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Make America's Schools Great Again
PJ Media ^ | 7/18/24 | Ashley McCully

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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To: eyeamok

Yes. Unionized public school teachers know how bad the schools are. Worse, the know that faculties are staff with crazy cat ladies and lazy slobs. Rubbing their faces into their own urine would do wonders for education reform. But even that might be enough as their are a lot of teachers who don’t have kids. A parallel system of charter and religious schools with enough seats to empty public schools must be built. Public schools should be reduced to special ed facilities to handle the severely handicapped, emotionally disturbed and criminal kids.


21 posted on 07/19/2024 7:48:33 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: kosciusko51

Dump the teacher’s union to begin with.


22 posted on 07/19/2024 7:57:00 AM PDT by chopperk (are)
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To: Brian Griffin
I have a question for you: What is a "teacher"? Is that person a graduate of a "teacher's college"? If so, I sure as hell don't want that person anywhere near a child.

As to my reasons, start with Skinner.

23 posted on 07/19/2024 7:57:18 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: eyeamok

very detailed
https://education-uk.org/history/timeline.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_Education_Act_1870

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Act_1944


24 posted on 07/19/2024 7:59:10 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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To: eyeamok
build a public education system

It will be worthy of American exceptionalism if and only iff it is not under government control.

25 posted on 07/19/2024 8:00:50 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Carry_Okie

“What is a ‘teacher’?”

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.


26 posted on 07/19/2024 8:06:43 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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To: eyeamok

First fix would be to build a wall.

Just look at the illegal invaders on our Southern border.

Lots of school age kids who will be showing up to attend public schools.

Build a wall was job one in 2016.

It is more imperative in 2024.

Calling for abolishing the Department of Education may be the right call.

But I am sick and tired of self-proclaimed conservatives offering solutions that are more theoretical than practical.

The reason I no longer self-identify as a conservative or a Republican is because CLOSING OPEN BORDERS is the simplest solution to so many problems that faces Our Republic.

Yet those elected as Republicans were not serious about the border crisis in 2016 and they are no more serious in 2024.

It was the Republican wing of the globalist Uniparty under the leadership of Majority leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker Paul Ryan who declared that the wall was DOA in congress as soon as Trump had been inaugurated.

Trump is not a stupid man.

Building a wall has MORE resonance today than in 2016.

Yet, he no longer talks about building a wall having learned his lesson in 2016.

The party whose ballot slot he has acquired from the GOPe was through a hostile takeover.

The majority of the party STILL takes its cues from its globalist masters not Trump.

If elected I’m certain Trump will do as much as the GOPe will allow him to do.

Trump has mentioned deportations.

Does anyone really think that will get any traction with the majority of congressional officeholders elected as Republicans?


27 posted on 07/19/2024 8:08:44 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: eyeamok

Public education is not the business of the federal government; all educational policies should be decided at the local level.

No funding and no regulations should come from the federal government for schools.


28 posted on 07/19/2024 8:08:52 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: eyeamok

Make American schools LOCAL again!


29 posted on 07/19/2024 8:09:33 AM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: Carry_Okie

https://www.structural-learning.com/post/skinners-theories

I have no knowledge of dealing with rowdy children.

Dear Parent(s):

It seems that we have not been able to get Johnny on the proper track. The tuition you have paid for Johnny will be partially refunded as per our enrollment agreement.


30 posted on 07/19/2024 8:18:53 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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To: All

The public school system worked up until the early 1960s-1970s. Ask yourself what the differences are now? I’ll start off.

1. Lack of Discipline - Not allowed to enforce discipline in the classroom. (Part and parcel due to the lack of self-discipline in our society due to the acceptance of radical societal notions from the 1960s.)

2. Societal Fragmentation - Teachers who think they are not Americans but “Citizens of the World”.

3. Unionization - Gives a false idea that they do not have any responsibility to the taxpayer. Remember the AFT Prez who said when students pay dues I’ll pay attention to their needs.


31 posted on 07/19/2024 8:26:30 AM PDT by Reily (f)
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To: Biblebelter
Does anyone really think that will get any traction with the majority of congressional officeholders elected as Republicans?

Realize that The Trump Organization itself is involved in construction, hotels and resorts, golf courses, ALL demanding day laborers, maids and kitchen staff, and groundskeepers, respectively. It would be economic suicide for Trump to mass deport those people, just as it was in 2016.

32 posted on 07/19/2024 8:29:48 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: eyeamok

U.S. Department of Education
Forecast of Funding Opportunities under the Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024

mind boggling:
https://www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html?src=ft


33 posted on 07/19/2024 8:31:47 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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To: Reily

“Lack of Discipline”

Dear SNAP recipient:

Please apply for your benefits at Teachers’ Union Hall, 1 Teacher Way....

Dear SNAP recipient:

We suspect Johnny has had too much sugar in his diet....

Dear T-Mobile customer:

Please apply for 2026 service renewal at Teachers’ Union Hall, 1 Teacher Way....


34 posted on 07/19/2024 8:38:04 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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To: Reily

“not Americans”

“Unionization”

Levies on any residential property of less than 2799 square feet of finished space shall be no higher the 2019 dollar amounts on the property, or for a newer or since resold property what a similar property in the same area would have been levied at for 2019 if it lacked owner specific tax breaks, increased by 3% per calendar year since 2019 and by any percentage increase to its finished living space.


35 posted on 07/19/2024 8:42:47 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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To: chopperk

👍


36 posted on 07/19/2024 8:48:11 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Carry_Okie

I have proposed that Congress send middle-class income and property taxation cap constitutional amendments to the states.

If businesses and customers want the invaders and their children, they can pay for them.

It’s time to ‘wall off’ the assets and income of the middle class.


37 posted on 07/19/2024 9:00:12 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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To: Brian Griffin
I have proposed that Congress send middle-class income and property taxation cap constitutional amendments to the states.

I sympathize with the sentiment, but not the mechanism.

38 posted on 07/19/2024 9:04:44 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: aspasia

Heh. I had to look up the word.🤣
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy


39 posted on 07/19/2024 9:16:45 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: aspasia

But yeah. The schools don’t even approach teaching like they used to because their motive has grossly changed. I have a 3rd grade math book from 1906. It would challenge a lot of high school kids today.

But with the internet, public school has become obsolete in the same way “word” eliminated most secretaries. But I still enjoy the movie, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” 😁


40 posted on 07/19/2024 9:19:19 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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