Or,

A's hire A's

B's hire B's

C's hire C's.

Most teachers are Cs. There is a reason for the quip about those who can do, and those who can't teach...

Show me a report that shows a correlation between per student funding and performance. Despite what "seems" to be a common sense idea, it's not founded in reality. Same with classroom size. I'm not talking about how a classroom "feels" but how effective size is on determining student success. If size was important, then you wouldn't have mega sized Freshman Intro to Calculus at so many schools.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/03/california-school-distric_n_870921.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Adam-Smith-Institute-Blog/2010/0428/No-correlation-between-education-funding-and-student-performance

I think that all public employee evaluations should be made public...

If Special Education is so expensive, then it needs to be improved. There's simply no way for a school district to be able to afford to pay $250K/year in your extreme example for each kid with special needs. At that rate, you could hire a full-time nurse, a special ed coordinator, a speech pathologist, and a couple of interns from the community college looking for job experience FOR EACH KID. Of course, schools don't operate this stupidly, they spread the cost over numerous schools and SE students. That overhead is going to remain, even if a lot of students use the voucher system. So unless you can point to some concrete figures, your example seems a bit bogus.

Here's the deal that public school fans really have a hard time coping with: the fact that people want to take their kids out of such shining, well-functioning establishments.

Yeah, you're a AC jackass. Goodbye useless AC.

Dude, you don't "consume" content. Words have meaning, and a dictionary is your friend.

Bzzt! Thanks for failing fiduciary accounting 101. When a publicly traded company says it SOLD something, that's legally defined. Try again when the lights turn back on in your mother's basement.

As I posted elsewhere, Apple is on selling roughly 45 million iPads this year. If their market share is down to 62%, who is selling the remaining 14 million? That's the best kept secret in the entire investment community. Your link points to an IDC report that confuses shipments with sales. I don't give a rats ass if Samsung, Acer, Asus, and your mother ship 1 billion tablets, all I care about is SALES. That's all anyone cares about. 'Cept those trying to confuse the issue.

And your guesstimate would be off by almost 99%. Apple has been extremely clear that the iTunes Store operates at a break even clip. Go do some more research and you'll find that you're completely, entirely wrong.

Clever has nothing to do with it. It's just propaganda from the fools who still believe Google and Android are open source. A bit hard to admit you got snookered, eh?

Love your sig. Does that work on Honeycomb? Thought not.

Worked at B&N back in the late 90's. The computer books were expensive (costing B&N a lot of their credit line with the distributors), stolen quite frequently, and people would buy the books, read them for a couple of weeks, then return them for full cash or credit. Some stores have a great selection, others, depending on their demographics and sales patterns don't have much anymore. Can't blame them a bit for shrinking that section; it never generated much $$. And now that there's better, more accurate content online, all that will survive is the simplest computer books for novices.

Doubtful. The Exocet was one of the most effective weapons deployed by the Argentinians. They weren't hampered by any "deactivation" codes (sounds like something out of a bad Bond film), but instead they only had a few in their inventory. Trust me, anti-ship missiles don't listen for "deactivation" codes once they're launched.

Yeah, he never goofs off like that bastard GW Bush did:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7607947/Barack-Obama-plays-golf-eight-more-times-than-George-W-Bush.html

Displaced? What is this displaced you speak of? At my company, we still run Netware, and just recently (3 months ago) retired OS2. Freaking OS2. And we're a large, large company. Thank God I'm a *nix admin.