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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

YOU MADE KIDS YOU PAY FOR IT and MAKE YOUR KID LEARN - QUIT COMPLAINING ABOUT STANDARDS

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.

Tutoring at the school… mentoring versus tutoring. The kids who I tutor actually do KNOW their math… need mentoring and to start turning in the homework.

Tried tutoring a student by using a place that should be quiet - Library. Inside the library there were three adults. IT was a staging area that day for Kid’s projects to take with them on a waiting bus to go somewhere. Why use a quiet library as a staging area… 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???

My student… was doing well concentrating… fantastically…distracted of course but for the circumstance…he did great… how did three adults allow a library to be treated like a gym. They even saw me and the student trying to study.

School bond issues list new seats at near the track…. A new track surface, new basketball hoops… some new classrooms… But what about addressing the performance gap??? The gap between caucasions, 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 to the local paper…

No child left behind funding??? Mandate? Mandate? It shouldn't have to be a federal mandate. Its your JOB to teach the kids. Its your LOCAL job to fund the kids. It's not the childless peoples' job to pay for your child's schooling. If you are sooooo poor that you can’t do it. Then prove it… but how can a moderate income location scream that there is an unfunded mandate. I think you have an unfounded argument. FUND YOUR SCHOOLs YOURSELF and make them LEARN...PAY FOR IT.!!!!!


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