Morgan wrote:
Discussing private schools I find to be only a choice to those who can afford it, so that is a moot point to the discussion.
Here's a thought why should scholarly educated people choose to teach as a career? They hardly get paid enough to afford a comfortable way of life, it is better to choose something else. So what is left a few good truly dedicated people, and what about the rest? the majority?
We keep missing the mark, and rather than to look at successful countries, we proudly and arrogantly keep on keeping on with the old and familiar tactics, and poor results. Not a good strategy in my mind, it is a good one for failure.As we stand still, country after country cuts in front of us in line and we move further down it. Where are we now 38th?
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I wasn’t speaking of private schools, that’s a no brainer.. Also why I just put the public school reference..
Was a time when gifted Teachers wanting to make a difference did very well.. Anymore those going into the field are like the rest of us just wanting to make a living with many looking at how little time, with holidays and summer break they have to actually attend..
We don’t need to look at other countries to see them surpassing our poorly educated children..Even if we did can you imagine actually getting any of their changes implemented here?? Heck we have built in Saboteurs right here that fight to keep schools tied to federal money so the Dept. Of Education can use that money for slush funding instead..
We should concentrate on what the root of the evil is~~
Despite the unprecedented growth of school choice in recent years, significant obstacles continue to hamper and delay momentum.... And its intentionally too..
Opposition from Special Interest Groups to start with...School choice initiatives are consistently opposed by powerful coalition of unions and yes, left-wing interest groups...For instance, the nation's largest teachers' union, the National Education poured millions of dollars into defeating what would have been one of the nation's first universal school choice program: a Utah program that would have made school scholarships available to “families regardless of income”....It passed in Utah's state legislature, it failed in a ballot referendum led and funded mostly by union operatives....WTH??? Tell you anything?? Teachers leave public schools for say charter schools and there goes the Union...
Liberal politicians have also united at the state and national levels to block school choice legislation....Remember the unsuccessful efforts of liberal U.S. representatives to dismantle Bushs’D.C.-based Opportunity Scholarships program?? It specifically benefits many impoverished students and is widely supported by African-American leaders and parents.... What is more important in their eyes than the education level for all kids??? It has funding and scholarships and pre~k etc..,Destroying this program would have forced many underprivileged children to return to low-performing schools... What was the grief about doing it?? Why would they try such a thing??? Why hadn’t this program been implemented in every state???
In addition to teachers' unions, efforts to increase school choice for parents are often vehemently opposed by local school officials who want to protect the status quo and who feel threatened by the prospect of new competition. They often claim that school choice will destroy the public school system and limit good schooling options to only a privileged few.If thats the case then why did they do nothing to correct the inequities they knew existed, rather than just keep it all same ol, same ol??
In addition, public school boards and agencies often make it more difficult for charters to expand by implementing regulations and rules like placing a cap on the amount of charters that can exist, requiring difficult and complicated start-up processes, limiting funding and space that's available for new schools, etc.
We could identify many things wrong with our school system handled By a government that looks at it as dollar bills per child head versus turning it back over to states to establish guidelines, proficiency, and actually have our students passing for a change...
Common Core was the worst thing we did too..Rather than having our children excel, we lowered the bar, let me repeat that please, we lowered the bar and look what we got because of it...
The strongest Nation there is and yet now the dumbest young adults graduating~~~some accomplishment don’t you think?