Step one is to stop pumping marxist teachers out of our colleges.
how about parents, students and teachers?
Conservative Public school teachers have been saying this for years.
Funny - a hundred years ago kids didn’t have such a difficult time mastering reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic.
In fact, they did far better with a far smaller budget.
Personally, if I were a member of the NEA, I’d have a tough time looking at myself in the mirror each morning before going off to “educate.”
And I certainly would NOT be crying for a bigger budget or more “community involvement.”
Trouble is, people feel about public schools the way they do about Congress—terrible, terrible, terrible, except theirs somehow just happens to be very good.
leftist Bill Gates said that?
Success in schools begins with proper parenting. When over 50% of children are born to single mothers, forget it. Becoming properly educated becomes that much more unlikely.
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Bruce,
GIVE IT UP!!!!
Govenrment schools are a godless, socialist, single-payer, monopoly, and price-fixed, union controlled ENTITLEMENT.
When in the entire history of mankind was ever possible to REFORM A GODLESS, SOCIALIST, SINGLE-PAYER, MONOPOLY, PRICE-FIXED, AND UNION CONTROLLED CARTEL SOCIALIST ENTITLEMENT???????
Yeah! I am shouting, jumping up and down, and having a fit. Why isn’t the OBVIOUS OBVIOUS to someone who is OBVIOUSLY smart????
If you want real reform that work toward complete privatization of universal K-12 schooling in this nation.
The elementary schools are really the very worst. If you can homeschool your kids through middle school, you could place them into high school- and still have a fighting chance at your child’s mind.
Parents need to honestly take this very seriously. The Common Core Standards Curriculum is pure Marxism. It is dangerous and it will punish anyone who is not a struggling minority.
Truth to power. Turn over every stone and devote your energy to learning about what your children are learning- and check in with them every day on what they are learning and how they feel about it.
Remove your child at the first sign of abuse.
The days may be growing short that you will have a chance to remove them. By having your child in federal schools, you are submitting to the federal government.
I have had to allow one of my children stay in High School, at his request- and so- I am quite aware that at this point- I am in danger.
He and I have had a very long talk about why I am permitting him to stay in school, and what I expect from him, so that he can stay there.
Lotta good thoughts in that article. And it does indeed echo what I’ve thought for ages - the community, not just the teachers, need to be involved. I think people in the homeschooling community have great ideas about curriculum and teaching methods and I wish they would share at their local school level and insist that they school board use sounder based books, etc.
Until you can brace yourself and be **that** frank, the painstaking, details you've provided so far as suggestions are beside the point.
Some of us, myself included, believe that "public schooling" has built-in operational problems which translate into the death of a "free" country by the destruction of its philosophy and culture. If you will be honest with yourself, you can imagine that we don't care much to talk about the latest flavors-of-the-month in educationist circles.
Note: this topic is from 2/09/201. Thanks BruceDeitrickPrice.