Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
[AA] spends about $13,000 per student each year, more than twice what local public schools spend.
Actually, CCSD spends > $10,000 per kid, when you account for capital budget, interest, and PERS.
Charter schools are PUBLIC schools.
Charter schools are *taxpayer* funded schools.
Charter schools are just another public education gimmick, like NCLB, empowerment, magnets, Race to the Top, and on and on and on. Charter schools are a CATASTROPHE and ought to be abolished.
What is this nonsense about giving admission preference to residents within a 2 mi radius? How would folks react if public parks in Summerlin were similarly rationed?
What does it tell you when a CCSD dropout can write an autobiography but many CCSD graduates can't even spell their own names? I didn't read AA's book. Did he come clean about steroid use? He sure did put on a lot of muscle mass during his absence and subsequent comeback!
Hey Agassi. You wisely dropped out of school in 8th grade. Why do you want to lend your name to ruining these kids? Open a tennis academy and give these kids a truly useful skill.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Agassi (Rich Kids) Prep
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Only a quarter of Agassi Prep students qualified or applied for free and reduced price lunches this year. On the other hand, 80 percent to 100 percent of students attending public schools near Agassi Prep qualify for free and reduced price lunches.
Agassi Prep gets subsidized to teach rich kids. I LOVE IT! You know, public education was never meant to be this great egalitarian experiment.
The Nevada Constitution established it as a safety net. It was designed to help the relatively small number of kids who desperately wanted an education but had absolutely no other alternative. Seems to me that at least 75% of the kids at Prep could afford upper-end private schools. My guess is the remainder also,if only CCSD would get out of the way and let a market for inexpensive private schools emerge.
The monstrosity we know as CCSD (300K+ students) comes from crooked politicians who discovered that if you tell a big enough lie you can reward the special interests many times over and still get average folks to vote for you.
Only a quarter of Agassi Prep students qualified or applied for free and reduced price lunches this year. On the other hand, 80 percent to 100 percent of students attending public schools near Agassi Prep qualify for free and reduced price lunches.
Agassi Prep gets subsidized to teach rich kids. I LOVE IT! You know, public education was never meant to be this great egalitarian experiment.
The Nevada Constitution established it as a safety net. It was designed to help the relatively small number of kids who desperately wanted an education but had absolutely no other alternative. Seems to me that at least 75% of the kids at Prep could afford upper-end private schools. My guess is the remainder also,if only CCSD would get out of the way and let a market for inexpensive private schools emerge.
The monstrosity we know as CCSD (300K+ students) comes from crooked politicians who discovered that if you tell a big enough lie you can reward the special interests many times over and still get average folks to vote for you.
Dropout Agassi Teaches For CCSD
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Agassi, never graduated from high school.
I knew there was some reason why I liked this guy! What is all this talk about education being the "mossstt important thing", that dropouts are "condemned to being hamburger flippers", blah blah blah. For that matter, why do we employ truant officers (bounty hunters) to drag fugitive kids back to the school plantation? Agassi's career would have suffered from being drafted, just like Clay's.
If Agassi wants to operate a teaching business, he should NOT mooch off the taxpayers. Those rich-kid tennis schools in Florida don't receive public funding. He and Steffi are quite capable of funding their academy out their own pockets.
Regarding that statistic that Agassi spends "twice" the amount per kids that public schools do, that is just not credible. Public sector accounting is always fuzzy. Next term's direct state contribution will be $5,251 per kid. CCSD receives 1/3 of the local sales tax revenue. Then there's property tax revenues, miscellaneous public/private grants, etc. Commenter Patrick always posts a public education spending figure much closer to Agassi's number.
Agassi, never graduated from high school.
I knew there was some reason why I liked this guy! What is all this talk about education being the "mossstt important thing", that dropouts are "condemned to being hamburger flippers", blah blah blah. For that matter, why do we employ truant officers (bounty hunters) to drag fugitive kids back to the school plantation? Agassi's career would have suffered from being drafted, just like Clay's.
If Agassi wants to operate a teaching business, he should NOT mooch off the taxpayers. Those rich-kid tennis schools in Florida don't receive public funding. He and Steffi are quite capable of funding their academy out their own pockets.
Regarding that statistic that Agassi spends "twice" the amount per kids that public schools do, that is just not credible. Public sector accounting is always fuzzy. Next term's direct state contribution will be $5,251 per kid. CCSD receives 1/3 of the local sales tax revenue. Then there's property tax revenues, miscellaneous public/private grants, etc. Commenter Patrick always posts a public education spending figure much closer to Agassi's number.
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