Lately I have been coming into my BOSTON STREET BRANCH
OFFICE and complaining about the prospect of LPS paying for GED classes because
they feel the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ought to pay for this expenditure. Guess what?
They already do, it’s called TITLE 1. There is a mandate for PARENTAL
INVOLVEMENT. It is 10%
That’s currently about $600,000. How has this amount
being spent? What programs are already in place? Maybe what we need is an
independent audit. That would be good
because my arm is getting tired from lobbing information grenades. Sure,
sometimes I use a flame thrower when a cigarette lighter would do, but hey I’m
a POET that’s what I do.
With a graduation rate hovering around 70%, LPS has to be
adding somewhere near 300 new potential GED candidates a year. How many events
during the year does any LPS school have that many people in attendance? Looks
like the out-of-school activity is the biggest after activity, I mean with a
FAILING school district I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Failure has no
language barrier.
Why should we care? I mean if people get their GED’s,
they would get better jobs, make more money getting off public assistance, food
stamps, and all those other government freebies. Then our taxes would go down
and I, for one, like paying taxes. .
Why should we care? I mean if people get their GED’s,
they would get better jobs, make more money getting off public assistance, food
stamps, and all those other government freebies. Then our taxes would go down
and I, for one, like paying taxes. Yes, let’s keep those freeloaders right
where they are (Oh, I forgot I don’t pay taxes, I’m one of the freeloaders).
The point is that by following a recipe for success LPS
would be showing that education is important and we value it.
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