Posted on 04/02/2025 2:06:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump is a threat to bureaucracy!
Blame it on Randy Winebottle. She’s the DOE union thug.
...then no one should complain when the $$ is taken away.
(no sarc!)
Close the public schools.
They do far more harm than good.
It’s just a 107-page bill at this point, which I don’t have the energy to read or understand.
Its author:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey_Simon
Of course not.
Has a vile RAT ever taken responsibility for anything bad they’ve ever done?
They destroy everything they touch….everything.
K-12 performance used to be much better back in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. What’s different? Maybe we should ask.
Looked at her papers....not a vowel to be seen in her paragraphs...but a big smile face by the teacher. Seems they don't want to hurt the kids feelings. I was soooooo pi****. So I got a little toy that can help you learn to spell...and little by little explained that words need vowels...with a couple exceptions.
Had to teach her how to write script and her times tables.
A nice blackboard helped. Now we're talking second grade. Glad I was around. It gave me purpose.
Grandma also taught her how to catch worms, gut a fish...and not to put potato chips in her bookbag. That took a small demo on the front sidewalk....the army that showed up to haul off the chips was unbelievable. Lesson learned!!
I hate to dispute such an authority on everything such as the NYT, but I’ll give it a shot. There is a ‘practical’ reason why states are eliminating tests for h.s students to have to pass a test to graduate. Too many would fail. And too many of the ‘wrong sort’ would fail. That would look like racism. You’d have some 21-year-old seniors in the same school as 15-year-old freshmen. What could go wrong?
Since now, in too many places, the prime directive for public schools is to ‘keep the kids off of the streets’, failing kids for poor/no performance, poor/no attendance or kicking out kids who are violent and disruptive is no longer an option. Keep them off the streets, give them their worthless and meaningless diploma at the end of 12th grade. Rinse and repeat year after year.
NYT hit piece on Forida because:
“Florida Ranked #1 in Education for Second Year in a Row”
Jimmy Carter bought the teachers' union vote in 1979 by creating the hallowed Department of Education.
You couldn't possibly be referring to that, could you? 🤡
See #10
;-,
I’ll bet Mary can tell you why Billy has two dads.
“We don’t need better schools. We need better students.”
bttt
Agreed. Standardized testing often means schools taking time to teach students to score high on a bogus test instead of using that time for actual education.
Even in Massachusetts, supposedly having the best schools in the country, the situation stinks. I’m lucky to have this problem I guess. Our family is full of high achievers. My immediate family - Harvard, Dartmouth, MIT, John’s Hopkins, Michigan, Boston College, Boston University, Holy Cross, just to name a few.
My youngest is 13, attends public school. His last three report cards - Seven A+’s. School is too easy. For extra work he takes an astronomy class from a Yale professor. He’s enrolled in 2 creative writing classes outside of school. Tonight he takes his entry exam for the Russian School of Mathematics.
My older two sons are excelling at Michigan and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
My point in writing is you have to take this on yourself as a family. You CANNOT rely on public schools to meet your standards. Challenge your kids. The future literally depends on it.
As Robert Heinlein said - “Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
Eliminate the Fed from education...Make education driven state by state...One size does NOT fit all....
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