Posted on 12/26/2015 4:58:56 AM PST by Kaslin
LoL. Some Hillary staffer is plagiarizing your reply right now.
Khanacademy.org
It’s free and far better than public schools. Many of them actually use it now.
Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness at the turn of the century.
What ever happened to the apprentice programs the were once available for the young folk..???
“I’d first ask: What is the goal of education?”
The answer is the same as “what is the goal of government”?
And the answer in today’s America is “To provide pensions for legions of marginally competent people”
The corollary is that actual education (or whatever government is supposed to be doing) is accomplished despite government, not because of it.
Since the goal is pensions/employment, regardless of competence, there can be no actual standards, no tests of proficiency, no measures of efficiency or effectiveness.
A tertiary goal of government is to use government to perpetuate more government - squashing political opponents, or proponents of any sort of “reform” or anyone who might insert fiscal rationality - because it might reduce employment/pensions.
It doesn’t matter what agency - education, military, IRS, whatever or if it is local, state, federal. The first goal is to employ legions of the otherwise unemployable and get taxpayers who must live in the real world to pay for it.
The number one issue is education of kids from low income families?
That’s just crazy
>>I’d first ask: What is the goal of education?
Yes. The real goal. Not the one they tell parents.
Yep.
No favors from the government are free. In fact, the price is astronomical.
That’s good you figured that out in your head. I remember the formula for calculating % as part divided by total and x 100. Gotta use the calculator when the numbers aren’t ‘so round’.
The answer is 9 not 9% :).
The #1 issue in America is that we can’t agree on what the hell the #1 issue in America is. :-P
>>The #1 issue in America is the danger of Terrorism by ISIS
Only because people can’t do math. As an American, you are much more likely to die at the hands of a poorly-educated, but well-indoctrinated, black male than to even be an eyewitness to a terrorist attack.
Today’s schools teach kids of low intelligence or motivation two things: you can’t learn and it’s someone else’s fault.
Anything liberals control always end up the same. Costing more while increasingly becoming less effective.
Solution: Begin the process of privatizing all education in this nation from pre-K through university graduate school. What is needed is complete separation of school and state.
@John C. Goodman/Townhall/GOP/Dems - Wrong question because it's none of your collectivist business.
Two of the largest contributors to Democrat causes in both effort and money are the AFT and the NEA.
Their impact has been lessened in states with right to work laws as union membership is no longer compulsory.
The primary concern of Democrats is not the education of children, but the perpetuation of that cash cow.
okay, than strike the % mark
Yes, precisely. It won't happen, of course, but in theory this is the only legitimate conservative position, in my view.
An ironic twist to "enlightened self-interest". Statists figure their best hope of continued employment is more government. So they create demand for more government by finding, worsening, or creating problems for government to "fix".
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