Government Schools Have U.S. On The Fast Track To Third-World Status

Toogood Reports ^ | March 6, 2003 | Bob Ellis

[B4Ranch]

Political correctness is the worst, ie. NO Balls to fight for what you believe is right is the current disease spread across America.

[asformeandformyhouse]

You can't make a blanket statement that all public schools are bad.

I also attended public schools. But if you read my replies 9 and 11, I was speaking more to what the article was discussing which was not merely academic but the ultra-PC environment that permeates government schools. If the NEA would just allow teachers to teach and not indoctrinate children into their socialist agenda, the country would be immensely better off. With involved parents, any student can receive a quality education, be it public, private or home-school. But with the agenda being taught in govt. schools, our republic may not long survive.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Thanks for the heads-up and for providing the the link...appreciate it. I've posted it here on FR.

3 PARTS: Congratulations America / Countdown to Socialism / Satan’s Strongest Weapon
Source: Restoring America; Published: August 2001; Author: Joe Larson

[MileHi]

I have been looking for some info that points out the Marxist roots of the NEA. I work for a large school district and am surrounded by those types every day.

[Spook86]

As a classroom teacher, I hold out little hope for education reform. Even in rural areas, we have a bloated, top-heavy "educrat" bureaucracy that does nothing to improve the quality of education. They're more concerned with trying to snag another government grant, or ensuring they keep enough "special needs" students in the classroom to keep that Title 10 money rolling in.

You know the rest of the story: discipline is an endangered species in today's schools. I teach at a school where our seventh graders (a total of 130 students) have been sent to the office more than 1200 times. You do the math--it's a shocking statistic by any standard. And remember: this is a rural school system, not the innner city. Problem students cycle through the usual punishments--including alernative schools--then start the process over again. The best example of this happened a few days ago. We had a seventh grader "busted" for marijuana possession. He was "sentenced" to two weeks in alternative school, after which he returns to our classrooms. School policy normally calls for suspension for the rest of the school year, but he shows promise as a football player, so we'll cut him some slack, right?

As you can imagine, academic achievement at our school is rock bottom, with little hope for improvement. Half of our seventh graders can't pass the state-mandated math test; twenty-five pecent can't pass the reading test.

Parents who actually care about their child's education have already broken the code; that's why enrollment in private schools is soaring, and the number of home-school kids has increased ten-fold over the past decade.

What happens next? More kids opt for a private education, or the home schooling route. Within 30 years, public schools will consist of systems in urban areas, a few top-notch districts in affulent suburbs, and the rest in rural areas that lack other options. The acheivement gap between private/home school kids and their public school counterparts will be astronomical. That gap will widen until we have a taxpayer revolt, when families with no interest in local schools refuse to pay for failing systems. At that point, our so-called public school system will finally--and fittingly--collapse. And God only knows what shape our country will be in when that happens....

[Tailgunner Joe]

bump

[EdReform]

Thanks for the ping!

BTTT for later...

[ladylib]

"That gap will widen until we have a taxpayer revolt, when families with no interest in local schools refuse to pay for failing systems."

That's happening already. Parents who send their kids to private schools are beginning to resent paying for public ones.

[ladylib]

Hi, Newbie. You "be" a member of the NEA by any chance?