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In no way do I understand your response here but you're still my guy.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Not trying to be rude but this entire paragraph didn't answer my question in any way.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Private school teaching is just a much easier job, smaller classes, students behave better or they get kicked out..it pays less but its an easier gig and there is way more job security.

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I can't argue any of that, but don't you think in 5 years that charter schools will be all over the city?

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I don't understand what you are looking for or what you are asking then. When needs or issues interfere with your child's education it's really frustrating.

Girl! So many great points I don't know what to agree with! LOL. You just said everything I would say!

You on for that private wine tasting? No taxpayer dollars! LOL.

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So many errands, so little time!

I'm sure it is and I don't have kids so I can't relate to that unfortunately.

My question isn't hard. I'm asking you, taking into consideration everything you just wrote, if you would prefer your kid not to be in school with kids with "psychological, emotional, learning, and behavior problems"

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

You don't have kids so stop lecturing us normal people.

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It is pretty mean to say, but if you do not have kids, you absolutely cannot talk about kids.

I remember doing it as a yunggin' - had no idea whatsoever. Its basically like your whole behavioral and internal system completely morphs when you go into "Family Mode".

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE

This is stupid. Stop being stupid, please.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

lol get yourself a new M.O.

. .. and some kids. . .

. . . And then we'll talk!

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE

Panther is right on the money with this one.

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I know you are dumber than the average person, but even a stupid person can see the logical conclusion to this line of thinking and I don't think you would like it.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Panther spitting so much truth, he must have dry mouth.

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Humph. I guess I wished the schools handled it better. If there was an absolute world I had the choice, no I don't want my kids with them. It's rough. Some of them present challenges and issues beyond what I and my kids are capable of handling. I'd like to send my kids to a catholic/private high school. I say that as catholic educated and mr spaulding as not.

He doesn't have kids. No need to even consider his thoughts.

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I don't mean this to be an asshole although it will surely sound like that, but how do you know the challenges that your kids can handle and cannot? When I was in jr high and high school my parents certainly had no idea even though they were very involved. I think you are putting your kids at a disadvantage by now exposing them to every different type of person you can. That's the problem with our country right now in a nutshell. Everybody wants to live in an echo chamber where them and their loved ones will never be challenged to think differently than they otherwise would have.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

If you keep driving that same old car, everyone else who has new cars is going to speed right by you, Faffy.

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE

He ain't even worth your time, Panther.


12:17 AM

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THIS THREAD, MAN

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I knew spanky was still a lurker!

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE

You're a teacher, right?

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

I don't make any false assumptions. If you read all my thoughts and avoid the thoughts that people falsely attribute to me, you'll see my overall opinion. Several pages back I gave an entire list of reasons why private schools are better.

Public school teachers are in a no win situation. They are hemmed between apathetic parents and an adminstration that is not pulling in the same direction. Now richer school districts can throw unlimited money at the problem and overcome the inherent problems with the way public school districts function.

Private schools would die for a true voucher system. Enrollment has been dropping and christian schools continue to close. Most private schools have lots of low income kids. 25% of the kids at our school do not pay tuition because of need. Their costs are covered by donations. We are not attached to a church that covers the cost. It is made up by other parents. The school is very diversified owing to its Elgin location. Both of my kids' first boy/girlfriend were from another race. I am glad we raised our kids to view all people as equal.

I made the comment about teachers because a few had decided that my opinions were an attempt at union busting. That's what it always boils down to for people wedded to the current system. Do you think CPS goes into negotiations with the kids best interest in mind? When Rahm wanted to increase the country's shortest school day by 30 minutes, what was CPS' response? It wasn't, that sounds great for better educating poor kids. Now I don't think Rahm or Rauner have kids' best interest in mind either.

See, I am an equal opportunity hater. With private schools, I have a choice and a voice. With public schools, the taxpayers have almost no control. Don't read this as hating on union back teachers. They've been fucked over and shit on too. The whole system is broken and under funded. And don't even get me started how the teacher pension problem was created by fiscally irresponsible politicians, and now the teachers get screwed there too.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Why is it ok to bash public schools as much as you want but people say a few bad things about private schools and people go nuts? Private schools are clearly exclusionary. I mean it is literally a school that picks and chooses their students.

I'm guessing the fact that people or people's parents paid thousands of dollars for an education that is pretty much the same as what most would get in public school brings out the emotion. That's why Hatchetman called me a bigot while I basically don't care if someone thinks kids are better in Catholic school.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Mike was hammered last night and FF bent leash over the tractor.

AND A SPANY APPEARANCE.

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The money is certainly an advantage, but there's more to it than that. A friend of mine is a teacher at a regular neighborhood CPS high school (not a magnet or a charter). He says that if you took all the kids from his school and put them in New Trier and took all the kids from New Trier and put them in his school, the money and teachers at New Trier wouldn't automatically make a radical improvement in the students from his school. The parents and their engagement are a huge factor. Obviously denis is an engaged parent and would be regardless of where his kids went to school.

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Freedom is our Strength.

This is a very interesting conversation and I just discussed this issue last week with a friend who has a special needs daughter and his son who is a special education teacher. The son is a big proponent of mainstreaming the special needs kids. It devolved into an argument between the father and son which made me laugh. Eventually I said to my hard head friend, "Your kid just got out of college, he actually has a job in the field, and he's the guy in this conversation with the actual expertise, but you're giving him your know-it-all bullshit. You sound like a dope." The thing that started the conversation was that the kid found out that Hersey has a separate prom for the special needs kids and that infuriated him.

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Freedom is our Strength.

In the heated discussion wherein CFMB was going to fix the nation's education problems this little gem got lost.

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Freedom is our Strength.