Posted on 12/26/2017 9:10:12 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Sitting here laughing! :)
Another Reason to Homeschool
If there are any educated children in nation it is because they have been homeschooled or “after-schooled”.
My guess is that these are questions that an eighth- or ninth-grader with a good education ought to be able to answer.
Gimme a break, these are 3rd grade questions.
“People who take this on face a sullen, restless, hostile group of adolescents who neither want to be there nor are willing to comply with minimal organizational requirements.” (Jim Noble)
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These young adult ( who have committed no crime) are imprisoned by law in a school that in many ways resembles a prison.
Then... society wonders why they are **rationally** sullen, restless, hostile, truant, and sometimes violent.
Yup. Buffalo, NY.
Been going on for decades.
The high school teachers could not pass the basic literacy tests high school students are expected to pass and their immediate reaction was cries of *racism*, which everyone else in the Buffalo area laughed at because the minute that charge was leveled, we KNEW which group of teachers was failing.
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Try geometry, trig, complex numbers, calculus without understanding simple ratios, and...uh...good luck!
The purpose of a masters degree is to increase salary.
The educational funding is to benefit educators, not students. Students are cannon fodder for educator guns
The truth:
1. Educators get masters degree for the increased salary not to become better teachers.
2. Teachers unions are impotent, and merely a wing of the administration in schools.
3. The standards on becoming a teacher are watered down, to essentially, “do you have a pulse”, because no one wants to do the job.
4. The career lifespan of a new teacher is less than five years.
5. Because of politics, teachers have no authority to even control the slightest discipline infractions, truly, public education is baby sitting.
6. As a teacher I deserve a raise in salary and your thanks because I keep these feral bastards off the streets and stealing from you while you work.
7. Our hope is that by the time they graduate, they may have matured enough to know right from wrong, or they are already in prison or dead, or have enough skills to inquire, “do you want fries with that”. Nothing more.
Ability to convert fractions to decimals is pretty basic stuff. I wouldn’t consider it arcane at all.
I agree. That carp about underpaid teachers is garbage.
It’s not so much the teachers as it is the curriculum in lower grade schools. They teach just about anything but the basics.
If you think schools are free you must live where there are no property taxes.
I’m looking at my 2018 property tax bill and well over 10% of it is devoted to school related items. Plus, 1% of our sales tax goes to the schools. In Aiken County, SC the schools are definitely NOT free.
Walter Williams, as usual, has a very valid point.
This is a good article and a better thread. So let me ask the very bright people assembled a couple of questions:
1. What does victory look like?
2. How do we get there?
Somewhere north of 85% of parents choose to accept Aid For Dependent Parents and put their kids in the government schools. The remaining 15% private school or home educate. I don’t see how a political solution fixes this when 85% plus of parents have opted into the government school paradigm.
I would say I agree with your tagline, and it answers your questions.
ps - but I am an idiot, so don’t take my word for it :-)
We’re on a political website, so suggesting that nothing much of worth comes from politics is prima facie evidence of being idiotic. Or lazy. Or subversive. Or being inclined to committing all of the 7 deadly sins simultaneously. Take your pick.
Thanks for the reply.
I’m going with idiotic. Lazy a close second.
“6. As a teacher I deserve a raise in salary and your thanks because I keep these feral bastards off the streets and stealing from you while you work.”
What are you saying here?
I hardly think all kids being taught by teachers are feral bastards.
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