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9 big reasons why public schools wallow in mediocrity
YouTube ^ | April 8, 2014 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 04/12/2014 2:29:04 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice

Video is only 3:15 minutes long. A short graphic presentation of the nine big flaws in public schools.

Suppose someone is asking the question, well, what can we do, where do we start?

Here's a list of nine places to start.

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Personally I like trying to radically simplify things. That is especially appropriate in education. What these professors spend their time doing is creating so much confusion, disinformation, propaganda, alibis, excuses, lies, etc., etc., etc., finally no ordinary citizen knows what to think about the subject anymore. And that's how the Education Establishment wins.

At some point you have to start all over again. Hey, how about we teach these kids to read, teach them to do arithmetic, teach them basic knowledge about their country and the world...That's the way it's been done since the beginning of history.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Education
KEYWORDS: curriculum; k12educationreform; learning; publicschools; reading; teaching; unions
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1 posted on 04/12/2014 2:29:04 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
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By stretching out the time it takes to educate somebody, it means more teachers must be hired to educate them. More teachers = more union dues.


2 posted on 04/12/2014 2:31:55 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Because liberals want as many ignorant people as possible. Ignorant people are easier to manipulate. That’s useful when you seek absolute, total power.


3 posted on 04/12/2014 2:35:35 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Here's my take:

1st reason: they are government schools. Let's stop calling them "public schools" and start calling them "government schools."

2nd reason: they are run by state teachers unions who don't care about education, other than Leftist indoctrination so they can keep getting their paychecks.

3rd reason: federal dept of education and "no child Left Behind" is all the problems with government schools on steroids

Fixing it:

1) Get the feds out of education and nuke the Dept of Education

2) Get education out of the hands of the state teacher's unions and back into the hands of local communities and parents.

4 posted on 04/12/2014 2:36:56 PM PDT by PapaNew
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The reason that public schools wallow in mediocrity is the following imo. The informal primary mission of public schools in the USA is to babysit kids for working parents, parents who don’t have enough energy at the end of the day to fight the indoctrination that their kids are getting from the public schools.


5 posted on 04/12/2014 2:39:24 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: PapaNew

bump


6 posted on 04/12/2014 2:50:57 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Amendment10

How to fix problem.
End Federal Gov. involvement in schools! Put control back in hands of the states. Go over the teaching guides and purge all the BS.
Teach what kids really need to know as citizens. Like how to do taxes and fill out an appilcation. And English.
Break the back of the Teaching Unions.


7 posted on 04/12/2014 2:51:17 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Jonty30

Not taking advantage of modern technology in teaching methods.
Forcing teachers to spend time on marginally educable pupils. (To much parents influence)
Teachers CAN’T discipline pupils.


8 posted on 04/12/2014 2:52:41 PM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice
It's simple really.

As the percentage of dumb kids increases in the public schools, the worse the test scores of those schools get.

It's no more complicated than that.

9 posted on 04/12/2014 2:53:14 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Crummy raw materials. Public schools populated by white students do just fine. American public schools turn out excellent product compared to the the populations of the old country. Asians do better than students in Asia, whites do better than students in Europe, blacks do better than students in Africa, and so on. What people are complaining about is the fact that blacks don’t do as well as whites. That will happen around the same time that whites are as well-represented on pro football and basketball teams and Olympic track teams as blacks.


10 posted on 04/12/2014 3:00:02 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Because most people are mediocre and the public schools educate 90 + % of the population.

BTW, many of the sweet children are disrespectful and aren’t to interested in learning.


11 posted on 04/12/2014 3:04:48 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Some people are just more ambitious than others.


12 posted on 04/12/2014 3:06:18 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice
why public schools wallow in mediocrity

Leftist instructors.

13 posted on 04/12/2014 3:14:32 PM PDT by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: Zhang Fei
Public schools populated by white students do just fine

Must be all that 'white privilege'.

14 posted on 04/12/2014 3:19:14 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: PapaNew

2) Get education out of the hands of the state teacher’s unions and back into the hands of local communities and parents.

Parents will only be in control when they write the check for tuition and decide who to give it to.


15 posted on 04/12/2014 3:19:58 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice; metmom; JenB
Another Reason to Homeschool!

The video implies that if we could fixed these 9 things that somehow government schooling would be fixed. WRONG. It won't change because it is government owned and run. It is socialist schooling!

Here are the 9 things wrong with “public” education:

1) Government schooling is a GODLESS, single-payer, socialist-entitlement. This can not be fixed. It must be abolished.

2) Government schooling is a GODLESS, single-payer, socialist-entitlement. This can not be fixed. It must be abolished.

3)Government schooling is a GODLESS, single-payer, socialist-entitlement. This can not be fixed. It must be abolished.

4) Government schooling is a GODLESS, single-payer, socialist-entitlement. This can not be fixed. It must be abolished.

5)Government schooling is a GODLESS, single-payer, socialist-entitlement. This can not be fixed. It must be abolished.

6) Government schooling is a GODLESS, single-payer, socialist-entitlement. This can not be fixed. It must be abolished.

7)Government schooling is a GODLESS, single-payer, socialist-entitlement. This can not be fixed. It must be abolished.

8) Government schooling is a GODLESS, single-payer, socialist-entitlement. This can not be fixed. It must be abolished.

9)Government schooling is a GODLESS, single-payer, socialist-entitlement. This can not be fixed. It must be abolished.

16 posted on 04/12/2014 3:22:25 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
How to fix problem

Many great ideas but the main action that will create immediate improvements in education is competition.

17 posted on 04/12/2014 3:22:43 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: ALPAPilot

Get all schooling out of the hands of government and ONLY THEN will parents be in control.


18 posted on 04/12/2014 3:23:05 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: ALPAPilot
Parents will only be in control when they write the check for tuition and decide who to give it to.

Sounds like the start of a good implementation plan to me.

19 posted on 04/12/2014 3:24:09 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

The MAIN reason government schools stink is that they are socialist.

Parents are separated from their money FIRST, BEFORE the schools provide their “services.”

This is why ALL socialist enterprises stink. The “customers” have NO POWER.


20 posted on 04/12/2014 3:25:18 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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