2004 House Bill 5962: Allow voters to devolve large ISD revenue to local schools

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Introduced by Rep. James Koetje (R) on June 1, 2004, to place on the June, 2005 ballot in Genesee, Kent, Macomb and Oakland counties a measure to close down the county Intermediate School District (ISD), and transfer its revenue to the regular school districts in the county. This is one of a number of bills that have been introduced to impose greater oversight on ISDs, or limit their power.
- Referred to the House Government Operations Committee on June 1, 2004.
- Referred to the House Education Committee on June 2, 2004.

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1) re parents are to blame by Anonymous Citizen on November 20, 2004
by todays standard your parents would have been uninvolved and that's why your failing. i totally agree with you parents were supposed to help while the school educates now they think the reverse. the teachers have no knowledge of how to educate. they give information but don't teach children how to use and apply there are so many blank spaces to what they teach. unless they go back to using books that teach so children can learn they are set up for failure. parents are the real teachers and by that saying alone that should give them the teaching degree. most teachers now are just out of diapers and have no clue as to how to teach.
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2) Blaming the Parents by Anonymous Citizen on November 20, 2004
I'm appalled at the attitude that it's all the parents fault if the child doesn't learn at our wonderful public schools. That's an outright lie and needs to be put to immediate rest. It's the job of the teacher to TEACH and EVERY CHILD will learn to some degree based on how well and diligent that teacher is in IMPARTING knowledge. I had very concerned and loving parents in a house full of books but I have absolutely NO MEMORY of my parents reading to me or teaching me anything. But I have TONS of memories of sitting in my classroom from first grade on with my head being stuffed full of all kinds of knowledge. I vividly remember struggling to learn to read in the first grade (phonics, thank goodness), and how slowly everything sank in and the light bulbs flashed on. I soon became an excellent and voracious reader... but then my elementary school back in the 60's made the politically correct mistake of actually teaching phonics, grammer, spelling, vocab, etc. all the things that today's teachers are supposed to just let the helpless student find out for themselves. THAT'S why kids and many adults can't read or write or know proper grammer... the wonderful public schools simply don't teach them how. Teachers have students over six hours per day. Why, may I ask, if it's not to fill their minds with knowledge during that time... Parents should not be expected to do what the teachers are paid and trained (that's questionable) to do. Parents are the back up and the encourager, and yes they can make a difference to some degree, but excellent teaching can overcome much. But excellent teaching will have few to no results if there is no CONTENT that included in their teaching methods. That's where the trouble is: the lack of content in our schools. I have three children in public schools, good ones by today's standards, and yet I can see how the content is just not there. I make that up at home, but that should be the provence of the teacher. That's what schools exist for.
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3) re:re: by Anonymous Citizen on October 16, 2004
oh come on, administration didn't listen then and they don't listen now. and yes they ask the counselor and of course he denied it. they think all parents make this stuff up. just like my grandson makes up the things kids in school say about other kids and the teasing and name calling that they say to kids. their response is well i didn['t hear it so it didn't happen.
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