start wi the teachers union
Posted on 10/30/2019 9:34:29 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
If you want an idea...There’s a tentative agreement in the Chicago teacher’s strike.
If you want an excellent case in point relating to everything that’s wrong with American education, read the 41 page document.
Kids are just grist for our so-called public servants’ diploma mills.
Teacher Unions
Federal Government
You need an editor. Third paragraph - using “are” when you meant “our.” Third bold paragraph - the term you were looking for is “stage an intervention”, not “innovation.” I agree with your thesis but writing this sort of article puts you in the position of Caesar’s wife.
Our public schools are organized around a false premise, and as reality diverges further and further from their ideal, they are drowning in lies.
Government schooling was the nation’s first socialist entitlement.
Maybe, just maybe, socialism is the problem and a capitalist free-market is the solution.
Administratively, large bureaucracy’s eventually all manage to convert their entire budgets to salaries and benefits.
Its the nature of the beast. Its what at an administrative level, ObamaCare is all about.
that phenomenon is universal in governance. And as long as we insist upon trying to govern with 20th century social statist institutional structures, it will continue.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.
I agree with your assessment regarding government schooling. It’s a mess.
I, too, want a solution. Socialist-based government schooling cannot be reformed. It must be abolished and replaced with a free-market system.
We know what the problems are and what the solutions should be.
But there are not enough of us to win the local elections required to change the school boards nor the state educations departments.
Administrators, teachers...yes I do blame many of them, and parents are becoming equally ignorant and as time goes on there are simply more and more ignorant people voting.
It ain’t a good formula for change.
It is going to take a massive and gut wrenching campaign to turn things around that isn’t going to happen, at least not peacefully.
And no one wants to contemplate those ramifications. So we as a country sink into the stupid.
Damn shame.
One of the outcomes of the myth associated with the Vietnam War.
Federal and, in some instances, state control of Education. The problem is unsolvable so long as the federal government has any involvement at all in education. In California there is no remedy available before total economic collapse.
Remove ALL federal money and the rest of those problems will resolve themselves.
John Dewey.
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start wi the teachers union
We are faced with three things here:
(1) A parent or parents who do not want a child of an accountable age to come home from school and face up that parent(s) with their debilitating acts contrary to moral or ethical Judeo/Christian standards they might be learning at school or in church.
(2) School administrators and/or classroom instructors (local or university-level) whose lifestyle and communicated personal philosophy is not consistent with Judeo/Christian morality and/or ethics, who do not wish to be held accountable to their students or their parents for the devastating decontruction of values they are deliberately engaged in.
(3) Elected, appointed, religious, or genetically designated sources of authority who will not stand up to the task of rebuking and disciplining individuals and groups that seek to destroy righteousness in thought and act.
The whelming of these three core community leadership initiators by radical deviation from rresponsibikity and accountability has proceeded so far as to be essentially gangrenous and ineradicable except perhaps by amputation and cauterizing of the infection they are propagating.
Robert Bork in "Slouching Towards Gomorrah" essentially says so.
Easy answer.
1. Unions
2. Democrats
3. Communists in Academia
4. Dr. Spock parenting
5. Moral relativism
6. Wokeness to the point that only white kids can be disciplined when they act-up.
7. Breakdown of the traditional family
Agree, though I would change the order a bit.
1. Unions,
2. Bureaucratization of the state & county education systems,
3. Democrats,
4. “Wokeness” to the point that only white kids can be disciplined when they act-up. Its been going on long before they had the term “wokeness” to describe it!,
5. Communists in Academia,
6. Breakdown of the traditional family,
7. Moral relativism,
8. Dr. Spock parenting.
Easy answer.
1. Unions
2. Democrats
3. Communists in Academia
4. Dr. Spock parenting
5. Moral relativism
6. Wokeness to the point that only white kids can be disciplined when they act-up.
7. Breakdown of the traditional family
8. Affirmative action teachers
Illiterate disarmed peasants are easy to rule over.
Valerie Jarret: “Obama is ready to rule from day one”.
9. No administrative backup for teachers, which makes discipline impossible. In Latin, “discipulus” means “student.” Alas.
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