Posted on 02/08/2011 9:13:05 AM PST by NormsRevenge
San Diego Unified is full of illegals and anchor babies who get little help from home and absorb most of the extra funds for education..plus the busing. There is an endless supply of new ones to keep the problem current. If you go to some other districts in the country..where the population is different..Asian immigrants and American’s you have over achieving schools. Reading and writing in kindergarden and white kids struggling to keep up with motivated “tiger mom” Asian kids. Kids are held back in Pre-K to make sure they can read and write when they enter K.
You aren’t going to solve this problem with more money..you can only solve it with different demographics..
1. Hire super at X hundred thou per year. (X>1)
2. 'Fire' super for underperformance. Super gets boyout of 5 year contract, retirement, bennies, etc.
3. Rehire new Super and repeat with a higher X value.
Question: Does making employees 'more accountable' do anything other than to speed up this cycle?
A problem is that school districts don’t want teachers who are literate and numerate. They want teachers who “care” and have been properly indoctrinated. Teachers at all levels need to gave a good academic foundation so that they not MISEDUCATING the kids they get. Too little attention is spent on bright kids—some third graders are already reading at the sixth grade level—and too much attention to special education kids. The problem is that those who perform lowest on the SAT are entering education colleges.Indeed, they has always been the case, because the education colleges are training women to be caretakers first and instructors second.
Step 1: Stop. Educating. Illegals.
Obvious first step. But, you can bet, the people whining about the schools will continue to push Illegal Alienism and Illegal Alien Amnesty....whose students keep the system down
They're also more fitting for the public school system nowadays. Purely academic subjects can be taught at home, with little cost: computer and textbooks. The portability means that they can be taught pretty much anywhere (as homsechoolers know.)
On the other hand, you can't buy a shop specifically for a homeschool. How many homeschoolers could buy a car bay to teach auto repair? Subjects with high-fixed-cost materials are more fitting for an instiutionalized school setting.
The high school of tomorrow, if the administrators get with it, might well be a technical school with shop and science classes under one roof. There wouldn't even be any need for so-called 'segregation' of the handy from the brainy.
I think I see one of their problems now...
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