Comments on: In split vote, OUSD board puts American Indian charter schools on notice

By: Nontcair

Nontcair — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:36:38 +0000

Sorry. Wrong forum.

By: Nontcair

Nontcair — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:35:38 +0000

Founded in 1970, Public Counsel is the public interest law firm of the Los Angeles County and Beverly Hills Bar Associations as well as the Southern California affiliate of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Total leftists who work for the interests of the LEGAL Guild. Many years ago Nader founded a group just like it. I still see its name attached to stories about left wing causes. Public education is a like a sandbox for lawyers.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:12:02 +0000

Aside from the money fraud that is surrounding this school, why hasn’t there been any recent investigations into whether or not all the teachers at the school are properly credentialed? I know this was an issue a year ago- what makes people think they have changed? The ‘principals’ of the school don’t have administration credentials, and they’ve been 3 different ones in a year. Is it different for charter schools? If OUSD really dug deep, there could more problems with the school than just a founder who took money in illegal ways.

By: Nontcair

Nontcair — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:59:19 +0000

The “taxation w/out rep” issue was yet another appeal to those who were sympathetic to idea that colonists were being denied their basic rights as Englishmen.

Of course, to the average guy on the street that philosophical point was a small issue (if it even mattered at all) compared to the fact that they were liable to actually *pay* the taxes.

In any event, some of the most *despised* British taxes — ie the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act — had been repealed before then, and the dreaded Tea Tax never really got off the ground.

High taxes legitimately imposed by Bostoners are always worse than lesser taxes illegitimately imposed by Britishers.

Nowadays the only tax repeals we seem to hear anything about are ones to end tax *cuts*!

One of my favorite grievances expressed in the DoI is the following: He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

By: J.R.

J.R. — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:46:14 +0000

CarolineSF,
If people are gullible enough to accept lousy excuse for decade after decade after decade of substandard public school performance along with unsustainable salaries and benefits, anything is possible I would gather.

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_public-education-spending.html

By: CarolineSF

CarolineSF — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:31:52 +0000

I’m just asking: Is there ANYone who’s gullible enough not to believe that this school — which is violating a whole raft of laws and standards — isn’t cheating its brains out on its “sky-high” test scores?

By: Observer

Observer — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:22:28 +0000

Ann is completely correct. And the response to the middle class parents is always, “Put your children in these schools and work to make them better!” anything other than that renders accusations of elitism.

By: Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:56:25 +0000

Ann #30 Reposting because I don’t want it to get lost.

“I had a strong preference for keeping my children in public schools but neither the OUSD nor the teachers union have fought, worked or coordinated to make Oakland’s middle schools safe or academically challenging institutions. They’ve fought to close schools and to keep them open, they’ve fought over bond measures, they’ve fought over contracts, they’ve fought over seniority, they’ve fought over tests and tests scores.

…OUSD and their teachers struggles with each other are more consuming to them than my children’s education.”

It is sad how many “liberal” people can applaud throwing immigrant and largely minority children out of safe and high performing middle schools and high schools and moving them into failing institutions with drug, violence and discipline problems which distract from achievement, put them at risk and at an academic disadvantage. The Oakland School Board, Tony Smith, the unions and the wonks have to stop making decisions based on the politics and ideology and start making them based on what is best for children. They have children getting bullied, beaten and shot and they are spending time and money tying to close a safe schools during a crime wave.”

By: Gordon Danning

Gordon Danning — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:47:06 +0000

Nontcair: As I recall, the original objection was not to taxation per se, but to taxation without representation? Indeed, in the long list of grievances set forth in the Declaration od Independence, there is but one reference to taxes, and it is this: “For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent”

By: Nontcair

Nontcair — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:39:21 +0000

It wasn’t long after Lexington when the State of MA imposed taxes which were even HIGHER than the ones the original Tea Partiers are associated with opposing.

The USG currently imposes taxes which make the colonial British ones look small by comparison, and it has for a LONG time.