Posted on 05/15/2024 12:42:33 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
—In a huge city awash with tiny schools, few are smaller than the Hilda L. Solis Learning Academy.
The public high school, housed in a former hospital in East Los Angeles, is down to 170 students from the surrounding Latino neighborhoods. On a hallway bulletin board, handwritten hearts display reasons students love the school, including, “how everyone knows each other” and “the fact that school is small.”
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America has too many bad schools.
Fixed it.
Its certainly not about “education” - its about maintaining the bloated and politically-loyal vast educrat bureaucracy.
There are lots of Marxist teachers out there that need the jobs that conservative teachers aren’t allowed to do.
And not enough prisons.
Vouchers are the answer. Leads to school choice 100%.
We have ESAs here in AZ. We also have dollar for dollar state income tax credits for donations to private/religious schools (up to about $800). We have MANY more schools. Most with fewer than 170 students. That’s a good thing. My college had 120 students when I graduated. I spent time in a grad school/seminary with < 150. It’s all good.
I didn’t graduate from high school but I do know a school is merely a building.
Thed problem is too many teachers. There is no excuse for having 1 teacher for 8 children in a classroom.
SCHOOL IS SMALL???
MY ONE ROOM GRADE SCHOOL WAS 14 kids.
MY HS grad class was 93.
BETTER YET-——I ACTUALLY GOT AN EDUCATION
The graph explains it. Many schools were built during and after the baby boom. And they tended to be built to last back then. But in spite of the fact that the population has more than doubled since then, American women are having fewer, if any, children.
A woman I work with explained it this way: all of her age-mates are either single or married with no plan for having any kids at all. Kids are expensive, and take away time from having fun.
The K-8 school I retired from used to have roughly 360 kids. Now it’s down to 250 kids and few kids show up for Kindergarten screening every year.
You get more of what you subsidize.
Basic economics.
1 teacher for 8 children? Not where I live, that’s for sure.
Especially at elementary level. Anything bigger then about 300 and the kids become lost in the shuffle.
It is a shame that our productive satisfactory culture has been ripped from us despite our diligent efforts to have families and raise them with law-abiding citizenship in mind for us and our children.
"America has too many bad schools."
A freeper recently appropriately (imo) referred to schools as “federal contractors” (read: buy votes for elite federal Democratic and RINO politicians), probably applicable to many schools.
The MAJOR constitutional problem with "federal" funding for schools, evidenced by the excerpts below, is that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the unconstitutionally big federal government the specific power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate schooling.
"The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (Jefferson is indicating that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure imo.)
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphasis added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, the constitutionally clueless schools are “jumping” (how high?) to receive taxpayer dollars collected under abuse (imo) of 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes), such funding arguably state revenues (citizen's wallets) that should never have left the states in the first place.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
Trump's tsunami of Democratic and Republican patriots need to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new Congress in November so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his 2nd term, and will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.
New lawmakers additionally need to support Trump in leading the states to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes and unconstitutional interference in the affairs of the sovereign states.
More specifically, Trump needs to lead ALL the states need to effectively "secede" from the tyrannical federal government by repealing 16&17A.
Consider the repealing of 16&17A as part of reparations for victim taxpayers of the corrupt federal government for having to pay a lifetime of unconstitutional federal taxes.
“Children of Men”
- great movie about the horror of vanished fertility.
“all of her age-mates are either single or married with no plan for having any kids at all”
Don’t worry. They’ll all be replaced, and they will find themselves living out their lives alone in some old folks warehouse. The Replacements won’t vote to allocate much cash to those places either. Too White.
Populations that don’t reproduce...disappear.
You're right - I've completely forgotten about that.
They come here to be refugees, NOT STUDENTS. THE BASS TURDS NEED THEM TO BRING THEIR OWN TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS WITH THEM. I KNOW THE CINCO DE MAYO CROWD ARE MORE INTERESTED IN Puebla, Mexico than they are Lexington or Concord.
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