My column for the Washington County Daily News is online and in print. Here’s a part:
Wisconsin’s Republicans, led by Sen. Alberta Darling, will be introducing a series of education reform bills that will put more power in the hands of parents and families. While the bills have no chance of being signed into law by union-owned Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, they give a glimpse of the good things that could happen if the voters fire Evers in November.
The pandemic, and the government’s despicable reaction to it, has surfaced many latent faults in our society and in our government institutions. First and foremost is that we have learned that many of our government schools have not been focused on education for some time. Their priorities are employee goldbricking, leftist ideological training, and celebrating average performance at the expense of the exceptional — in that order. We have seen school officials shift from their pre-pandemic stance of pretending to listen to parents to outright disdain that parents would dare to question school officials’ actions.
The legislative Republicans will seek to change the power dynamic in our government schools by putting more power into the hands of parents and taxpayers at the expense of education bureaucrats. We will see more details of the education reform bills when they are introduced, but we can see the outlines. The most important reform to be proposed is to expand school choice statewide and remove the income requirements.
Yeah, ok. Well, why not when THE GOP had control of the Assembly, Senate and that big house in Maple Bluff?
You don’t get it yet, Mar?
Spreading out reforms and corrections over 10-20 years assures Pubbies of campaign cash-flow over the same period.
Hell’s bells!! If they solved all the problems, who needs them any more?
Same applies to the Democrats, by the way.
It’s called “Milking the herd.”
If you want your kids to be taught about your God , pay for it yourself .
I did making. $1.25 / hour in HS from 1966 -1970 paying for a private school education .
Most of my friends didn’t , but their parents didn’t whine about the seat they paid for at the public schools .
They simply decided not to use it
But failing that , when you do enroll them on a choice program voucher , stop giving advice about public education .
You opted out by taking the $ . I e don’t care what you think .
Let the parents of the kids actually attending the public school have their say .
Last time I checked business’s don’t listen much to the folks who sold their stock .
What a very elitist, MHMalet comment.
I’m glad you got the private school education though, sadly you didn’t learn much from it.
Times change.
I paid my my way through UW Madison from 1992-97 by working three jobs but I am pretty sure I could not do that today with the increase in tuition. I doubt that you can pay for a private school education making minimum wage or if you receiving government benefits.
And not all schools are religious schools, but from what I have read, most religious schools do not require you to follow their religion.
But keep up being an elitist, you are a typical liberal.
If you want your kids to be taught about your God , pay for it yourself .
If you don’t want your kids to be taught about your God, take the subsidy, and opt out of the religious classes & fundraisers. That is one of the conditions the school must abide by when accepting a voucher student.
I did making. $1.25 / hour in HS from 1966 -1970 paying for a private school education .
Since your parents would not/could not pay for it, and the school did not provide your education free as a hardship case, perhaps that was God’s way of telling them that in your case it was not going to be a worthwhile investment.
Most of my friends didn’t , but their parents didn’t whine about the seat they paid for at the public schools .
Most of my friend’s grandchildren attend parochial school or are homeschooled. Most also assist with time, talent, and “treasure”. Any complaints I hear have to do with taxation in general.
Like how for the first time in recent memory (16+) years, City of West Bend residents now pay more school tax than City tax, In the townships the school taxes are usually more than the taxes from the rest of the taxing bodies combined.
Hoefert wins the Internet.
So Maley earned $1.25 from ’66-’70, eh?
I worked during HS in the same era–but I got 4-5 raises during that time.
Maley didn’t? That tells you something, doesn’t it?
I am not going to condemn. MHMaley if he actually paid for his education. I did the same when i went to MATC, Madison andUW Madison.
But he didn’t learn from his education. and that’s too sad.
, The school didn’t provide me an education . I paid for it 100% working nights and weekends during the school year and
construction during the summer
My parents didn’t have the money to pay for it . they had 5 kids .
I did get raises ( off a $1+ base) and raised the money while playing 3 sports and having an AM paper route while traveling an hour each day by bus ( with 2 transfers to school and hitching rides home after each of the 3 sports for 4 years .
I got a full ride to college for football and graduated in 4 years with a Double major in Economics and English and graduated with a 3.55 GPA .
ran my own successful business for 35 years .while coaching in HS and College .
Stick that in your ear .
MrsMaley’s back story sounds like a plagiarized version of Poop Pants Bidens… With a little less racism of course.
MuhMaley claims: “… a Double major in Economics and English and graduated with a 3.55 GPA .”
….yet writes.like a 5-yr old.
“The school didn’t provide me an education.”
Well,actually your high school did provide you an education.
They provided the teachers that gave presumably gave you a good education.
The school gave you very good coaches that made it possible for you to get a football scholarship.
The school help provide you with a good work ethic.
Obviously, you and your family decided that your local public school wasn’t good enough for you.
>Well,actually your high school did provide you an education.
No the school tried… but looking at his posts here… it didn’t take.