Texas - Cut 25% off school budgets but spend $69M on stadium
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Re: Texas - Cut 25% off school budgets but spend $69M on sta
It also is clearly one of those things tacked on to hide the fact how bad this looks. I mean, stuff "which covers science and agriculture and does include a stadium" sounds much better than "money of which 69m goes for a stadium and 4 for a science building".
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Re: Texas - Cut 25% off school budgets but spend $69M on sta
All you need to know in Texas about science "Jesus did it."
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"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 (KJV)
Re: Texas - Cut 25% off school budgets but spend $69M on sta
Their universities are pretty good though.
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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Re: Texas - Cut 25% off school budgets but spend $69M on sta
In the relatively early days on the internet. one of the people who helped me built my website was a Texas A&M studentThanas wrote:Their universities are pretty good though.
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
Thomas Paine
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 (KJV)
Thomas Paine
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 (KJV)
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Re: Texas - Cut 25% off school budgets but spend $69M on sta
Its also useful to note that the measure failed:
Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
School district officials reported that 54 percent voted against the measure, with a vote of 9,011 against, and 7,458 for the bond issue..
Re: Texas - Cut 25% off school budgets but spend $69M on sta
Although you would think so considering the media attention the Texas school board gets, science programs are pretty damn good here, especially in the technical fields, even in primary school. Teachers get a lot of leeway and I never had something like Creationism taught to me specifically or anyone I've talked to. However, there's nothing preventing a teacher from presenting the "facts" to students, at least not that I'm aware of.Kitsune wrote:All you need to know in Texas about science "Jesus did it."
As always, the main variable affecting quality of education is money. Wealthier districts are much more likely to have parents active in the school's dealings who are better educated thus will not tolerate D&D fantasy bullshit in their kid's science classes. Those that will and have money, generally cram their kid into one of the thousands of private school littered around the state. But even if they teach ID, they still have to have accredited programs for the kids to have valid diplomas.