Posted on 02/09/2025 12:31:35 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Shameful
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School Zone
By federal law, all cell phones entering this zone are subject indefinitely to control of the teachers’ union serving this school.
Misbehave and your phone will almost certainly not work for at least a week.
And pardoned the draft dodgers circa Vietnam War.
So, the commies got one thing right!
Public schools worked up until the 1960s\1970s.
Hard to believe that something a democrat touched turned to crap. 🧐
“Free Education for All Children in Public Schools. Abolition of Children’s Factory Labor in it’s Present Form. Combination of Education with Industrial Production.”
Today, we learn how to make wiring harnesses for GM EVs, and learn to despise Marxism a bit more.
Do you believe in “the rich paying their fair share” through a higher tax rate?
nope!
> How do you feel about school choice where local governments will give students vouchers to attend private schools. <
At one time I was against school choice. America is a very diverse country, and as such a melting pot is needed. That melting pot is the public schools. The Italian kid sits next to the Polish kid who sits next to the black kid.
The private school where I worked was wonderful. But it most certainly was not a melting pot.
I have since changed my opinion about school choice. City public schools are absolutely beyond redemption. They cannot be fixed. So school choice is necessary to save the many decent city kids.
But with government vouchers will come government demands and government regulations. Will that turn a good private school into something resembling a failed public school?
I don’t know. But it’s worth a try anyway.
“I can’t think of a single thing Politician Jimma Carter did not screw up.”
He responded properly when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan...by Drill-baby-Drill and also starting the largest peace-time military buildup in history (taken over by Reagan).
Biden’s people did just the opposite regarding Ukraine.
Quotes:
The original Department of Education was created in 1867 to collect information on schools and teaching that would help the States establish effective school systems. While the agency’s name and location within the Executive Branch have changed over the past 130 years, this early emphasis on getting information on what works in education to teachers and education policymakers continues down to the present day.
The passage of the Second Morrill Act in 1890 gave the then-named Office of Education responsibility for administering support for the original system of land-grant colleges and universities. Vocational education became the next major area of Federal aid to schools, with the 1917 Smith-Hughes Act and the 1946 George-Barden Act focusing on agricultural, industrial, and home economics training for high school students.
World War II led to a significant expansion of Federal support for education. The Lanham Act in 1941 and the Impact Aid laws of 1950 eased the burden on communities affected by the presence of military and other Federal installations by making payments to school districts. And in 1944, the “GI Bill” authorized postsecondary education assistance that would ultimately send nearly 8 million World War II veterans to college.
The Cold War stimulated the first example of comprehensive Federal education legislation, when in 1958 Congress passed the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik. To help ensure that highly trained individuals would be available to help America compete with the Soviet Union in scientific and technical fields, the NDEA included support for loans to college students, the improvement of science, mathematics, and foreign language instruction in elementary and secondary schools, graduate fellowships, foreign language and area studies, and vocational-technical training.
The passage of laws such as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which prohibited discrimination based on race, sex, and disability, respectively made civil rights enforcement a fundamental and long-lasting focus of the Department of Education. In 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act launched a comprehensive set of programs, including the Title I program of Federal aid to disadvantaged children to address the problems of poor urban and rural areas. And in that same year, the Higher Education Act authorized assistance for postsecondary education, including financial aid programs for needy college students.
the Department has the smallest staff of the 15 Cabinet agencies, even though its discretionary budget alone is the third largest, behind only the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, the Department provides over $150 billion in new and consolidated loans annually.
https://www.ed.gov/about/ed-overview/federal-role-in-education
Everything Jimmah touched turned to excrement.
If anyone honors Jimmah they are honoring toxic waste.
If you ask Obama.
Where is it written that schools should be a "melting pot?"
Everybody gets their own "safe space" on campus these days except white people.
Some melting pot.
Why not start up Charter Schools instead?
BTTT
That was predicted, at the time, to happen.
Let’s be real....It was the creation of a Money Tree.
“I don’t know. But it’s worth a try anyway.”
Wow you are willing to ruin my children’s future on an experiment. There you have it. The reason we lived in a house with no heat, minimal food, hand me down clothes, no car and extremely limited funds for anything frivolous because I wanted the best for my children. No way was I going to let a teacher in public school tell me what to do.
Your absolutely rite their sir!
During my grade school and high school years, my family kept the TV turned off during the school year from Monday morning until Friday at 5:00 PM.
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