Posted on 06/12/2020 6:49:31 AM PDT by C19fan
Working-class parents without college degrees aren’t capable of overseeing their own children’s education, according to comments State Sen. Jeanne Dietsch (D-Peterborough) made during a House Education Committee hearing on Tuesday. Dietsch was speaking on behalf of a Senate bill that would repeal a law allowing the state Board of Education to create an alternative program for granting graduation credits, which became Learn Everywhere. “This idea of parental choice, that’s great if the parent is well-educated. There are some families that’s perfect for. But to make it available to everyone? No. I think you’re asking for a huge amount of trouble,” Dietsch said. “Is it your belief that only well-educated parents can make proper decisions for what’s in the best interest of their children?” asked a dumbfounded Rep. Glenn Cordelli (R-Tuftonboro).
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I would edit that statement to, “Working class parents don’t have the intelligence” and loop it over and over as a campaign commercial for her opponent.
private schools....no state curriculum.
A married couple I know don’t have college educations and home schooled their five kids into college scholarships.
She looks about as intelligent as a post hole.....
Yeah. Dietsch will have forgotten the story of the mother of Dr. Ben Carson, Presidential HUD Cabinet member and his engineer brother. My daughter-in-law, mother of ten children, has overseen the home-schooling education of them, with the first-born having an engineering PhD and employed at a national nuclear energy site; the second recently married and a missionary to Central America and teacher of music; the third finishing a college degree in home economics; the fourth now ROTC graduate and career company-grade officer in the armed forces, etc. etc.
I guess these examples must be anecdotal outliers, right? < /sarc >
Dietsch's opinion is totally asinine and out of place as a state-level legislator, clearly not able to render wise counsel or policy. (Adding to this, one will find by careful examination any number of college-degreed public grade- and high-school teachers, as well as high-level elected legislators, who are not fit for the job.)
It’s quite a quaint, old town full of local (non-chain) restaurants, bookstores, art stores and not-so-overly friendly libs. Stayed there a couple years ago at the Jack Daniels Motor Inn, which was nice. Noticed in the guest information notebook about the general area that of all the church denominations listed, not even one was baptist or evangelical. That was an eye-brow raiser.
Still More ComDem Insanity!
Idiots think they should tell everyone else how to live their lives.
ComDem POLs can pound sand.
Someone needs punch in the mouth.
Yep. How can you educate your children without having taken Crayola Art 201 or Bulletin Boards 350?
Neither of my parents had more than a year of college but they both were very well self-educated. Our home was filled with books, mostly nonfiction. I and both my siblings have advanced college degrees, two Masters and a Doctorate. Most of my public school education was just as left-handed kids were allowed to stay that way (first grade teacher tried to change me before my parents intervened) and New Math screwed up teachers and kids alike.
HSLDA had a study or two about this... found that parent education level had no bearing on the standardized test scores or college performance of the homeschooled student.
New Math screwed up teachers and kids alike.
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New Math and Common Core math are abominations from Hell itself. Their purpose is to destroy the ability to reason and think, make judgments, and “see” concepts in your mind.
BSEE here, 30+ years of control systems and instrumentation work, closet math lover, fan of Oliver Heaviside. When my grown children brought home “New Math: and the “Common Core” garbage, it was obvious from the INTENTIONAL book sequence confusion(lack of logical progression in teaching concepts) that it was meant to destroy minds.
I don't. And I'll bet they don't either. One of the features of the Dunning-Kruger effect is a sense of condescension toward people who in fact are pitying you. The Senator displays it in spades.
Thomas Sowell's mother scrubbed floors so he could attend Harvard. I'm guessing she knew what she was doing.
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Full of herself, isn't she?
Then again, she's dem, one of the elite who knows better whats best for everyone than we do for ourselves.
She admits that the public school system has been successful; therefore, we can stop hearing about “inequalities” in city schools and how they always need more money.
I bet she hasn’t a clue what to teach and how to teach it!
But somehow, he thinks they’re smart enough to vote and procreate.
Guess he’s never heard of on-line schooling or how homeschooling utilizes the abilities of parents within the group.
That said, there are a great many people who fail to be responsible parents who never bothered to see their kids got up in the mornings to make it to school or bother to see to it their kids had their homework done at night. Of course, they are the ones who have again failed their kids during the stay home.
There is good and bad in every group. There are some good teachers and some bad teachers. Unfortunately, the good teachers are told to teach to the test so they turn out lowest common denominator students just like the bad teachers.
I am married to a BSEE of more than 30 years also, who also specializes in instrumentation in Silicon Valley. My math literacy took a nosedive in middle school (aka Junion High in my day) when a new math program was introduced. The math teacher was nearing retirement and had no patience to learn the New Math concepts. Anytime we asked a question, he would simply refer us to the book.
Our kids are suffering through the New New Math.
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