Posted on 05/18/2022 7:24:19 AM PDT by Rummyfan
DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner!
Today’s 20-30 year olds are busy “finding themselves” instead of raising children. Most of the ones who are friends with my four daughters (all of whom have kids) are single and ready to mingle...like you said living their life as an over-aged teen!
Heck, half of them still live at home or live with two or three other “older teens”! YOLO is literally their motto!
My uncle taught freshman math at a UC in California. He said students coming in don’t know basic fractions
Back when I was going to school, fractions were what you learned in the fifth grade. Your times tables were supposed to be in your head by the end of third grade, with reinforcement in fourth as you learned division.
Today kids use calculators to multiply and divide. They are exposed to fractions as early as the second grade, but at no time are they expected to really master them, simply because they cannot do simple multiplication in their heads. When they try do fractions (add, subtract, multiply and divide) with a calculator, not only do they have no idea of what they are doing, but they have no idea of why.
I have taught 8th-graders who have pulled out their calculators when confronted with 7 x 9. When denied the calculator I’ll see the ones who care enough to try, adding seven nines to get the answer.
Moi?
The times tables that I memorized in the 4th grade have served me well for over 60 years. My only complaint, looking back, is that I could have memorized the trig functions a bit better.
During the 1700's this country had no public schools and the general public was probably better educated than today's general public. Thomas Paine's Common Sense is difficult reading, yet it "sold over one hundred fifty thousand copies in its first printing (not counting England and Ireland). Eventually over five hundred thousand copies were sold."
"there were estimated to be only 2.5 million people living in the original thirteen colonies in 1776." That means one of every five people bought Common Sense, and undoubtedly more people than that read it.
Today's average high school graduate probably lacks the ability to read it. Here are the first three paragraphs:
PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry), and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right to support the Parliament in what he calls Theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpation of either.
In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided everything which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise and the worthy need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious or unfriendly will cease of themselves unless too much pains are bestowed upon their conversion.
Exactly.
Here’s to 1.2M kids who, today, have a brighter future.
All together, America’s public schools have lost at least 1.2 million students since 2020,
Same can now be said with homemade formula..... Carnation Milk formula has been around since the 60’s. It is fabulous and I raised my kids on it. I was raised on it but on FB, I was tagged for “spreading inaccurate” information.... Bastards
Let private schools and community home schooling lease the abandoned public school buildings.
“Letting them move ahead just to get them out/improve “pass rates” hurts the kid, the next teacher, and prevents classmates from advancing as fast as they should.”
Well said.
One of my neighbors is a Filipino dude with a nice family. He told me his kid in public school, stated that the rest of his classmates esp. the really stupid ones and troublemakers, were given passing grades automatically. They dont even post who got the highest grades the entire time he was there because it is “racist” to embarrass the dumb ones. It was unreal hearing the stories. That boy is now in a charter school.
3,000 is considered the minimum needed to communicate at basic level.
5,000 words, to put it in perspective, is about a third grade reading level.
To read Shakespeare easily you need a vocabulary of 20,000 words. To read him fluently you need a vocabulary of 30,000 words.
A lot of parents are pulling their kids because of the LGBTQ mafia infecting their local school districts.
Laura Ingraham is going on decrying the damage done to kids and parents by closing the socialist and queer indoctrination centers.
Personally, I don’t see that as a problem. The real problem is; the queer communists continued to get paid, and they continue to rape the taxpayers.
In SW Florida, I get 4-6 offers a week to buy my properties. I never answer the phone for 800 numbers so it could be a whole lot more. There are 9 new houses within a 3 minute walk from my home.
It’s a good thing I bought all of the adjoining properties before the current boom. Now, nobody can build within 500 feet of my house.
Just fail them. When students get to university level course work, fail them with prejudice. No remedial education, no breaks. Tell them to go to their CC for 2 years, then come back.
Taxpayers need to audit their districts.
Ghost students are a thing.
That is very true - my county had 4% homeschool rate even before the pandemic. The result is all sorts of hybrid schools, co-ops, labs, and sports programs. The sports program my sons played in had over 2,000 kids involved with football, baseball, soccer, swimming, cheerleading, volleyball, equestrian, lacrosse, even bass fishing, and they competed in a private school league. They also had homecoming, dances, etc. My boys didn’t miss a thing offered by the public schools, other than indoctrination.
Laying off teachers? LOL that's a good one. School reform is long overdue. I've been an active proponent since the early 1990's and very little has been accomplished other than some break off home schooling. Politicians and administrations (Betsy DeVos) have done basically nothing to help. Like election integrity, abortion etc this is a states issue and for too long states have done almost nothing and the Federal level has lent little support. Until Covid, the parents have finally taken notice to the horrendous curriculum and the iron fist rule of the teachers unions. So let it me, a grass roots uprising, which hopefully will continue to gain traction. The cowardly pols are only now standing up because it's a way to get votes. So be it, I hope that finally we gain some traction and some true reforms, but we'll see. More pols need to get on the train.
"Stop speaking up." Syracuse school teacher says district culture is hurting staff numbers
The article's a hoot. A pity party for woke teachers.
But what's really interesting is that nobody is asking why, with enrollments that have been declining for decades, Syracuse needs more teachers...
Note to taxpayers in that neck of the woods: I'm betting your district is in dire need of an audit. Take a look at where the bulk of your budget is going. And look for ghost students. I think you'll find plenty if you do.
Band together. Dont out up with their crap.
Your kids are paying for your lack of attention.
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