“every day they wake up and wonder whether they’re going to make it out of school alive.”
The chances of any particular K-12 school in the United States experiencing a shooting incident in any given year is approximately 1 in 53,925. The odds of actually getting killed at school is very small.
Chicago public schools have a 40% dropout rate. The 60% that do graduate do not measure up to high school students in Europe and Asia.
Chicago kids are about 20,000 times more likely to drop out of school than experience a school shooting. What is Obama’s education solution?
1. Deny school choice that would allow kids to get better educated at safer schools. School choice would be liberating for millions, but it would be a transfer of power from the government. Democrats do not support any programs that lessen government power. (This is why Democrats are comfortable with communist and Nazi power, even as they blame such influences on conservatives. Liberals love government control)
2. Push for higher teacher salaries. Keep in mind that your children’s teachers might suddenly decide to start teaching your kids if they only had another 5 to 10 thousand dollar raise. (As long as the teachers are government employees and paying union dues, Democrats will support more of it)
3. More school administrators so they can prepare reports for the federal government and bully local schools and parents. (Again, more money and influence for Democrats)
4. Take over the student loan program. Debt is a form of slavery. If they government controls the student loan debt, they become the masters of all college bound kids.
5. Deny and/or bully schools into not allowing self defense. Again, the government is the master and you are their subjects.
6. Denounce home schooling even though home schooled kids have the highest college entrance scores and the most well mannered. The problem is that it challenges the liberal power-base of money and influence.
7. Push for new math that doesn’t require thinking.
New history that blames the worlds problems on western civilization and the US in particular.
New literature that no longer asks the kids to read classics. Before high school, they don’t even read entire books. They must read passages in groups of 4 to 6 people. Much of the literature revolves around racism, sexism, or the evils of capitalism.
Homework is hardly required before high school.
The problems with the schools go on and on. Liberals try to trap everyone in the system. Yes, there are pockets of excellence but that is usually because a teacher is going against the system and decided to teach.
Democrats don’t want the people educated because then they wouldn’t want to vote for Democrats.