UNFUNDED MANDATE IS AN UNFOUNDED ARGUEMENT - FUND YOUR OWN SCHOOL

From March 15, 2008 ON AIR JUDGE WYLD SHOW - Radio Talk

Excerpt from show prep notes. On air content may have been more or less. Not journalistic or debate notes.

Part of the reason that you listen to Judge Wyld each week is to hear about how Single Professional men and women can spend their time in a productive and Very very exciting way that doesn’t center around being a mindless professional sports fan, or a fad fan of a brain numbed reality show….and if you think American Idol is reality then you truly are numb brained….. That’s right, there are real things to apply YOUR talents to…. So just what has the Judge been up to lately….

Tutoring at the school… mentoring versus tutoring. The kids KNOW their math… turning in the homework.

Trying to tutor my student in the Library. Other commotion in the Library. Three adults. Kid’s projects to take with them. Staging area for a field trip… yelling across the library to get above the noise. Even the little girls trying to have a mindless chat could hardly hear each other… what??? This is not how I was taught to act in a Library. (Mrs. Hoover Librarian from my youth, I miss you.)

My student… was concentrating… fantastically…distracted of course but for the circumstance…he did great… School bond issues list new seats at near the track…. A new track surface, new basketball hoops… some new classrooms…

But what about the gap??? The gap between Caucasians, Asians, blacks/African Americans, and Hispanics…. Tutoring. Mentoring addresses the Gaps…

if you improve things in the classroom, ALL kids will get smarter… but what about the gaps… school bond money raising never lists tutoring space.

Why would a parent or anyone else walk into a school to tutor if the school doesn’t have their act together. I’ve pushed and pushed with editorials etc… No child left behind funding??? Mandate? Mandate? It’s not a federal mandate to teach the kids.

Its your JOB to teach your kids. Its your LOCAL job to fund the kids. If you are sooooo poor that you can’t do it. Then we'll help… but how can a moderate income location scream that there is an unfunded mandate.

I think you have an unfounded argument. FUND YOUR SCHOOLs!!!!!

Sincerely, JUDGE WYLD