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California school spending - correcting lies

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Posted by Frank G 2005-06-13 10:10|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 School spending is up because you may have some 125 languages spoken at one elementary and have to pay teachers who are at minimum bilingual. Illegal immigration has lots of hidden costs.

Posted by Danielle 2005-06-13 11:46|| 2005-06-13 11:46|| Front Page Top

#2 bs danielle. With 184 languages, bilingual education is not possible. Sooo...are you saying that every inner city school has 184 teachers for every grade? No..ok, then how many.

It used to be, don't know what it is now, that they did ESL for the very reason that there are 184 languages spoken. These teachers teach in ENGLISH, but slow it down and use techniques such as learning centers. You don't need to know a second language to speak ESL, as you'd have to be supra-lingual to know enough languages to teach the 8-10 different nationalities in your class.

As for tutors, yes, they do have them in various languages. But these float from school to school in each district.

The spanish mon-lingual is a business. It's a scam too. The teachers who teach often, most often, don't have teaching credentials - their only credential being they speak spanish. Many of the mexican families do not want their children in these classes, because they don't learn english.

California really doesn't have any more problems than other states that have inner cities - regardless of the language spoken.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-13 11:53|| 2005-06-13 11:53|| Front Page Top

#3 The NEA and NCES data on school spending are way off, no matter where they rank CA. That $7,500 national median figure is fiction. Checking California school district budgets one quickly learns that the actual spend, including special ed, employee benefits, capital financing, etc. is way over $ 10,000. LA has over $13,000 per kid, all in , and SF over $10,000. The US as a whole is probably somewhere there also.

Now, CA has a worse student-teacher ratio overall because it pays its teachers above-average, and costs, including the prevailing salary levels in CA are also above average.

Posted by buwaya 2005-06-13 12:40|| 2005-06-13 12:40|| Front Page Top

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