Post by =iNi=Phoenix on Feb 13, 2003 21:03:36 GMT -5
Ok *sigh*
heres the low-down:
1. All this weekend if you see me on, i will be laggin like shet since im at my dads house and on my new computer! Translation: I am on my 56k this weekend so LOOKOUT!
2. I just annhiliated some people on HOV for the first time ever!
3. Just a thought:
This will really make you mad. Thats government for ya.
>
> Schools into Prisons?: By Margo Freistadt, San Francisco Chronicle
>
> A simple solution would avert the budget disaster facing California's
> schools: We should declare every public school to be a prison.The kids
would
> understand.
>
> Details need to be worked out, but I want every child in California to be
> given a 13-year prison sentence at age 5, with the possibility of a
> four-year extension.
>
> That way, the $7,000 the state spends per student each year could
> immediately be raised to $27,000 -- what the state spends on each inmate
> annually. And our criminally under-funded schools would qualify for the
only
> category in the governor's proposed budget that's slated to get more money
> this year.
>
> Gov. Gray Davis is asking for a 1 percent budget increase for the
California
> Department of Corrections. Meanwhile, our schools are flinching at threats
> of abusive slashes in state support.
>
> Given the alternative of layoffs, more crowded classrooms, fewer teachers'
> aides and disappearing supplies, school officials should jump for joy at
the
> chance for their district's schools to be transformed into prisons and
their
> students to become inmates.
>
> My daughter's middle school in San Francisco would be renamed Herbert
> Hoover Juvenile Correctional Institution. Her brother's elementary school
> could be Buena Vista Juvenile Redirective Ranch.The university from which
my
> sister just graduated would become the
> California Honor Farm at Davis.
>
> The benefits are many.
>
> Elementary schools in San Francisco haven't been staffed with school
nurses
> for many years. Recent court cases, however, have set minimal levels for
> acceptable health care for prisoners. If schools suddenly became prisons,
> students would be entitled to the same health-care standards.
>
> Prison nurses would step in and school secretaries, administrators and
> teachers' aides could get back to educating -- instead of tending to the
> endless parade of students needing Band-Aids, ice packs, lice checks and
> help with their asthma inhalers.
>
> Labor relations and staff morale would improve. Math, science and English
> teachers could sign on as members of the California Correctional Peace
> Officers Association, which represents prison guards. The union, which has
> salaries growing and benefits flowing.
>
> The prison guards union's Web site used to brag that its members earned
> higher salaries than teachers in California. That boast, wisely, has
> disappeared from the site. Nonetheless, if our schools became prisons and
> our teachers were covered by the same union contracts as prison guards,
> educators would get the immediate raises they deserve.
>
> Prison guards deserve every penny they get. It's a tough and stressful
line
> of work, often unappreciated by the inmates and their families. Sound like
a
> teacher's job?
>
> >From Lakeshore Elementary Jail to Lowell State Penitentiary, wardens and
> their little inmates should move quickly to get formal status under the
> California Department of Corrections. Otherwise, county hospitals and
> nursing homes might beat them to it.
heres the low-down:
1. All this weekend if you see me on, i will be laggin like shet since im at my dads house and on my new computer! Translation: I am on my 56k this weekend so LOOKOUT!
2. I just annhiliated some people on HOV for the first time ever!
3. Just a thought:
This will really make you mad. Thats government for ya.
>
> Schools into Prisons?: By Margo Freistadt, San Francisco Chronicle
>
> A simple solution would avert the budget disaster facing California's
> schools: We should declare every public school to be a prison.The kids
would
> understand.
>
> Details need to be worked out, but I want every child in California to be
> given a 13-year prison sentence at age 5, with the possibility of a
> four-year extension.
>
> That way, the $7,000 the state spends per student each year could
> immediately be raised to $27,000 -- what the state spends on each inmate
> annually. And our criminally under-funded schools would qualify for the
only
> category in the governor's proposed budget that's slated to get more money
> this year.
>
> Gov. Gray Davis is asking for a 1 percent budget increase for the
California
> Department of Corrections. Meanwhile, our schools are flinching at threats
> of abusive slashes in state support.
>
> Given the alternative of layoffs, more crowded classrooms, fewer teachers'
> aides and disappearing supplies, school officials should jump for joy at
the
> chance for their district's schools to be transformed into prisons and
their
> students to become inmates.
>
> My daughter's middle school in San Francisco would be renamed Herbert
> Hoover Juvenile Correctional Institution. Her brother's elementary school
> could be Buena Vista Juvenile Redirective Ranch.The university from which
my
> sister just graduated would become the
> California Honor Farm at Davis.
>
> The benefits are many.
>
> Elementary schools in San Francisco haven't been staffed with school
nurses
> for many years. Recent court cases, however, have set minimal levels for
> acceptable health care for prisoners. If schools suddenly became prisons,
> students would be entitled to the same health-care standards.
>
> Prison nurses would step in and school secretaries, administrators and
> teachers' aides could get back to educating -- instead of tending to the
> endless parade of students needing Band-Aids, ice packs, lice checks and
> help with their asthma inhalers.
>
> Labor relations and staff morale would improve. Math, science and English
> teachers could sign on as members of the California Correctional Peace
> Officers Association, which represents prison guards. The union, which has
> salaries growing and benefits flowing.
>
> The prison guards union's Web site used to brag that its members earned
> higher salaries than teachers in California. That boast, wisely, has
> disappeared from the site. Nonetheless, if our schools became prisons and
> our teachers were covered by the same union contracts as prison guards,
> educators would get the immediate raises they deserve.
>
> Prison guards deserve every penny they get. It's a tough and stressful
line
> of work, often unappreciated by the inmates and their families. Sound like
a
> teacher's job?
>
> >From Lakeshore Elementary Jail to Lowell State Penitentiary, wardens and
> their little inmates should move quickly to get formal status under the
> California Department of Corrections. Otherwise, county hospitals and
> nursing homes might beat them to it.