Posted on 04/12/2018 9:19:47 AM PDT by Bob Celeste
I would love to hear serious comments by folks who understand that our system of public education is a wreck.
Please no NEA propagandist, that is not what this post is for.
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Posted on 4/7/2018 7:02:29 PM by alexandriagreen
Instead of handing $13,240 a student to the State Department of Education and trusting them to manage it (which they obviously aren’t doing well), put that money into an educational savings account controlled by the family (it’s the people’s money anyway) that could only be spent on education
Then let all schools, public and private, compete for the best teachers and compete to earn clients (students) by the quality of their product. If parents want their children to be taught social justice, climate change and transgenderism, they can send their kids to those schools. For parents that prefer quality reading, writing, arithmetic, real science and history, they can send their kids to schools that emphasize those classes. The quality of education will be fixed overnight, and parental control will be returned.
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Teachers and administrators are invested in keeping the system as is.
Outside competition and school choice are the only way to pierce the bubble.
Stopped reading right there. The money will immediately be spent on drugs or bling and not a dime for education.
Sounds like you actually stopped reading before you got through the final seven words of what you pasted.
But plenty of parents will spend the money on education. And their kids will always need the other kids as peons.
In Texas, only 34% of money funded to education goes to teachers’ salaries. The rest goes to administration, new buildings, equipment, etc.
put that money into an educational savings account controlled by the family (it’s the people’s money anyway) that could only be spent on education
Stopped reading right there. The money will immediately be spent on drugs or bling and not a dime for education.
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I don’t think the money would be placed in their hands. They would just have a say on where it goes.
Education was pretty good until Jimmy Carter started the Department of Education and giving out money..
And get rid of the welfare state because if some lazy decides to not get balanced educatin they can always live off the work of those who chose to get a valuable education.
Getting rid of the welfare state will go a long way toward fixing the immigration problem.
You fix it the way you could fix a lot of things in this country. Throw away progressive liberalism and return to the way things were done in the past. I didn’t grow up with this nonsense. For the very few kids that tried to be disruptive- It was not tolerated.
It isn’t merely about inadequate funding for the classroom (NOT bureaucrats in admin or lawyers out to “get” teachers). It is about politicians with no background in education calling the shots as to curriculum, school disciplinary procedures, suspensions, etc. without any input from experienced educators. It is about kids coming to school without adequate socialization, causing highly disruptive behavior and ruining the lesson for all. And it is about not valuing education to enable you to earn a living, because you’re only gonna go on welfare for life or commit crimes to get your money.
Brilliant!
Greetings!
This was enough of a reasoned approach it made me dust off my user ID. I am a former software engineer who made and invested enough money so I can afford to teach *grin. I wanted to give back, and I teach Math and Programming (I’m the tough teacher that all the kids thanks after they come back after their first year of college math).
I’d love to be able to negotiate - there are a lot of stumbling blocks to that in public ed (for example, if I transfer to another district, they will only give credit for up to 5 years of work, despite the fact that I have 12).
My only concern, and I don’t see this mentioned (that’s why I am posting): special needs kids. I co-teach (I work with a special ed teacher who also knows math) to help kids succeed who just need a little more .... Kids on the autism spectrum, mild learning disabilities, etc. In this open bidding model, I’m not sure who is going to line up to service the kids who have significant needs - and I am sure that the many parents simply won’t have the $$$. See, that part of education is treated more like a public utility than a monopoly - every one is guaranteed some form of education (even here in AZ, that’s in the constitution). If that goes away, a lot of Downs, severely disabled won’t have any place to go, or they’ll be back in the basement classrooms like 40 years ago.
So please, sign me up, I’d love to make more than $53K for a BS in Comp Sci, MBA in IT and a MaEd. But I’d have a tough time leaving those kids who’s parents’ contributions to the HSE just isn’t enough.
Post & thread BUMP!
Please no NEA propagandist, that is not what this post is for.
It looks like the only way to get out of the education fiscal disaster will be technology—and it is not technology that makes me comfortable.
Each child has a microchip placed on them—with all the knowledge in the world.
No more schools, no more teachers, no universities—all gone.
That technology is probably less than a generation away—and it would probably be able to work with any kid with any disability.
Thank you, Special needs may be a place for church or homes schools.
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