Posted on 07/19/2024 6:39:30 AM PDT by eyeamok
I am not excusing the poor behavior of these students or their parents who are too tired, oblivious, or proud to correct it. I am not blaming educators who were doomed to fail by a system so convoluted it sabotages its own purpose. What I am calling for in the clearest possible words is this: raze the Department of Education and build a public education system worthy of American exceptionalism.
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Just wondering where in that pesky constitution thingie that the fed was granted the power to regulate education....
Make them great again by getting rid of the Dept. of Ed., and let it revert back to state and local control.
Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century. Its primary function today is to give free day care to parents that have sold themselves into indentured slavery.
What is indentured slavery?
"Public schooling" is collectivizing children in the name of relieving their mothers from their responsibilities, and alienates them from the associations needed to build social relationships with which who share those responsibilities. As a result, children feel isolated within a class size without that individual attention. Worse, to stratify them within groups of only peers deprives elder children from developing their skills and responsibiilites to teach and aid those younger while the latter don't learn respect and gratitude for that aid.
Hence, to warehouse children in this manner is a social structure of dysfunction meant only to keep older children from taking out their rages on the defenseless while making it possible to move an entire culture by isolating age groups of peers for group manipulation.
Groups of mothers sharing responsibilities is far preferable and an oppportunity to redress their educational deficiencies, thus being an example to kids witnessing that adult process that learning is a lifelong pursuit.
So many church going parents simply refuse to admit they’ve enrolled their kids into indoctrination centers for leftism when they put their children into public schools.
The public school cannot be fixed. It is flawed in its very beginning assumptions, and flawed systemically by the system and the teacher schools in university.
One may point to the occasional good school, but those also will be eventually subsumed by the rot.
Pedagogy as science?
“one simple way to FIX our failing Public School system, Make it FELONY CHILD ABUSE”
Judges generally don’t like excessive punishments and they have the final say.
Perhaps:
No employee benefit or atypical compensation may be granted with respect to a public employee and timeframe(s) wherein such employee’s child of K-12 age is enrolled in any private school.
I like the Finland system, though I don’t know if certain groups in America would find it acceptable. You get streamed early on as your academic potential becomes apparent. You are then streamed for academics or a trade, depending on what you show you can do.
“the word school referring to a place of learning traces back to Greek scholē, which has a meaning that will surprise students—’leisure.’”
“To the Greeks, leisure allowed a man to spend time thinking and finding out about things.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/get-schooled-on-the-origins-of-school-twice
Quote:
school (v.1)
“educate, instruct;” also “reprimand, discipline, reprove,” mid-15c., scolen, from school (n.1). Especially “to train or discipline thoroughly and strictly,” as in a school (1570s).
https://www.etymonline.com/word/schooling
That would be just fine with me, but we need a clause for “Officers of the Court” like Immediate and Permanent disbarment for any violation...
The conservative solution is simple... let everyone pay for their own or their own families education. They will then demand excellence and expect a return on investment; if they don’t send their kids to school fine, their life choices have consequences, so let them face those consequences and pray they can learn from them. Of course when other people are footing the bill you will build a bureaucratic empire that will have an agenda that increases their political power.
Exactly. Tear the walls of every public school down. Burn them all. They are vile reminders of a vast, ungodly stronghold of evil thought, word and deed. Give us this day the innocence of our beloved children and teach us how to protect their little hearts and minds. Give us the wisdom and grace,oh Lord. With You all things are possible.
They used to call that "tracking" when I was in the public schools. Then they stopped it because they thought it was mean to the underperformers. That was in the 70's, just as the school decline accelerated.
“Groups of mothers sharing responsibilities is far preferable”
Low-Tuition Cost Private School Models
Many of our fellow Americans live in areas where leftists have poisoned the school systems.
TRADITIONAL TEACHER MODEL
My primary model would have about twenty kids in a class and a tuition of around $4,000/year/student.
Each teacher would set his/her tuition rate and maximum class size and handle student admission. Homeowner associations might host hook-up events for teachers, parents and prospective students. Tuition might be paid monthly for affordability and two months in advance (so it won’t be problem for the teacher if the parents have a major car repair bill one month).
Men and women who have good English and math skills but lack high-value technical skills might choose to become such teachers.
Teachers might provide their SAT scores and college transcript information to prospective parental customers. Independent certification authorities might thoroughly test the teachers and issue report cards.
Classrooms might be set up in commercial space no longer usable for retail stores because of excessive minimum wages or shrinkage.
A classroom might have four rows of five students each and might be around 1,000 square feet in size.
The curriculum might be based on a traditional state model, a current state model, a proprietary model or the teacher’s own handiwork.
PARENTAL ASSISTANCE MODEL
The Parental Assistance Model would have a parent of each child assist the teacher for a period of two weeks each school year.
The teacher would provide necessary training for the parents during several weekends prior to the school year.
Parents who don’t have the time or skill to fulfill their responsibilities would have to pay and arrange for substitutes. At 35 hours a week for two weeks at $30/hour with employer taxation, hiring a substitute might cost $2100. High-income parents would often seek low-income household parents to substitute, thereby helping the low-income household parents pay tuition.
PARENT TEACHER MODEL
The Parental Teacher Model would be the lowest cost form. It would have a parent of each child be a teacher for a period of two weeks each school year.
Parents looking to participate would obtain the necessary training and certification from a specialized training organization over about 100 classroom hours prior to the school year. This organization or another would obtain and maintain the physical classroom space.
Parents who don’t have the time or skill to fulfill their responsibilities would have to pay or arrange for substitutes.
PRIVATE SCHOOL TUITION FUNDING by SCHOOL PROPERTY TAX REBATE
To assist parents in paying tuition and to be fair to the parents, the amount of school taxes they (and perhaps the parents’ parents) pay on their residence(s) might be rebated.
Eventually, rebates might be paid for past year tuition as well, so if parents pay $8,000/year tuition for two kids and $3,000/year in school taxes, the $5,000/year difference could be rebated to the parents in the years after their kids graduate.
It is no longer possible for Republicans to reform systems at the federal level, so Republicans must enact state-level reforms.
“The conservative solution is simple... let everyone pay for their own or their own families education.”
Families might be given broad [up to $100,000 in income, $1 million on property] tax exemptions for doing so. Instead of paying tax, they would be paying tuition.
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