WeThePeopleSpeaking: BOTTOM LINE: “Education is the wellspring from which a nation ascends … or the quagmire into which it sinks.Education is everything.” Michael Russell
INTENT: My intent here is to make two points. One, what is the magnitude of the problem and secondly how do we fix it?
HOW BIG IS THE PROBLEM? Huge. Education is perhaps this nation’s greatest disgrace. Yet every four years we go through the same song-and-dance. Candidates promise to spend more billions of dollars, resulting in more top-down regulation which then requires a bigger inefficient and ineffective Department of Education bureaucracy. This is a decades-old formula for failure as we spend more dollars per student and watch our world rating in education continue to decline.
WHERE ARE WE TODAY? Education has been headline-news over the past 18 months. The pandemic shut down schools and 60 million kids and 180 million adults with children under age 18 had to learn, or not, to endure remote classrooms. More recently the national debate has been about including critical race theory as a foundational piece of every school’s curriculum and about masks and vaccinations. But what we do not talk about is the elephant in the room, embarrassing, ridiculous education results. more
h/t Bill.
To a degree that is being handled
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/29/hostile-school-board-meetings-have-members-calling/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
The sonsabitches have gotten their way for far too long. This Covid nonsense combined w/CRT has lit a fuse that they are going to rue the day. They have found out that there is a lot of pent up hostility on any number of bullshit agenda items they have been quietly implementing. Their arrogance is going to be their undoing.
seems reasonable to eliminate the NEA, but i would add disban teacher unions and eliminate federal/state/local funding of schools. Vouchers may be a fix, but I think making all education private then let parents chose their kids school based on curriculum, prior success, and location. I guess you could have a very basic, non-bells and whistles public funded school. No sports, no extracurricular shit, no buses, just reading, riting and rithmatic.
People are leaving Pittsburgh City Schools by the SCORES!
Which is GREAT! Because publk skrules produce numbnuts like THIS! 🙄
https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/pittsburgh-mayor-peduto-wants-approval-program-giving-direct-cash-payments-black-women/4CDTFQXV55DGNPYSVJSXMOXGDM/
Private school or home school. Works for me, worked for me. Very grateful my mother thought enough to send me.
Gonna have to burn the public education system to the ground and start over.
When you say the educational system is not working, progressives including teachers would disagree, it is working exactly as intended; indoctrination is valued over proficiency. It does not matter what they can do, it only matters how they think.
Too many women running schools.
Too many parents not paying attention.
Teachers put on a pedestal they don’t deserve.
Unions given too much power.
Dept of Ed bureaucrats like Fauxci.
Wild Bill – if by burn you mean halt ALL Federal funding and rescind all applicable unconstitutional laws – then burn it down.
@rich taylor: “It does not matter what they can do, it only matters how they think.”
It only matters WHAT THEY FEEL.
Thinking has nothing to do with it.
@Uncle Al O
How they think prioritizes feelings to an unhealthy degree over facts, how they think triggers feelings over tolerance, cooperation and fairness, how they think limits analysis and self reflection creating only binary choices. So yes, their thinking process (or lack of it, if you like)is putting them in that box, a box created by our current education system.
The only fix to America’s problems would be a TOTAL dismantle and a total rebuild from the ground up.
P.S.
I HATE liberals.
Brick and mortar schools will soon be antiquated. Online schooling will replace them with only a few qualified teachers. Could have been done two decades ago.