Posted on 01/23/2006 8:51:36 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy
Which hire their teachers from the same colleges of education. By global standards, American private schools are almost as bad as its public schools.
Liberal professors give liberal students higher grades. How will hiring based on GPA do anything but assure liberal dominance in education?
Glad I ran into this - reminder to finish reading that post.
And this post is most illuminating in a very strange way.
I had some outstanding public school teachers. I also had a few duds and one or two jerks. But I loved school.
But I walked away from education as a college major, literally. 'Cause I knew I'd get fired.
If you know any freepers that understand UN stuff, or even grants, I would appreciate it if you ping them to my Healthy People thread.
I have questions about a few things. Thanks.
the commie plank of dumbing down the us populace is nearing completion
Ping for later
"This is exactly why you send you children to private schools."
This is also why you get nine like minded families, pull your kids from Public School, find a good teacher with strong values and alternate houses where he/she can teach the ten kids.
You form a corporation, chip in, pay the teacher an annual salary with benefits and based on your kids test scores, give the teacher a bonus.
Finally, you sue your local government to give you a tax rebate on the portion of the taxes that you pay for the schools.
I don't know any FReepers like that, but I have a little bit of experience with grants. Not federal ones, but I'm working on that : )
They aren't federal grants. They are grants from NGOs that are funneled through federal departments that partner with them.
I've since found someone that is familiar with CFRs.
This is in no way done;but I'm trying to upload what I have, as I go through it to here:
http://www.nationalpropertyowners.org/
I will then organize it once I'm done.
Freema, these grants come with terms and conditions that are frightening. I think we have eminent domained ourselves to the UN.
Excellent idea! I'd like to see it in action. Have you been with a group that has had success with this model?
We did something very similar to that when we lived in N.C. We not only alternated houses; but we alternated ourselves to teach supplemental material based on our area of expertise.
It worked very well.
Bump to you!
::now that I'm back in Blue Jersey....this doesn't work::
I tried this out in the late 90's. I got too much flack from the township and was forced to back down. They said I was being too "political" and it would be wise not to address the issue further.
It is my belief that if you can do this with 50-60 families with multiple teachers rotating between houses on a weekly basis, you can make this work.
My coaching business is geared towards education and working with teachers and parents on using goal setting and other techniques to help students achieve better grades. I am working on some material that would fit into the NCLB format to raise kids grades, hence more funding for schools.
Teachers and my school district doesn't want to know about it. They believe that they are not responsible for bad grades and don't want the responsibility for it. But they want higher wages which raises my property taxes.
It's not that hard. IMO, the real problem starts with the way we teach arithmetic. Both my kids could factor a quadratic before they had finished learning their times tables because they were using algebra to learn their arithmetic.
Excellent reply.
You would be suprised at how little the average taxpayer really pays for his or her children's education.
Public education for the most part is paid for by people who have no children.
For those who understand economics, the entire issue is about a "free good" and how it is abused.
If parents had to pay, they would think very differently about how they educated their children.
Milton Friedman talks about "choice" , but that choice means a whole lot more work for parents.
And the parents are nowhere to be found.
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