Posted on 02/16/2014 6:04:50 AM PST by US Navy Vet
“I trudged the several blocks home from school, satchel in hand. It was a beautiful, golden afternoon, and I was ready for some adventure. I had a little homework, but that could wait until after supper. My parents knew that kids needed time to play and there was only so much daylight left. My best friend and I spent the afternoon exploring in the nearby woods and seeking out “evil” boys to annoy. We got home in time for supper and had plenty of time to finish our homework before bed. I don’t remember ever being stressed about tests and grades in elementary school. School was a relatively comfortable place, although it really did not compare with free time to play outside.”
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And the same one in four don't know the meaning of the word "revolve".
With all due respect, if you don’t know, I shall not waste my time defining it. I also take your tone to be one of anger and find it quite amusing. From my experience your challenge sounds like someone who did not stay involved. So figure it out and stop YELLING. Here is a hint, Your local public school is what YOU allow it to be and it is much more fixable than the federal government. With the help of other involved parents we fixed our local schools and they will only stay fixed as long as parents like us stay involved. It’s dirty work and if you chose to think it can’t be done, you’re correct.
YUMM YUMM DRINK some more of that Kool Aide. You are a sheep. You need to learn about the purpose and origins of the “Public” School “system”.
The problem now is we have a centrally controlled system that is ruled by Globalist/Marxists and is inundated with huge numbers of Third-world kids. Globalist/Marxists ruin everything and Third world people produce Third world results. Its not the system that's the problem so much as the people in it.
For example, California's public education was the best in the world before California was a Democrat stronghold colonized by Mexicans.
Yes, when they let Planned Parenthood teach parenting classes, the education system as gone down the tube.
Public School Educrat’s “Wet Dreams” throughout the years:
“New” Math:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math
Outcomes Based Education:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome-based_education
Common Core:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_State_Standards_Initiative
“Whole” Language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language
OK. The gloves are off now. I know all about the history of public schools. You are a moron and a defeatist. If your local public school fails you it is your fault. You can’t fix it sitting on your fat butt whining about it. My kids are now in their 30s raising their own children. They don’t live in the same school district as I do. But I am still involved and so are they. Home schooling is wonderful but not always doable. As long as I’m paying taxes I will stay in the fight. Just admit that you are weak and gave up the fight before you even started. By they way mister history it was Flavor Aid not KoolAid.
Parent(s) that don’t see to it that their kids respect authority, do their homework and don’t know where their kids are at 9:30pm are the main problem.
It really depends on the educator.
A good group of educators and administrators working together can push kids far.
We have kids taking 6-8 AP courses before they graduate, passing all the AP exams, and receiving scholarships to top ranked colleges. They all are prepared for their next four years of instruction as well.
I WISH we could do more for our non-college track students, live giving them an intensive vo-tech and basic math/English skills battery that would allow them to start making money as soon they graduate.
Alas, that died with the 70’s
From one US Navy vet to another - thanks for posting this article. It reinforces a comment (parents should avoid public schooling their kids) I made recently on Facebook. Not surprisingly, my comment raised the ire of several PS teachers.
Some parents in my state are trying to exclude their kids from Common Core. The state commissioner of education says that’s “illegal.”
So much for your local public school is what YOU allow it to be.
Common core includes group projects with where students evaluate each other.
Common Core is the final nail in the coffin of Public Education. Nationalizing curriculum and feeding more power to the Feds. They’re doing a great job destroying our once great nation and they are after your children’s minds as well.
Yes it is.
Government schooling is the absolute definition of a single-payer, compulsory-use, compulsory-funded, socialist-entitlement.
Compulsion means the treat of police and court action. ( Real bullets in those guns on the hip.)
Government schooling, since its inception in the mid-1800s, has **always** been a single-payer, compulsory-use, compulsory-funded, socialist entitlement.
The easy answer is YES. But with proper involvement by parents the answer is NO.
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This like dosing a child with poison and making him sick because the antidote is in the medicine cabinet at home. NOT smart.
When was it ever possible to “fix” a single-payer and socialist-entitlement?
Government schooling is SS schooling ( single-payer and socialist-entitlement).
We beat common core at the local level and put enough pressure on the state legislature to ignore it too. If you’re willing to let the state commissioner dictate to you and you haven’t filed a law suit yet, I don’t know what to tell you. I live in a red state but the state legislature was still blue until recently, we started the fight against heavy odds and common core helped make them the minority. We have stopped common core in the state unless a local board wants to incorporate it for their district. We also passed a law that the state teacher’s union has to bill their members for dues rather than the state doing payroll deduction. I ran for and was elected to the local board of education on common core replacing a nanny stater. I didn’t say it was easy. It takes hard work. You can either be a Boehner or a Cruz.
What are you doing to fix it? Are you acting like Boehner and caving in?
It may be that way where you live but where I live we fight and we control curriculum. You may just need to hide or give up entirely. Slavery was wrong but we fixed it. The lack of fight I see is amazing. I won’t give up until I win or die. I guess people where you live say “live free unless someone says we can’t”. Move.
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