Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Smatresk and his band of derelict administrators are the ones who have to go. They craft lowered admission standards and ridiculous departments, for the benefit of jocks. They hire the Athletic Director, the fool who, in turn, hires over-rated clowns like Sanford and Kruger. Whenever I hear crooked politicians decry "excessive" executive compensation, the poster boy I think of is Smatresk.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Las Vegas Academy Conceit
Originally posted in a LVRJ forum.
LV Academy kids ought to be less condescending towards their poorer CCSD counterparts. Poor parents might start to resent your attitudes and lobby their Assemblymen to provide equal opportunities for *their* kids. Then your little club will start to look more like *other* public high schools.
I don't know how much parents pay in LVA fees and after-school private instruction, but they're getting away cheap. Private *elementary* arts schools go for $20-$25K per year! None of you ever send me so much as a "thank you" note.
Your public school can't be as great as you all seem to think. It must be quite bureaucratic. It must embrace affirmative action, diversity, and other left-wing notions. It must inculcate a fair amount of uniformity, especially in thought. Seems like *none* of you have been exposed to ideas such as the government which governs least, governs *best*. Indeed, the opposite must be true. Your principal is a double-dipper at the public trough. LVA by day, and NEA/NEH by night.
LV Academy kids ought to be less condescending towards their poorer CCSD counterparts. Poor parents might start to resent your attitudes and lobby their Assemblymen to provide equal opportunities for *their* kids. Then your little club will start to look more like *other* public high schools.
I don't know how much parents pay in LVA fees and after-school private instruction, but they're getting away cheap. Private *elementary* arts schools go for $20-$25K per year! None of you ever send me so much as a "thank you" note.
Your public school can't be as great as you all seem to think. It must be quite bureaucratic. It must embrace affirmative action, diversity, and other left-wing notions. It must inculcate a fair amount of uniformity, especially in thought. Seems like *none* of you have been exposed to ideas such as the government which governs least, governs *best*. Indeed, the opposite must be true. Your principal is a double-dipper at the public trough. LVA by day, and NEA/NEH by night.
No Federalization of UNLV
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
for Nagamine's state salary of $72,072, the university gets that back several times over because of the grant.
The federal government (via the NSF) has no more constitutional authority to fund astronomy research than Japan's government does to fund foreign military adventures. That half the grant is skimmed for UNLV overhead (a typical expense factor) is a backdoor federalization of university support. Nagamine's grant should be cancelled, and the money returned to US taxpayers.
UNLV's Professor of Basketball makes $1M per year. Fire him and replace him with Nagamine. Cut the jocks. Nagamine can build a squad from his lab crew. Now *that* would be a college team!
for Nagamine's state salary of $72,072, the university gets that back several times over because of the grant.
The federal government (via the NSF) has no more constitutional authority to fund astronomy research than Japan's government does to fund foreign military adventures. That half the grant is skimmed for UNLV overhead (a typical expense factor) is a backdoor federalization of university support. Nagamine's grant should be cancelled, and the money returned to US taxpayers.
UNLV's Professor of Basketball makes $1M per year. Fire him and replace him with Nagamine. Cut the jocks. Nagamine can build a squad from his lab crew. Now *that* would be a college team!
Friday, October 2, 2009
Public Education Is A BAD Deal for Taxpayers
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Most of you seem to know how *awful* the CCSD schools are. Even if Las Vegas Academy is exceptional (and I don't concede that), the price of maintaining one good CCSD school is the cost of (I think) hundreds of bad ones. That's a bad deal.
The Nevada Constitution requires at least one public school per district. If it will make you feel better, I would not object too strongly if LVA were it.
Most of you seem to know how *awful* the CCSD schools are. Even if Las Vegas Academy is exceptional (and I don't concede that), the price of maintaining one good CCSD school is the cost of (I think) hundreds of bad ones. That's a bad deal.
The Nevada Constitution requires at least one public school per district. If it will make you feel better, I would not object too strongly if LVA were it.
Public Education: We're #50!
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Nevada still ranked 36th in the nation for the amount of revenue spent on education.
The Nevada Constitution sets a legal minimum of one public school per district (18 statewide). The legislature should deem any number above that "unnecessary" and vote those schools out of existence.
Figure $100K per school, including teacher, books, and little red schoolhouse. That would bring our state's annual tax obligation for K-12 down to less than $2M per year. Then Nevadans could brag: WE'RE #50!
Nevada still ranked 36th in the nation for the amount of revenue spent on education.
The Nevada Constitution sets a legal minimum of one public school per district (18 statewide). The legislature should deem any number above that "unnecessary" and vote those schools out of existence.
Figure $100K per school, including teacher, books, and little red schoolhouse. That would bring our state's annual tax obligation for K-12 down to less than $2M per year. Then Nevadans could brag: WE'RE #50!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
CCSD Promotes Teen Pregnancy
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
As many of you know (or should), affairs between high school teachers and students are commonplace. Teen sex is the rule. I suspect these happen more frequently at LVA than any other CCSD high school simply because arts courses involve much closer physical contact between the participants, who tend to be hot-blooded anyway.
As many of you know (or should), affairs between high school teachers and students are commonplace. Teen sex is the rule. I suspect these happen more frequently at LVA than any other CCSD high school simply because arts courses involve much closer physical contact between the participants, who tend to be hot-blooded anyway.
CCSD OUT of Arts Education
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
During a recent lunch period, one student was .. playing a classical melody on her clarinet while in transit.
There are plenty of private music conservatories to choose from. You can get a clarinet teacher to come to your house for as little as $25 a lesson. These arts magnet schools are just political schemes to provide patronage jobs to left-wing fine arts teachers, and to incubate a constituency for future unconstitutional state arts commission grants. If these kids want to study theatre there must be any number of community groups and summer camps to choose from. Leave the taxpayers out of it.
During a recent lunch period, one student was .. playing a classical melody on her clarinet while in transit.
There are plenty of private music conservatories to choose from. You can get a clarinet teacher to come to your house for as little as $25 a lesson. These arts magnet schools are just political schemes to provide patronage jobs to left-wing fine arts teachers, and to incubate a constituency for future unconstitutional state arts commission grants. If these kids want to study theatre there must be any number of community groups and summer camps to choose from. Leave the taxpayers out of it.
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