Perahps we should start at the beginning?
The country should return to God!
Private schools with endowments and home schooling are the only recourse available. Government and its sponsor unions will never give up control of the schools. Not ever gonna happen!
“Good education is not rocket science. Get the asinine theories and methods out of the way”
+1. As a teacher I have to operate in a world whose leaders are dominated by rubbish disguised as “best practices” or who sincerely believe that some article that name drops some behavioral theorist has validity in the real world. Most of this is just make-work trash to keep some so-called researcher employed and their grant money rolling in.
The objects of . . . primary education . . . are:
To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business;
To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts, in writing;
To improve by reading, his morals and faculties;
To understand his duties to his neighbors and country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either;
To know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains; to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor and judgment;
And, in general, to observe with intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed.
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens, being then the objects of education in the primary schools, whether private or public, in them should be taught reading, writing and numerical arithmetic, the elements of mensuration...and the outlines of geography and history.
-Thomas Jefferson
Public schools these days are of the unions, by the unions and for the unions. Kids don’t really stand a chance at a decent education anymore, (especially in the inner cities), and it sure isn’t because we don’t spend enough money on them.
It’s because of union greed and leftist special interest agendas being foisted on our children.
Get your kids out of public education and into private schools or homeschool them. It’s well worth the time and money.
I couldn’t give tinker’s dang about the schools. I care about educating kids.
Screw the PUBLIC schools, save the children.
Save the public schools, screw the children.
Vouchers now.
Way too little, Wayy too late.
Us Birchers were screaming from the rooftops about how the FRANKFORT school was teaching teachers to teach statism.
We were told by our “betters” in the repubbie party, to go and put on our “tin foil hats” conspiracy buffs!!
Now, its way too late. You will NOT reverse this trend. You COULD have had you paid attention. Even as late as the early ‘90’s.
But now?
I’m resigned. All I hear now is the bleating sheep saying: “Oh, Who Knew, Just Who Knew?”
You voted for it, now live with it.
Interesting. I home-schooled and was pleased to read about phonics (wrote my own program and started a tutoring business), and used and LOVE Saxon Math. Great program!
There is nothing in the public schools to be saved. There are no resources left with which to rebuild the system. There are no teachers’ colleges that can learn to teach teachers to teach. There are multiple generations of teachers and students who have been totally separated from education. No one knows how to do it any more or even what to want to be done. The publicc schools should simply be ended. The doors should be shut permanently.
Use their own fetching system against them!
We have a federal Detp of Education......use it as o mandate study of the Founders, the Constitution and the hierarchy of gov’t.
Force the unions to teach capitalism and free markets.
These bustards used the Dept of Ed against us, so lets turn the tables!!!!!
Fight fire with fire or we will be extinguished!!!!
REAL CIVICS.
Constitutionally based.
REAL HISTORY.
Not revisionism.
“My recommendation would be to abolish the public school system in its entirety and sell the physical plant to private enterprise.”
When the parents pay the teachers directly they will get quality education.
I am a teacher & I am really, really sorry to tell everyone this, but it’s too late. There is nothing. It’s locked in & the smart kids are suffering because there are SO many dysfunctunial kids from teen parents & messed up families that ALL resources are spent on providing services to them.
Anyone w/ the money is going to private or home schooling. It’s a mess, the testing is a mess, & as far as “progressive” ideas in education ( & by that I mean great, off the grid teaching) this administration is pitiful.
DON’T get me started on Arne Duncan. It is criminal that he is in charge or even collecting a paycheck. NO ONE should EVER be allowed to make education policy if their child(ren) goes to private school. And that goes for Obama & his privately educated kids.
Bruce,
When will you finally give it up?
Government schooling is a socialist entitlement,single payer, compulsory use and funded,monopoly,price fixed GODLESS cartel.
SUCH A MONSTER CAN NOT BE REFORMED!
Give it up. Work toward privatization.