School Levy Theory Tested

[David Anderson]

I had the pleasure of visiting a Cleveland public school that will open in two weeks with the mission of instructing students who have been in this great country for a year or less.

Named the International Newcomers Academy, the students are mostly from Caribbean, African and Pacific/Asian countries and are not U.S. citizens.

This is just another example to show that some public school districts have a great percentage of students who are highly expensive to teach.



On another note, I applaud the achievements of Avon schools, Bill, and do hope you take the challenge of publishing the practices leaders and teachers there have put into place that have led to this success.

[Bryan Schwegler]

On another note, I applaud the achievements of Avon schools, Bill, and do hope you take the challenge of publishing the practices leaders and teachers there have put into place that have led to this success.

Don't hold your breath. There are clearly some people who just enjoy stirring up the hornets nest with misleading "facts" rather than coming up with actually helpful solutions.

I'm still waiting for Bill to tell me how he would replace colleges and universities in preparing people for the future workforce since he finds them so worthless. Hasn't answered it yet because that would require him to actually come up with a solution rather than just trolling some numbers out there.

[Will Brown]

Not to carry Bill Call's brief, but I don't think he is under any obligation to do what a puppetmaster tells him to do. I share his concern with the runaway costs of public education, when we are never given an explanation of why some school systems cost so much and others don't; only a threat that if we don't approve levies, things will get worse.

I think we put too much value on having a degree, just for the status of having a degree, when the degree has nothing to do with the eventual employment. If you are working behind a counter, you are probably not making use of the degree you and the taxpayers paid so much for.

An example might be becoming an x-ray technician. You can go to college, or a two year college, and take a few courses in x-ray tech, and a lot more in unrelated fields necessary to qualify for your degree. Alternatively, you can enlist in the army and go to technical training, which will cover nothing but x-ray tech. Which way will cost you and us less? Which way will produce an x-ray technician quicker? By the time the person graduates college, with almost no experience, the enlistee will have completed training of equal value (regarding x-ray tech) and will have at least a year of experience.