Public Education - just another sink hole.
There should be no such thing.
They are fed up with high gas prices and boarded-up homes. They are fed up with rowdy teens, gangs, shootings and homicides. They are fed up with schools that warehouse kids but don’t educate them.
Obama's America - "Chicago is an example of what makes this country great." - August 12, 2012: Barack Obama comment at Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago, Illinois.
Public Education - just another sink hole.
There should be no such thing. . . . .
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While I understand where you are coming from I have a different point of view.
It is the function, actually the responsibility of government to protect us. There are those that would argue about what government should protect us from but we obviously can mostly agree that we need to be united to protect ourselves from foreign military threats.
I believe we also need to be protected from the ignorant in our society who would squander the rights purchased for them by the blood of our brave heroes.
Education is the only way to insure the freedom of our future generations. Public education has been good until the teachers organized into unions. Education was the most important function of educators in the past while now it is salaries & benefits. It has gotten sickening.
There was a time in America when unions were prohibited from government employees. A stroke of a pen by legislators could change that back and make teachers and school administrators answer to the people they serve not the union bosses.
If we allow students to go to “private” schools with a voucher that then becomes the new public education. I’m ok with vouchers and private schools, they generally do it better and cheaper than the regular public schools.
35 years or so ago I had a child on a soccer team. We went to one of the parents/kids home after a practice for treats. I talked to the parents of one of my sons friends. We were in their lovely home and they told me how awful they were treated in public education. They did tell me they only made 84G a year, each. They were both teachers.
I don’t buy it that they are underpaid and they certainly not mistreated.
I like the idea of having our teachers under our thumb answerable to us instead of a union. I want them to teach what we say, some legislative group, not what a bunch of teachers want. Teachers are as a rule liberal because they have never worked a real job and had to get ahead.
In our society it is competition that makes the world go round. Teachers don’t understand( for the most part anyway) competition and don’t like it when they see it. Competition is what our kids need more than anything the schools can give as long as the schools give them the tools to compete with.
With a school “system” that includes other schools not only can you have competition for sports and grades in a school but also between schools. We are losing this because of teachers unions.
The answer is get rid of the unions.