Comments for Chamber forms PAC, will make school board endorsements at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.theind.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:29:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6906-chamber-forms-pac-will-make-school-board-endorsements#comment-10413 citizen -- "inadequate students with purchased credentials"--Prove that. Post links to some data that support that position. " Upset Cajun " -- You completely miss my point. The article says the Chamber thinks all board members should have HIGH SCHOOL diploma or equivalent. My comment meant that I'm surprised they don't all have higher education than that. I am assuming if the Chamber thinks it should be a requirement, that there's been School Board members who haven't finished HIGH SCHOOL. must have been a problem in the past, or they wouldn't have brought it up. I take your point that people can succeed without a college degree. How about people that didn't finish high school, though? Is that the same thing? I don't think so. Do you? And as for college--what do you make of all the data, the facts, that show that college graduates--ON AVERAGE, as A GROUP, make more money over a lifetime than those who didn't finish college? I don't care if a school board candidate went to college or not. There certainly shouldn't be a requirement. But, it just seems reasonable to me that school board members should have finished high school. - ragin_cajun Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:31:06 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6906-chamber-forms-pac-will-make-school-board-endorsements#comment-10388 If i remember correctly, the Chamber endorsed consolidated government. Look at where we now stand. They chamber should keep its focus on its primary mission. I guess they feel that if they can't persuade a canidate, they will buy him/her. - Southsider Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:42:01 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6906-chamber-forms-pac-will-make-school-board-endorsements#comment-10385 With all Due Respect to Ragin Cajun. I am tired of people associating the lack of a college degree with a lack of intelligence. In any event, while education is important, intelligence has little to do with paper framed on the wall. Here is a list of people who have been successful in a variety of fields without the benefit of graduating college. Bill Gates, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, Walt Disney, and Peter Jennings. Oh yes and did I mention that I do have a college degree and have been very successful in all aspects of life especially in the working world, and the C.E.O. of the company I work for is very intelligent and successful in operating a $129 million business without a college degree. - Upset Cajun Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:45:47 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6906-chamber-forms-pac-will-make-school-board-endorsements#comment-10382 I really don't think the Chamber should be involved in this. After all they endorsed the last tax increase and the school board failed in what they and the Chamber promised us. That is why I don't trust too many politico's and their pod-nuh's!! This is all a set up for another tax increase. YOU CAN MAKE BOOK ON THAT! - The Original Northsidian Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:19:06 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6906-chamber-forms-pac-will-make-school-board-endorsements#comment-10380 Oh great, let's turn the school board race into an all out political bash, complete with politicians ready to sell themselves out to the highest bidder. Soon we can have school board candidates spending more money to get elected than we spend on education! Then the Chamber of commerce can buy the votes they need to... what? get rid of public schools? Because public schools are communist right? All of these people need to just get their filthy greedy hands out of the business of public schools. Unless you are teaching students you are sucking money out of the system. Education is not a product that you can downsize, discount or outsource to china, as the LCC would do if they had a chance. The LCC needs to just step back and mind their own business. If you want to meddle in schools, meddle in the private schools. You know... where they pay the teachers as little as possible, so they can reap the largest profit turning out inadequate students with purchased credentials. Yea. That's the education system the LCC would like you to have. - citizen Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:07:01 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6906-chamber-forms-pac-will-make-school-board-endorsements#comment-10379 "We also believe a school board member should possess a high school degree or the equivalent." ????? What???? Don't they all have bachelor's or master's degrees? Is there a board member elected that doesn't have a high school diploma? that would be a surprise. - ragin_cajun Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:48:13 +0100