Posted on 06/02/2009 4:52:42 AM PDT by redk
Gov. Sarah Palin's decision to opt out of an effort to write nationwide education standards in reading and math has some Alaska educators cheering and others dismayed.
Palin on Sunday rejected what nearly all other states have accepted and said Alaska has chosen to "monitor but not yet actively participate" in the process of standardizing K-12 education.
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I love this woman more each and every day. :)
Half of the children are below average.
I see her point. Why lower Alaskan standards?
Education shouldn’t be handled on a national level period.
Wise move. Schools were better under local control.
I have a consulting practice, and I am always asked by HR types "How do we compare to the competition?" The real question is "What are you getting for your multi-million dollar investment in employee rewards?"
Are you following the leaders, or following the followers? Yardsticks are important, but not the objective.
((ping))
1. Home School Best.
2. Church Schools.
3. Private schools.
4. Okay, where you just think you must have them, local schools under direct parental supervision with absolute parantal veto over anything teachers unions might promote.
My observation, however, is that all of the parents who would be concerned enough to monitor the local schools closely enough already have their children in home school, church school, or other private schools.
I am observing parents of my age (53) and younger with children in government schools, and it doesn’t give me much hope that they would know how to monitor the education of their children. They were virtually all raised under the same garbage and think its just normal.
We home school. We also deal with Christian people regularly about the education of their children because we are in the ministry and involved closely with families.
It’s very hard to make people understand that they must keep after the trends in the local schools for the sake of their children. But we keep trying.
It doesn’t take someone who is directly in the ministry to try to make parents aware. It’s a good fox hole to fight in if someone will just do some research a few hours a month and attend some school board and PTA meetings and LISTEN.
Carol Comeau a democrat.
Bravo for her. NCLB, advanced by Bush 43 and written by Teddy Chappaquiddick, has proven to be a colossal failure. Kids are “graduating” from school dumber than ever before and lacking the survival skills they need to make their way in the real world (i.e. how to rent an apartment, how to buy a car, what credit is, etc., etc.).
Additionally, today’s high school “graduates” know less about America, its history, its government and its benevolence.
On the positive side, however, they can put a condom on a banana in the dark and they know why Billy has two mommies!
/sarc
“If everyone is thinking the same, then someone isn’t thinking.” - Patton
Ya know, Patton was a brilliant general and a highly intelligent man. I couldn't agree more with him!!
I taught in a school last year near Fort Carson with lots and lots of military kids (fantastic kids, by the way!), but they are in one school system after another, and often we have a problem because what a child may learn in one district in 4th grade, may be done in 5th or sixth in another system, so this leads to gaps in learning, because they do not go through the curriculum sequentially, learning some things “twice” while skipping over other topics.
That said, I'm wary of Washington imposing baggage on the various states.
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