Good Day –
Glad you’ve survived all the chancy forecasts. Some come true, some don’t. Just remember they’re doin’ the best they can… Forecasting freezing rain is one of the most tricky tasks in meteorology.
Getting a satisfactory education in big cities is also a challenge. It takes extra effort sometimes… and we certainly don’t need folks putting roadblocks in the way.
What’s most distressing to me is we often have people – good hard working blue collar people, who know the value of a dollar and how much work it takes to accumulate some of those greenbacks … and they put up with situations that affect their own children, grandchildren or neighbor kids adversely.
The case we deal with on today’s JUST A MINUTE is a really discouraging one. People who should know better, who have pledged themselves to try and fairly represent, support and help their constituents – sometimes participate in making it harder for young people – students – to do what they’re supposed to be working on in their young years. The kids are getting the short end of the stick and often don’t know about it and sometimes their parents aren’t involved… or don’t express care… or I don’t know what all.
Right now what I’m talking about is the situation in the Nation’s Capital city… the one that *should* be setting a good example --- and *should* have the resources because the largest class of public employees… people paid by the U.S. Government are their neighbors.
Well… I don’t want to get wound up about it right now… and I do think there is a case to be made that Washington DC schools *ought* to be at least the district that’s trying hardest… and frankly from all I can tell Washington DC public schools is leading the ‘race to the bottom’ because the education unions have a strangle hold on them like nobody’s business… the only case I know that’s worse is New York City… and the reason… failure to achieve must be laid squarely at the door of education union leadership. I urge you – yes, you… and me to look into it and do something about it. It’s a tragedy that in some ways is bigger and more tragic than the recent happenings in
Enough for today … I’ll be back again… and harping on this issue because on it hangs the future of our freedom and our Nation.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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HERE’S WHERE SCROOGE LIVES
Just A Minute – Congress cuts successful DC minority student aid. That’s the headline describing a vanishing program in the Nation’s capital. It’s heartbreaking – and in my view, criminal.
Even the President’s own supporters are angry. “We marched for you… stood outside in the cold for you… and now you do this?” Last month, Congress tried to find a way to cut pork out of a thousand page bill. So they cut a program helping about 1400 mostly black and Hispanic students called the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. Instead, they opted to cave in to teachers union leaders who don’t like it. Since the teacher’s unions are huge contributors to the Democrat Party, Congress took the coward’s way out and will now send these mostly minority black and Hispanic kids back into the worst run school district in the Nation. What weasels!
Most members of Congress who have school age children choose to send them to expensive private schools – but in this case, they are responding to pressure from political contributors – education union leaders.
In my book it’s Congress to whom we need to give a failing grade.
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