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My thoughts, exactly!
Parents would be able to enroll their children in the distance or in-person learning options that work for their families. A competitive educational environment would adapt to the challenges much more readily and provide better value for students. And the failing public school system would have an incentive to improve. The alternative is wasting billions on schools and teachers who refuse to teach their students.
Totally agree.
Dis goan be great...
If anything good can come of COVID 19, it will be the fundamental transformation of public education.
Cutting the school district budgets by 50% now would be a good start. Then start focusing on private schools with tax credits for parents who homeschool.
Public schools have failed out children. And have been failures since the 1960’s. Time to wind them down.
TA DAA!
LAUSD publicly admits that 66% of their High School Graduates can NOT read, write or count above the 3rd grade level. ABOLISH THE WHOLE THING!!!
But you can bet they'll know which box to check when they vote.
Problem is, all the in-person private schools have also been shut down, at least in CA (so far). So a voucher for that wouldn’t help.
But vouchers would be good to use to choose between private and public “distance learning.” Private remote learning is around $300/a class at the moment. And it is much better than the public version.
And he should clean house at our schools right about the time school is supposed to start next month.
Put an ultimatum to the unions and teachers. Teach or you’re fired. There seem to be plenty of people available to replace these teachers and everyone who actually cares about their children’s education will be better off if this were to occur.
Since I have little doubt the teacher unions will refuse to do what’s right, the best thing to do is get the anti American indoctrinators out of our schools permanently.
I know, wishful thinking, particularly right before the election, but I can always wish!
“Don’t ask them to turn on their video or actually monitor the students they’re “teaching”.”
If there is no student/teacher interactions, then they can lay off all the teachers, save one to put together the videos. Once the videos are completed, they could lay off that last one.
SF and NY, and likely more cities, are busily right now setting up free “learning pods” to educate children in the absence of schools. Childcares that will assist children with their “remote learning,” and offer lunch, recess, and social contact with other kids. In other words, school.
This is what the Dems will demand the pandemic emergency school funds be used for. That and laptops.
The middle class and wealthy kids will be left to band together and pool together funds to hire their own tutors for “microschools.” This is happening—but can the entire middle class afford to do this?
The United States educational system is rapidly transforming all this week. I hope the fed govt does something quickly.
Effectively the entire middle/upper classes in the US are being asked to leave—are being pushed out from—public school altogether, but are of course being asked to foot the bill for it. It’s OK to leave them home alone on their laptops apparently.
You don’t understand. No one is laying off the teachers—they are all locked into contracts for next year.
But long term, yes—you are right. We could save billions if we as a nation all turn to online education permanently. But remember that Europe and Asia have already returned to in person education. Which is superior (generally).
It’s not great. . .we are looking at another year of no school, no sports, no graduations, not proms, no human connections or classmates, no music, no drama. . .and millions of children (K-12 and also college adults) staring at a laptop all day. Not healthy, and soul deadening.
I also hope reform may happen as a side effect, but for those of us with teens and young kids right now, this is heart wrenching.
Distance learning shouldn't be staring at a laptop all day.
Now, I agree about the social isolation part for the yutes of America, but there are ways around that, too.
Disclaimer: I have always been able to take or leave social transactions. I like to read, and I like people to leave me alone.
Both my teens—one in private, one in public—will be now resuming their “distance learning” next month.
I do think it will be better than it was in March, when we were locked down, shelter in place, etc. Now they can go out and see their friends. Which is why they might as well be in school. As the rest of the Western civilized world now is.
Actually they could save a lot of time by laying them all off and using legitimate videos, already in existence, from the private-sector education industry, completely devoid of queer and communist content.
Thanks for posting this.
I having fun in California asking, “When will we get lower property taxes since there are no schools, just food programs for the “poor”.
One listener in the East bay may have beat back a property tax increase in their school district with that question.
I am hoping that the Jarvis TaxPayer groups will start challenging increases and even maintaining Tax $’s for closed schools.
A long time conservative, who lives near a public grade school challenged their monthly floor buffing routine of a group as not needed. They stopped that and they are now pulling plants and planting new shrubs. Summer is not really a good time to be doing that. Basically every fence surrounding every school has been replaced.
New slides, swings and other outdoor play gear is at most schools now. They have yellow tape around the new gear, so the nearby kids can’t use the new gear. That is totally different. Neighboring kids have been able to use the slides, swings and other gear at any time.
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