Posted on 12/21/2020 3:36:54 PM PST by blam
One is thriving after switching from online public school to in-person private education. The other is struggling, stuck in her virtual classroom.
The lives of these two girls, Ella Pierick and Afiya Harris, encapsulate the growing divide in U.S. education as more affluent parents flee public schools.
In Connecticut, enrollment fell 3%. Colorado reported a similar decline, with the steepest losses in one of its wealthiest counties. Chicago’s rosters dipped 4.1%, the most in 20 years.
Parents with means are instead homeschooling; joining with other families to hire teachers in so-called pandemic pods; or signing up for private schools. Poor and minority children often have no choice but to attend inferior virtual classrooms, and some are just giving up entirely.
“The pandemic has exposed so many things,” said Amanda Thompson-Rice, a math support specialist in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg public schools. “Our affluent parents, they’ve got what they call pods, they’ve hired teachers or workers to support their kids for the day. They’re paying them like $20 or $30 an hour. Black families are trying to just live.”
A December study by consultant McKinsey & Co. found that students of color in U.S. schools had fallen behind in math by three to five months because of the pandemic; white students trailed by only one to three months. A quarter of kids do not have access to any kind of web-enabled device or broadband at home.
A quarter of kids do not have access to any kind of web-enabled device or broadband at home
Other disadvantaged groups are floundering, too. In Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools, the number of middle and high school students earning failing grades in at least two classes nearly doubled
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Get your children out of the public cesspools now.
When I went to public school, the first thing we did each morning was say the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the USA and then the Lord's prayer.
Wow, the affluent families are following the Christian families who abandoned public schools years ago. Just follow the stock prices of Abeka publishing out of Pensacola, Fl to see the timeline.
They vote for Democrats then flee the nests they fouled.
The democrats first goat of course is to create stupid compliant people.
Once again, government fails.
Unintended consequences of the liberals deciding we need to shut down society, to fight a viris which 99.8+% of us will survive if we get it?
Maybe some liberals are thinking it was a gross overreaction to the virus to shut down society????
they always put people into opposing groups
they aren’t
some people can do things others cannot because they have better jobs and worked hard to learn and spent a lot of money to develop themselves
and some wasted their time in school and didnt develop their brains, due to one thing or another,
but when you come from a culture that says studying and getting good grades is “acting white”, don’t expect to get scholarships and land better paying jobs.
jesus. its not racism holding these people back, these people largely held themselves back due to their choices
This could be a great opportunity for Christian schools to expand their reach. Waiting lists all around my area.
I moved one teen from public to private last fall, and moved the other teen from public to homeschooling on Friday.
It’s BAD out there, for those of us in locked down states and who have kids. Not a good time/place to be a teen.
L8r
Here’s an idea: knock off the commie indoctrination and educate the kids in English, math, science and American history. This ain’t complicated.
Obama skool or however it’s spelled.
“I have never heard anything more beautiful than the Muslim Call to Prayer.”—B. Hussein Obama (the bestselling book author).
Better I suppose that at least a few kids don’t get their brains pickled in dreadful public schools than that none escape that fate.
Of course this had ALWAYS been the case, this isn't the first contagious disease to tear through society, but today this is in the public's conscience
If the sorry asses don’t like it let them start with school choice vouchers.
Otherwise STFU and GTH.
My wife has the lying news on and it is sickening to know that is where the sheeple get their lies and repeat them.
The propaganda is unbridled.
I know a Catholic man who rented a disused parish building for $1. He gathered together a couple dozen like-minded conservative Catholic families and started his own school
The teachers are either skilled parents, or local college professors donating their time for 1-2 hours a day for a stipend. Academics are very rigorous. The school has an activity time but no organized sports programs. Kids attend Mass every day.
Tuition is “dirt” cheap and after a few years, they are already sending their graduates to great universities.
Its a fantastic concept.
The solution to this is full vouchers. Now. I live in DC, which is the most expensive large school system in the country, so it's not typical -- BUT, DCPS revenues per student now exceed $30,000 per year. Put that money in the hands of parents. All of it. 100%. I don't care if DCPS has to fire administrator and staff person and close every building. I don't care if they have to fire every teacher. The good teachers will be hired instantly to teach pods and will probably make substantially higher pay. The bad ones can go do something else, and they'll probably be happier than they were going into a classroom and failing every day.
Yes, there are some totally incompetent parents. They're a reclamation market for anyone who wants to try; I would urge churches to show some leadership, but other local business and community leaders could pitch in as well. Since Republicans and conservatives have talked a good game about school choice for years, it would be time to step up and do some grassroots organizing of our own alternative homeschooling networks.
DCPS would remain the default option mainly for parents too disorganized or helpless to make better choices.
A significant percentage of the students who are doing poorly with virtual schooling were also doing poorly with in-person schooling. There are many opinions on the reasons for this, but we can be absolutely certain that responsibility does not lie with those who pay for the schools while not patronizing the schools. School officials around the country should be seeing the current situation as evidence that their institutions fail at the task of education. (I crack myself up sometimes.)
Vouchers would give lower-income families a much wider array of educational choices.
schools are social engineering and propaganda mills. The rot is systemic
All the pro-public education arguments just went out of the window.
It was sort of crappy and become very propogandistic years ago, latching onto and pushing every junk science idea, social theory, revisionist history, theoretical economic model, new interpretation of the Constitution and ethical standards. Kids graduate thinking they knew a lot but unable to write, do math... But someone told them they were the smartest EVER!
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