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Re: There's no place like the House

Montcalm — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:13:17 -0400

Wonder if old Womble has gotten anywhere with his sterilizing bailouts

Re: Recent House bills

tangoz — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:30:39 -0400

Those anti-life Democrats are trying to stop the Pro Life and NRA license plates.

Re: Recent House bills

ncpoli — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:16:28 -0400

Does anyone have background infor on H677? Why eliminate specialty plates? Beyond making our state look completely boring, don't some of the procedes from those plates go to charity? I'm sure the Democrats who sponsored this bill aren't anti-charity, are they?

Re: House bills of note

robdarich — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:14:30 -0500

After Jim Black pushed through the "Ethics Law", NC got a sense of how a law's title may sound good, but actually isn't. (a good name for the actual law would have been "Keeping misdeeds secret".)

So these titles are hard to work with. The term-limit sounds like a term-limit, but with experience in NC state government operations, one can hardly assume that the title means anything.

Education Lottery anyone?

Re: Bill would add arts requirement

myrakinderknecht — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:21:34 -0500

This coming from the same legislative geniuses that think "corporal punishment" (legal right for teacher to hit a child) is okie dokie without considering how many teachers are charged with child sex offenses; giving the perverts the legal right to take a child private and hit them... gasp.. Also these same genuises made it mandatory for a student who passed all subjects and end-of-course tests but missed too many days of school to have to REPEAT THE GRADE HE/SHE ALREADY PASSED. Anyone think this is a good idea and that it will motiviate the student? It is not surprising that North Carolina has been a bottom feeder in Public Education for a long time... With all the budget cuts and the added expense of a CEO salary -- where's the money coming from to implement this?

Stop repeat offenders; don't re-elect them!!!

Re: Bill would add arts requirement

DustinIngalls — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:38:33 -0500

Jacnun, we require high schoolers to graduate with at least one gym/PE credit, so you contradicted your own point.

Re: Bill would add arts requirement

domewatcher — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:20:41 -0500

At last. Us rednecks need more culture. Art classes would help our children to compete in the global economy. We could make Dale, Jr., bobble-head dolls for use in automobile rear windows. And I'm sure art classes would help us appreciate all those museum exchanges that will most definitely result from Gov. Easley's, et al, European Cheeseburger Tour.

Re: Bill would add arts requirement

igliigli — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:10:01 -0500

"At last! Someone who understands the importance of increasing classes which encourage students to unleash creativity and broaden their horizons. As the parent of a Band student, it is evident that the discipline required to learn and perform have improved performance in my child's other classes"

"The data is there to support the legislators proposal as she mentions. I can see by the first few comments that they must not have participated in any arts activities and therefore would not have any appreciation for those activities."

Sorry, I have to disagree with both of these statements.
I have participated in multiple arts activities and
observing my fellow arts students is why I think art
education is a dodge to avoid actual learning.

Re: Bill would add arts requirement

Locomotive_Breath — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:51:00 -0500

"students who have studied the arts do better on tests of math, science and reading"

If math, science and reading are so important maybe we could have a extra class in, you guessed it, math, science and reading.

Re: Bill would add arts requirement

pkscout — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:42:56 -0500

I see the bill comes with no indication of funding source or trade offs for this. I am certainly supportive of teaching the arts in school and could be convinced of it needing to be a requirement, but if the trade off is even more over crowding, lower pay for teachers in general, etc then I'll pass.

Re: Bill would add arts requirement

alaskan1 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:32:12 -0500

martial arts?

Re: Bill would add arts requirement

jacnun — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:17:57 -0500

While I support and encourage the artistic side of anyone. I don't think that it needs to be a requirement. Their have been studies to show how athletics also helps to improve social and academic skills in some but we are not making it a requirement. Just like every student isn't athletic every student isn't going to be artistic either.

Re: Bill would add arts requirement

phayesrn — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:39:17 -0500

At last! Someone who understands the importance of increasing classes which encourage students to unleash creativity and broaden their horizons. As the parent of a Band student, it is evident that the discipline required to learn and perform have improved performance in my child's other classes. The requirement of performing in front of others has brought a child from terror to confidence that can only improve self-esteem in future endeavors.

Re: Bill would add arts requirement

herch1 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:38:40 -0500

The data is there to support the legislators proposal as she mentions. I can see by the first few comments that they must not have participated in any arts activities and therefore would not have any appreciation for those activities.
Great to see somebody actually standing up for arts in schools. Similar to athletic activities, the more options that kids have to do something like the arts, the less free time they have to get into troubled activities. Hoo-ray...

Re: Bill would add arts requirement

dj0420 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:09:31 -0500

What a waste!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!