Comments on: House votes to cut teacher bonuses

By: When Is It Going To Be Enough, America? « quintal

When Is It Going To Be Enough, America? « quintal — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:35:17 +0000

[...] Your cities and towns are in disrepair, your infrastructure is crumbling. You devalue your teachers, and reward thieves. You let your schools flounder; therefore many of your children are ignorant [...]

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Reprinted With Permission « The Graphic Visigoth! — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:10:49 +0000

[...] Your cities and towns are in disrepair, your infrastructure is crumbling. You devalue your teachers, and reward thieves. You let your schools flounder; therefore many of your children [...]

By: When Is It Going To Be Enough, America? « Pak Alert Press

When Is It Going To Be Enough, America? « Pak Alert Press — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:45:52 +0000

By: bravesfan

bravesfan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:18:15 +0000

I pray that the citizens of this state will remember the 92 representatives that voted against the National Board Certified teachers in favor of HB 243. I pray that these same 92 will suffer the same fate that Roy Barnes did when he went against the teachers and get voted OUT.

By: d

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:42:00 +0000

Lauri, did you read what Porter said? He said we need to be rewarding teachers for getting better training. Just as a side note, since we’re ranking Georgia based upon SAT scores, yes, apparently we have low aptitude scores, meaning we have low learning ability. Oh well. Actually, if you break down scores by race, we have amongst the highest scores for minorities of any state, but that gets lost in the fact that we do test 70% of our students on SAT and states that score better tend to test the top 10% only. Oh, and the US scores lower because, again, we compare all of our students to students in countries like Japan and Germany who pull out their lower performing students and put them in tech school around the 8th grade. We compare apples to oranges and then complain. UGH!

By: tracher

tracher — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:07:57 +0000

How many pay raises has our GA legislature given itself in the past few years. If we keep de-valuing our teachers and administaters, we will surely lose an important profession. Women still only make 75 cents to each dollar a man makes. Women dominate this profession. You not only de-value teachers and students, but women in general when you tell they are not worth the money. Shame on these legislators.

By: Lauri

Lauri — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:26:57 +0000

Porter, you’re an idiot! We need a better education system. If anything, money should be pouring into getting our teachers better trained and put our children first. Georgia’s placement for education ranked quite low on a nationwide survey and the US ranked poorly compared to other countries. Schmuck!