Saturday, June 19, 2010

OUR VIEW: Don’t take the deal from the teachers - The New Britain Herald (newbritainherald.com)

Posted by Frank Smith at 19.6.10

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Someone has apparently been exaggerating to the taxpayers with these predictions of 40 students per class room:

By the union's recently released numbers, there are 837 teachers. With an estimated 10,000 students in the district, that equates to 11.94 students per teacher even before you calculate in the 33% absentee rate.

With the normal absentee rate figured in, on an average day there should be 8 or less students in a class room. SOME OVERCROWDING!

The moral of the story is that if you are going to use scare tactics hyped with inaccurate information, make sure someone else doesn't release figures that prove the sky really isn't falling!

Could this be why the Board of Education continues to refuse to release the information about how they are spending taxpayer money?

June 19, 2010 at 1:17 PM
Anonymous said...

"Anonymous said; By the union's recently released numbers, there are 837 teachers. With an estimated 10,000 students in the district, that equates to 11.94 students per teacher even before you calculate in the 33% absentee rate."

Sir, your math is excellent but it is not telling you the truth. It simply is not true that a teacher onlysees 11.94 students per day!

June 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM
Anonymous said...

anonymous said...Sir, your math is excellent but it is not telling you the truth. It simply is not true that a teacher onlysees 11.94 students per day!


How could it not be true if they have by their own numbers 837 teachers and 10,000 students, unless of course 100's of these teachers get paid to do nothing and don't ever teach even one student?

Like the tenured teacher who keeps telling everyone they can kiss her you know what before she'd lift a finger to help even one student because she is protected by the union?

June 19, 2010 at 6:21 PM
Anonymous said...

If it were up to me, we would completely eliminate public schools. The parents would be given a voucher and could choose the private school to send their child to. Since the private sector always performs better, the child would get a better education and the cost would be a fraction of government run schools, so everyone wins except the unions who keep bleeding the taxpayers for every dime they can extort out of us!

June 19, 2010 at 6:29 PM
Anonymous said...

How many teachers are already planning for retirement this year? And, how many teachers are overdue
to retire and can be replaced by younger, lower salaried teachers?

June 19, 2010 at 6:50 PM
Anonymous said...

Every child in the U.S. is entitled to an education. Here in CT students get a very good education (including here in NB). We take alot of money from businesses and property owners and the majority of that money is turned over to our department of education. We spend alot of money and we spend enough money on education. Now what we don't know is exactly how that money is spent.
From what our current administration would have us believing is that all of the money goes to teacher salaries and if they don't get more, teacher's will be cut. We don't know if this is necessary, we only know what we are being told. We have no confidence in what we are being told but many simply believe this.

Mayor Stewart is the bad guy. This is the same mayor that just approved a 10 million dollar expansion to the Diloreto Magnet School. Why did he do that? Did you forget? He cared about the education and conditions at that school.

June 19, 2010 at 7:01 PM
Anonymous said...

we only know what we are being told. We have no confidence in what we are being told but many simply believe this.


THIS IS BECAUSE THE BOARD OF ED REFUSES TO TELL US WHERE THEY ARE SPENDING OUR MONEY. WHEN THE MAYOR OR THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL CAN'T EVEN GET THE INFORMATION, SOMETHING IS WRONG!

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE WITH THE MONEY THAT THEY ARE TOO ASHAMED TO TELL US?

June 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM
Anonymous said...

Every child in the U.S. is entitled to an education--but nothing says we can't contract that education out to private schools who provide a better education for half the cost. Anything the government does, the private sector can do better!

June 19, 2010 at 9:59 PM
Anonymous said...

Sir, your math is excellent but it is not telling you the truth. It simply is not true that a teacher onlysees 11.94 students per day!


More like only 8 students per class with the absentee rate. According to the board's own figures, a full 1/3 of all students are absent on any normal day! Apparently the NB school system is like MSNBC--no one is watching!

June 20, 2010 at 2:26 AM

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