So according to you no businesses have been created in the last 100 years? Seriously.

With all due respect you're about 70% too high. If you honestly believe that all we need to do is "straighten out" our education problems by fixing only the educators you will be very disappointed by the results.

My solution is to stay a Sprint subscriber, that way I am never near any towers and if I see more than 2 bars I know the FBI is close.

That shouldn't be a problem. Either your cannibalize your own products or your competitors will do it for you. Better to the control it methinks.

It's a damn shame you posted AC. I for one would like to know the person that so brilliantly (possibly accidentally) quoted one of the creepiest movies ever made.

Freaks

The parent said that crime was lower. The parent was wrong.

You're a little bit ill informed my friend.

http://www.nationmaster.com/compare/Australia/United-States/Crime

http://io9.com/5933173/three-strange-theories-about-why-americas-crime-rate-is-so-low

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/08/crime-in-europe-and-the-u-s.html

Where exactly DO babies come from?

I think he meant public "owned" as opposed to public place. The school is required by law to know the whereabouts of minors in their care the exact same way parents are. Imagine needing to know where several thousands kids are in a decent sized high school? This isn't about privacy, that is a stupid argument. Everyone in that school knows where she either is, or supposed to be, without that badge. She is also a minor, and like it or not she does not have any expectation of privacy during normal school functions such as classes. I am all about protecting private things that are supposed to be private. She does not have a right to be anonymous in going to and from class.

Daddy's money? You make a lot of assumptions, and all of them are wrong.

Ford was an anti-semite. It is perfectly acceptable to dislike him on that regard, and I would actually encourage it. That said, he was also right. By the way your economic fate is not set in anything other than your mind and what you're capable of.

I can't bear to think about how horrible your world must be to live in. The outcome of ones life is by-and-large a result of the choices one makes. If you want to double your chance of success you have to double your rate of failure. To quote someone who might know about things like this.... "Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right." --Henry Ford

Is a computer psychiatrist .... let's call him Marvin!

I addressed this above. I'll do it again since I'm already here. A teachers contract is a contract for a number of instructional days plus prof. development etc. Those days are the days that the pay is based on. Anything outside of those contractually obligated days (or hours during a day) is gratis. Think about those teachers manning the football games. Yep.... they have to be there, and no they aren't paid. As for you claim of accuracy you are spot off. Wrong. I taught for ten years before going back into the private sector (I was an award winning teacher by the way). My terms are entirely accurate, and you should probably learn a little about what you're talking about before painting with such a broad brush. There might be some districts that do things a little differently, but by and large you are mind boggingly wrong.

Nope. Teachers are paid by the school day. No students. No pay. I exclude benefit days such as sick days. A teachers contract calls for a set number of days and pay is based on those contractual teaching days.