Posted on 02/17/2018 9:36:14 AM PST by rktman
Once upon a time, American schools were something to be proud of, with high expectations and students who – by some accounts – graduated high school with what is now the equivalent of two years of college under their belts. Most schools were under local control and were highly responsive to parents.
Today all that has changed. We rank 36th on the world stage. Despite spending on average $12,000 per student per year, public education has become a joke.
Why? There are endless reasons, but I’ll give two.
One, public education does not permit competition among schools. Journalist and columnist John Stossel has demonstrated over and over that public education is not only a monolithic monopoly, but it actively discourages innovative teachers or schools. Whenever shining examples (charter schools or successful teachers in low-income areas) wrest success from failure, the educational establishment knocks them down. It’s a classic “crabs in a bucket” metaphor, which Urban Dictionary defines as “a person (or subculture) that does everything in its power to destroy the ambitions of those among them who wish to improve themselves.” Wikipedia additionally describes the metaphor as “Individually, the crabs in the story could easily escape from the bucket, but instead they are described as grabbing at each other in a useless ‘king of the hill’ competition which prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise.”
“Why do they hate you?” Stossel asked New York City’s Success Academy charter school founder Eva Moskowitz.
“What we prove is that there’s nothing wrong with the children,” she replied. “There is something wrong with a system, a monopolistic system that is not allowing kids to succeed.”
See? Crabs in a bucket.
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Recently viewed a youtube video of some German girls who where in Wisconsin in an exchange program.
A shared comment was how easy school was compared to Germany.
Draw your own conclusions.
Increasing bureaucratic and political control over schools will lead to more failure - bad education, disaffected students, and yes, violence.
Remember when getting below 70% was failing? What is it now? Or is there no failing these day. I kinda looks like it. Critical thinking skills? What’s that?
There’s another reason for school mediocrity that nobody is talking about. This factor is in the air thick as molasses, but we are not discussing it.
Attorneys.
School officials and teachers are shoved into a narrow path which keeps them from dealing with problem kids, teaching uncomfortable truths, saying anything politically incorrect, going off curriculum to share wisdom, or taking any kind of risks. The possibility of legal action hangs on their every word and action.
Try walking into a high school or junior high and interacting with adult employees. They look careful, cautious, tentative, and will not take the initiative to find a solution for a question. They will say they don’t know, and will refer to someone else.
Attorneys are the new ubiquitous soviet political officers who keep everyone looking over their shoulders.
Libs are driven solely by the power to control. Results are irrelevant. Like Stalin’s collective farms where, when everything operated as planned, output crashed and peoplr starved.
When the government decided American education system needed “guidance” they created the Department of Education and now students sorta get the somewhat best edukaton in the wurld.
The Germans for the most part have had the good fortune of having a homogenous society. They seem intent on changing that. They’ll soon leap from high standards to no standards if current trends continue.
Why learn how to think for yourself when they can teach you what to think?
Remember when getting below 70% was failing?
“Recently...some German girls who were in Wisconsin in an exchange program. A shared comments was how easy school was compared to Germany.”
I found that to be true also (I was from Scotland). However, even though school was much easier, in 1950’s High Schools there was vocational training...I got a 2 yr. college course my last two year’s of H.S. taught in the H.S. and got a professional businesswoman’s certificate (same as the 2 yr college students were tested for to receive the same certificate) right out of high school. I so wish High Schools would offer vocational training...let people who have little hope of attending college graduate with some marketable skills.
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Give parents who homeschool or send their daughters and sons to private schools that $12,000 each year as a refundable tax credit.
Anyone know how much of that $12,000 per student is spent on buses and associated costs?
The lack of VoTech is a crime - they funnel everyone into college whether they should be there or not, and keep the tuition hike/student loan scam going full speed.
(11/18/56-USSR/Khrushchev-)“We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S.-We will destroy you from within...”
The core element is present.:(Islam: Indoctrination or Education? A Timeline)
The links above are just a drop in the bucket...suffice it to say Islam is upon us; liberty and freedom unless we Americans rise up and stop it being taught in our schools....proselytizing any religion in American public school is criminal...tampering with the Islamic message in our text books should also be criminal.
Just complain about Islam/Muslims in this country and the bleating starts from Islamic activists that we are mistaken blah, blah, blah....(Muslim leader urges Macron not to meddle too much in French Islam).
Islam does not recognize other religions; Jews are being threatened mightily in France today....
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
England, Sweden....now France..........
The purpose of public schools is to destroy the value system the kid received from his parents, family, and church. It is to eliminate all influence Christianity has on the kid, and to turn the kid into a materialistic atheist, loyal to the State.
And, it seems to be doing a good job of that.
Lawyers and their evil works are so "everywhere" that they influence every interaction with people...in all walks of life.
Can't say the truth to anyone anymore.
Can't make a point unless it's the PC one.Can't correct someone who's acting like an idiot in public.
Over time, it turns the USA into East Germany.
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