Comments on: Chris Christie: Tough Economic Fixes http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:12:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: micky http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229&cpage=1#comment-734660 micky Fri, 14 May 2010 23:55:19 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229#comment-734660 Lets put this another way. Since our kids and grandkids are going to be paying this administrations debt for decades to come the least we could do is give them the education they need to make the incredible amount of money they're going to have to come up with Lets put this another way.
Since our kids and grandkids are going to be paying this administrations debt for decades to come the least we could do is give them the education they need to make the incredible amount of money they’re going to have to come up with

]]> By: micky http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229&cpage=1#comment-734656 micky Fri, 14 May 2010 23:43:07 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229#comment-734656 I have little problem with Christies intentions with exception to education. I dont like unions but am still of the position that teachers should be paid and paid well as long as they're worth it. Unfortunately here in the islands due to a tanking budget our republican governor Lingle has imposed furlough Fridays where 3 Fridays out of a month the kids and teachers take the day off without pay. I paralled my sons progress with the months since furlough Fridays came into play in Oct. Before the furloughs in his first quater his progress was above average. Since the 4 day school days began his GPA has tanked and I'm spending those Fridays now helping him get caught up as the kids now have a 5 day curriculum crammed into 4. Many parents of those too young to be left alone have had to take the day off or hire day care/sitters resulting in partial unemployment and less taxable revenues to the state. I have no problem axing the highway workers in orange vests standing around picking their nose or our mostly dem representatives who at the same time voted themselves a pay raise or "stand around" public servants. But leave our "crappy enough as it is" education system alone never mind actually improving upon it. I may now have to dish out more bucks for his summer school I have little problem with Christies intentions with exception to education.
I dont like unions but am still of the position that teachers should be paid and paid well as long as they’re worth it. Unfortunately here in the islands due to a tanking budget our republican governor Lingle has imposed furlough Fridays where 3 Fridays out of a month the kids and teachers take the day off without pay.
I paralled my sons progress with the months since furlough Fridays came into play in Oct. Before the furloughs in his first quater his progress was above average. Since the 4 day school days began his GPA has tanked and I’m spending those Fridays now helping him get caught up as the kids now have a 5 day curriculum crammed into 4.
Many parents of those too young to be left alone have had to take the day off or hire day care/sitters resulting in partial unemployment and less taxable revenues to the state.
I have no problem axing the highway workers in orange vests standing around picking their nose or our mostly dem representatives who at the same time voted themselves a pay raise or “stand around” public servants.
But leave our “crappy enough as it is” education system alone never mind actually improving upon it.
I may now have to dish out more bucks for his summer school

]]> By: Shannon Bell http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229&cpage=1#comment-734640 Shannon Bell Fri, 14 May 2010 22:27:39 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229#comment-734640 Ginnie you make a good point, but you have to start somewhere. I applaud Christie's courage. Ginnie you make a good point, but you have to start somewhere. I applaud Christie’s courage.

]]> By: Shannon Bell http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229&cpage=1#comment-734639 Shannon Bell Fri, 14 May 2010 22:26:30 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229#comment-734639 Klo, I shouldn't be surprised at how narrow minded you appear to be looking at this. Do you really think that "teacher salaries" are the main culprit in bloated state and education budgets? Cutting a budget, or program is not at all about singling one group out and making them miserable. But I don't expect you to understand that. Klo, I shouldn’t be surprised at how narrow minded you appear to be looking at this. Do you really think that “teacher salaries” are the main culprit in bloated state and education budgets?

Cutting a budget, or program is not at all about singling one group out and making them miserable. But I don’t expect you to understand that.

]]> By: Ginnie K. http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229&cpage=1#comment-734554 Ginnie K. Fri, 14 May 2010 16:31:42 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229#comment-734554 Tara writes: "The teachers unions whose overall employment increased 16 percent over the last eight years while student enrollment only increase 3 percent." Is this really something bad if it lowers the number of students per teacher ratio? I would imagine one can interact more with each student if you don't have too many. It seems to me that would be a good education policy, and in fact, I believe is one that charter and private schools often advertise. I can only picture what it must be like to keep discipline for a good six or seven hours a day in a full classroom. Heck, I was overwhelmed at a recent birthday party for a five year old when I was tasked with cutting and handing the cake out to a swarm of little kids. :) Anyway, if the budget really must be cut, I do hope that the Governor will publicize a campaign to get more parents, retirees, etc. to help out as volunteer teacher's aides. We really do need more adult interaction and support in the classrooms, and certainly during these trying times it would be a way citizens could do their part to make up the gap in funding. Tara writes: “The teachers unions whose overall employment increased 16 percent over the last eight years while student enrollment only increase 3 percent.”

Is this really something bad if it lowers the number of students per teacher ratio? I would imagine one can interact more with each student if you don’t have too many. It seems to me that would be a good education policy, and in fact, I believe is one that charter and private schools often advertise.

I can only picture what it must be like to keep discipline for a good six or seven hours a day in a full classroom. Heck, I was overwhelmed at a recent birthday party for a five year old when I was tasked with cutting and handing the cake out to a swarm of little kids. :)

Anyway, if the budget really must be cut, I do hope that the Governor will publicize a campaign to get more parents, retirees, etc. to help out as volunteer teacher’s aides. We really do need more adult interaction and support in the classrooms, and certainly during these trying times it would be a way citizens could do their part to make up the gap in funding.

]]> By: Melonie Fisher http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229&cpage=1#comment-734540 Melonie Fisher Fri, 14 May 2010 15:17:18 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6229#comment-734540 ....except for the administration and it was discovered that 81 of the upper administration make as much as the govenor of the state. ….except for the administration and it was discovered that 81 of the upper administration make as much as the govenor of the state.

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