My latest in Monday's @WSJ | We must abandon failed practices, rally around education excellence, expand opportunity and commit to helping children reach their full potential.https://t.co/PIOjLmwoS6— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) October 25, 2022
please clap
Posted on 10/28/2022 1:21:45 PM PDT by conservative98
While much of the U.S. has returned to normal after the pandemic, the long-term academic harm to students endures.
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We can move forward rather than back. Doing so is a priority if the U.S. is to be a competitive nation in a competitive world. It also is a human necessity, as every student has God-given potential and deserves a great education.
The solutions are simple. There are math and reading policies every state should immediately enact and there are ways parents can contribute. Start with a call to all parents, guardians and families—those who know their children best. You were called on to step up when Covid kept kids at home. Now you are needed again to help close those learning gaps. Any trusted adult in a child’s life—parent, grandparent, uncle, aunt, whoever—should lean into this moment. Help students recover lost learning by reading for 20 minutes a day. That can be a parent reading to a child, a child reading to a parent or children reading to themselves. In addition, research has found that 30 minutes a week of extra math work can help students who are struggling or behind. If you aren’t up to writing math equations for your kids, seek out free, high-quality online math tools.
Lawmakers must step up, too. One way to help parents is eliminating the barriers students face in accessing a better education. This year, Arizona became a national model by creating a universal education savings account program with flexible, portable and customizable funding. That kind of legislation is transformative for student learning.
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My latest in Monday's @WSJ | We must abandon failed practices, rally around education excellence, expand opportunity and commit to helping children reach their full potential.https://t.co/PIOjLmwoS6— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) October 25, 2022
please clap
kick the trouble makers out, and actually teach those who remain.
But that would be racist, so we can’t
Typical gutless ‘clap’ trap. If you don’t call out the teachers unions and their agenda of turning out an endless stream of brain dead democrat voters, you haven’t even started dealing with the problem.
George W. Bush ruined trades education in the public schools with his disastrous “No Child Left Behind” program. So I have no interest in hearing anything that family might say regarding education.
Or regarding anything else, for that matter.
Kids in a classroom are not all the same.
They are all over the board in regards to mental, physical and social development.
One teacher for 25 kids?
Tough…..probably impossible.
A curriculum that fits all 25 kids?
Impossible.
Synopsis
In the eight years since he left the Florida governor’s mansion, Jeb Bush has raked in nearly $30 million. Who paid him and for what? And what “services” did Bush perform for those who gave him millions?
In Bush Bucks: How Public Service and Corporations Helped Make Jeb Rich, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer and his team of GAI investigators perform a granular examination of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s financial dealings and accumulation of wealth. What unfolds is a disturbing pattern of cronyism and self-enrichment, one wherein the companies and individuals Bush benefited while governor, in turn, helped make Bush millions of dollars shortly after he left office.
Bush Bucks reveals:
§ How more than half of Jeb Bush’s post-gubernatorial income was derived from a handful of companies that benefitted while Bush was governor
§ How Bush provided “political intelligence” to Wall Street investment firms via Lehman Brothers and Barclays that gave them the inside track on pending mergers and acquisitions
§ How Jeb’s educational reforms enriched key companies that then put money in Bush’s foundations and pockets
Fact-based, quick-moving, and clear, Bush Bucks highlights a troubling constellation of cronyism and self-enrichment inside Bush world.
Bush Bucks: How Public Service and Corporations Helped Make Jeb Rich
Agreed Jeb. Now how do you suggest we do this?!
Hell, we couldn’t even get ‘teachers’ to teach during the pandemic (though they insisted upon still being paid), thanks largely to the NEA and AFT. How does JEB! propose reforming our disastrous public education system?
But if only we put the troubled in with the academically motivated they'll magically see the error of their ways. /s
American public schools have reached a point of negative marginal-utility
Every additional dollar spent on them actually makes them worse.
Eliminate the Department of Education.
Get rid of everyone with an education degree. Get rid of teachers unions. Get rid of everyone with obvious chips on their shoulders. Bring back shaming. Bring back repeating a grade if you failed. Bring back objective testing. Hire people who have experience in the subject matters at hand. Get rid of the Department of Education. Kick out the troublemakers. Bring back the paddle.
Cut the woke and pervert crap — Teach reading, writing, and arithmetic all day.
I never saw a group of people fighting more, to send kids back into something that fails. Unreal.
Yet schools in the '40s, '50s, and '60s accomplished all of that, even in small rural schools in the Deep South (I was a student in such a one in the '50s).
Solution....get the Feds, state, and even county bureaucrats OUT of running the schools. Set up purely local schools under direct local community control.
Among FDR's many reasons for opposing them is that they sit on both sides of the bargaining table and the taxpayers are the sheep getting fleeced!
Take all monies that go for education and give it as vouchers to the parents to spend on the school of their choice be it public or private. The problem will resolve itself. Those employees in the school system have guaranteed pensions obligated by the state. Pay them the value of that pension relative to their years of work and then kill the pension system. If a public school then fails financially sell it to the private sector.
Go choke on your money, Yeb.
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