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Say a mayor decides not to force the evacuation of his citizens because he has been told by his followers that it would not get him relected then do we not deserve what they give us.QUOTE]
And how the hell is anyone supposed to force the evacuation of an entire city and what do you do when people refuse, send out police or the SWAT teams to arrest them? It depends on the type of emergency as to the percent of the populations willing to comply with an evacuation mostly depending on their understanding of the threat and how they expect it to effect them. In any evacuation you will always have people that stay behind.
Ah my thing was based on SAT's. Georgia is last in SAT's.
anyways back to topic. what amazed me today was how much people were angry at purdue. not that closing down schools would harm the education of their children but that(with 2 days notice) they would have to actually take care of their own children.
Why aren't these parents making a big deal about the embarrassing education that their children are getting? Why are they instead going crazy about having to care for their children???????????
This is how insane the citizens are getting too.
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Do remember though JMJ -- these two days were built-in snow days in the school calendar. That is, if GA had to close the schools for 2 days this winter due to snow/ice -- they would NOT have been made up either. Since these days were used ... if school closes due to weather, they WILL have to be made up.
The government education system is a mess in the entire country .. yeah I know there are pockets of good schools that do not fit this generality.
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If our schools close for snow days, then a lot of business would excuse workers to take off or close the business down too. Where I live snow happens, but not too heavy usually.
Now calling no school due to gas shortage is nuts with two working parents who are already stretched for taking off days because the kids were sick, which then got them sick. It is not that people do not want to stay at home and take care of our kids, it is the fact that our employers in some cases do not empathize or even sympathize with us, and therefore we are penalized.
If our schools close for snow days, then a lot of business would excuse workers to take off or close the business down too. Where I live snow happens, but not too heavy usually.
Now calling no school due to gas shortage is nuts with two working parents who are already stretched for taking off days because the kids were sick, which then got them sick. It is not that people do not want to stay at home and take care of our kids, it is the fact that our employers in some cases do not empathize or even sympathize with us, and therefore we are penalized.
i'm sorry but why would businesses have to close down because of children? Are we suppose to shut down our economy because of a school closing?
You have to look at it from the employeers eyes. They hired you to work, Yeah sometimes work is not possible for this or that reason but what if 50% of the workforce has children that are still k-12? The employeer is losing alot of money especially for 2 days.
don't get me wrong I like kids, Its just that when you have children you have to keep in mind that they can be a pain sometimes, and you have to have plans for situations just like this one.
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i'm sorry but why would businesses have to close down because of children? Are we suppose to shut down our economy because of a school closing?
Your reading too deep into my post. We live in an area that doesn't receive heavy snow often. Three inches of snow shuts everything but emergancy crews down and they arn't any help in the snow where I live anyways.
I do agree with what you stated, but that wasn't what I was implying.
Okay Sonny Purdue(governor of my state Georgia) wants to close schools down this up coming monday and tuesday to offset the upcoming "GAS SHORTAGES".
Georgia produces the STUPIDIST students in america. We are dead last in education.
Purdue wants to save money/gas, so what does he do? Screw the kids close the schools.
This is how insane the government is getting. First off the government isn't responsibile for the setting of prices of products or services(the last time this happened he froze profits). Second after that whats the next solution? Let the kids get even more dumber Close the schools.
I could not agree more. That's why we chose to homeschool our daughters. We didn't want the govmint "education" to ruin them. We're really seeing the fruit of my wife's labors in teaching them at home. My girls can absolutely run circles around their government-schooled counterparts.
We moved to Florida from North Georgia 9 years ago. We still have friends in the N. GA area (one is a teacher in those wonderful schools) and we're always hearing stories of how crummy the system is and what trouble they're having with the children because of the government "indoctrination" and lack of real learning going on. Our choice to homeschool becomes clearly better and better the more we watch this nonsense going on.
I guess Gov Purdue must also have been a product of Georgia Education. That may explain things.
Again, those greedy oil companies!!!!! Now they are destroying our education system as well.
Our government education system is self-destructive all on it's own - the oil companies have nothing to do with it. It's the government way of thinking that fuels (pardon the pun) the way the system is responding to the "crisis" in the first place.
I love how many of you with no knowledge of the poltical and governmental landscape of Georgia. Quickly rush to conclusions on the intelligence of our govenor, who yes is a republican, the first one since reconstruction. During Hurricane Katrina the two pipe lines that supply georgia with fossil fuels were knocked offline for almost a week. The democrats here in georgia are already bitching that Sonny Perdue repealed the gas tax for this month. If he had keep school in session for these two days, and gas went back over 3 dollars a gallon, then the democrats would be calling for his head(which they are doing anyway).
Imagine the outcry from parents if there 4th graders were stuck on the side of the road in the hot sun, because they didnt have enough diesel fuel. At least when it was clear that the hurricane could damge our oil supply perude made the call and closed school giving the parents the weekend to make other arrangements. When i was in High School i was about to walk out the door to go to school in bad weather when the phone rang for my parents (both teachers) saying that school was canceled.
I am pretty firmly a democrat, and actually in this case I do agree with the governor. He is trying to cut back usage now, knowing that there will be a surplus once the pipelines are back up. Although I do understand parent's concerns about what to do for these 2 days.
Okay Sonny Purdue(governor of my state Georgia) wants to close schools down this up coming monday and tuesday to offset the upcoming "GAS SHORTAGES".
Georgia produces the STUPIDIST students in america. We are dead last in education.
Purdue wants to save money/gas, so what does he do? Screw the kids close the schools.
This is how insane the government is getting. First off the government isn't responsibile for the setting of prices of products or services(the last time this happened he froze profits). Second after that whats the next solution? Let the kids get even more dumber Close the schools.
i dont see where the problem is.
after all you openly admit, that the students are stupidist i dont see them not
going to school in having any impacts on their life.
i wouldnt say fighting for it, there is a good bit of discussion about it though. I for one subscribe to the theory of intelligent design. You have probably heard about the book sticker mess though.
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and what do you do when people refuse, send out police or the SWAT teams to arrest them? It depends on the type of emergency as to the percent of the populations willing to comply with an evacuation mostly depending on their understanding of the threat and how they expect it to effect them. In any evacuation you will always have people that stay behind.
