I'm not sure what your actual complaint is.... that you have to pay taxes? We all have to pay them. And we all get to benefit from them. I looked up Ryder v. US and it doesn't have anything to do with taxes. Is that a typo?
I'd like to offer my own opinion in response to your questions. First, Why does our nation debt continue to grow? Because the government is giving it to the illegals, and bailing our big businesses. Why not bail out the little businesses that have a far greater chance of failure if they don't get help? Quit giving tax breaks to the super-wealthy bankers and investors and make them pay back the bailout money. I don't believe in communism or socialism (by any stretch of the imagination), but it seems to me that a salary cap of 1 million (with the rest going to pay back the bailout) would go a long way towards making things better. And if a guy can't support his family on 1 million, I'd be happy to advise him on how my family and I survive on $45,000.
Your second question: Why do schools want more money when our children are falling behind? Because of the mistaken belief that people are willing to teach a classroom of 35 unruly children for a salary at the poverty level. My daughter teaches high school history. She makes $21,000! She loves teaching history and is willing to work for that low pay because of the intangible benefits. She's lucky that she has mostly good kids. But she has horror stories of student teaching in another school where parents are unresponsive to teacher concerns, kids bring weapons and drugs into the building, there is NO respect for the teacher or other administrators, and, generally speaking, chaos rules. It's a wonder kids learn anything! Why not take a hint from the Chinese (who are supassing us in almost all subjects)? Classrooms are true places of learning where the teacher has all the authority s/he needs. Children don't misbehave, drugs and weapons are unheard of, and parents take responsibility for their children. In other words, run it like a Catholic school :-) One humorous anecdote that illustrates my point: I teach college and one of my students (a young Asian woman) turned in a paper that appeared plagiarized because there were no citations where she used others' work. Her response to me was this: since I was the teacher and an expert in my field, she wouldn't presume to insult my intelligence by telling me something I already knew (i.e., who said what)! One not-so-humorous anecdote: same daughter, back in elementary school, had a teacher who consistently sent home papers, notes, assignments, etc., FULL of mispelled words, grammatical errors, ambiguous requirements, and nonsensical statements. She spoke in Ebonics which didn't help. How this woman got a teaching degree is beyond me.
My solution: smaller classrooms, paying teachers a decent salary so that we can attract more qualified persons, and holding parents responsible!
Sorry for the rant and getting off topic, but this is my personal soapbox (along with the overuse of ritalin).
Why file a report here? Ripoff Report is a permanent record! Other complaint sites copy our content then remove reports for money.
