Comments on: The irony of the lottery and education funding: Learn ‘em better and lose players? http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2004/12/lottery-education-funding-irony I'm pretty good at wasting your time. By Tom Sherman. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:27:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Carmen Tarbill http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2004/12/lottery-education-funding-irony#comment-1816 Carmen Tarbill Tue, 02 Aug 2005 00:45:55 +0000 http://www445.pair.com/tps115/jotsheet/?p=333#comment-1816 Before you start blaming teachers for all the problems with education, you really need to do your research. Most of us are working 50-60 hours a week for less than $25,000 a year and that is with a master's degree. Why do we bother? It is certainly not for the money. It is because we care about those students that deserve a chance regardless of their background or socioeconomic status. The way to improve education, if that is what you really want to do, is to support those people, like teachers, who truly care about doing what is best for children. Before you start blaming teachers for all the problems with education, you really need to do your research. Most of us are working 50-60 hours a week for less than $25,000 a year and that is with a master’s degree. Why do we bother? It is certainly not for the money. It is because we care about those students that deserve a chance regardless of their background or socioeconomic status. The way to improve education, if that is what you really want to do, is to support those people, like teachers, who truly care about doing what is best for children.

]]> By: Evan http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2004/12/lottery-education-funding-irony#comment-1815 Evan Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:56:24 +0000 http://www445.pair.com/tps115/jotsheet/?p=333#comment-1815 The lottery and similar vices are thinning the herd. Good or bad, Darwinism takes no sides. Maybe human evolution isn't dead afterall! It's just really really slow...(shall we call it retarded?) The lottery and similar vices are thinning the herd. Good or bad, Darwinism takes no sides. Maybe human evolution isn’t dead afterall! It’s just really really slow…(shall we call it retarded?)

]]> By: tom sherman http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2004/12/lottery-education-funding-irony#comment-1814 tom sherman Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:57:20 +0000 http://www445.pair.com/tps115/jotsheet/?p=333#comment-1814 Spelling error fixed. Ironical that was, amf. :) Spelling error fixed. Ironical that was, amf. :)

]]> By: AMF http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2004/12/lottery-education-funding-irony#comment-1813 AMF Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:10:10 +0000 http://www445.pair.com/tps115/jotsheet/?p=333#comment-1813 I post in true Web fashion, that ism without having skimmed the article. The lottery, like cigarette tax, is inadvertently regressive... it punishes those at the lower end of the income scale (because they are at the bottom of the education scale). The question, of course, is that bad? (the tax/lotto... the combination of "a miltibillion (sic) dollar lotto industry and dumbass kids" obviously is) I post in true Web fashion, that ism without having skimmed the article. The lottery, like cigarette tax, is inadvertently regressive… it punishes those at the lower end of the income scale (because they are at the bottom of the education scale).

The question, of course, is that bad? (the tax/lotto… the combination of “a miltibillion (sic) dollar lotto industry and dumbass kids” obviously is)

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