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http://www.salon.com/2012/02/26/rick_santorums_home_school_hokum/singleton/
From 2001 through at least 2004, when Santorum was serving in the Senate and living full-time in Loudoun County, Va., five of his children were enrolled in an online charter school based in Pennsylvania — a public school, albeit an unusual one — with computers, curricula and other educational services provided at taxpayer expense. According to the Penn Hills Progress, a newspaper in Santorum’s suburban Pittsburgh hometown that broke the story at the time, the local school district had spent approximately $100,000 educating the senator’s so-called home-schooled children, although they lived neither in the district nor in the state.
  
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Online schools will become more and more the norm.
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$20k a child? Nice.
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3 years x 5 kids = 15 kid/yrs
$100,000 / 15kid/yrs = $6,667 per kid per year.
Sounds like a deal by today's standards!
If you assume that 2001 through at least 2004 is inclusive of 2001 then the number is more like $5,000 per kid per year.
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Moe_Nox posted:
I don't understand what was posted.
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Me too!
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Scarne posted:
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/26/rick_santorums_home_school_hokum/singleton/
From 2001 through at least 2004, when Santorum was serving in the Senate and living full-time in Loudoun County, Va., five of his children were enrolled in an online charter school based in Pennsylvania — a public school, albeit an unusual one — with computers, curricula and other educational services provided at taxpayer expense. According to the Penn Hills Progress, a newspaper in Santorum’s suburban Pittsburgh hometown that broke the story at the time, the local school district had spent approximately $100,000 educating the senator’s so-called home-schooled children, although they lived neither in the district nor in the state.
Santorum is a crunt.
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SoBaKi posted:
I'm angry at others because my dad is disappointed in my life choices.
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My kids were both education though that same program. It is the PA Cyber Charter School. It works by taking the funding from the district that your kid went to and moving it to PA Cyber. It worked well, but I agree, if there were living in VA, they were not PA students and the PA school district should not have been paying for them to school in Virginia.
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cabbyman posted:
SoBaKi posted:
I'm angry at others because my dad is disappointed in my life choices.
I just spit water on my desk.
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imaloon1 posted:
cabbyman posted:
SoBaKi posted:
I'm angry at others because my dad is disappointed in my life choices.
I just spit water on my desk.
Water?
Riiiiiiiiiiiight
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Thankfully, the state I live is is moving to ban online schools.
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SoBaKi posted:
Moe_Nox posted:
I don't understand what was posted.
Are you mad that the Pennsylvania Senator enrolled his kids in a Pennsylvania school or that it cost less per kid than is typical?
Considering you are a Democrat I assume you're mad because it cost less per kid.
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Summary dialogue brought to you tonight by Mt Gay Rum (yes, you too can drink mt gay and be as happy as you want to be!)Scarne posted:
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/26/rick_santorums_home_school_hokum/singleton/
From 2001 through at least 2004, when Santorum was serving in the Senate and living full-time in Loudoun County, Va., five of his children were enrolled in an online charter school based in Pennsylvania — a public school, albeit an unusual one — with computers, curricula and other educational services provided at taxpayer expense.
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yes you heard that correctly. This religious psychopath doesn't want his kids being brainwashed by the liberal indoctrination camps (aka, public schools). No No - he home schools his kids, so they get a proper education (in the correct context of his own person beliefs)... (applause)
But what that actually means, in a literal translation, is that he's too cheap to live up to his own ideas. You know, hire some tutors and teach his kids at home... No - He'd rather cheat the tax payers of PA, put his kids in front of a computer, let them get indoctrinated by the public school system (aka liberal indoctrination camps) and go off and diddle his electorate a bit more and boost his chances for that big pay off...
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It is the same old story. Don't blame someone for taking advantage of a benifit. If the benifit is bad then remove it. I'm for removing a lot of programs but would be foolish not to use them. Took me a lot of years to understand that. I never took advantages of many of the VA programs because I figured I could do without them and did not want to be a burden. It was stupid and only hurt me and my family.
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Fist_de_Yuma posted:
It is the same old story. Don't blame someone for stealing off the backs of tax payers from another state. If the benifit is bad then remove it. I'm for removing a lot of programs but would be foolish not to use some sort of identify theft or political clout to get them (at the same time denouncing them to the electorate on the campaign trail). Took me a lot of years to understand how to believe one thing and to support the complete opposite. It was stupid of me not to be a leech on the very system I condemned for allowing leeches to take advantage of it. I was truly foolish in my beliefs and actions. I was stupid.
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As they say, "don't hate the player, hate the game."
I don't think you are mentally capable of distinguishing between a player and the game.
As a matter of fact - I slap you across the cheek with a gauntlet of -10 to discussion.
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Fist_de_Yuma posted:
"don't hate the player, hate the game."
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I don't think a few of you understand what he did is basically theft.He has the people of another tax district he doesn't live in paying to educate his kids and his kids are taking up slots that rightfully belong to the children of the areas tax payers.
If I had a kid on that schools waiting list(most charter schools have a 200+ waiting list),I'd sue him in a heartbeat.
He is a rich man that could easily afford private school or a home tutor but instead decides to steal it from the middle class children who actually belong there.
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