Education department challenges 'innovative districts' law

Based on these posts what I'm getting from the 'educators' is that as long as we give you more money you wouldn't care what the ideology behind it was. Right now the State spends over half its budget on education. Would you be satisfied if we spent 90 percent?

Would - say - an extra 50 billion dollars a year make you happy? I'll bet you wouldn't care if we had to have pictures of Jesus in every classroom if you could make $200,000 a year each and teach in luxury facilities.

Stop with the garbage. The Education Industry is about money. Period. You just embarrass yourself when you say anything otherwise.

June 13, 2013 at 6:20 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

State board approves new science standards

That's almost as stupid as educational experts setting tuition rates right? Get off it. The Educastion Industry is nothing but a gigantic scam...and in case you didn't know it - local school districts set graduation requirements not the State. These are only recommendations.

June 12, 2013 at 3:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Budget cuts to higher education lead to request for higher tuition

Totally agree. There are creative ways to make things more affordable and KU refuses to consider them...or so it seems. Here we have 'Harvard on the Kaw' using people with high school diplomas to teach classes. There is a Pre-Bar course going on right now that is 8 weeks long and costs $3,800. The students go into the classroom and someone presses 'play' on the DVD player and they watch a video. That's it. No interaction. No instructor. Just sit and watch a video. The Education Industry is a complete sham.

June 7, 2013 at 9:52 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Budget cuts to higher education lead to request for higher tuition

This is not true. It's too expensive because KU is bloated. Don't try to say it isn't because I know several employees who openly admit they do nothing and get paid quite well for it.

June 7, 2013 at 9:49 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Kansans paying 2nd highest state sales tax in nation on groceries

Can't afford to eat, drink, smoke, buy gasoline, pay taxes on personal property, pay state income tax, or start a business.

Other than that it's a great place to live.

May 29, 2013 at 11:23 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU faculty, staff push for improved tuition benefits for themselves and their families

Education is important. Unfortunately, FORMAL education is a gigantic rip-off. Maybe if KU didn't have high school graduates teaching math classes and charging full tuition for it they may get a little more respect both nationally and from their customers. Oh wait...I forgot - Univer$ities don't have customers. They have slaves.

May 13, 2013 at 11:19 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

A or A-minus? KU students want a straight answer

To get them prepared for post-Education life we should follow the old analogy:

Her A- would be 'taxed' 30 percent and she would get a C for the course. The person with the 'F' would receive the benefit of 20 percent of that and get a 'D' and pass. The other 10 percent would be distributed amongst the 'D' students.

Sounds fair to me.

April 15, 2013 at 11:56 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Opinion: U.S. must re-engineer its health care system

You would do more for more people and benefit the entire economy if you reformed education instead. Beyond the absurd level of spending we have for primary and secondary schooling, the cost of a college education is rapidly moving beyond the reach of the Middle Class - if it's not there already.

Somehow we can sit her idly while many middle class families are borrowing out of their hard-earned retirement accounts to finance degrees that will never pay for themselves.

Does anyone know how much money is being sucked out of the economy by student loan repayments? Until I borrowed from my retirement and paid off my loans I was paying $600 a month and my daughter was paying an additional $350. That's $1,000 a month that isn't going towards goods and services.

I don't think higher education should be free. But 30 years ago going to college was about motivating oneself and sticking with it. Now it's about money. Period. There's something very wrong with that...and yet Education Industry leaders insist that they need more and more and more, yet refuse to justify the fact that tuition has gone up 400 percent above inflation since 1980.

April 15, 2013 at 11:50 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Mrs. Kansas, a Lawrence resident, uses platform to raise awareness about poverty

After 50 years and billions upon billions of dollars, how's that 'War on Poverty' going anyway?

April 9, 2013 at 8:10 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Ottawa boy, 4, receives minor injuries after another child shoots him with BB gun

When I was a kid we'd have been in a firefight in the back yard...and if we'd saved any Roman candles we'd have been firing those at each other too. This isn't news at all. I just hope the 4-year-old is figuring out how to get payback.

April 9, 2013 at 8:07 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )