Posted on 03/31/2021 12:50:47 PM PDT by Shery
You read everywhere about how unfair it is for our American children to be out of the classroom due to teachers' strikes and governors' policy. Well, maybe instead, we should be counting our blessings!
How do you think we've gotten to this situation of woeness and socialism? In the classroom! It is taught on every level and many textbooks make sure the children learn the 'lesson" by using rewritten history to change the narrative and remove the truth from our children's ears.
While I know that they can still learn this online through virtual school settings, the parents have a little control because they can actually see/hear what is being taught. Some correction can be made to the child's learning right at home, but also it gives parents the 'skinny' on what is really being taught.
We've lamented for years that good children, brought up in Christian homes, go off to university and lose their faith. We can now see the seeds of that being instilled in our children's minds early on. Maybe God will use this to start a real change in the education goals of our children. It is long overdue. These spoiled rotten teacher's unions may be playing into the Lord's hand!
The bulk of my annual property taxes fund the local schools. If schools are closed, I want a damn refund.
Fat Albert...
The nation is better off with the public schools closed, especially in California where the new curriculum negates any actual teaching the children may get. Perhaps it will induce the more intelligent and perceptive in the population to keep their children out of public school even after the the teachers are finally dragged back into the classrooms. Home school your kids if you desire them to actually acquire an education instead of the government indoctrination and utterly anti Christian anti American “education” of the public schools.
I completely agree! I know not all parents can home school, but last year saw many parents at home...with the opportunity to educate their children. There are a number of very good homeschool programs and most towns & cities have coops, where they have a number of teachers come in, (some are even parents who have various degrees/skills) take outdoor trips, etc., giving the kids a lot of peer interactions. Don’t buy the lie that these kids have no social interactions. The parents have access to a LOT more than a couple decades ago. Besides, you can limit your child’s exposure to bullying, foul language, etc. All a plus.
My wife is a teacher in a Christian school and even there they are not immune to leftwing agendas. Having a wife for teacher I appreciate now how teachers are just generalists. They rely on textbooks and content creators to guide them in the classroom. And I wrote one of these “creators” when I found them trying to rewrite the history of the 2016 election. They demanded to know HOW I found out about them - like they liked not having to answer to parents but just spoon feed their agenda to teachers. Of course it was a social studies topic and that is basically where the wedge of leftism strikes the hardest.
Then next day I asked a boy that had gotten off of another bus and he said it was stupid. They have to sit in class with masks but then go to lunch and everyone removes their masks, then they sit at tables like they always have and give the virus free rein. I told the kid they were just attempting to prove they control you.
Unfortunately, many see public education as “free” daycare.
Yes, I confess myself baffled as to how conservatives wished for the demise of public schools until the pandemic, then suddenly declared them essential services that had to be reopened. Maybe homeschooling was harder than a lot of folks thought it would be? I don’t know, just throwing a guess out there.
I learned more through reading books than in 12 years of public school. And this was the 1970s!
The teachers’ unions must be utterly broken and destroyed.
Could not agree more FRiend. Unfortunately I do not believe that will happen in my state (California). Even if we succeed in recalling Newscum his successor will be just as beholden to the teachers' unions. The prognosis is likely better in the red states.
Any and all good teachers will find jobs in the new systems that will be developed.
If only that were so. As it is we face a shortage of any teachers, let alone good teachers. The older, more experienced teachers were the most likely to leave the profession because of health concerns during the pandemic, leaving behind a younger pool.
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-teacher-shortage-is-real-large-and-growing-and-worse-than-we-thought-the-first-report-in-the-perfect-storm-in-the-teacher-labor-market-series/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/teachers-were-already-leaving-the-profession-due-to-stress-then-covid-19-hit-11614025213
Having the little rug rats at home interferes with parents’ MEEE! time. They’d rather have free babysitting at school not matter what is being taught.
My youngest daughter attends a private Catholic High School which never closed but effectively managed the virus.....
However, the impact of the kids being home is devastating to those kids. No sports, no social interaction, no extracurricular activity, clubs, Homecomings, Proms, school newspapers, etc. They work from home in front of a computer which can substitute for only a short time, but long-term learning is best face-to-face.
Some parents both work, if one can’t work from home, then financial pressures are also induced......
The kids need to go back to school now or fire all the teachers that don’t show and dissolve their Union....
“Maybe God will use this to start a real change.”
The reason why many teachers refuse to go back to school, like the teachers in Oakland, CA, is because many teachers are ethical and reject the unethical subjects promoted in state text books. They are passive aggressive: blame covid for their inability to teach what they want.
My kid graduated HS in 2020. From March to June he had to do school from home. It sucked. He was President of the senior class. No prom, no graduation to speak of, no speech to the collected crowd, etc.
His private school, in the US News and World Report’s list of Top 150 in the Country, tried to toe Governor Mike DeWine’s stupid rules all the way.
But private schools have managed this 1000% better than most public schools.
The real answer for the future is Co-op Homeschooling. Get with a group of like minded parents and share the role of teachers/administration. If both parents work, find another role to play.
Teach groups of kids by rotating days in homes. They can do limited sports teams. In our city, there is even a Homeschool football team that plays against other high school teams.
The kids get the camaraderie of a school setting but the parents set the rules and set the expectations though are not required to be there every day.
We need to destroy the public schools model.
“The older, more experienced teachers were the most likely to leave the profession because of health concerns during the pandemic”
Some of those folks might return to their profession in new circumstances. I can see that being in a big school is not ideal, even if it’s mostly young kids. But of course you are going to run into parents, delivery people, etc. who are coming in from the outside randomly. But in a smaller setting it might work. Like a few families getting together and hiring a teacher.
Paging Mike Rowe, Mike Rowe please pick up the courtesy phone!
“First, we would need an opposition party to the Dems...”
Yes, yes we would and DO need that. The Rs should have the voucherization of ALL Fed Ed $$$ as PLANK #1 of the 2022 and 2024 platforms.
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