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There is actually a basis for his argument.
Only a certain percentage of any student population has any interest in any particular elective. If that percentage does not justify a class in that elective, the class cannot be offered.
You can't have a good football team if there are only 9 kids interested in football. It is the basis for schools competing only against schools of a similar size.
The logic applies to all electives. You can't offer a theater class for even 15 kids. Schools are funded for a ratio of students to teachers. In order to have a class of 15, some other teacher would have to have a class of 45.
The flaw in his argument is that a relative handful of additional administrators is going to break the bank.
Intuitively, the smaller the school, the greater the likelihood that a student will capture the specific interest of at least one adult who will make the effort to keep that child engaged.
Why not have extra-curricular activities on a system wide basis to realize economies of scale while reaping benefits of smaller educational units?
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Wasn't this smaller schools idea what Ayer's was all about in Chicago?
Don't bring up facts qofdisks, you're supposed to be scared of Ayers. Boo! He's a terrist! Because Obama was on a board with him (along with a bunch of Republicans) that makes Obama a terrist! Boo! Be scared!
Glorify Ayers? A washed up bomber with radical ideals. How about Usama he killed 3000 plus people on 9/11, maybe he has good ideas too. Only a disgraced American could say this piece of s... has good ideas.
I didn't say that Ayers had a good idea. I said that MARIO said he had a good idea. That idea is smaller schools for kids. Ayer's promoted this idea in Chicago when he was on that school board with Obama 10 years ago along with those rich REP members. That is what the McCain negative campaign was referring to when they claimed that he "radicalized" the school. I do happen to think it is a good idea too. That is why I have MY boy in a charter school with one small class per grade. It is a small school and I know all his classmates by name as well as their parents.
If Ayers is so bad, then how come he is not in jail? Isn't he a prosperous college prof. and upstanding citizen in Chicago now? Get over it!
As far as domestic terrorists go, Palin's hubby is a member of a racist right-wing militia ala Tim McVeigh. Palin and her hubby could not even get a security clearance they are so radical and armed to the teeth.
Also, the guy in charge of McCain's transition team was a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein?
I'm certain the smaller schools idea has not been an Ayers-exclusive idea. I am sure Ayers has had one or two decent ideas, but the point is the guy is not someone we need influencing our kids much less a candidate. When you're young and have stupid ideas like him we blame it on youth--however at his age it is a character flaw.
The whole Ayers association is such a red herring. Ayers sat on an educational board with Obama and a lot of other people - a lot of the prominent Republicans. You can indict *anybody* this way. McCain trying to throw Ayers (or even more laughably, ACORN) in Obama's face is like Obama throwing someone that McCain served in the Navy with in his face. It's a really desperate and inane tactic which shows that the McCain campaign doesn't have anything else left to use. Do you see Obama throwing Charles Keating in McCain's face? No, because he realizes that guilt by association is logically untenable.
Refusing to associate whatsoever with anyone who did anything radical or questionable in the 60's would force people to shun about 40% of the baby boom generation.
Bill Ayers won man of the year for Chicago in 1983 for his work in public education by the way. Does Obama get credit for things Ayers did in the 80's since he's getting discredit for things Ayers did in the 60's? This whole line of argument is so preposterous, it really saddens me that the GOP has fallen so far as to ignore logic for purely emotional smear based rhetoric.
The Keating 5 does not compare to Ayers. The difference is that Keating 5 is not a matter of guilt by association. It is a matter of guilt by deed.
What's more, the Keating 5 incident is a direct example of McCain's and REP philosophy of criminal deregulation allowing crooked predators to loot other people's hard earned life savings that has led to our economic predicament today.
Ayers is not in jail because of the liberal do what you want society. Hey, it's ok if you bomb a building as long as you don't kill too many people. The excuse of youth and ideas is total crap! There is NO comparing Palin a great American to a man that doesn't deserve to be here. And by the way, Mccain was cleared in the Keating 5
McCain was only cleared of illegality in the Keating 5 scandal, not of unethical behavior. Its well documented that he accepted extravagant gifts from Charles Keating, both in the form of campaign contributions and direct gifts like use of private airplanes and vacation getaways. In return McCain pressured regulatory agencies to leave Keating alone. That he (and John Glenn) did not participate to the degree that the others of the Keating 5 did does not absolve him of unethical behavior which, ultimately, cost the American people much more than anything Bill Ayers ever did, and without the balancing of the positive things that Ayers has done since.
Even McCain said about the scandal that it was worse than his POW experience because at least he was able to leave POW camp with his honor intact.
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