Published first in 1955.
We spend a huge amount on public education.
We keep kids in school for 12 years.
And in the end, they cannot read, they cannot do simple math, and they can’t find North America on a world map.
Nobody sat and read a book with her in her whole life? Parent(s) failed her miserably.
Perhaps those old coal mines weren’t such a bad idea after all.
If I was a property owner in that town, I’d be suing them for fraud. You took my money in property taxes to fund public schools and obviously you weren’t schooling the children of my community. I will now undoubtedly see a decline in my property value due to its location in this school district, as well.
Published first in 1955.
Professional wrestler George the Animal Steele was practically illiterate when he started college at Michigan State due to dyslexia. A knee injury forced him to give up football and learn to read. He later got a Masters degree and is in the Pro Wrestling HOF and the Michigan High School Coaches football HOF.
Same type of lawsuit was successfully launched against the LAUSD in California in the 90s - by a student who flunked 10th grade twice and was going to be held back for a third year:
“High school officials refused to heed pleas by her mother, Eliza Thompson, that the girl be placed in a special education program.
Subsequent testing arranged by lawyers showed that Smith’s reading and math skills were at second- and third-grade levels and that she could not interpret numbers well enough even to tell time.”
There was a Consent Decree signed by a judge overhauling the entire program at a cost of millions of dollars. Special Ed teachers quit b/c the paperwork became overwhelming, they were afraid of being sued for missing the smallest detail.
This is sad but with less immigration and imports she will still be able to get a good job. Once we get rid of low wage workers and cheap stuff from China, she and the millions of other public school graduates just like her will lead a high wage fueled manufacturing jobs renaissance.
We require schools to teach, pass and graduate the severely limited—and now are upset that they’ve done just that?
The whole system is rotted out, but this story is predictable.
O-Ed 🧤☢️
Job one for public schools is indoctrination. The more political and less literate, the better.
Its not just a one-sided failure.
I put blame on the school system AND the kid. She (and others like her) simply do not care about their own lives and futures enough, to give a damn and use a huge amount of time, 12+ years, as a kid to develop themselves and use the time wisely.
So then the high school diploma is meaningless. Schools graduate kids to make the numbers look good.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Here’s your diploma Aleysha - now sound out the letters to see what it says....