[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, August 15, 2002

Quote of the Day by Jhoffa

[Congressman Billybob]

Of necessity, one of the sections in my new book, "to Restore Trust in America," is on education. It's entitled, "Reforming Public Education." Many subjects are critical in the here and now. But only one is important, long range -- education.

Congressman Billybob

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[Mr. Mulliner]

BTTT for a piece that hits the nail on the head. I just got a dose of this gross mismanagement two days ago when I was asked to come to the local school to translate for two Chinese students they had just registered who spoke no English. Yikes! I was dealing with no-nothing educrats whose goal was simply to get the kids to the right place at the right time with, apparently, no one looking at the bigger picture of what do you do with these two kids. I would have loved to talk to some of their teachers, but all I got was guidance counselors, such-and-such coordinators, etc. And this is one of the good school systems.

Don't get me started about the closed hiring the NEA has got into place. The best potential teachers, people with real-world experience and a genuine love for teaching and for young people, cannot get hired if they haven't done a cart-load of education courses and gotten their licenses. Here where I am they're crying out for ESL teachers and yet their policies don't allow them to consider people who have taught it for years if they haven't been licensed.

[madfly]

ping

[MileHi]

Most of these kids will never recover from their education "experience": They have instead been condemned to a lifetime of poverty, ignorance and vice

Frightening

[grumpster-dumpster]

I believe this to be one of the finest articles ever posted on FR. (Well, since I've been lurking anyway..).

Thanks for posting it!

[Temple Owl]

A great post. Simple arithmetic: The teachers' union plus public schools equals the democratic party. Vouchers will go a long way to solving the problem.

[goodieD]

BUMP for the truth!

[Billthedrill]

There are a number of issues involved here - it should be pointed out that the WEA, Washington State's NEA subordinate, is notable for the political involvement of union leaders and the deliberate and unapologetic subornation of union dues to the support of Democratic party politics. This despite recent losses in courts as a result of Evergreen Freedom Foundation lawsuits which were necessary to force the union to obey existing law (and resulted in a hefty fine for their not having done so in the previous national elections).

If you add professional union administrators to the number of government-funded non-teaching administrators in this state, the number of administrators-to-classroom-teachers may actually exceed 1:1 depending on whose numbers you use, and given that union administrators are paid out of dues that are ultimately billed to the taxpayer, the author's description of the problem is an understatement. The answer here is NOT more, and more, and more taxpayer dollars to sustain this unwieldy and inefficient infrastructure.

[headsonpikes]

Stop the War on Children!

Smash the Education Establishment...preferably, in the teeth.

Oh, and teach your children to disrespect wrongful authority.

[CountryBumpkin]

The irony in all of this is that the more money the U.S. spends on public schools, the worse the educational system gets and the more ignorant young people become. The U.S. Dept of Education is a disaster almost beyond words.