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Spitzer - Exhibit A to outsource public education
By JL "Buzz" Aguirre | 07/16/08 | 09:22 PM EDT | 0 Comments
We have made the argument that Deliverance does not work.
We have also made the argument that politicians need to be taken out of the public education equation. For the purposes of this discussion we are not even looking at the bigger globalization picture.
Heck, we are not even looking at the Transformator (why Transformator, you might ask? Just ask the Kennnedy's or the Obama campaign - but that is another conversation) throwing millions to educating California children to roll sushi.
Assemblyman Todd Spitzer - former School Board Member and former AP Teacher is exhibit A for everything that is wrong with public education: We have asked him in the past to get involved in common interest development issues, with not even a peep.
Yet, he readily agrees to speak at a rally in support of students whom had their Advanced Placement test scores nullified after 10 students admitted to cheating on the test.
The apparent argument is that the Trabuco HS administration should be penalized for such blatant action. Why should 375 students be penalized or their ethics even questioned when only 10 cheaters have been identified?
According to Stephen Davis, a psychology professor at Emporia State University in Kansas, surveys of college students in the 1940s showed that 20 percent of them admitted to having cheated in high school, whereas according to a 1998 survey by the Josepheson Institute of Ethics in Marina del Rey, 70 percent of high-school students (and 54 percent of middleschool students) said they'd cheated on an exam in the last 12 months!
More recently, two Tesoro High School students are being charged with upwards of 69 felony counts of unauthorized computer access, burglary, fraud, identity theft, conspiracy and altering public records.
Apparently the Honorable Todd Spitzer is taking a page out of the Obama playbook by pandering to the youth vote.
The message the Honorable Todd Spitzer is sending to school administrators is, What part of I am King do you not understand? The message to kids? Do not worry about accountability - there are plenty of jobs in politics!
We have also made the argument that politicians need to be taken out of the public education equation. For the purposes of this discussion we are not even looking at the bigger globalization picture.
Heck, we are not even looking at the Transformator (why Transformator, you might ask? Just ask the Kennnedy's or the Obama campaign - but that is another conversation) throwing millions to educating California children to roll sushi.
Assemblyman Todd Spitzer - former School Board Member and former AP Teacher is exhibit A for everything that is wrong with public education: We have asked him in the past to get involved in common interest development issues, with not even a peep.
Yet, he readily agrees to speak at a rally in support of students whom had their Advanced Placement test scores nullified after 10 students admitted to cheating on the test.
The apparent argument is that the Trabuco HS administration should be penalized for such blatant action. Why should 375 students be penalized or their ethics even questioned when only 10 cheaters have been identified?
According to Stephen Davis, a psychology professor at Emporia State University in Kansas, surveys of college students in the 1940s showed that 20 percent of them admitted to having cheated in high school, whereas according to a 1998 survey by the Josepheson Institute of Ethics in Marina del Rey, 70 percent of high-school students (and 54 percent of middleschool students) said they'd cheated on an exam in the last 12 months!
More recently, two Tesoro High School students are being charged with upwards of 69 felony counts of unauthorized computer access, burglary, fraud, identity theft, conspiracy and altering public records.
Apparently the Honorable Todd Spitzer is taking a page out of the Obama playbook by pandering to the youth vote.
The message the Honorable Todd Spitzer is sending to school administrators is, What part of I am King do you not understand? The message to kids? Do not worry about accountability - there are plenty of jobs in politics!
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