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Education as a Battleground
Imprimis ^ | November 2022 | Larry P. Arnn

Posted on 12/08/2022 4:03:12 PM PST by JeepersFreepers

If you want to see the problem with American education, look at a chart illustrating the comparative growth in the number of students, teachers, and district administrators in our public schools in the period between 2000 and 2019. (See the chart below.) The number of district administrators grew by a whopping 87.6 percent during these years, far outstripping the growth in the number of students (7.6 percent) and teachers (8.7 percent).

Percent Growth of Students, Teachers & Administrators in Public Schools

In illustrating the difference in these rates of growth, the chart also illustrates a fundamental change that has come over our nation as a whole during this period—a change in how we govern ourselves and how we live. Education is fundamental, and it has changed radically. This has changed everything else.

. . . who gets to decide what children learn? Are these decisions the province of professional educators, who claim to be experts? Or are they the province of parents, who rely on common sense and love to guide them?

Public education is as old as our nation—but only lately has it adopted the purpose of supplanting the family and controlling parents.

Who “owns” the child, then? The choice is between the parents, who have taken the trouble to have and raise the child—and who, in almost all cases, will give their lives to support the child for as long as it takes and longer—or the educational bureaucracy, which is more likely than a parent to look upon the child as an asset in a social engineering project to rearrange government and society.

(Excerpt) Read more at imprimis.hillsdale.edu ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: administrators; education; hillsdale; imprimis; schools; unions
Instead of our school tax increases being used to fund students and teachers, they are being used to fund the growth of woke administrators. These administrators are then exerting increased control of our children while opposing parental involvement.

The political successes of Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida, Governor Glenn Youngkin in Virginia, and many other politicians in other states have largely been won on this battleground of education.

1 posted on 12/08/2022 4:03:12 PM PST by JeepersFreepers
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To: JeepersFreepers

Bkmk.


2 posted on 12/08/2022 4:06:37 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: JeepersFreepers

Seems to me a private network of schools should be set up
by participating willing parents, so that the government
schools attendance reaches zero in a few years.


3 posted on 12/08/2022 4:11:02 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the {Const'l} REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: JeepersFreepers

I don’t have numbers in front of me, but I’ve heard that we are spending more per capita on education nowadays than we ever have, even adjusted for inflation over the years.

And yet , there are very disturbing reports of poor results for all the money we spend on public education.

That Landmark report, called A Nation At Risk, was issued almost40 years ago, so problems of student achievement in public education are nothing new. Will the powers that be ever see fit to make needed changes?


4 posted on 12/08/2022 4:12:36 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: JeepersFreepers

These are people like Nurse Jill with doctoral degrees in “Educational Leadership” and other BS (and not Bachelor of Science) degrees.


5 posted on 12/08/2022 4:13:44 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: JeepersFreepers

87.6% ?

Pikers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Xgd7Cjm98

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6 posted on 12/08/2022 6:14:44 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: JeepersFreepers
"Education as a Battleground"

Education as a is the Battleground

There, I fixed it.

7 posted on 12/08/2022 7:29:47 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
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To: DoughtyOne
Seems to me a private network of schools should be set up by participating willing parents, so that the government schools attendance reaches zero in a few years.

Yes, exactly! Groups of parents could rent space for classrooms at local churches and apply for accreditation as a school.

But, that will never happen. Most parents are too afraid to try anything different. Most parents like things the way they are.

8 posted on 12/09/2022 1:22:05 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes

I wouldn’t argue with that.


9 posted on 12/09/2022 5:53:40 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the {Const'l} REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: JeepersFreepers
If you want to see the problem with American education, look at a chart illustrating the comparative growth in the number of students, teachers, and district administrators in our public schools in the period between 2000 and 2019

For a minute, I thought it was the nurses, doctors, hospital administrators chart.

Same forces at work.

10 posted on 12/10/2022 11:51:47 AM PST by Jim Noble (I feel my heart beat faster any place in the neighborhood of the Astor)
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