Excuse me children. I just got a funny memo.
Posted on 03/12/2017 9:50:23 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Math wars. Reading wars. Finger pointing. In today’s education debates, the issues that divide us seem to dominate the conversation. Often, these disagreements become distractions, pulling us further away from focusing on what’s most important: how to best meet the needs of students.
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Liberals cannot understand the concept of cause and effect. Open borders have resulted in the destruction of California's education system.
How utterly bland, vague, and PC.
The answer is so obvious, just stop teaching hard courses to be fair.
Illegals should not have access to the educational system
CA K thru 12 has 6.2 million students and the majority is Latino, legal, illegal, anchor babies. CA student performance is pretty poor.
These 6 million students are a snapshot of the future of CA.
Teachers Unions need more money.
Tax the rich.
>>>. Open borders have resulted in the destruction of California’s education system. <<<
Exactly. Stupid California may get their problem solved at the Federal level with new immigration laws
And the leaders of this opposition (outreach) group admit they have ZERO answers ...... They just want it fair ....
“Fair” would be to separate them from students capable of learning quicker.
This is a ridiculous subject. The cupcakes in charge don't want real answers.
They've been doing it for years. Teaching to the lowest common denominator! Thus, hurting those who really want to learn.
But what do I know? I'm not a highly skilled "educator."
We have pretty much identified the problem, but more money in education will only make the teachers more comfortable and give them more gadgets that they don’t know how to use.
To give the education system a chance, the teachers need to be dedicated and dare I say it, they need to be lean and probably young. But teachers alone do not make up for the lack of social understanding that it takes to succeed. Students need to be taught to work with adults and take part in their learning. Families who teach their kids to be quiet and not interfere are not helpful, these kids pass through the school system without a ripple, and they end up not getting it. So the families are at fault too.
Now, the subject of illegal participation is a heavy millstone around the school system but it is also the way the teachers get funded. I am hopeful that one day we will reform the immigration system so that if you are not working hard, following the rules, not using the social safety net, not joining in criminal behavior, and seeking to succeed both at home and in school you will not be allowed to stay. In the meantime, these can be some of the aspects of a merit based immigration system that we could look into.
“The cupcakes in charge don’t want real answers.”
No one in the education racket has the best interests of students as a goal. Their goal is the destruction of the US.
In just the last couple of weeks my sixth grader has been told that Raul Castro is Fidel’s son, that English is a Romance language, and that anthropogenic “climate change” is an indisputable reality.
The next problem is that our current crop of teachers and administrators lack the intelligence to educate children properly. Aggravated dumbassery is their guiding principle and their constant practice.
Every single teacher in America needs to be fired.
I guess in one way it has. California kids are equally stupid.
As usual these well meaning civil rights people want a Utopian class room...it is not possible.
High School Graduation Rates by State
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/high-school-graduation-rates-by-state.html
Texas and California have similar issues of immigration yet Texas has a higher graduation rate by a big margin.
California 78.0%
Texas 85.6%
A lot of states in the Midwest have even higher graduation rates. California, despite their heavy taxes, don’t seem to be able to educate their children as well.
Excuse me children. I just got a funny memo.
When I went through school, we weren't actively aware of it, but our 8th grade and onward were "stratified" into three "merit/potential" levels:
1) "A-B" GPAs: "College Track"
2) "C" GPAs: "Graduation Track"
3) "D-F" GPAs: "Trades Track"
Initial placement was based on achievement, aptitude and IQ tests.
After that, mobility between groups was on the basis of merit: Changing your GPA (up or down) for an entire semester could change your group placement.
We kids didn't recognize it, but certain teachers were also assigned to a "track": I only had two English teachers from 8th grade on -- and they were the toughest, meanest ones in the school system. At the time, I feared them; but, when I found myself entering college above Junior level in English -- I should have gone back and given them both big hugs! (Now, I definitely wish I'd done that...)
"Merit Stratification" is not "Segregation". It simply places students (by potential and proven effort) with like-abled & motivated peers -- and with teachers empowered to feed their academic needs.
It also gets the "don'wanna du nuffin"s (regardless of race) out of the way of those who really want to learn...
Dumbing down = Equality.
I disagree.
The PTB at the top of the Democrat/Left-Wing political machine, understand implicitly.
The things they do are intentional. The Orwellian things they say are just propaganda smokescreens.
If you want to truly understand Liberals/Progressives/Democrats/Communists/Fascists/etc, it would be good to periodically review such documents as Alinsky's Rules, The Communist Goals that were presented to the US Congress, presentations (available on YouTube) by Soviet defectors, etc.
They know exactly what they are doing. As some really smart guy said, "Know thy enemy".
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