Posted on 02/15/2011 4:29:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Simple cure:
1) No teachers union or cushy tenure. Pay for perform.
2) No assistance dollars for any household where a felon, illegal, juvenile delinquent or truant child lives.
Texas ranks 33rd in the nation on teacher salaries.
At least they have something to be proud of.
Amen.
Also, the end of education degree credentialism. That’s where they get brainwashed in all sorts of idiocy, including whole word reading.
Not to nit pick, but it seems to me that our state has somewhat of an albatross around its neck when it comes to literacy and graduation rates, given the huge numbers of illegals occasionally attending our larger metropolitan school districts.
Same sorry state of ed in Nevada. Courts say we must educate children of illegal aliens.
How many of those failing english could pass the test in spanish?
Dismantle the public school system.
You are correct.
I think it needs to go much further.
Every time the government enacts some kind of reform, the situation just
gets worse. Get the Fed out of education.
Even state goverment is too much in my opinion.
Parents should be able to pick, choose, and define the education that their children will receive.
Probably not too many. Many immigrants are not very well educated in Spanish. They can read and write, but grammar and spelling are pretty weak. Children from Spanish-speaking families can be taught correct Spanish in Spanish class, if they think it’s useful.
One can’t blame the failure of native English speakers to use the language correctly on immigrants. Students are simply not being taught to read English effectively and write it correctly, as a deliberate policy of the “education” establishment.
It needs to go much farther.
Get the Fed out of education.
Even the state government influence should be drastically cut.
One major root of the problem is the influence that professors of education in the University system have.
Parents should be able to pick, choose, and define the education that their children receive.
I wasn't trying to blame as much as point out that perhaps the immigrants may be overwhelming the system so that the school systems can't keep up on the standardized tests. But I don't know the statistics in Texas so I posed the question.
Thank God for the parental passions and patriot fires of the almost 200 parents who showed up at a meeting last week to question the wisdom of school officials. They are fighting in their own personal education Alamo and presently have the upper hand. For the moment, the school district has backed off plans for its Arabic studies program.
Ah, I hadn't heard that. good to know.
Bless these parents for fighting the good fight.
Tell it to the unions, Babs.
Probably none of them. Very few kids from immigrant homes can actually read the language, and virtually none of them can write it. Children of immigrants only retain their family’s original language if they study it (for example, some well-off urban Chinese families send their kids to Chinese classes).
As for “bilingual classes,” which were supposed to give kids a reading and writing knowledge of two languages, these things were absolute trash. Most of the staff (a lot of it was taught by aides) were poorly educated in both languages, spoke miserable English and were nearly illiterate in Spanish/Chinese/Tagalog/[fill in the blank with the language of your choice]. Its sole purpose was to make money for school districts and employ otherwise unemployable, ignorant, foreign-born low-end educational workers. It left kids ignorant in two languages.
Maybe they’d have more success if they just stuck to teaching English. But they don’t seem to do that very well either.
It does seem like kids from any background would be well served to be immersed in english at school. They can always take foreign language classes in middle school and high school if desired like everyone else but there has to be a common language of learning.
Even the leaders of europe are declaring multiculturalism dead. I hope it doesn't take generations for our stupid "educational leaders" to get the point.
This assumes that they are not dumbing us down on purpose, which I'm not sure isn't the case anyway...
The decline in test scores has been going on for 30 years or more, across the board, in school systems rich and poor, urban and suburban, regardless of ethnic demographics. The schools have more money and more employees than ever, yet the failure persists because it is inherent in the system.
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