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Comment: Re:I ran into that (Score 1) 67

by Americium (#39459077) Attached to: T-Mobile's Optional Censorship Falls Down

Took me about two minutes to find the checkbox. I looked at the main page for about a minute, gave up and google how to do it... about 60 seconds later I had my porn. No odd information for me, but I think they already had my birthday so...

And blocking children from accessing forums about firearms seems reasonable to me.

Comment: Re:you mean do Corporate Welfare (Score 1) 479

by Americium (#39328329) Attached to: X-Prize Founder Wants Ideas For Fixing Education

Please explain to me how its possible that renting a classroom and associated staff is 200,000 per teacher. My whole point was that the overhead costs could be reduced if we had charter schools. Reduce them to 50K per teacher and then you can pay teachers 200K a year without any need for increased funding.

Comment: Re:Do the math (Score 1) 479

by Americium (#39326815) Attached to: X-Prize Founder Wants Ideas For Fixing Education
They are spending more PER PUPIL in at-risk neighborhoods. 24K in Newark and 28K in Asbury park. They outsource shitty food because they can. Meager budget?? I thought we just established each teacher brings in 250K and gets paid 50K, they have 200K a year , per teacher, to rent the building and pay other staff. My entire point was that they have lots of money, yet the quality still sucks.

Comment: Re:Do the math (Score 1) 479

by Americium (#39323565) Attached to: X-Prize Founder Wants Ideas For Fixing Education

Just look at how ridiculously bad the school lunch is. Things only get that bad when there is lack of competition, there's no way school lunches would be that terrible if there were a couple schools to choose from. You dividing by 8 is irrelevant... and in NJ more money is spent at at-risk schools than anywhere else.

Comment: Do the math (Score 2) 479

by Americium (#39322547) Attached to: X-Prize Founder Wants Ideas For Fixing Education
18,000 per pupil per year in NJ, 14 student to teacher ratio = $252,000 each teacher brings in. Avg salary, 55,000. What kind of insane overhead costs are those. And these schools are all in the red anyway. Allow charter schools and I'm sure we'll get some great education considering how much we are spending already.

Comment: Charter schools (Score 1) 479

by Americium (#39322535) Attached to: X-Prize Founder Wants Ideas For Fixing Education

Why not just allow competition, it works for everything else we do. And when I say allow charter schools, I don't mean in just poor neighborhoods. The Unions shut down good charter schools and prevent new ones from opening. It seems like an easy fix that won't cost the tax payer a penny more and will hopefully lead to higher teacher salaries.

Just look at how bad the school lunches are, ketchup and pizza are classified as vegetables. It's worse than prison food. It's a horrible disgrace.

Dealing with the problem of pure staff accumulation, all our researches ... point to an average increase of 5.75% per year. -- C.N. Parkinson

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