We can't afford to tippy-toe around the Education issues anymore. First, there is no honest observation of the "Special Needs" students that does not reveal that mainstreaming the most care-intensive is a fraud and failure. Any kid, regardless of the cause, who can't keep up with the rest of his classmates on core academic programs HAS TO BE REMOVED from that class. If it's a kid with a respirator who has a RN at his side, if it's some kid who is not English proficient enough to handle the coursework, if it's a behavioral problem .... GET 'EM OUT. The 30 students are now suffering the handicaps and pathologies of the slowest single student. Eff it, we're not going to throw that kid away but we're damn sure not going to permit him/her to compromise or diminsish the learning experience, and graduation course TIMETABLE to coddle them.
Kids on respirators should NOT be in public school. Kids who can't speak English well enough to learn with his/her age peers should NOT be in that public school peer classroom. Kids who are criminals and emotionally disturbed need to be yanked.
Enough of the "Elanor Clift has two Female Escorts" and "Scott Ritter Has Burger King Coupons" socializing and indoctrinating. Math. Science. Reading. Writing. History. Geography. Social Science. Foreign Language. No Earth Day bullshit, no field trips to a Andrea Dworkin mass diharrea bombing, no trips to Mall of America or to ValleyFair or to the MADD seminar.
We're getting lousy service for our big bucks.
Amen.
Everything you say is right, but...what is the realistic chance that there will be any such reform within the public school system?
I, for one, think it's pretty much a hopeless case, and that the only hope for our kids is to get as many as possible into private or home schools ASAP.