Posted on 01/21/2021 7:14:39 AM PST by Onthebrink
Over 14,000 school boards, with about 100,000 members, set the course for instruction in classrooms across the country. To understand the views of parents and school board members in debates about K-12 content and policy, The Heritage Foundation commissioned a nationally representative survey.
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Why should I care? As long as education is ‘free’, I’ll keep sending my kids to those schools. It won’t affect me or the country, no matter how much garbage they get fed.
I pulled out one teen last summer to private and the second teen last month to homeschooling. Private Christian schools have waitlists all over the SF Bay Area. This could be a golden era for private schools.
Whoever has the gold, rules....more and more the Feds run “education”...or the State...local, not so much.
How noble of the Heritage Foundation to tell us what we already knew — if anyone was interested. The Heritage Foundation is an appendage of the dumbing-down system run by high servants of Titans of Industry that ate up American independence starting in 1880 with police enforced compulsory universal schooling to condition 13 year old independent little adults into babbling incompetent perpetual children to whom any field of independent adult competency was a closed book. How noble.
“I pulled out one teen last summer to private and the second teen last month to homeschooling. Private Christian schools have waitlists all over the SF Bay Area. This could be a golden era for private schools.”
Good for you...as you’re able to tell, I’m trying bang conservatives on the head regarding what they’re doing to their children and ultimately the country be looking the other way regarding our schools. I’ve been at it for, probably, 40 years now, and nothing’s changed, despite my kids kicking butt...so I’ve about given up given the non-response*, but I do like to post sarcastic comments once in a while.
*actually, one lady did listen to me, an immigrant from Russia. Her kids cleaned the clocks over others (both here and in Russia) after I explained how I taught math to my kids - hint, it had nothing to do with how it’s taught now in the US.
You voted them in, you can vote them out. In fact, you can run for office.
This is one of the saddest delusions of most conservatives. They still believe local school boards decide curriculum and instruction. I ran for and served on my local public school board for 11 years, the entire time fighting the state and federal education bureaucracies.
The local school administrators are products of the same system and instinctively yield to mandates from on high, especially if they are tied to “funding” (they always are). The public school system needs to be pulled up by the roots and complete re-constituted.
I agree with that. Between standardized testing and national education “programs” like Common Core and now 1619 Project, not to mention the state-wide textbook purchases, local control of curriculum is negligible at best. A close friend has been working diligently on monitoring sex education programs and trying to educate parents and school boards about which programs are terrible, as opposed to only bad (the only options), and there is little interest at all.
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In our state, the only thing school boards do are:
* approve/fire superintendents
* approve/reject the budget submitted by school district staff
And the organization of superintendents is pushing the narrative of “the team of 8”, that the Superintendent and School Board are a team who should work together and go along with the education expert’s advice ... AKA, rubber stamp what the Superintendent wants.
A real reform would be eliminating the requirement for an advanced degree in education AND having years of experience in education to serve as superintendent. Then you could bring in a business person to trim the fat and set realistic performance goals.
In our state, the only thing school boards do are:
* approve/fire superintendents
* approve/reject the budget submitted by school district staff
And the organization of superintendents is pushing the narrative of “the team of 8”, that the Superintendent and School Board are a team who should work together and go along with the education expert’s advice ... AKA, rubber stamp what the Superintendent wants.
A real reform would be eliminating the requirement for an advanced degree in education AND having years of experience in education to serve as superintendent. Then you could bring in a business person to trim the fat and set realistic performance goals.
Home schooling will have the biggest impact on public education. It deprives schools of minds to fill with crap and bodies in the seats which gives them $$$. I think the swamp behind public education had grown too entrenched to change without a huge shift in bodies and cash.
Liberals (which includes the National Education Association) fight hard against local control.
Schoolboards shape very little. Curriculum comes from the states’ ed depts.
OK, I give up. But I'm curious. Care to share?
"Private" and "Christian" could be either good or bad. Don't take their word for it.
Out of the 14,000 School Boards- how many teach a curriculum about the “evils” of Communism & Socialism? Thought so.... 0.000 !!! There’s our problem.
Trust me, from the curriculum alone I know my daughter’s private Christian school is so much better than her public.
Public: no science curriculum (they blamed it on Common Core). Horrible left wing novels assigned in English. And “A Peoples History of the US” by Howard Zinn.
Now she reads CS Lewis, is learning apologetics, and the English books are so much better. And she has an actual science textbook and will be taught “A Patriots History of the US” (the counterbalance to Zinn).
I’d rather her be 2 days a week in her Christian school than back full time in her public school (probably won’t even open to hybrid until next fall).
Private Christian schools aren’t necessarily conservative. Their teachers are coming out of the same woke universities as government school teachers. Buyer beware.
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