Posted on 11/01/2019 5:03:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
Another Reason to Homeschool
Please do not forget that Bush allowed Teddy Kennedy to have control over what the “No Child Left Behind” initiative became. Bush was genuinely trying to reach across the aisle, and this was the result.
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“they are struggling to subtract a two-digit number from a three-digit number to come up with the correct answer.”
They are taught to use a picture of blocks, hashes and spots to do subtraction. This strategy almost always fails as they do it.
I quickly teach them “borrowing” mechanics, and they get the right answer.
Thanks Common Core.
What is DeVos doing, that is a great question.
I don’t know the answer to that question but I think I will do some research on it.
This is being reported now so as to show the decline under Trump’s administration. Everything was great during the Obama years. If Hilllary had been elected in 2016 the reporting on this would be different.
If people believed this, they might not be able to continue to send their kids to public school. And then they’d have to sacrifice one career to homeschool, or a heap of money to private school.
So it’s far more convenient not to believe how poorly educated the kids are.
As for De Vos, she took a job that should not exist.
Because they probably do not speak English at home. When our son was born in 1963 I made sure to speak English with him instead of German which is my natural language.
That is your opinion nubie and you are wrong, wrong, wrong W R O N G
You have a responsibility to know the bias of your School Board whether you have kids in school or not!
When the Left took over the educational system, their overriding goal was to turn the nations children into anti-capitalism socialists. They have been very successful. Education was secondary to indoctrination. As each generation grows up and teaches the next generation, they become more extreme in their anti-conservative teaching, and less interested in teaching basic educational skills. The Left is ok with that.
The only way for outcomes of K-12 to be equal is for everyone to be equally stupid.
This was the fatal flaw of Kennedy/Bush ‘No Child Left Behind’ which had the ultimate goal of having every kid reach ‘proficiency’. And they meant every kid. Rich, poor, native Spanish speaker, special ed kids—every single kid. It was absurd. The only ways to meet the standard was to either cheat, or lower the standard to an absurd level. Both methods were used.
Common Core goes on the assumption that the problem with the schools is that teachers just aren’t teaching the right stuff the right way. If only they would that, then every child would be able achieve success in school. But of course the idea is based on a lie—that we are all blessed with the same abilities.
Everyone knows that there are some people who are brilliant, some who are average when it comes to smarts and some who are really, really dumb. Educators are not allowed to acknowledge this. If the whole educational establishment is based on an absurdity, why is anyone surprised that it is not actually working?
Baltimore and other demonrat strongholds have graduates who can’t pass 2nd grade reading and math. Everywhere else also teaches to the lowest common denominator. We have relatives in East Texas who have put their kids in private school this year because their public school wasn’t teaching history before the almighty Clintons.
“There is very little the Federal Government is going to do about education. Education is a state and local issue. Shoveling money at it from DC is not going work.”
I guess I’m misunderstood. To clarify:
The fed gov has injected much into ed (Title IX, NCLB, Common Core, etc.) that has NOT been beneficial.
I’m for ENDING money from DC, and the strings attached (formal quid pro quo). Fed now provides 8% of ed funding, with a lot of strings attached.
That’s nothing. Uber lib Austin, TX schools just instituted new sex ed curriculum to include teaching oral and anal sex to little 3rd grade elementary kids.
https://texasscorecard.com/local/austins-school-district-approves-high-risk-sex-ed-curriculum/ “The district’s new curriculum includes role-playing scenarios for children that involve anal and oral sex and features a situation where an underage girl has a sexual relationship with a 17-year old that she hides from her parents.”
“Think your School Board Elections are “non-partisan”?“
Oh hell no! It’s unionists and D’rats vs. conservatives and Christians (nose-holding R’s).
NCLB was during Bush, and got mangled by the House, lefticized.
Common Core was in 2010, during The One.
They get free days to go protest aka sit home and play video games, do drugs or have sex while their parent/s are at work. Leander and Round Rock, TX schools were petitioning to get today off because the kids would be soooo tired after trick or treating and eating too much candy. Any excuse not to learn.
2009/10 was when our TX school district suddenly had a huge influx of illegals. Who was POTUS then?
“Leander and Round Rock, TX schools were petitioning to get today off because the kids would be soooo tired after trick or treating and eating too much candy. Any excuse not to learn.”
Rather, any opportunity for teachers not to teach.
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