The Blue Board

I'm not opposed to education reform and I'm not a big fan of teacher's unions, but the way this bill passed was atrociously wrong.

Edit: I am worried public money will be going to parochial schools that teach creationism and other subpar stuff.

Looks like a good idea to me.

That's my fear. While I support any effort to help kickstart our fledgling education system, I worry that this process is going to simply get a lot of schools closed rather than fixed.

But are the private schools going to be held accountable?

Here in Mobile, some are great and others are just awful.

But what happens when, say, three "bad" schools in a county close and all of those kids transfer to the one "good" school? That's a lot of student influx. What happens with facilities? Teachers? Etc.?

Man I love this law. Sux for failing schools but provides a real opportunity to the better students in those schools.

No I agree, I don't want to force students to go to bad schools. Hell, I'm an avid proponent of not holding education back through things like No Child Left Behind; I've seen way too many smart kids not have access to a quality education (like AP classes) because their school was (a) poor and (b) had too many "weak links" taking focus away.

That being said, I just feel like if this change happens too quickly, there are going to be a lot of teachers out of a job (good ones, too; just because a school is bad doesn't mean there aren't quality educators there), a lot of school closings, and in general a lot of negative effects on the "weak links." I don't want to restrict strong students at all, but I also don't want to hang struggling students out to dry.

I guess we'll see how this all works out.

On the same token, there was a principal at a school in Birmingham when I was in high school that was notorious for "letting teachers go" right before they made tenure, regardless of their teaching ability. And then he got caught sleeping with cheerleaders.

All in all, our state education system all across the board is a giant clusterfvck.

Didn't want to let then stay long enough to bust his cheer leading sex ring, lol.

I think it would be extremely hard to get them to agree to that. You would have to first take them to the precipice of busting them to shake them into it.

HEY! Somebody! Tell BLF I said "it would be hard to do". Thanks. lol.

He was an ugly ass dude, too. Couldn't figure out why those girls were even playing along.

This seems to happen a lot. I never could figure out how something like this goes down. How does and adult and a teenager even end up in a situation where this could even happen?