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Your "Stimulus" Dollars Buying iPods for Parents in Florida
Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:44 AM
Your tax dollars at work, according to Bay News 9:
The Polk County school district is giving away iPods to some parents.
The school district is using the device to reward parents of children with disabilities who fill out a 10-minute online survey. The district wants to know how well it's connecting with the parents and how to get parents involved in their children's education.
The district is spending about $350,000 in federal stimulus money for the iPods.
We're wondering how many jobs this is saving and creating...
Reader Comments:
"We're wondering how many jobs this is saving and creating..."
Ask the ChiComms. They make 'em.
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Conservative Phantom / On the right
It's been CANCELED -- check the updated Bay News 9 link.
Clayton in Mississippi / Your Location
That's happening in a lot of places. Roanoke and Lynchburg, VA got over $1.6 million for iPod Touches.
Matt Dooley / Roanoke, VA
Thank you, thank you, for bringing this to the forefront. Teachers were outraged by this "carrot dangling" scheme for parents to be a participant in their child's education. This is only one of many, many, issues in this county!
********* / bartow
I am a teacher in Polk County, Florida. This whole idea was "NUTZ". Teachers here haven't received a raise in two years, and they wanted to invest $350k for ipods!?!...I don't like Federal involvement in "local" affairs, but this whole idea shows the REAL priority/value @ a local/state/fed. level of the worth placed on teachers.
Robb Stubblefield / Lakeland, Fl
Now, that's what I call quality government spending. I mean seriously, parents shouldn't just complete surveys because they want to help their children get a better education. I mean really, we have eternity to pay it back right?.......... I just don't get it? Have some Apple Lobbyists been bribing government officials, or is the government really this stupid.
Penny / Cleveland Ohio
The money being used was not from the stimulus package and that programme itself has been withdrawn.
'Correction: Wednesday, Bay News 9 reported that our newspaper partners at the Ledger said it was federal stimulus money that was paying for the iPods. Thursday, the Ledger ran a correction saying the money is for programs specifically aimed at developmentally disabled students and is separate from federal stimulus dollars.'
http://www.educationnews.org/educationnewstoday/51545.html
Sappho / Australia
To say that the money is separate from stimulus dollars is ridiculous. I guess I would argue that this is all Tax Payers money. The money came from hard-working Americans and was directed by a marxist leader and now it is being allocated in a fashion that smells of waste, Is this really the road we want to go down? Wake up America!
David / Minnesota
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