Quotable Quote — Dean Cameron

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  otisgexperience on March 28 at 4:03 p.m.

  Too bad HBO posts don’t have a “Like” button.

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  Sisyphus on March 28 at 4:27 p.m.

  Excellent comment. Treating kids like fungible goods was the way this thing was packaged from day 1, ever since Luna started referring to them as “customers”. Running government like a business renders our children to be mere products at the end of an assembly line. Remember what they do to the ones that come out wrong.

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  keithincda on March 28 at 4:57 p.m.

  Seems to be working somewhere else ok. Doesn’t mean I support and doesn’t mean it will work here in Idaho, it’s just somewhere that show’s it seems to have been done successfully.

  http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/03/28/stories-from-main-street-montvale-school-ditches-books-chalkboards-for-laptops/

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  Sisyphus on March 28 at 5:23 p.m.

  I very much doubt folks in New York and New Jersey were given the choice of laptop or teacher. I don’t think there’s any problem with the idea that our kids need to be computer proficient or that computers, when used properly, will make everything much more efficient. The objection centers on the idea that it can be used instead of a teacher.

  But your comment also focuses on the superfluous nature of the other two bills, killing collective bargaining, removing the protections on teachers as a profession, and incentivizing teachers to make sure their students do well. With those “essential components” of education deform, teachers will become the glorified babysitters that legislators think they are.

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  hmoffsuite on March 28 at 5:24 p.m.

  Here is another interesting article……..

  “The cost of small class size”

  “That class size should be small is revered like an article of faith in this country. Its adherents include parents, education groups, politicians and, of course, the unions whose ranks it swells. In many states it is even required by law, which has lead to millions of dollars in fines against schools in Florida and a lawsuit against New York City by its teachers union.”

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-cost-of-small-class-size/2011/03/03/AFPGSkkB_story.html

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  Kootenai_Conservative on March 28 at 7:21 p.m.

  Ugh. It’s one thing to have the IEA and the Dems spreading such a lie, but for a prominent GOP senator to circulate it too? I hope the other members of his caucus call him out for this nonsense and he issues a public retraction.

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  greenlibertarian on March 28 at 10:56 p.m.

  There are a variety of MASSIVE problems (including the rubber room) with schools in New York City, along with some stunning successes.

  Generally, there is little in that system that is applicable to Idaho or other schools.

  The best and the better teachers are not motivated by money to make their pupils succeed.

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