Posted on 01/07/2012 2:24:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Comparatively speaking, the United States does not starve its education system of revenue. The U.S. is one of the leaders in spending on Education, and yet it's schools are rated "average" by international bodies.
The three-yearly OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report, which compares the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds in 70 countries around the world, ranked the United States 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for science and a below-average 25th for mathematics.
Worse, out of 34 OECD countries, only 8 have a lower high school graduation rate. The United States' education outcomes most resemble Poland's, a nation that spends less than half on education than the U.S.
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Secondly, a lot of the teachers themselves are not properly qualified to teach tougher subjects like Math and Science, especially at the younger grades. They barely teach just what is necessary to get by. When these kids get into the higher grades, even if they are smart, they cannot understand what is going on because they don't have the proper foundational concepts. Then they start hating those subjects because they feel that they are hopeless them.
“You forget about “No Child Left Behind”. Even before the passage of that, school districts would get problems if the performance of white students was too much higher than the performance of minority students. Raising performance of minority students is hard. Crippling performance of white students is easier.”
I’m not sure about No Child Left Behind. I remember hearing the teachers screaming about it. About the only thing that would provoke a reaction of that level would be that they were being forced to actually teach something.
As to equal outcomes - I do have that on #7.
Because most of the money spent on "education", benefits the "teachers" union-parasites and the "non-educational" union-parasites in your local school districts.
Speaking of stabbing...I have a new student who stabbed a fellow student at her previous school. They just get moved from one school to another. Legal rights of course. Special Ed...moat of which are behavioral.
The ranking reflects the fact that spending does not substantially improve performance among large portions of the American minority student population.
“Speaking of stabbing...I have a new student who stabbed a fellow student at her previous school. They just get moved from one school to another. Legal rights of course. Special Ed...moat of which are behavioral.”
Not just that, once the public schools are tired of them, they often get sent to the ‘private’ schools that are willing to take them. That’s what happened to one of the Christian schools that one of my kids went to. They started getting some real animals - but they had empty seats and needed to fill them. Needless to say, public money came with the kids.
Toss together a healthy dose of lazy Dr. Spock parenting combined with liberal/marxist school systems and we get what we have: Lazi slobs not wanting to do anything, be anything, or be accountable for anything but wanting everything for free. That’s a typical Marxist.
Wow! I’m surprised they even told you about it.
I would have hoped that Ricketts would be charged with attempted murder.After a long prison sentence,her and her lawyer can talk about her going back to the classroom.
I am a teacher, so let’s see what comes to mind.
*Superintndents have unlimited access to their district’s money. We are labeled an “Impoverishd district” (believe me, that term has many meanings), but weirdly we have the funds to buy cars for the central office staff to drive around in, when they are not driving their his & hers Mercedes ( yes, the suprintndent’s husband has a cushy job in “curriculum” that he got while they lived together.). Friends of the superintendent from down in the delta are retired and have a consulting business that my district employs. We can only guess at the funds that are being thrown at this useless group of women who are getting state retirement & billing the different school districts they are working with. By the way, isn’t that why you ARE a superintendent, to do that?
* Making sure that your friends & relatives all have cushy state jobs.
* Make sure the board members will not ask any questions and rubber stamp whatever you request.
* Hopefully live in a district where the members of the community send their kids to private school because your school is so awful and the other members of the community are so apathetic that you CAN really do whatever you want.
* Maybe in other countries they actually raise their children and work w/ them. The majority in my district & districts like it don’t.
Schools are not for teaching kids, didn’t you know? I mean, you COULD teach kids there, it certainly LOOKS like a school and they have all the resources and facilities and such, but the real purpose of what looks to most people like a school is to provide jobs for the local population, particularly the teachers, janitors, grounds-keepers, cafeteria workers, and administrators. And of course all these jobs are financed by the taxpayers, so you have to have a Union to lobby the statehouse and make sure that the spigot of taxpayer cash never runs dry. And of course the Pols like taxpayer cash too, so they join with their Union buddies to make sure they have enough taxpayer cash to get re-elected. It’s a wonderful Win-Win-Win situation, right? People get jobs, Unions get dues, Pols get a cut and vote for more jobs? What could be wrong with a system like this? Ain’t life grand?
We are teaching our kids about gay history, how to put a condom on a cucumber, black history, women’s history and making sure you don’t hurt anybody’s feelings. Learning 2+2=4? It isn’t the school’s job.
“I’m not sure about No Child Left Behind. I remember hearing the teachers screaming about it. About the only thing that would provoke a reaction of that level would be that they were being forced to actually teach something.”
Let me help you make up your mind. The Nazis defederalized the Weimar Republic in order to have a completely unified totalitarian state. Look up the term ‘Gleichshaltung’. Part of their ‘coordination’ was the creation of a national school system, with curriculum content, standards, and personnel approved by the Nazis. As to how this relates to us, the Federal government has been usurping control of education for years, under the guise of providing money, or setting national standards, etc. But the end result in any case is always the Feds taking more power. Even an innocuous-seeming law like NCLB is merely a step in centralizing all power, despite what it appears to do. That, and would you approve of something that Teddy Kennedy approved of?
Wow! We spend 50% more per student than Finland and almost twice as much as New Zealand, both world leaders in quality of education. So much for the ‘more money, better teaching’ argument.
IMO Unions, wrongheaded administration deciions ,and a total lack of discipline.
The one other thing IMO is that we look at education as a right, and it should be a privilege. Those who cause problems in class and don’t want to learn, holding back those who do need to be shown the door.Also we spend entirely too much on sports in school and not near enough on scholastic achievement.
Show me a school today and I will show you a football stadium, baseball field, soccar field, basketball court, showers ,uniforms, all the athletic appurtenances,-—— and a lone file cabinet in some teacher’s room for the National Honor Society.
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