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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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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Will never happen.


41 posted on 01/03/2021 11:15:31 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Heheheh... no. I mean, they did the cursing writing too, but...

I had one baby (who’s sadly in jail for murdering a man who I’m certain was molesting him, long story) who was so focused on learning cursive he’d get angry when his handwriting wasn’t perfect. I praised every attempt he did, and he was so down on himself because he wasn’t getting it perfect immediately.

My kids were really desperate to learn “the cursives” because they KNEW that knowledge was being held from them.


42 posted on 01/03/2021 11:28:34 AM PST by Mermaid Girl
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To: aspasia

Nope. This is why charter schools succeed in many difficult areas. The unions dictate the terms of education - 100%. Who can teach, how long they can teach, what qualifications are necessary, how many students in a class, what kind of students can be in a class(think ELA), what materials are acceptable, who can teach what, who can coach, who gets paid what, etc etc. I could go on and on.

The biggy in this is that if a charter school is failing; it gets shut down. Good luck shutting down a conventional public school. Union would never allow it.


43 posted on 01/04/2021 11:43:14 AM PST by BigB60 (education)
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected

Unfortunately that would not solve the Federal interference issue. In the current law(amended 1965 ESEA) there is language to the affect if the DOE were to ever get shot from the driver’s seat, another agency would take over the reins. When the states took Common Core money back in 2009, the carrot was money for the selling of the soul for CC implementation. CC for all practical purposes is controlled by the College Board and by its radical CO David Coleman. Read some bios on him and your blood pressure would go up.


44 posted on 01/04/2021 12:02:45 PM PST by BigB60 (education)
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To: BigB60

UNGH. Red 4 Ed is YUGE here. So there’s that as well.


45 posted on 01/04/2021 3:33:32 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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