I am delighted that our education reform legislation passed and now in Florida, teachers with poor evaluations will not have their contracts renewed. Check out http://www.studentsfirst.org
There are no good government schools in any state and never have been. Why?
Answer:
ALL government owned and run socialist-entitlement schools in this nation are godless in their worldview. The child **must** think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the godless classroom. ALL government K-12 curriculum is godless in its worldview. This is NOT religiously neutral, and it is an abomination to force this godless worldview onto innocent captive children, and to put taxpayers under police and court threat to pay for it.
This is **not** good! It is evil!
If some schools do manage to sneak in a little prayer into the school day or school year, the school is teaching the students that Christians are sneaky. They are also teaching the students that Christians are law breakers, and are willing to force their beliefs onto their captives ( Opps! "students") They are also teaching children that merely nodding to God on occasion is OK. ( Well...We know what Christ does with the lukewarm. He spits them out of His mouth!)
This is **not** good! It is evil!
Next....All government owned and run K-12 schools are a socialist and single-payer entitlement and have been since the enactment of compulsory schooling laws in the mid-1800s to early 1900s. Children who attend these schools risk learning that the voting mob has great power to give them tuition-free schooling. Well?...If the voting mob can given them tuition-free school, why not **lots** of "free" stuff? Franklin D. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were not accidents. All it took was one to three generations of socialist-entitlement schooling to produce a population willing to vote in socialists and progressives.
This is **not** good! It is evil!
It is impossible to have a religiously, politically, or culturally neutral education. When government owns and runs K-12 socialist-entitlement schools, government WILL force its NON-neutral religious worldview ( currently godless) onto its captive children and force taxpayers to pay for this abusive monstrosity and violation of the First Amendment.
This is **not** good! It is evil!
Government in its roll as owner and managers of K-12 schools TRASH the First Amendment rights of its inmates ( oops! "students"). In many ways schools resemble prisons! They look like prisons, School buses look like prison transport. There are lockdowns, random search, drug sniffing dogs, metal detectors, searches ( even body searches), and solitary confinement rooms. In our government schools speech, press, assembly, and expression of religion are all strictly suppressed by government workers. Government guards ( oops! workers) dictate when children can eat, ( and what they can eat) rest and when they must exercise in areas that look like prison exercise yards. Their eating areas look like prison cafeterias.
If and when true tyranny comes to the U.S. the oligarchy will not use cattle cars to haul citizens off to the interment camps. No! No! Instead, they will us big yellow school buses and the sheeple will meekly comply to government authority just as its been trained to do.
This is **not** good! It is evil!
Finally,...If by "good" you mean that some schools have high standardized testing, then please POST THE EVIDENCE that the **school** was responsible for these high scores? Where are the studies that separate out what is learned IN THE HOME due to the massive amounts of work done by the parents; the child himself doing home assignments, projects, and independent study; and paid or unpaid tutors?
NO one knows if government schools actually teach anything because AFTERSCHOOLING HAS NEVER BEEN STUDIED!! ( Yeah! I am shouting.) We spend up to $30,000 per child per year and NO ONE knows if government schools teach anything at all or if it is entirely due to the hard work of the child and his family IN THE HOME!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzvKyfV3JtE
This video "The REAL Cost of Public Education" is enough to make any parent and/or taxpayer CRY!
It is not good but it is EVIL to crush our economy, send business overseas; make goods made in the U.S. so expensive they can not be sold abroad; make it impossible for young people to get married; own a home and start a family; and to suck money out of the economy that could be invested in start ups, and expanding existing businesses, and new jobs.
This is not good. It is EVIL!
It is **not** good! It is EVIL and it is **outrageous*** that citizens are crushed by high property taxes for schools that have NEVER been examined to prove their effectiveness as compared to the AFTERSCHOOLING done in good homes.
All of the above is **fundamental** to the very foundation of all government K-12 schooling. All of the above is evil whether or not the standardized test scores of the socialist-entitlment school are good, bad, or ugly. All of it is true regardless of whether the neighborhood is white, black, Hispanic, middle class, upper class, or rock bottom poverty stricken. All of it is true no matter how much parents wear themselves out attempt to reform the IMPOSSIBLE! It is impossible to reform a socialist-entitlement, and **all** government owned and run K-12 schools are godless socialist-entitlements!
And...These are only some of the reasons why socialist-entitlment, single-payer, government owned and run K-12 schooling is evil. There are many more reasons.