the cost wil go down...
Just like your fucking I-Phone...
My child is not an iPhone. I'm not sending her to the cheapest school I can find, I'm sending her to the best school I can afford. There is no reason why you can't have quality public schools, but you have to have the equipment, the computers, the books and the resources for children to learn.
You need a lot more than that, and I'm not talking about $$$
Yes you do, but when children don't have their own textbooks and have to share, or the school has no computers or labs for the kids, when teachers are having to buy classroom supplies out of their own pockets, how can you have quality education, even with good teachers.
Yeah, right! Let them take a few thousand dollar voucher and try to get into any one of those schools. First, they would not pass the entrance requirements.
You people are ridiculous sometimes!
The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
No....wrong.......vouchers give the parents power to choose schools.....and schools will open to get those vouchers.....you are thinking that only public schools will exist....you don't take into account new schools opening in response to the freedom the parents will have to send their kids to other schools...right now, the public school system is a monopoly, unless you are rich, you have to send you kid to the school in your district...or you move.....vouchers end that prison system.....and open up opportunities for new schools to open to compete, and actually educate children.
That you morons would want to trap these kids in schools that are not educating the Children now......is insane....these inner city schools are not educating these children...I repeat....these inner city schools are not education these children now......and you want them stuck in those schools for some insane reason....
Thousands line up to get into lotteries for Charter schools.....and you guys say the parents don't care......you are insane...and with vouchers...charter schools will just be one of many options for education kids...and the quality will go up, and the cost wil go down...
Just like your fucking I-Phone...
OK. so why hasn't that happened where voucher programs already have existed?
Because it is not economically feasible.
Charter schools are considered public schools. When they fail, they taxpayer is on the hook for the costs but the people who run them have no responsibility to the taxpayers.
