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I think that is a good thing. Parents should have ability to seek the best education for their kids. Tax dollars should be spent wisely and not on failing public educations where teachers care more about their union than the students, they are supposed to be teaching. get the union out of public education and it just might get better.

I think some of us get it. Taxes are paid to pay for public education. People who don't like that want to raid public education money to pay for private education while not supplying additional tax dollars to pay for it. So they make excuses as for why that's okay.

Then when you show them factually that some states spend the lowest price per student to educate them and also provide some of the lowest teacher pay in the country they blame it on the teachers union and the teachers while ignoring all of that.

Unions brought people 40 hour work weeks with overtime for more. They brought about worker safety. Paid holidays, paid sick days. It brought about workers making enough to live. Maybe you should look back at a little history to see what things were like before unions existed.

Workers deserve representation. These are college educated people who do not deserve to be punished by allowing individual school boards to run roughshod over them.

They're product is just inferior to private schools and even other forms of education. Too many regulations and quotas that public education has to follow from both the government and the corrupt NEA. Parents pay taxes and should have the rights to use their tax dollars in the best way possible for their children.

You do realize that private schools spend more per pupil, have higher teacher pay and smaller class sizes don't you? Here are a few reasons why you see these results.............

Socioeconomic Status and Family Background: Studies (including research by Christopher and Sarah Lubienski and data from the Brookings Institution) show that when you adjust for family income, parental education level, and home academic support, the private school test score advantage shrinks dramatically or disappears. Private school families generally have higher household incomes and college degrees.

Selective Admissions: Unlike public schools, which must legally enroll every child in their district (including students with learning disabilities, English language learners, or those facing poverty), many private schools use selective admissions, interviews, or academic requirements to admit students.

Smaller Class Sizes: Private schools typically maintain lower student-to-teacher ratios (averaging about 11–12 students per teacher compared to 16–20 in public schools), which allows for more individualized teacher attention.

And while all public education schools are required to give standardized tests to receive tax dollars private schools do not all take the exact same state-mandated exams or serve the same populations.

When conditions are different the results will be also. When you can pick and choose your students you will get better results.

President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia after five days as the White House Press Secretary.

Even Anthony Scaramucci lasted 11 days as White House Press Secretary. That's a record I thought would never be broken and he lasted twice as long as she did!

I mean Kimberly Guilfoyle served as the U.S. Ambassador to Greece for 11 months and 9 days. And trump let her go for grifting? If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black.

Two down in a single week. They're dropping like flies! So much for "I only hire the best people".

Obviously she didn't lie well enough with enough bravado and shamelessness.

Well in football you have "next man up."

Now we have "next blond up."

Gee, should there be any scrutiny towards the person who hired her???

Now why would anyone do that? Trump blames intense and "unfair" media coverage for her firing. You know, the media made him do it!

Rep. Andy Harris threatens prosecution of student reporter for trying to record him after debate

Harris, R-Md., told the student reporter she was not allowed to record his answers even though they were in a public setting with other journalists who had recording devices.

A video taken by NBC Washington’s partners at The Baltimore Banner shows Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., telling a student reporter from the University of Maryland that she did not have permission to record him and threatening prosecution.

“You do not have my permission to record! If you record, we will refer you to the prosecutor,” Harris told the student reporter.

“Everyone in here is recording,” the student reporter said.

“But you are not allowed to. We are in a two-party state,” Harris said, citing Maryland’s Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act, which makes it a felony to record private conversations without consent from both participants. However, the law only protects private conversations, and recording is allowable in situations where there is no “reasonable expectation of privacy.”

The exchange went on for several minutes.

The reporter then tried to ask Harris his thoughts on the Iran war.

“You said that it could’ve gone smoother and it could’ve gone better. What did you mean by that?” she asked.

“You’re gonna have to take her camera,” said Harris, who is seeking re-election. “She is violating the law. In fact, get an officer in here.”

News4 reached out to Harris’ office for comment but has not heard back.

Harris, who is seeking a ninth term in the House, had just left a contentious debate, where he faced scrutiny from audience members over the Iran war and rising diesel prices.

Banner reporter Pamela Wood shared in a social media post Wednesday that Harris invited reporters to interview him after the debate. The video shows several journalists participating in the postdebate gaggle.

Attorney Kevin Goldberg, vice president of the Freedom Forum, a nonprofit that supports the First Amendment, said Maryland’s two-party consent laws wouldn’t apply in this case because Harris was speaking to a group of reporters in a public space.

“If a reporter has a right to be in a space and work as a reporter, they cannot be denied that right simply because somebody doesn’t like the coverage or somebody doesn’t like the questions or somebody doesn’t like their viewpoint,” Goldberg said.

This was how Harris’ conversation with the reporters eventually ended:

“Congressman, you said that you supported the First Amendment — what does this say about that?” the college reporter asked.

“All right, guys, she’s ruining your chance to get an answer about anything. See y’all. Thank her profusely,” Harris replied.

Harris’ Democratic opponent, Dan Schwartz, released a statement saying in part that the “message of the night was clear, Andy Harris is out of touch, out of practice talking to voters, and much more interested in picking fights and spinning his story than offering real answers.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...-prosecution-student-reporter-rcna603687

Trump only hires the best

Private school parents deserve to get some of that money. They pay the taxes yet don' put their kids in to the public schools. It's like that in all states. If every private school closed tomorrow, the public school systems would be swamped. People who send their kids to private schools should be thanked by you and others. Otherwise your taxes would skyrocket.

#math