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“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.” (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
51% of the country cheered when they first heard police were shot by snipers in retaliation for the unnecessary shootings making the rounds these past two days. The other 49% reacted with regret.
But those other 49% cheered the two blacks being killed.. Ha, take that, Obama!….. (referring to Tea Party Congressman Walsh’s currently calling for both Black Lives Matter leaders and Obama’s assassination).
Social media today is full of everyone’s pontifications. The point lost however, is that shaming is ineffective when the people you are trying to shame, are proud of what they did. Just as when you are proud of what you do, you care little about how your enemies try to paint you, probably because their reaction, justifies your original action.
True “Wisdom” calls both sides out for being wrong… Because if there is one lesson taught by world history, it is that violence begets violence and the only way to stop it, is for one side to completely disappear, as in down to zero, or… both sides become so tired of the costs they negotiate a solution,… the latter which could have just as easily been wrought WITHOUT all the costly violence transpiring.
War’s only solution is to stop it cold prior to the very first provocation.
To understand this train of thought, one first needs to understand violence. Violence occurs when people become frustrated that justice is being ignored by a majority of the status quo. Whether you are ISIS, black, or a Republican Christian like Timothy McVey, you resort to violence because you can express your anger on that playing field, whereas you are completely boxed up on all others….
In study of conflict after conflict, there is roughly a six month window in which solutions acceptable to both sides can occur. The first violence is a surprise. Neither side is mobilized and interior battles are still ongoing between the moderates and extremists of either position.
If things quickly change for the better, in each group it is the moderates who gain more followers as extremists lose them: “Whew, good thing we didn’t start fighting; everything worked out well”. BUT, if nothing quickly changes, it becomes the extremists who gain the upper hand in each organization, simply because what they offer is something different than inaction: “not fighting the bully” is not working; “fighting the bully” is the only viable plan left.”
It is at these points where controlling governments make their mistake. They respond reactively instead of proactively. They are reacting logically which does nothing to appease the rampant emotions surrounding the issue. If they prosecute these officers and prosecute the police murderers (the logical solution) they do nothing to stem future racist officers from killing other blacks or other angry blacks from killing future police officers… the violence continues which conveys the frustrating message that nothing has changed
When the perception appears that nothing has been done, the attraction to more violence, grows.
Today’s events blatantly illustrate this. Louisiana’s Democratic Governor turned the Baton Rouge case over to the Feds. who we all know could never be persuaded to white wash what happened and lie to protect the police officers. That should had ended the controversy behind the first shooting. Over! Done! Justice will be served… But that reaction was dwarfed by another event, a totally unrelated video shot a thousand miles to the north. And now that video just got overshadowed by the sniping at cops in Dallas. Are we done yet? Or will another video surface today?
To prevent chaos, you have to jump over the crises of today and intercept tomorrow’s crises before it happens. This usually requires an illogical action that is so bizarre, it puzzles the will and stops all in their tracks while they analyze what in the heck you just did. Successful tyrants have done this across history. Imagine for example if we arrested and imprisoned without bail, the Koch Brothers and the officers of the NRA, and shut down Fox News. This shock would be enough to stop the violence. You reacted and stopped cold the root cause of the violence; instead of just treating the symptoms.
Were you to do this, those racist officers intent on starting a race war, would be afraid that doing so would put their superiors in jeopardy, which would be harder for them to live through than going through what has now become the standard acquittal process. Particularly those superiors feeling the threat, would seminar those in the streets with daily reminders to shoot no one for any reason, lest the “real Law” comes for the boss to take him away….
This immediately changes the culture in police departments everywhere. Within hours. You go from being afraid for your life, to being afraid of losing your job which to a police person, is a far greater fear than that of losing ones life, a risk you accepted when you took the job.
Admittedly, this would be difficult to do in America because we are a nation founded on the principle of moving slowly by consensus. But it was quite effective in Soviet Russia during Stalin’s tenure and in North Korea today. That is how autocratic nations are run. Grab someone randomly who is no more guilty of crimes than were those dead police officers or the two black gunned down, and punish them. Since you don’t know who your actions will hurt, you don’t propagate any. Here in America, the equivalent would be to arrest the Koch’s…. and since they’d be a flight risk, … no bail.
But just imagine if the NRA, Koch’s, and Fox News were suddenly leaderless. Silence on the NRA’s part, no secret money funneled to hate groups on the Koch’s part, and no propaganda on Fox News Part.. Instead we would see it for what it is: crazy people doing crazy things and being punished by the calm rule of lawt. We would be told such was the cost of freedom and shown fractions like 7/319,000,000 to drive home the point that 318,999,993 of us have little to worry over… We would be reminded of how there are 900,000 police officers in the United States, and how only 3 of them killed with no provocation these last two days. We could be told that if you get pulled over you have an 899,997/900,000 chance of having no life threatening situation occur.
And if we become convinced that we have little to worry over, the costs of instigating violence to ourselves and our families far outweigh any gain we would otherwise see….
Because when you deal with people who access to weapons, you can’t stop violence with force… Iraq’s occupation was one example. Britain’s domination of Ireland is another. Palestine versus Israel is a third. You only stop violence by making those individuals who are armed, not want to hurt anyone….
And that will require a lot of changes… A police force can offer free hugs in a university town all it wants, but until you stop the posts of: Like and Share if you support Police Officers killing Blacks for no reason, it is just one molecule in an ocean.
When you have a fire, you don’t add gasoline… Arresting the Koch Brothers, the NRA leadership, and Fox News would do a lot to remove gasoline which we all know, shouldn’t even be near a fire to begin with…
As anyone who has dealt with terrorism knows, if you build a hospital to display goodwill and the terrorists come in and kill everyone there, no one goes to that hospital anymore… no matter how sick. You have to take-out those who call for violence and arresting the Koch’s, NRA leadership, and silencing Fox News, would take 98% of those promoting this insanity, off the streets and out of the public eye in 24 hours.
We need to focus on the REAL problem, not the symptoms.
We hail our fallen heroes. Hopefully many of you stirred some dull roots with spring rain today:… memories, both a blessing and a curse.
But for whom did they die?
Did they die for….
Top 5 Contributors, 2009 – 2014, Campaign Cmte and Leadership PAC Contributor Total Indivs PACs
AstraZeneca PLC $71,550 $36,550 $35,000
JPMorgan Chase & Co $58,200 $33,200 $25,000
Ashland Inc $55,420 $25,700 $29,720
Blue Cross/Blue Shield $46,000 $6,000 $40,000
Bank of America $40,440 $3,940 $36,500
Those were Tom Carper’s top 5 contibutors……
Or did they die for….
Top 5 Contributors, 2009 – 2014, Campaign Cmte and Leadership PAC Contributor Total Indivs PACs
Young, Conaway et al $121,300 $121,300 $0
Skadden, Arps et al $92,600 $87,600 $5,000
Grant & Eisenhofer $70,049 $70,049 $0
Comcast Corp $69,200 $44,200 $25,000
Morris, Nichols et al $57,550 $57,550 $0
Those were Chris Coons’ top 5 contributors……
Or did they die for…....
Top 5 Contributors, 2013 – 2014, Campaign Cmte and Leadership PAC Contributor Total Indivs PACs
Investment Co Institute $12,500 $8,140 $2,500
Skadden, Arps et al $10,640 $8,140 $2,500
National Multi Housing Council $10,500 $0 $10,500
Bank of America $10,250 $750 $9,500
AstraZeneca PLC $10,198 $250 $9,948
These are John Carney’s top contributors……
Our state relative to nationally, is actually on the good end of campaign contribution spectrum. Nothing here, is really out of line. You should see some in other states…
But let us isolate by industry…..
For John Carney….
Top 5 Industries, 2013 – 2014, Campaign Cmte and Leadership PAC Industry Total Indivs PACs
Insurance $96,520 $2,820 $93,700
Securities & Investment $93,000 $1,500 $91,500
Lawyers/Law Firms $59,110 $45,610 $13,500
Commercial Banks $49,000 $1,250 $47,750
Finance/Credit Companies $43,250 $5,250 $38,000
For Chris Coons…….
Top 5 Industries, 2009 – 2014, Campaign Cmt Industry Total Indivs PACs
Lawyers/Law Firms $1,495,387 $1,341,519 $153,868
Leadership PACs $512,900 $0 $512,900
Lobbyists $345,302 $325,472 $19,830
Securities & Investment $296,800 $235,300 $61,500
TV/Movies/Music $228,157 $163,800 $64,357
For Tom Carper……..
Top 5 Industries, 2009 – 2014, Campaign Cmte Industry Total Indivs PACs
Insurance $371,710 $94,470 $277,240
Securities & Investment $320,340 $125,840 $194,500
Lawyers/Law Firms $294,382 $170,761 $123,621
Lobbyists $214,262 $207,042 $7,220
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $207,710 $50,300 $157,410
And now, in what I believe is the first time ever…. here is the combination giving you an idea of who influences our 3 man delegation… Compiled by adding together all three’s industry totals listed above and then ranking them top down…..
Lawyers/Law Firms …………….. $1,848,879
Securities & Investment ……………. $710,140
Insurance…..,,,,,,,,,……………. , …… $668,257
Leadership PACs ………………………. $675,400
Lobbyists ………………………………,…$568,779
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $486,108
Commercial Banks …………………….$435,240
TV/Movies/Music……………………….$292,067
Finance/Credit Companies………….$208,865
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And that is who owns our delegation…. Just seeing the visual makes it clear why some of the anti-people votes cast by this delegation, … are ever cast at all…. No, contrary to how we exclaim… They are not insane. They are practical….
It will get worse with McCutcheon passed…
Already the amount of dark money as shown by tallies done by the Center for Responsive Politics show that nondisclosing groups have already reported spending more than three times as much as they had at this point in the 2012 elections — a presidential cycle when higher spending would be expected.”
Did you get that? The unprecedented spending done in 2012, a contested presidential year, as of now been tripled over the same point of time back in 2012…….. . And it is both sides. In the past dark money was 80% Conservative, 20% Liberal. Today (2014), it is 60% Conservative; 40% Liberal… Spending by liberal nondisclosing groups is more than four times higher than it was at this point in 2012, while their conservative counterparts have tripled their previous spending level……
Which means, no tv watching this summer… and social media will become a real turn-off…. Both mean that most of America will tune out this election… Thank you, Supreme Court….. What were you smoking?
And if most of America tunes out this election, it again begs the moral and serious question…. for whom did they die? Certainly not us.
See? These tests are nothing but bull sh\t…
This teacher just missed her goal by one person. Obviously her score was too high, so arbitrarily enough students were failed to drop the score to below her agreed-to goal…. All 12 got an 86 which marked the bottom of proficient. Yet 5 passed, 7 failed. And ironically, most of those students who skipped class, were given the passing grades over those who had perfect attendance all year long.
These tests are nothing but bull sh\t….
Delaware has to get rid of its Smart Balanced and maintain the DCAS until other states give us the green light that Smarter Balanced is OK.
By being first, Markell is the acting cheerleader for the entire Common Core. Us Delawareans are in the unfortunate circumstance of having to go along with the cheerleader’s point of view, where other governors who did not get picked to drive up the enthusiasm levels, are able to look with an honest eye, and are in unison, saying…. “unh, unh… No way….”
Delaware’s Legislators must investigate for themselves what is in the Smarter Balanced Assessments…. Delaware’s Legislators themselves must visit teachers, away from DOE handlers…. (ie, meet privately) and simply ask… “Which is better for our kids… The Smarter Balanced Assessment? or the DCAS?”
It appears the following sources cannot be trusted to tell the truth about what is happening to our children…. Jack Markell, Mark Murphy, staff of DOE, Dave Sokola, Darryl Scott, Frederika Jenner, Delaware Chamber of Commerce, Rodel, And that is sad. But they are marketers… and that is what marketers… do.
I’m not saying I’m right or wrong about this.. I’m saying Delaware’s children deserve only the best and to get that, every legislator owes it to their district’s children, and parents, to get this right….
If I am right, and after 12 years of schooling our children come out of this educational circus dumb as rocks,…. going forward solely based on trust being placed in this administration, will cause our state huge future problems we wouldn’t otherwise have, for decades to come.
This was totally inspired by Nancy’s commentary on last night’s public meeting…… I’m curious. Does it fit? Like a glove?
Courtesy of AP/Nati Harnik
This is the DOT 111…. It is called the traveling nuclear bomb. This rail car was deemed unsafe in 1990… it still carries 65% of the crude across North America…. It is these cars that blew up La Magnetic in Quebec. It is these cars that blew up Casselton, North Dakota. It is the cars that blew up in Lynchburg, VA just last week…
Here is the explanation via video.
The National Transportation Safety Board has been urging replacing or retrofitting the tank cars since 1991 (George H.W. Bush was president), but the most recent federal effort to write tougher regulations for new cars didn’t get underway until 2011…. You can rightly blame the oil presidency for that delay. New rules are to be out by this upcoming December….
Though these cars look nice, they are easily ruptured in an accident, spilling out their contents. With US oil production being up 70% over 2009 levels, increasing per day production from 5 million barrels to 8.5 million barrels per day, these cars are getting a heavier workout than at any time in their history. Increased exposure means increased potential for a harmful accident….
U.S. freight railroads transported about 415,000 carloads of crude in 2013, up from just 9,500 in 2008, according to government and industry figures. That is an increase of 4200%…. So yes, that translates to having 4200 times more of a chance at a spill, 4200 more of a chance at an explosion, or 4200 more chance of a death or maiming….
The rail and chemical industries have committed to a safer design for new tankers but are pressing regulators not to require modifications to tens of thousands of existing cars, despite a spike in the number of accidents… It is modifications to these cars that will save lives..
Essentially we and regulators are being asked to trade in our lives for their money…. In other words they can fix the problem, but it will cost them money to do so, and they don’t want that. Since if a train explodes not that many people will die, that is an acceptable loss society should bear they say, so as not to invest any money into a tank car that will soon be scrap metal once newer safer cars are available…..
After last years explosions Canada has moved forward on making their railroads safer… The US has gotten as far as a Congressional Hearing.
Then 2 months ago, the NSTB issued an emergency order. The order requires all crude oil be properly tested before being transported. And all crude that travels by rail must be carried in these DOT-111 tank cars. The older DOT-111 tank cars were deemed inadequate by the National Transportation Board more than 20 years ago.
Some crude from the Bakken region, including the oil in the tragic Lac Megantic derailment, was misclassified. What that means is that potentially explosive crude oil was being shipped in rail cars even less safe than the DOT-111’s. The so-called misclassification has resulted in $93,000 in fines.
So if you are driving through Bear, and a train is crossing your path, look up and see if the rail cars look like the one above, If so, make U turn and get out of there… quick! The extra few minutes your drive may cost you, could mean a lifetime of thank-yous….
Fed Ex shooting. A FedEx employee wearing ammunition draped across his chest “like Rambo” opened fire
All legal in Georgia.
In addition to a shotgun, the gunman also had an undisclosed number of molotov cocktails,
All legal in Georgia.
The shooter first shot a security guard at a shack outside the building.. Everything up to the split second the shell impacted the guard, was under Georgia’s new law, completely legal.
He was a white male.
Is anyone really surprised? Guns are more important than people inside the state lines of Georgia…..
It is rare in politics when you can see clarity over where a person or party wants to go.. Our former congressman Mike Castle was very good at talking out of both sides of his mouth… I once heard him extol all the benefits of dismantling public schools, and was getting really angry over his direction, and swearing to myself that he had to be unseated by any means possible, even a Tea Party candidate, and then, almost in the same breath, he said: “one the other hand….” and begin running down my list of why public schools had to be saved… and I could feel myself cheering for each one… “yes, he gets it..”
It was my eye opener to politics in the real world. Prior I had the naive assumption one pitched causes to one’s constituents and ran on whether they wanted to go or not go in that direction… For example in Newark, if you want to breathe toxic elements you vote for this candidate, and if you want something more eco-friendly to go into the Star campus, you vote for their opponent. Real politics doesn’t work that way. In real politics both candiates play both sides and dodge being pinned to any side whatsoever… aka Chris Coons, John Carney, and Tom Carper… for examples….
So it is refreshing when clarity sneaks in through a back door… Like X ray glasses. When you see the skeleton upon which all the now invisible flesh is hanging….you surmise the flesh form would kind of be draped across the skeletal frame you currently see in your vision. If the skeleton was crouched, about ready to pounce, you should know to run, even thought you had no idea what animal’s skin and fur and facial features, If the skeleton was ambling slowly to you, head to the ground, like a horse, apparently grazing, you would know it probably was safe to relax and check it out more closely….
The skeleton of the Republican party is its money. Without big money it couldn’t survive. It certainly doesn’t represent real human being’s interests. It represents a very radical minorities interest and without huge sums of money, it would by now long have been eliminated…. Like impoverished flesh draped across a skeleton, it’s shape IS its skeletal structure, which in this case is… HUGE money.
Don’t know if anyone else is familiar with literature surrounding pimps and hoes. Unfortunately my knowledge mostly comes from one ancient Tom Clancy novel.. In that relationship, psychological control was established by isolating a subject down to one single lifeline which the pimp controls. Everything must go through him/her, otherwise you perish. This enables the handler to get his subject to behave as he wishes, often in ways the subject would never have done on their own. Crazy things happen in this way.
That is the best analogy as to how a creep like David Koch, can make Republicans everywhere do crazy, almost suicidal things. Shutting down the government and getting absolutely nothing in return… Remember that? No? Don’t worry, it got quickly pushed off the screen by the Obamacare rollout. Remember the success of Obamacare? Probably not; That was yesterday pushed off the air by Issa and the IRS Tax Controversy, which last year was determined to not be any of a controversy at all… The contention now, is that taking the fifth is not taking the firth if one makes a statement when taking the fifth… Yes! Of course it is bizarre. Would anyone be talking about it if it wasn’t bizarre? And that is the point. Push success off the table, and put something, anything on to scream about… Did anyone hear about Benghazi? Despite that nothing un-American happened, despite a very rational explanation by the CIA that satisfies all inquisitiveness over how it played out … there is under this almost perfect Republican President, nothing else to put on the table…. So. Benghazi it is…
Usually craziness like this would be dropped. How many utterances by a Tourette syndrome sufferer currently make the nightly national news? Probably quite a bit,… if they were as wealthy and as willing to spend as is David Koch….
The point of this embellishment, is to show that the current irrational behavior of the Republican Party, if understood by the relationship of pimp to hoe, is actually very rational. Just like an abused child has to use their brain to navigate around their irrational and sick, diseased abuser, so do Republican operatives have to do irrational things to stay alive and in office….
So putting on one’s X ray glasses and looking at the Republican Party, one sees nothing but the skeletal frame of David Koch….. Studying what is David Koch, will point us to what the Republican Party is going to do, when we elect them in 2014….. It is pretty much determined that without any type of uprising, they WILL win both houses of Congress in 2014…. So what will that be like?
Study the frame of David Koch…. By luck, we were handed a copy of what David Koch stood on 34 years ago…. ..He was vice president of the Libertarian Party, and he published a testament to all he believes…. As you know, even though George HW Bush was silent after accepting Reagan’s VP offer, prior to that he coined the term “Voodoo Economics” which even after all this time, he still believes he was right today. And so do we. The point, is that whenever one is campaigning for oneself… one tends to be very honest. It is only after one loses or after one wins, that one begins talking outside of both sides of one’s mouth… Therefore if we could only find somewhere, what David Koch was running on and stood for in that campaign, we would know exactly what the Republican Party will do if both houses get owned by it in 2014….
Guess what? We do. Thanks to Bernie Sanders who brought it back up to the surface…. If this is what you believe in, then by all means, vote Republican… But if this really scares you. even if you currently resided in a safe district, you can’t just sit still. IF you sit still like always. then expect this……
We , the Koch- funded Republican Party of 2014 do attest to the following….
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“We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.”
“We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
“We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.”
“We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.”
“We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.”
“We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.”
“We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.”
“We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.”
“As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.”
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
“We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals.Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.”
“We condemn compulsory education laws … and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.”
“We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.”
“We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
“We support abolition of the Department of Energy.”
“We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.”
“We demand the return of America’s railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.”
“We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called “self-protection” equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.”
“We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.”
“We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.”
“We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.”
“We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.”
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
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Sound familiar? Of course it does…. As goes the pimp, so goes the hoe….
Courtesy of Kaiser Foundation
Should you live or die from an accident or life threatening illness? Depends apparently on where you live… If you live in the Blue, you survive. If you live in the Orange, goodbye… Simple, clear, concise.
Served to you courtesy of ALEC and the Republican Party of the United States of America
The new Charter School of Wilmington will be 2800 students.
Christina District currently sends out $3701 per every child it sends to charters. That amount varies depending on district, but just to get an idea, let us use that figure.
The new school will take 2800 students…. Therefore 2800 students times that dollar amount equals $10,362,800… This amount to paraphrase Ross Perot in the 1992 campaign, will act as a giant sucking sound siphoning off of all 4 districts created out of the desegregation debacle. Christina, Red Clay, Colonial, and Brandywine….
Systemwide those 4 districts currently have 55,794 students…. Subtract the 2800 out of them, and systemwide there are now 55,294 students left…
The loss of $10,362,800 across those 4 districts of 55,294 boils down to an average loss of $196 per student.
Go to the state’s website, click on your district, click on your school… Your student population should appear on a graph. Hover on the top of the last dot on the graph, (that would be 2014) and the student population appears in a little white box. Take that number and times it by $196 to get the shocking revelation of what this Charter costs your school….
This represents the drain of resources this giant charter will cost this area… $196 per child… The reality is that in some districts it will be much worse. If by some slim chance all of the students came out of Red Clay for example, the real cost of this charter would be $566 per student and none of the other districts would be affected…. But in reality most likely it will be split, though not equally. Best guess is Christina and Red Clay each pick up a third of the loss, Brandywine and Colonial split the remaining third as sharing two pieces of 1/6th…… If so, the losses to each district would run thusly:
Christina 933 students lost $3,453,033 total students in district (16721) adjusted district total (15,788) loses $218 per student across entire district
Red Clay 934 students lost $3,456,734 total students in district (18295) adjusted district total (17,361) loses $196 per student across entire district
Brandywine 467 students lost $1,728,367 total students in district (10802) adjusted district total (10335) loses $167 per student across entire district
Colonial 466 students lost $1,724,666 total students in district (9976) adjusted district total (9510) loses $181 per student across entire district
Just a guess… So now, go to your school and figure out its total loss per school, per grade, and per class….
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Your child is losing this part of your tax dollars so those owning the new school get rich. There is really no other honest explanation.. They can’t teach better. They can’t discipline better. In fact, if one takes the charter schools across the state, and isolates them by income, they all under-perform the public schools on the same economic level…. A public school with only 8% low income, does better than any charter school with 8% low income. Likewise a public school with 95% low income, does better than a charter with 95% low income…
What this school does is pull out students from your schools to give them an inferior education, just so those owning the charter school make a profit (rent money) off of your property tax dollars… Property tax dollars that should be going to new and improved services in your districts schools…
And this in that process, cuts down on the investment of your child… If your child goes to Brandywine in 2015, he will have $167 less spent on him than he will in 2014. If your child goes to Red Clay, he will have $196 less spent on him in 2015, than he will have in 2014. If your child goes to Colonial, he will have $181 less in 2015 than in 2014. If he goes to Christina, he will have less $218 less spent in 2015, than in 2014….
Most likely a referendum will go out asking you to pay more … to cover that difference… And …That is a huge difference.. Figure a class of 23 kids? $5014 less per classroom!… That money will need to come from somewhere or class room performance will have no other choice but to go down…
You will ask… Why do I have to pay more? The answer will be: honestly? … so those owning the Bank of America Building off Rodney Square in Wilmington, get paid….
That is the only reason and that is why you need to take action …. as soon as you finish reading this….
Do you know your Representative or Senator? Click on those two links and you will soon.
Do you know how to contact them by email or phone? Go to these email links for House and Senate and you will soon….
Simply express your dissatisfaction with your representative for allowing this to go forward… Right now, that should be enough… Make it explicitly clear you are against the Philadelphiazation of New Castle County’s 4 school districts… We are Delaware! We are not Chicago. We are not Milwaukee. We are not Washington DC. We are not Philadelphia. There is no reason except for the greed of a handful of well-connected men (no women), as to why we should trash our school systems as did happen in all those cities…….
Contact them today…..
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