School Children Rejoice: California Is So Broke It Will Shorten The School Year
This is just getting ridiculous:
- CALIFORNIA REVENUE MAY TRAIL FORECAST BY $3.7 BLN, ANALYST SAYS
- CALIFORNIA REVENUE SHORTFALL MAY MEAN SHORTER SCHOOL YEAR
Who needs to go to school anyway: all we need to know we learn from The Situation and Pauly-D. But yes, M-Dub is off by a month or two on the upcoming tsunami default wave: pesudo-sophist muni experts rejoice! Also rejoice because this news is somehow bullish - probably the EFSF will be expanded to include California, or the FT will break a story at 3 pm that China is about to buy CA, sending the S&P to Uranus.
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Last month of the year is a waste anyhow
No matter how short the year, there will always be a "last month".
But more importantly: To all those public union parasites who claim to strike "for the children" -- here's your chance to step up and work 1 month for free. Y'know: for the children.
California is the Elephant in the US that no one is talking about. save ZH.. It is truly screwed. Pension / CALPERS problem alone.. kaboom.. occupy the soup line..
They got nothin on New York. When our excellent Governor starts movin' on this "issue" Thor himself will smile with pride.
And siphoning off dollars from education because of too many entitlements is much better than reducing at the entitlments themselves.
Those turtle-tunnels worked so well. And... Nancy be praised, we have saved the Salt Marsh Mouse from extinction!!!
What about the little mouse children?...they have feelings too!
I'm sure she put a little pork in there for "mouse infrastructure"...ya know, constructing little mousy day care centers around major mice interstate on ramps so Mama & Papa Mouse can go off to work and bring in more government cheese.
She seems the very epitome of a Mouse Central Planner ;-)
Who needs education, they just hire the mexican at minimum wage regardless, and they certainly don't care how much they are educated.
Good point.
I often wondered at the real motives of those who are against building a stronger border, speedy deportations etc. I believe a sound case can be made that they enjoy the benefits of "plantation labor" without having to pay for all the out buildings, clothing and care.
An illegal falls off your roof...chunk him in the ole station wagon and trundle him off to the ER door...toss him out...drive through the Home Depot parking lot and plug another one in.
Very humanitarian, those who think that way ;-)
Where I work it is 3 gringos, 15 mexicans (San Jose). My -supervisor- told me the other day she took her daughter to the E.R. for some bullshit. She makes at least 5 times as much as I. The fridge at work is full of food bank shit, brands of corn flakes from some unknown company, etc. At noon, they -all- break for an hour while some family comes by and makes them all lunch, who they pay cash under the table. Then the dude with the ice cream comes by at 3pm, with the little bells ringing, also cash under the table. Then the people with the fresh cut up watermelon and canteloupe come by around 4pm, you guessed it, cash under the table. I think my coworkers spend 1/4 of their daily income on complete shite from daily vendors who come by our work. It makes me want to support a lower income tax and to introduce a VAT to make these fuckers at least pay something, and a VAT is anathema to me, but fuck them.
[Truth is, we're flat busted, and so we can't afford no education]
I'd rather be on the streets here where it rains very little and is relatively warm. What would it be like in a soup line where you are?
To the moon Alice. Hold on to your hats and properties...hyperinflation bitchez.
Dem scum lib union CA, IL, NY and a few others are Greece on MEGA steroids. CT's has about 3 million people and they have at least an $80 billion pension shortfall in the future. One of the wealthiest state's in the USA and they vote in lib Dems and pro govt union stooges.
Along with giving everyone a free ride on property taxes,,,,
Don't tenured union teachers work 3 months for free? Oh no, that's right, they get paid to not work for 3 months!
Very soon America will have full employment (~99%) and a kids education system will be year-long.
Why? Any totalitarian society likes to have a total control over its citizens. In other words, people will be either at their places of employment or be in forced-labor institutions.
BS time is about over. The new totalitarian reality will come shortly.
The kids in CA just got a little smarter. The less time they waste with those imbecile teachers the better. No real skills or values taught. Just fake history and the pressure to shop and spend money they don't have.
I am a consumer math and calculus teacher in CA. I am like a crazy guy on the street corner waving an "end is near" sign when it comes to not taking on debt. That includes student loans unless they are commensurate to the education received and the expected income thereafter. Yes, the profession does tend to attract starry eyed liberals, but there are more than a few of me out there breaking our backs every day to give kids some balance in their education.
Please don't overgeneralize. I was in the private sector - management at a fortune 500 company many years before I taught. I left because it seemed to me that math education was very weak and yet proficiency in math is such a critical component in fiscal responsibility. (And this was long before the bubble burst, so it appears I was right.) So I left to teach and I've never regretted it despite the vastly longer days and much lower pay. Yes, it's true. I typically work a 12 hour day between grading and planning. I work every single weekend during the school year. I also work in the summer, either teaching a class, tutoring, training, etc. I know exactly one teacher who has the money to do absolutely nothing in the summer. The rest of us have to find summer work somehow. And that's ok. We still get a few weeks off and we are smart enough to recognize the blessing it is.
And one final word: as every parent who has had a teen knows, they can be rather mouthy and belligerent. Parents typically have one, maybe two teens at home. I have as many as 40 teens in each class throughout the day. It takes all the strength and patience I have to keep them in line, learning things they should know about credit and such. Can you do that?
I commend you for your efforts. Please drive through Hayward (i'm sorry I mean Tijuana) and tell me if it's working. Quite frankly, they only want temporary visa engineers anyway. I take all my lunchbreaks near the Pruneyard in Campbell where Ebay breaks, and it's all Indians. 10% gringo engineers. Gringos require too much finessing, they keep prattling on how they want a 'life' or some such thing. Indians are much more compliant/desperate, especially when we bring their entire fucked up family over here, we can't have grandma and uncle Prem being sent back home after a taste of the good life collecting benefits, they would disavow said engineer relative and blackball the entire family branch. More than enough leverage to keep them in line with that alone.
Boo effing hoo. I'm sure you're just baffling them with bullshit.
Do you teach them that they have a fixed amount of money that they will earn and spend over a lifetime? And that credit just reduces overall how much "stuff" you can buy from that. Credit just allows one to spend their entire lifetime of earnings ALL AT ONCE.
It's that kind of common sense that they need and will never be told.
Can you read what others write or are you too blinded by your arrogance? Does it not say something to you that I am a zerohedge fan and left a high paying job to teach teens not to use credit? Grow up.
i salute you sir (math major)
YEAH! I just don't understant why there are years anygow! And we don't need to stinking skools either!!
Well played.
Hey Sudden Debt I gotta a question: It seems like the entirety of the EU is now being run out of Brussels. What gives? Something about "angry sock puppets everywhere?"
"Good idea, school is for fools! Look at me! Hahaha!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz-6-MfpsJo
you could make that same argument about the remainder of the school year.
Thank God, the kids will have one less month of exposure to brain damaging robotic bullshit that passes for creative thought. Maybe there is hope for them yet
Hahaha you said "urAnus"
More seriously, this is what qualifies as "winning the future"?
Age old rethorical device: find a nice verb in progressive/continuous tense + "the" + abstract popular noun:
Or the one I always hear;
For the children
Why there'd be mayhem in the streets if it wasn't for the lil chillun, the angels have saved our society.
Why does we need long school years if we has internet?
Much of the rote crap learning could be done over the wire and graded by machine. frees up teachers and students.
Physical school m/w/f - internet tuesdays and thursdays - reduced the school year by2/5ths in one fell swoop.
Computers can teach at a students pace, rather than the classes pace.
This is really a no brainer.
In fairness and seemingly against the grain of my previous stab at union teachers, we will always need teachers. It can'tall be done on computers. Likewise, many people do in this countrydo nothave computers or internet and they would be at a serious disadvantage. Get rid of the union bullshit and let charter schools do their thing. They have proven over and over to be much more successful at teaching and doing it wth far less money than the public system. Does anyone realize that in the last 20 years public school expenditures have increased 400% (I'm not sure if that is in rea terms) and average test scores have not increased at all? The top level bureaucracy has grown immensely however.
Yeah...let's just hire the University of Phoenix to teach everyone!
Student loans for all! Apollo Group' stock will go up 10000000000%!!
CAPITALISM, YOU PANSY BITCHES!
mr. prankster - sarcasm? i don't understand. because - kids have to learn things like being punctual, interacting with others.
and even things like being exposed to germs. internet is basically the equivalent of crawling back into the cave.
Romancing The Stone?
watch out for those falling school district muni prices
yah....Cali has been cooking the books on property assessment values....marking to unicorn. What a surprise.
http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/mark-fantasy-model-real-estate-accounting-california-property-assessments-down-taxes-fha-defaults-surge-again/
Property assessment about to skyrocket...the money printing to get serious. Inflation is the way out...just ask the bernank.
$100 is the new $10
Canada's new plastic $100 bill is all tricked out http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/canadas-new-plastic-1...
Revised Alice Cooper Bitchezzz....
School's Out or Welcome to My Nightmare?
www.pmbug.com
Those old "Alice" lyrics were clever
On stage sometimes heads he would sever
So did he foresee
CA bankruptcy
And sing that their "schools out forever"
Isnt this antithetical to a solution. You are stupid enough to approve all the social programs that have broken your state. And now you are going to educate less?
Only in California.
It's the new frontier for the bankster's. Keep the next generation of Debt serf's dumb and stupid. Wouldn't be surprised to see 4 day school weeks coming soon
New frontier? What do you think has been happening at public schools the whole time?
They are just an agency of social control. Praise the flag, you have no privacy, don't read that book read this, government is good, do as you are told, American exceptionalism, here are the answers to the test, don't think just regurgitate.
Why don't they tax the illegals (aka the 99%) to close the gap?
They're not white. Any move of any kind against them is automatically classified as racism by the press and judiciary. CA tried denying welfare to illegals, a judge said no, overturning a popular referendum. Then they blamed the popular referendum for GOP problems in the state. The only way to end this is making income transfers at gunpoint illegal, with advocacy of it classified as felony conspiracy and racketeering.
Well the mayor of LAwhich provides $600 million of medical benefits to illegal aliens just went against the wishes of his neighborhood to build a taller security fence around the Mayor's Mansion, at tax payers expense, I might well add. We have our priorities right (oops I should have said left) out here in the Golden State (the gold is gone).
So long as education is as broken as it is, yes, educate less. How many of you out there can say even 1/3 of what you learned in school was even relevant to the world. Fake history, BS economics, no more vocational prep. Throw in several hours of peer pressure to shop and spend.
Other than reading, writing, science and 'rithmetic... wasn't it all just a waste of time? The whole curriculum needs to be gutted and re-designed from scratch.
What is sad - is that CA had one of the best school systems in the world about 30 years ago. All the libtard shit from the East Coast (the Bronx and Philly to name two shitholes) moved there in the 1960s and destroyed the state. Feinstein, Boxer, Waxman, Goldberg, Pelosi, et al.
No it is all spanny and ebonics.
They will play Ipad at home.
The new mantra... "Every child is left behind"
"as we speed off to our glorious future in a brand new Maserati paid for by...
TERRA... the "Toddler Economic Recovery & Reinvestment Act"
They'll learn more.
Slash and burn everything..., except the bloated wages and pensions.
Governor Moonbeam
Hot teacher day.. http://hedge.ly/gFWVSm
Technology to believe in;)
Huummmm.... Nice, clean pool.
Nice. Bloated .gov leechfucks > bloated .edu leechfucks. Hahaha. They're eating their own.
reduced energy, reduced payrolls(maybe)....increased margins.......bullish
what the soon to be in hell oldidorks favor, is to keep people stupid enough, so they wouldn't know which end of the pitchfork to use!
One need only to look around at the abundance of very large SUVs in areas that never get snow, to realize that the goal of massive stupidity is already accomplished.
DUMB KIDS MAKE GREAT ADULT VOTERS
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.-- Bertrand Russell
Good riddance to any amount of public schooling.
What voters put the last two men into office as POTUS?
100% FUBAR.
If voting could accomplish anything it would be illegal - George Carlin.
When you don't have the education that allows you to gain employment which will pay your bills, you become a burden on society dependent on entitlements to survive...thus, in the majority of cases, you vote liberal...it's all a liberal conspiracy to dumb down the population. You know everyone always talks about how Republicans are pro big business and banks...well let's see...here has Obummer and his fellow liberals investigated any crimes or arrested anyone on Wall Street? Are the TBTF banks bigger and more profitable than they were 3 years ago? uhhh, yes. Has big business survived while small and mid-sized business has been virtually wiped out? uhhh, yes. Do big businesses need stupid people to take orders? uhhhh, yes?. Don't tell me that the Democratic leadership has any different agenda than the Republicans...its all about taking care of their corrupt buddies. The only difference is that the Dems pretend to care about the little guy.
This is making Alice and the Mad Hatter look normal.
lolol
Buying CA? Are you serious? or is this an expression?
Just a joke....actually China already owns CA.
Actually California is the capitol/capital of Mexico.
It is on layaway.
WOW this has GOT to be very to quite bullish!
I am in tears laughing
The uneducated are so much easier to control... They don't even try to think for themselves anymore
neither do educated people...
Only if you let school get in the way of education
The sheep are controlled by TV, propaganda "news" and the celeb media. Morons watch TV and enpower their masters by watching.
One reason I do not have cable TV
It depends on the education.
Classical liberal education: critical thinking.
Public schooling: herd indoctrination.
Watch John Taylor Gatto describe our imported Prussian schooling system.
Good ! Less Brainwashing , they don't educate anyways !
Education,Indoctrination... wat's the effin difference!
In Kalifornia of course, where Arnold is a conservative.
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mundane educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom; go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts.-- Frank Zappa
Hi ummm, Arnie is gone, we have some new d00d named moonbeam or something. And the new d00d made using E-verify illegal in the entire state, to fuck over San Bernadino County trying to protect at least their govt. contracts from going to illegals. Oh and he made it illegal to confiscate your car at a checkpoint if you don't have a drivers license. Wonder who that helps! Oh and he raised tuitions 40% to pay for illegals getting scholarships and in state tuition. Not Arnie's doin.
CA moron Dems put Moon Beam in office twice. Moon Beam's old man nearly bankrupted the state. Reagan was elected and the state had a surplus after a few years.
Cali; leading member in the Loyal Order of the Terminally Boned (LOTB)
"And now we will discuss the application of quadratic equations to real world solut..........opps we are out of money. Have a good summer."
But teacher, why can't you just print more money like the federal government?
Because ink prices have shot through the roof since Bernanke took post and the ink is now worth more than the money printed with it!