Remember all that coverage of R's skipping Town Halls?

GRR Spartan wrote:I was told what would become of HS sports about 15 years ago by a friend who had just become the AD at a Class B suburban GR school district.

His canaries in the coal mine were the sudden expansion of charter schools, some homeschool parents wanting their children to play in his school's sports program without attending the school and seeing his school's volleyball program decimated by club volleyball which was the first team sport that many MHSAA members had to have its season compete with MHSAA's schedule.

For years we have heard MI has to run their schools like a business and we have seen our state legislators accede to the wishes of Dick and Betsy Devos moving towards charters with vouschers being the final goal. Now Betsy DeVos is Sec of Education and is in a position to push vouchers on a national level.

One result we are already seeing is some charters taking over schools closed because of drops in student population because older districts lose students to charters. We see the charters using state funds takeover buildings and real estate initially paid for by MI taxpayers using state funds to buy the property for a fraction of their costs. Heads they win, tails we lose.

Nothing to worry about if you don't give a rat's ass about the students who will be in our public schools in the next 5-10 years.

LooseGoose wrote:

GRR Spartan wrote:I was told what would become of HS sports about 15 years ago by a friend who had just become the AD at a Class B suburban GR school district.

His canaries in the coal mine were the sudden expansion of charter schools, some homeschool parents wanting their children to play in his school's sports program without attending the school and seeing his school's volleyball program decimated by club volleyball which was the first team sport that many MHSAA members had to have its season compete with MHSAA's schedule.

For years we have heard MI has to run their schools like a business and we have seen our state legislators accede to the wishes of Dick and Betsy Devos moving towards charters with vouschers being the final goal. Now Betsy DeVos is Sec of Education and is in a position to push vouchers on a national level.

One result we are already seeing is some charters taking over schools closed because of drops in student population because older districts lose students to charters. We see the charters using state funds takeover buildings and real estate initially paid for by MI taxpayers using state funds to buy the property for a fraction of their costs. Heads they win, tails we lose.

Nothing to worry about if you don't give a rat's ass about the students who will be in our public schools in the next 5-10 years.

LOL.....all Trump's fault in his 1st 30 days.

LooseGoose wrote:

DWags wrote:

Everybody take note this is exactly what the republicans are doing.

Note comrade goose says "if Bush had tapped Obama" like the pos lying president goose has parsed a false narrative. He wants to push this story along by implying Obama DID tap Trump on his own. It's what trolls a liars do. Trump will get the ignorant to go with this comparison but there is none. We know a president can't do that. Try it on trump voters goose it will work.

Add "administration" then. Bush Administration - Obama Administration. We'll see how it plays out - but I guarantee you that IF Trump was tapped that Obama knew in advance. No low level operative does something that explosive without clearance from the boss.