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Fix education now: 8-point checklist for reforming public schools
Renew America ^ | Nov. 18, 2020 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 01/02/2021 6:52:16 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice

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1 posted on 01/02/2021 6:52:16 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice
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All we need is one thing:

1. Bring back corporal punishment

2 posted on 01/02/2021 6:53:21 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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>>Most of the problems in the public school are caused by deliberate human actions.

Same with every negative thing about 2020.


3 posted on 01/02/2021 6:58:36 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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Of the teachers and staff? I’m for that.


4 posted on 01/02/2021 6:59:27 PM PST by T. P. Pole
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Booya!! YES!!

I’m a certified ELA teacher in the state of Florida and it is CRIMINAL what the DOE is doing to students.

When I was teaching the hoodrats in the day treatment center, I started teaching them OLD SCHOOL because I could. Phonics, and the big thing these kids were nuts for — cursive writing!!

I found so much on the interwebs to help them.

I taught them to the educational standard (barf!) that the FDOE set forth, but then beefed up their education with real world learning. Phonics, cursive, and reading. Reading to understand, not just answer questions on tests.

My gang bangers were my favorite students. And some of them got their lives back in order.

They were tough, but I miss so many of them.


5 posted on 01/02/2021 7:02:03 PM PST by Mermaid Girl
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Bookmarking.


6 posted on 01/02/2021 7:02:49 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow,)
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Bring back tracking.

Kids are not all the same - some learn a lot faster than others. If you don't have explicit tracking, you still implicitly track everyone into one group - either an average level where you will lose the best and brightest through boredom and the slowest will be unable to keep up, or you aim for the lowest level and screw up education for everyone.

7 posted on 01/02/2021 7:04:34 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: T. P. Pole

ha ha. Well said.


8 posted on 01/02/2021 7:08:02 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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#1 Get rid of teachers unions
#2 Get rid of teachers unions
#3 Get rid of teachers unions


9 posted on 01/02/2021 7:08:23 PM PST by PGR88
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The problem with Public schools is that they are PUBLIC. They get taxpayer money no matter how awful they preform. In fact they use failure as an excuse to get more money tossed their way!

The State Indoctrination Camps are simply too far down the collectivist hell hole to fix. Stop funding them! If parents had to pay directly for their kids education they would insist on getting what they pay for ,just like anything else in the free market. Separation of School and State is an idea whose time has come.

10 posted on 01/02/2021 7:10:59 PM PST by Nateman (Democracy dies with voted fraud darkness.)
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I was a charter school board member for 16 years. The #1 thing that has to happen for the conventional schools to break the cycle is wreck the union. As long as there are teachers’ unions controlling education, there is no hope of reform.


11 posted on 01/02/2021 7:12:44 PM PST by BigB60 (education)
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Missed the biggest one and two and three. Fire al teachers with teaching credentials, disband the teachers unions and eliminate the department of education.


12 posted on 01/02/2021 7:13:05 PM PST by D Rider ( )
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Trump’s biggest failure was appointing Betsy Devos as education secretary. She has had four years to implement these changes and she has done almost nothing.


13 posted on 01/02/2021 7:14:55 PM PST by CtBigPat (2020 is becoming everything 2012 aspired to be.)
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There is too much social promotion, students with grades of F, are routinely passed. The myth of students graduating and can’t read their diploma is no myth.


14 posted on 01/02/2021 7:38:18 PM PST by 2001convSVT (Medicare for All = Medical Care for None!)
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9. Teach logic and reasoning at every level. BRING back debate teams as a graduation requirement for seniors.


15 posted on 01/02/2021 7:54:49 PM PST by Salvavida
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10. Teach students to read past the headline and don’t take a single story as gospel before posting.


16 posted on 01/02/2021 8:04:54 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice; metmom

1. Homeschool.

Then, you can ditch the rest.


17 posted on 01/02/2021 8:08:03 PM PST by sitetest (Professional patient; no longer mostly dead.)
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Make union membership illegal and have a right to fire both teachers and administrators at will.


18 posted on 01/02/2021 8:13:26 PM PST by Clemenza
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Why we homeschooled!


19 posted on 01/02/2021 8:18:18 PM PST by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (" Undecided Voter: someone who parades their stupidity as proof of their morality." ~David Burge)
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You got me. What do I need to sacrifice to be forgiven?


20 posted on 01/02/2021 8:33:37 PM PST by Salvavida
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