Posted on 05/02/2018 5:55:14 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Jersey City Education Association slogan on their Building?
“First in Quality Education”
Do the best test score cities have such a slogan?
Georgia has something called the, Hope Scholarship. If a kid graduates with a, 3.0 or better, they get their tuition paid for, at state schools. The money comes from the lottery. Kid has to maintain a 3.0 or better to keep the money flowing. Well, at some point the bean counters realized that more money was going out than coming in. More kids getting into and going to college, right? Lots of smart kids coming out of Georgia high schools, right? Well, it would appear, not so much.
How many kids, with high GPAs and Hope Scholarship money were in, Remedial Math and English classes at their institutions of higher learning? Thousands. How many kids lost their Hope Scholarships or washed out their first year, because they couldn’t to the work or keep the GPA up? Thousands. Now some of that may be from drinking too much, sure. But, most of it was not being able to do the work.
It seems that high school teachers, in order to give kids a chance, were stroking them grades, knowing that they couldn’t solve: 2x=6, find x, and passed them off to the next level.
Add to that, the fact that they rely on Smartphones and tablets for everything and people wonder why they have trouble with the basics.
In our school district (2nd largest in Oregon) we are told that about 75% live under the “poverty level”....which means they are not counting all the social services received, ie, health care, food, free meals at school, etc. Right now we have a Bond to be voted on for about $550 Million, and a bienniel budget is also being reviewed for about $765Million...
“If you’re going 80 miles per hour, how long does it take to go 80 miles?” And the youts are clueless: “6 hours?” “10 minutes?” “OMG, what?”
Just wow. Those young adults are glaring examples of never being taught basic reasoning or logical thinking.
I bet they unquestioningly support Bernie Sanders and young Mr. Hogg.
God help America.
Come on, at least they are proficient in condoms, fisting, identification of several genders, weed, drinking, hating the Constitution, and protests.
Because teachers and parents flood to the polls so their kid gets more taxpayer dollars redistributed to them. I think if you do not have children in schools then your school tax bill should be discounted 50%, AS PARENTS PAY A HIGHER LOAD THEN PERHAPS WE CAN STOP THE MADNESS.
Those young adults are glaring examples public education.......................
Don't forget opiod abuse.
Does the source have data on ethnicity in each area, and/or, total school-age population versus those in Public Schools? Policy analysts might gain insight therefrom. My guess is that unionized Public Schools have a disparate negative impact on “minority” children (though “minority” children are likely in the vast majority in the failing jurisdictions).
Pikers...see my post 23
I bet they’re glaring examples of a fatherless (and so, logic-less) upbringing as well.
When politics and unions collude to bilk the taxpayers the children get hurt.
“Come on, at least they are proficient in condoms, fisting, identification of several genders, weed, drinking, hating the Constitution, and protests.“
You forgot Tide Pods.
I am wondering if like NASA and NOA with climate data, the Dep of Ed program fudged the numbers for prior years.
Why? Their data shows the assessment results back to 1990, and nearly the whole history from the then to now shows improvement; which given the existing poor state of affairs is even more damning - that conditions before were not just low but appalling. That just seems so unlikely to me - how appalling low the results back to 1990 were.
College educated Marxists hellbent on revolution.... imparting their polit6bias as a substitute for public education.
They’ll make good Morlocks.
Guess what’s for dinner...
The answer to this is always more money.
Meanwhile, my homeschooled 7th grader is in Algebra II, just finished reading David Copperfield, and wrote a 7 page paper on D-Day. And my acquaintances constantly ask me how he will ever get into college if he doesn’t go to school.
What this country needs is a FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. That will make things right!!!
I’d love to see stats on what it looked like before we let the feds mess up the system in 1979. We all know what the motive was behind it..and it wasn’t THIS:
“”The Department of Education regulates exactly what, when and how children are being educated within the public school system. It is immensly important so to secure the integrity and promising future for the next generation who will become leaders, buisnessmen and influential people.””
Don’t you just love the “influential people” portion of that???
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