Posted on 09/15/2011 8:36:31 AM PDT by flowerplough
Steve Perry thinks you've been lied to. The CNN education contributor says that nearly every common premise used to explain underperforming schools -- the challenges of poverty, a lack of parental involvement, an underfunded public system -- is false.
As the principal of the Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, Conn., which sends 100 percent of its mostly black and Latino students to four-year colleges, Perry argues that every American child can have those same chances. We know what works. The only thing standing in the way of progress, he says, is the control that teachers' unions wield over the entire system. In his new book, Push Has Come to Shove: Getting Our Kids the Education They Deserve -- Even If It Means Picking a Fight, Perry pulls no punches in showing the problems and makes his case for the solutions.
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The Root: What does the subtitle of your book, "Getting Our Kids the Education They Deserve -- Even If It Means Picking a Fight," refer to? What are you calling readers to do exactly?
Steve Perry: To do something. Those people who say that they care about kids have become more concerned about hurting adults' feelings -- hurting the feelings of teachers, principals and the people at the Board of Education -- and not wanting to blame anyone. That's crap. Power is not conceded without a fight, and there's a lot of power on the line here.
There's the absolute control of our children's education by a privately run organization, which is the teachers' union. They control American public education. They control the length of the school year and school days, how much people get paid, when they get vacation days and how we can evaluate them. They control the entire industry.
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it's all of the above
Govt schools do far too much social issues.
Yesterday the local school near me had a woman come in and sat there for an hour telling 5th grade kids what to eat, what exercise they should do and then gave the kids a planner for parents to sign and send back to those dope every week.
The local middle school has 8th grade teachers reading a book to the class every morning about a kid who was abused by his parents and turns into a bully.
This goes on for 40 mins.
I’ts issues like this crap which take time away from real teaching.
I think I may have figured out the problem:
In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top”, which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,” which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,” which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by America 2000,” which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk, which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter fixed the nation’s public school system by first establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
I think I’m beginning to see a pattern here.
Pattern indeed.
Why?
Government schools are godless. At their very best they offered up lukewarm and generic Protestantism. We know what Christ does with the lukewarm. He spits them out of His mouth!
Government schools are socialist-funded. Merely by attending children become comfortable with the voting mob and government police threat to take money from their neighbor for free stuff.
I just requested the book from my library.
In the 1960s we had “new math”.
Seriously. Google it.
By the way, as I continue to educate myself in government and politics I look back today on my government schooling in the 1960s, and certain things have become more clear. Things like the curious classroom focus on the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United Nations. This kind of focus was (and remains) big government indoctrination at its most insidious.
Parents who love their children should keep them far away from the government schools.
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