A few months ago a story came out showcasing the pride of Connecicut, our failing schools.
These schools had drop-out rates up to 40%. That means out of all of the freshmen entering the school nearly half would go on to finish their senior year and nearly half would never make it so far.
We'd all like to think that the 40% not graduating were really overachievers bored with public education and left early to get their G.E.D.'s and get a head start over their peers in college.
Those of us anchored in the "real" world know better.
Three of New Haven's own were included on the list: Common Ground High School, Wilbur Cross High School and James Hillhouse High School.
Two of these three are set for a grand investment and restructuring. Not in the way you think.
The focus of this investment and restructuring is on making sure these schools operate in a more "green" manner.
The proposals call for: Generating money-saving electric power and heat from a plant the size of a V-8 engine, at seven schools including John Martinez pictured); bringing streaming video on demand and tailored to each teacher’s needs into every classroom; and, third, to cut down on theft and increase inventory control, eventually protecting all 7,000 computers and printers in the system with a radio-frequency, EZ-pass type tag, so they can never leave a building or even move within without school staff being alerted.So rather than institute policies that help the children (studies and experiments have shown over and over that opening government education up for competition improved the students education by leaps and bounds) the city wants to blow a quarter of a million dollars plus an extra 68K per school to turn them into little government funded "education" fortresses disguised as being a "green" initiative. I'm sorry, what do RFID and streaming video have to do with being "green?"
A microcosm of the global plan to fund the U.N. with a "carbon tax" thereby solidifying it's position as a global governing body right here in New Haven. Use "green" hysteria to lock-down, microchip and indoctrinate the children of New Haven.
I wonder how many other cities are playing this game?
