There should be zero involvement of the federal government in schools, ideally there should be no government schools at all.
This idea that DC knows how to make anything better, anything at all, is farcical. The left has an agenda and it is destroying this country rapidly, we should never trust them.
Still don’t understand?
I don’t think that you are being fair, Geron. Common Core government standards may indeed be an improvement over the Cal government standards that she was dealing with.
BUT, I still don’t trust Common Core at all. Including the classics and founding documents in the reading assignments may well be a strategy to initially disarm the mistrustful constituents. THEN, after it becomes accepted the boom will be lowered, and worthy reading material may disappear. Bob
As far as I’m concerned, teachers should be independent contractors. Good ones can write their own ticket and the bad ones can work at McDonald’s.
Not only should that be the ideal, it should be the law!
The driving force behind "public" education was to ensure the ability to properly participate in a representative government, specifically, ours.
Books used to be the primary means of information dissemination and they were rare and expensive so common repositories, schools and libraries, were logical.
The internet has changed that. Not even the invention of movable type has as large an impact on the availability of information. Without noting that a government-union controlled school has no chance of actually serving the consumers, schools have long since failed to serve their intended purpose.
It is long past time to terminate the government schools and sell the physical assets to the private sector.
PS. I teach math and science both publicly and privately as my retirement job.