That's a great story. It would be even better if they applied the same standards to all the public schools there as well. Now that would be a story...

"75% of public schools were denied renewal" LMAO

 

Just a thought on the education system in ALbany. My old man lives there and sent my three younger sisters and brother to school there. The teachers always say they want parent involvment. LIES!!! The only time the parents are allowed to be involved without a fight FROM THE SCHOOL is when it suits the schools purpose and not a minute earlier. It's a classic case of the teachers union knowing best how to manipulate the system to try and gain more money and power and to he!! with the kids.

 

You just hit the nail on the head. If I had kids they would be going to a private school. Too many worthless teachers out there that are practically raping kids, both sexes no less. Private schooling is the only way to go. Public school teachers having relations with kids is getting more and more common. Not that it 'never' happens in private schools, it does.

 

I thought it only happened in private schools if it was a Catholic school.

 

Damn! You beat me to it

All of the most messed up people I knew growing up were the ones who went to private school. I guess the two are just inexorably linked in my mind. Oh well.

It probably doesn't bother you that my high school had more programs and more classes available than any private school. If there was an AP class offered in a subject, my school offered it. We had classes in Italian, German, Chinese and Latin. We had computer classes that made entry level college classes look like a joke.

You vote for your school board. If you don't like the job they are doing then vote them out.

-Don

 

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/lo...tics-headlines

That is an article than ran in today's New York Newsday that I found interesting.

"The incongruity is one symbol of the complex legacy Howard Dean has brought to the national political stage from 11 years as governor of Vermont. An ardent conservationist, he played a big role in bringing the factory to the farmer's field - reflecting a record of devoted centrism and business-friendly pragmatism at odds with both his own campaign persona as a Bush-bashing anti-war leftist, and Vermont's image as a granola-munching liberal utopia."

"Governing a state divided between out-of-state flatlanders who have migrated to a new service economy and the frugal, cranky traditions of rural-and-lumber old Vermont, he supported both abortion rights and gun rights, held the line on spending, and favored conservation over regulation and incremental change over big new programs."

"He kept many Snelling staffers and, to the dismay of many of his fellow Democrats, made fiscal austerity and budget balancing the hallmark of his own administration."

"The approach, a Vermont-style triangulation strategy, became the template for his governorship. "What Dean did incredibly successfully was carve out a huge middle ground and leave the lefties, the socialists and the right-wing Republicans just sputtering," says Ed Amidon, a Republican member of Vermont's House and longtime Burlington lawyer."

He supports gun rights, and a womans right to choose. He kept a balanced budget and helped bring service industries to Vermont.

What I do not understand is that he has been assailed in the press as a left wing Democrat when all of the evidence shows him to be a very centrist candidate who drew support from both parties and left the radicals (on both sides) out in the cold.

The people here just seem to be angry that he was against the war in Iraq. So are a lot of us. The war in Afghanistan was fine but the war in Iraq was stupid. 20 year old mortar shells from a long ago war do not WMD make.

-Don

 

XLT,

Thought you would appreciate this line:
"His distaste for new suits and ties became the emblem of a personal frugality that matched his tightfisted budgeting."

-Don

 

Regardless of what Dean may have been in the past he is now cast accurately as an extremist left wing nut. Dean has been accurately cast in this part ALL BY HIMSELF with his mouth spewing non-stop.

Dean has absolutely no chance of every becoming President of the United States for his words have been forever recorded for all to see on TV and listen to on the radio…

 

All evidence from his time as governor to the contrary?

-Don

 

Yes regardless. You know as well as I know it don’t matter what his past may have been. Dean has made himself into something else on his own, with his own words. That will be what the population will see on TV and hear on the radio, over and over and over.

Dean went extremely too far left to be able to come back to the center. At least that is my opinion so we will see what happens.

Now Clark’s past may come back to haunt him since it is on video about how he is or was a big time supporter of President Bush. Then when he first got in he couldn’t figure out if he supported the war, did not support the war, or was unsure if he supported the war. So he like Dean is out of the race, as far as ever becoming President of the United States…

 

(Hypothetical serious question for 01 XLT Sport)
If for whatever reason Bush were not in the race and the there were no other candidates other than the Democracts currently running where would your vote go? Saying "I wouldn't participate" is not an option, lets say someone held a gun to your head and made you vote. (and "no you can't wrestle the gun away from them")

What I'm trying to ask is, which of the other candidates do you have the 'least' distaste for?

 

Being completely serious I think Lieberman is a great candidate and would be the biggest threat to President Bush.

If I “had” to vote for a democrat then I would vote for Lieberman. I honestly feel if Lieberman was the democrat running against President Bush it would be a very tight race for 2004…

I should have added that Edwards may be another good one for the democrats. He comes across as believing in what he says, rather then pondering to the very small minority of Americans that have so much hate…

 

Thanks Burt.
(I know how painful that was for you.)

 

I agree with '01. If Lieberman got the nomination, I would vote for him over Bush. But we all know the socialists in the left wing of the Democratic party won't let that happen. It's the same crapola evey 4 years with the Democrats: bicker and fight amongst candidates until the primaries, then fall in line with the most socialistic candidate we got.

 

XLT,

You never did answer my question about whether we should abolish unions or not. Well, you answered it and I asked for clarification and then you never responded.

Just curious about your opinion on the matter.

-Don