“Free” education is the one program that some people don’t seem to want to take advantage of.
Results matter after school. The US consistently producers achievers in various different areas: Science, Finance, Sports...etc. The results of pre college test is not destiny.
But, we are wasting too much money on education in different forms.
The USA must always be a welcoming nation, but stop this forced, this planned diversity with emphasis on third world countries.
Children from single parent homes are at double the risk of dropping out. Children with never-married mothers score worse than children with divorced mothers. Across the world, regardless of race or creed, children living in a normal household with a father and mother performed better in school than their counterparts.
As a general rule the intelligence of the child mirrors that of the parents. Add that to the above and it is a dismal picture.
bkmk
The last 2 lines say it all, IMHO.
srbfl
The interesting thing about this with the white and Oriental students scoring as well or better than their European and Asian counterparts s how closely those statistics compare with murder statistics. If murderbrates among US whites and Orientals are matched with their foreign counterparts, it turns out the US murder rate is equal to or less than that among their foreign counterparts. IOW the US bad education and murder rate problems are primarily concentrated among the black and Hispanic populations and are caused primarily by those groups’ generally unhealthy culture, something no amount of resource squandering can change.
I live in a community that has a higher than average income. It is 85% white. We have no “section 8” housing in town.
Both of my kids went to public school here. Our test scores and college achievement are near tops in the country for a public, not specialized, high school.
Our schools are not successful because we are white. They are successful because the parents in this town are involved, and we have exceptionally high expectations. We are successful adults, and we hold our schools to the same standards we are held to in our jobs.
The folks on our school committee are business leaders, educators and parents. Every once in a while we get a political wannabe, but they don’t last.
You want schools that work...you need to get involved in them. You must demand success, and not accept the union line BS.
We invent things because we are free to dream and, more importantly, to PROFIT from our efforts.
For now.
Tale of Two Granddaughters; one mother is activly engaged in doing the hard work to follow up with school and teachers making sure that homework is done and grades are maintained.
The other mother is lazy, on the dole and does none of the above mentioned things. This granddaughter is failing, has been held back and forced passed. This girl is being taught to be like her mother, fat, lazy, lying and cheating.
Both daughters were raised in a home with attentive parents who valued hard work, education, thrift, and integrity. Education like the author mentions is a personal committment to do what it takes to be self suficant.
Any student who makes it through twelve grades without achieving basic math and literacy skills hasn’t been failed by the school. He has made a choice not to learn.
BINGO!
Good article. Bottom line, families that invest time and energy into their kids get better results. preparing kids to learn, behave and have respect will greatly improve their ability to learn....as long as other kids parents do the same.
These statistics probably are similar when it comes to crime in the US. Take out the black and Hispanic crimes and we are one of the safest countries in the world
Certain cultures are doing better than others in school probably because some cultures promote structured family units which teach children the value of wise time investment.
Otherwise, one problem with America’s schools is that, for many decades, many working parents have been using public schools as a babysitter, such parents basically not having the energy at the end of a day to ask their children how they were indoctrinated in entitlement socialism at school that day.
Also, instead of promoting the cliche, “reading, writing and arithmetic,” schools should be teaching reading, writing, arithmetic and federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
In fact, military training issues aside, as a consequence of teachers likely not knowing what Congress’s constitutionally limited power are, teachers don’t understand that Congress has no constitutonal authority to do the following. Congress cannot regulate and fund any aspect of public schools, including not laying taxes which corrupt federal politicians use to subsidize school programs that encourage vote-winning entitlement programs.
bkmk
Black people don’t study and consequently flunk out.
And send the bill to the taxpayers.
Surprise!
Anybody who has ever spent time in a public school has observed these results up close and personal.
And when you break down crime stats by race and ethnicity, white non-Hispanic America's homicide rate is not higher than Europe's, despite all the guns we have.