Frank Smith Says NB: Education is Valuable - CPOA of New Britain

Friday, May 17, 2013

Education is Valuable - CPOA of New Britain

By Nicholas Mercier, CPOA,President

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Its a shame articles like this are needed. You'd think people are smart enough to realize the entire "bonding for education" is nothing more than a blatant attempt by Tim O'Brien to buy vote from the teachers union, at the expense of the taxpayers.; May 17, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Anonymous said...: school vouchers would solve the problem!; May 17, 2013 at 5:53 PM
Anonymous said...: Money isn't the answer to helping New Britain students perform better. Children who are raised in a loving home that fosters the importance of learning and respect for education will learn and learn well. It starts at home. We continue to be told that poverty and single parent households pull our students down. I beg to differ. Generations of immigrants have arrived to the U.S. with very little money yet their children have thrived and out performed others. I personally beg to differ about single parenting. There are many single parents whose children thrive in school.

It isn't politically correct to tell the truth about why the majority of our students do not perform well. So we resort to trying to fix the issues with other people's hard earned money. It hasn't worked in the past, it isn't working now and taking loans out to borrow more money won't fix anything in the future.; May 19, 2013 at 6:33 AM
Anonymous said...: Actually some of the best performing schools in the nation are also the poorest while the richest schools tend to be the worst performing. What seems to have a more direct connection is whether or not the teachers are unionized because where teachers can actually be held accountable for their actions seems to have more to do with a school's performance than any amount of money.

The bottom line is that across the country non-union schools far outperform unionized schools because teachers can actually be fired for not doing their job, so they are actually held accountable instead of being guaranteed a job for life no matter what they do or don't do, but the Democrats in power continue to sell out your children to the unions just so they can get all that money into their campaigns.; May 19, 2013 at 11:54 AM

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