This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!
This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!
This is what happens when you adopt the illiterates of the world and the unfortunate part of your native citizens never have any interest in educating themselves to begin with. The people that created the United States of America are fine, just a little depressed maybe.
Yeah, and Obama is still thought of as a great President by 50+%. Unbelievable the denial that runs rampant in this country.
We’re in those statistics.
I wonder how these statistics work out when you filter demographics as with “crime.”
Bmk
•50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level
The obvious solution is to emulate the example of physical and mental tests for public service jobs. Lower the standard until you get results that make everyone feel better about themselves.
Coddled parents producing even more coddled children, many of whom became teachers who coddled their students.
School board and ‘educators’ are scared to death of the wrath of an emotionally retarded parent who can’t handle an F on their kid’s report card or a kid being held back a year because he has failed every class.
Ironically, those who pay least in taxes under the archaic, inherently flawed school funding scheme are usually among the loudest voices demanding this or that from public education. As usual, the takers want more, more, more and most of all they want to deny they are unfit as parents and/or that their children are dim bulbs.
Demography is destiny.
**the median income of middle-class households declined by 4 percent from 2000 to 2014**
While inflation was destroying us un the other end.
Yup, the economy is just super.
Well, for the elites it is anyway. And that’s all that really matters.
Culture and demographics have consequences.
Meanwhile, Hillary is ‘fighting for you’ when she should be fighting to stay out of prison. She yaps about the women and how she’s going to raise them up when there’s no level to which they could be raised.
Many will not notice the $12,000 jacket she’s wearing while she’s bemoaning the plight of women and the middle class, which her boss, Hussein Obama, has been furiously destroying their nation, lives and economy.
Everyone knows that money goes towards administration costs, overhead and non-classroom related expenses. To describe it as X amount of dollars per student is ridiculous.
Great Work Department of Education!!
6 out of 10 households do not buy a single book in a year
I...I...I would go through such horrendous withdrawals if I couldn’t buy my books....I...no..just no...even thinking about it...(shudder)...
LOLZ. But haz can vote democrat LMFAO
Demographics. Reality is not PC in the least.
Ultimately we chose this path when the 17th and 19th amendments were ratified. The 17th eliminated the possibility of ultimate defense against the 19th.
I’m a teacher in a gov’t identified poverty school district. I teach a self contained special needs class of kindergarten- 3rd grade kids. It is a majority, probably 97% minority, African American district. There is a private academy in the same town. A few of my thoughts:
* Many children come from homes where they are raising themselveslves.
* They have multiple siblings when mom can’t care for even one.
* some come to school as if they have been living in the forest alone. They know nothing.
* parents expect the schools to basically raise their kids.
* throw in massive behavior problems, children who are often violent, many immigrants coming into the schools not knowing any English. And the day is spent on behavior that every year gets more out of control & more accepted by an administration that wants the daily attendance money & doesn’t want angry parents.
* Teachers who aren’t qualified & teachers doing ridiculous multi page lesson plans that are for show, learning ridiculous “ New” ways to teach math & reading.
* when people point to Finland as to what to aspire to it makes me laugh. A small, homogenous country where people take education seriously & the teachers are rigorously educated.
I have signed off, as a certified teacher, on several home school families. They are doing wonderful things and I have nothing but respect for them.
What happened to the time when people, like my mother in love, came to Ellis Island from Italy when she was 17 or 18? There were no special programs..... she got a job,learned English & is a proud American & a vital part of the community.
I only predict that public schools will sink even further, but know that there are teachers out there who love what they do & do the best they can.