Parents revolt against public schools leave buildings empty

Examiner ^ | Jan. 31, 2014 | Martha

[usalady]

As those in power continues to hang onto the 19th century model of education or accept Common Core indoctrination for their students, parents are moving toward becoming the “deciders” as they chose charter and private schools, homeschooling, and online programs, it is leaving thousands of empty school buildings all across America. According to a recent study among the cities with vacant school buildings are

[usalady]

According to a recent study among the cities with vacant school buildings are

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[Forward the Light Brigade]

All caused by the Teacher’s Union.

[steerpike100]

Martha, Martha, Martha. Please craft your sentences more carefully.

[Balding_Eagle]

That is one of the most revolting websites I’ve ever visited.

[Vigilanteman]

The American left, in their overreach and insatiable quest for power, sow the seeds for their own demise.

It may not come at the ballot box, but it will come.

[oh8eleven]

All caused by the Teacher’s Union.
Not true at all ... "New York Teachers Union Says ‘No’ To Common Core Standards as Implemented".
My guess is that there are many more teachers' unions in other states that feel the same.

[dfwgator]

There will be more and more calls from the Left to Federalize education.

[MrB]

They need to learn from the past - when you overreach, you need someone standing behind you holding a gun.

You can’t let people decide for themselves if they’re going to comply with your will, you have to make them...

for their own good, of course.

[j. earl carter]

Are you referring to sentences like this?

Competition brought about by School Choice and vouchers fueled by home schooling organizations that assist parents in teaching, charter and private schools that are entrepreneurs in meeting the competition for students and schools that provide graduation degrees for students taking classes from Internet- based schools will lead to more empty school buildings as education becomes more customized to fit the needs of students in the 21st century.

[nathanbedford]

The teachers' unions, much like the executives who mismanage leftist cable news stations against the interests of their stockholders for ideological reasons, have blocked any real reform for at least three generations.

It is not only that teachers will not let go of progressive era teaching goals, it is a never ending whoring after the latest fad in education which serves as an excuse to avoid facing up to the grotesque crime that the entire educational establishment in America has committed against our children.

Out of misguided notions of egalitarianism, leftist educators drive the standards down to the lowest common denominator. Their ideology will not permit them to countenance merit rising to the top. One of the primary drivers of this phenomenon is, let's face it, race.

The only solution for education and the only hope for oncoming generations of America's kids is to resort to a voucher system but there is virtually no chance that can be done unless and until control is wrested from the educational establishment. The voucher system threatens to break not just educrats' rice bowls, it threatens to break down the jail doors and free millions of kids from intellectual and emotional bondage. So long as leftist educrats regard children as digits which they can indoctrinate rather than educate, they will resist losing their power.

Secondary education should be stripped clean of every endeavor apart from pure education. Home education, driving school, human sexuality courses all should be scrapped and the time applied to rigorous learning. More time, however, should be devoted to serious athletics-especially for boys who are not constitutionally built to sit long at desks listening to a female teacher. Failure must be permitted just as excellence must be rewarded. It is not the function of the teacher to save the child from the consequences of his folly or his indolence. In fact, the teacher ought to be a surrogate for the reality of the world and apply those consequences objectively but strictly.

Technology is part of the solution not so much because it offers children a better way to learn, which it does in many instances, but because it breaks down the stranglehold of the teachers unions on the institution. But ultimately vouchers are the answer and the virtue of vouchers can only be denied by the most contrived mumbo-jumbo and educational jargon for which teaching establishment has become infamous.

[darkangel82]

Reagan missed the boat on not eliminating the unconstitutional Dept. of Education when he had a chance.

[grania]

all caused by the teachers union

There's plenty of blame to go around. The federal government deserves a huge share of it. Federal funds have taken control away from local school districts. When "standards" weren't met or enrollment wasn't maxed out, cities and towns had to close buildings and students had to travel great distances to non-neighborhood schools. This caused a lot of "good kids" in the still opened schools to look for alternatives to public education when their schools lost their neighborhood character. A lot of kids being transported out of their neighborhoods suffered because they lost that community focus. Then there's the low disciplinary standards, caused by "no child left behind", administrators who don't want to confront issues and teachers who have given up.

The answer is to go back to neighborhood schools, not allow students to transfer to other neighborhoods, and hold the neighborhoods accountable.

The union leaders, not standing up to the powers that be, are part of the problem. But the average union member? They'd rather have a well-run neighborhood school to teach in.

[Disambiguator]

More time, however, should be devoted to serious athletics-especially for boys who are not constitutionally built to sit long at desks listening to a female teacher.

How long they can sit depends on the constitutional build of the female teacher.

[fieldmarshaldj]

He didn’t have the power in Congress to do it.

[Valpal1]

Out of misguided notions of egalitarianism...

It was intentional. Independent readers and self motivated learners are extremely hard to propagandize. Functional illiterates, however, make good shock troops for whatever social change the progressives are peddling.

Home economics, wood shop and mechanics should be put back into secondary education and they should have a college track and a vocational track that encompasses owning your own business. Not everybody is cut out for college and we should quit pretending they are. Electricians, plumbers, mechanics, etc are jobs that can't be offshored and can provide a good living to the independently minded.

There is no reason why Home Economics class can't provide students with Food Handlers cards and First Aid/CPR cards as part of the curriculum.

Driver's Education II should result in a CDL.

[Tammy8]

In high school we would have had to diagram that sentence so we would never have written one that long.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

People will pay out-of-pocket rather than make use of a “free” service that costs taxpayers $12k/student/year.

Sounds like a government-run operation to me.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I live in the heart of a mid size city in Texas. I send all my kids to a top notch private school nearby.

Here's the interesting thing... nearly all of the other students also live in this same area... which means if all the parents simultaneously left the private school and instead sent them to the local public school... the school public school would literally almost triple overnight and the demographics of that school would shift dramatically.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“That is one of the most revolting websites I’ve ever visited.”

Really? Then I’m off to check it out!
Later,
Bogie

[PGalt]

HOORAY parents! Protecting your children from indoctrination centers, re-education camps, potential killing fields. GRRRRREAT news!