Does district’s Chinese program make sense?
Some Janesville School District residents were understandably alarmed and even ticked off to learn that Superintendent Karen Schulte and school board member Kristin Hesselbacher were in China. These residents assumed their tax dollars were paying for this eight-day trip that sought partnership schools for exchanges of teachers and students.
That assumption, however, was incorrect. District officials say the Hanban/Confucius Institute of China paid for the trip, as Frank Schultz reported in Wednesday’s Gazette.
Concerns about trip costs thus erased, let’s step back and look at the big picture: Just what is the point of such a trip, and what might be the benefits?
This will be the subject of The Gazette’s editorial Saturday.
Greg Peck can be reached at (608) 755-8278 or gpeck@gazettextra.com. Or follow him on Twitter or Facebook
Nov 19, 2012 at 10:46 p.m.
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From working in the educational sector I can admit that a majority of administration staff are completely incompetent.
Nov 19, 2012 at 1:02 p.m.
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We can build good products, we just have unions driving the prices up 10 fold so of course people will buy the cheaper.
Nov 19, 2012 at 12:28 p.m.
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Very cool that the city is supporting this program. Business demand is in the East, for now. Businesses want to make money that is where the money is being made. Simple economics. That is what democracy is all about. There are people on this site that want people to buy American and yet spout off about how great Democracy is. Which way do you want it? Want me to buy American? Then build a better product. Simple.
Nov 19, 2012 at 9:10 a.m.
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garyprimer - Not sure which rock you live under...Japan did take over. How many US companies have gone out of business since WWII because of japanese products replacing them? TVs, microwave, cameras, electronic equipment, you name it... Japan has gone so far that it even has its own manufaturing facilities here to build cars now and the US people are happy (HAHA) and think its great because they "think" they are buying American. That is how dumb we are.
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We've been selling scrap metal to china now for so long that they now control the steel market...and several others. China already owns more of the Debt than all the US citizens combined.
Im not not saying China will "take over" the country... They are going to "own" it....there is a difference. Not much.. but ya. lol.
-http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/moneymatters/ss/How-Much-US-Debt-Does-China-Own.htm
Nov 18, 2012 at 7:45 p.m.
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That's true garyprimer and don't forget that the Pope was going to give the orders when JFK won.
Nov 18, 2012 at 12:26 p.m.
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I remember when all of the nut cases
were saying that Japan was going to take over the country.
Some things never change.
Nov 18, 2012 at 9:50 a.m.
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Irrational conspiracies aside, education - no matter what the subject - is never, ever a bad investment. Like it or not, the more people travel, the more they understand another culture at the level of language, the BETTER all will be able to share their humanity and their common goals. To so easily dismiss the benefits of travel, interaction, and mutual participation in the adventure of life simply because of fear and myth is to eventually doom us all.
Nov 17, 2012 at 9:06 p.m.
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My thought exactly, preparation for when China takes over.
Nov 17, 2012 at 1:45 a.m.
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Perhaps the Hanban/Confucius Institute is a "prepper" organization, laying the foundations for managing education in the United States after China claims control when this country defaults on repayments of all the money we've borrowed from them. Don't worry about the dress code, teachers. We'll all be wearing Zhongshan (Mao suit) outfits soon enough.
Nov 16, 2012 at 2:56 p.m.
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They might have checked out the new clothing lines for the dress code.
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