Posted on 10/02/2002 8:09:32 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:45:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Isn't it time to acknowledge that California, more or less by accident, has created a two-tier public education system, one that works pretty well for youngsters from relatively affluent, white and English-speaking families -- and most Asian Americans -- but abysmally fails for millions of other kids who don't meet those criteria?
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
It's time for a new approach: the Democrat-controlled school boards are inherantly racist because they're more concerned about their union cronies than the children in their districts.
Just gotta turn the debate around so that we are no longer always on the defensive.
The balance of the article is a pile.
The California state public education system has been subjected to the liberal, educational myths for so long that the system is now detrimental to willing, capable students who are exposed to it.
The system is so bad that many local districts have been, for several years now, creating enclaves of tradition education in definance of state mandates, to prevent a local tax payer revolt.
Whole language is why I pulled my kid from the government school system after the second grade. He still struggles with reading but has improved to the point that he is "above" average as far as the state, is concern but lousy as far as I am concerned. He is now in the upper grades of high school.
His younger brother who has been home-schooled from the begining is preforming post high school level in science and math in the sixth grade. He is above grade level in every area of state testing but one. Cultural studies, as if we care.
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