Posted on 06/26/2025 8:35:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
> Those poor little kids have no chance. of earning a living or having a decent life. <
Right you are. It eats at me to this day.
Even in my worse classes 80% of the kids were okay. They might have had attendance problems. But when they showed up they were willing to work, and learn something.
And a disruptive kid was quickly removed. The usual penalty was a three-day suspension. So at least I could teach for three days without conflict.
Those days are gone. Today’s administrators want to see low suspension numbers. That makes them look good. So a disruptive student is sent right back to class.
That makes the teacher a policeman, not an educator. He must try to control the disruptive student while all the good kids just sit there.
There is one solution to this, a maga one.
BEFORE you were admitted to school, you had to know your numbers and letters.
So then the high school diploma is meaningless. Schools graduate kids to make the numbers look good.
When I moved to Springfield, VA in 1966, I was enrolled in West Springfield Elementary School. I was somewhat distressed to see a TV in the classroom. At the time, it was employed for French language lessons.
When I moved back to Chula Vista, CA, I was enrolled at Hilltop Junior High School. 7th grade. More TV sets in the classroom in addition to 16mm projectors. I was the A/V person in the classroom. I set up the TVs and projectors to play the media of choice. I felt somewhat agnostic to the media content.
Roll far ahead to my children's classrooms. The presence of the TV and a DVD player became a substitute for the teacher's duties. Start a DVD and entertain the classroom. Less engagement between teacher and students in the 1990s.
Post 2000, not only is there TV media in the room, you have computers and cell phones. Plenty of distraction from the core objectives of teaching material and ensuring the students have mastered it. Why read a book when you can put on a movie with the same content? Do that long enough and the little darlings have no idea of how to read and master the content.
Were her parents dead? You get what you put into it as well, but I do agree the DOE is nothing but a sham. Need vouchers.
Ping.
Ha...in 1975 my son went to kindegarten knowing his letters and numbers I had taught him. Near the end of the year in a teacher conference I asked his teacher why he now did not seem to know those things...she said...”kindergarten is for socialization.” He got enough socialization with his cousins I said, and left.
What makes her think public servants are there to serve the public?
They don’t care about the children as much as they care about filling their pockets.
Stand And Deliver has been one of my very favorite films for years.It was particularly satisfying to see those kids growing up in difficult circumstances being motivated by Jaime Escalante. I guess stuff like that doesn’t happen in LA these days
I CANNOT FIND THE WORDS TO SAY HOW GRATEFUL I AM FOR A ONE ROOM SCHOOL EDUCATION.
WAS ON HS HONOR ROLL.
GOT 4.0 in every accounting class I took 11 years later.
Ran my own bookkeeping business for 42 years—1980 to 2022.
THEY HAVE TOTALLY SUCCEEDED>....
I CAN REMEMBER WHEN BIDEN ORDERED EVERY SINGLE CLASSROOM IN THE USA TO CHANGE OVER TO DIGITAL CLOCKS BECAUSE STUDENTS COULD NOT READ ANALOG CLOCKS.
Aleysha is a pretty young lady. She should stop complaining about not being able to read, and grateful she made it to graduation without being raped by her, “educators.”
WERE THE PARENTS GHOSTING THIS KID???
Here’s your diploma Aleysha - now sound out the letters to see what it says....
LAUSD?
Her last year was 2020. Before the schools were closed because of COVID she had made the decision to retire that year. It got so bad that one day she was walking in a hallway, one of the kids was sitting on the floor with his legs spread out and wouldn’t move so she could get through. “STEP OVER ME” he told her, like she was a piece of crap. And you can’t discipline them-that’s forbidden.
I’m glad she retired. Both of our daughters are adults, one just started working for a national company, and the other one is working for a multi-national, making six figures a year. They didn’t get where they are by getting “participation trophies”. They have worked to get where they are. I credit my wife starting them off before they entered school, over 30 years ago.
I feel for parents of young ones today- at least the parents who really CARE about their kids’ education.
recalling my days as department manager in large industrial plant, the personnel manager tell us at staff meetings about HS graduates not being able to fill out an employment application.
Good for you!
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