Posted on 12/04/2019 3:50:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Conservatives are smart enough to know that the system is “gamed”. Look at the distribution of liberal to conservative teachers (I’ve seen the ratio placed as high as 12-1). Who picks what teachers will be hired to fill openings?
The system is too broken to be fixed. The only workable solution is to give fed, state and local funding directly to the parents of students at all levels and to let them pick and pay for school that they want their child to attend (including home schooling).
True competition will drive reform and improvement.
College professors do not belong to teachers’ unions, which are for k-12 teachers only. And I haven’t heard about any college profs walking off the job. Might help to read the title “Fraud in *Higher* Education”.
The government grants and loans are the economic base of the scam. Without that, college applications would collapse and colleges would have to shape up in order to survive.
I read the headline and I also read the article. Most of the kids being accepted have to take remedial classes.......because of the FAILURE of the K-12 teachers who are members of unions. They don’t teach critical thinking.
I agree that most all the focus has been on the parents’ arrests and court proceedings. I’ve heard little or nothing about the college/university officials providing the services. It seems to me their actions are much more serious. Weren’t they personally profiting from the selling of college admission access? Isn’t this similar to drug users and drug dealers in the court system? Aren’t the dealers dealt with more seriously? While here we see nothing happening with sellers (college officials)
Am I missing something?
REally?
My experience was "here's the material; you learn it. I'm going on sabbatical."
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Oh, but they do, have for years. From the AAUP-CBC site:
Consistent with its articulation and defense of professional standards, the AAUP formed the Collective Bargaining Congress (AAUP-CBC) in 1976 to help organize and strengthen the efforts of AAUP collective bargaining chapters throughout the nation. Since then, collective bargaining chapters of the AAUP have developed a distinctive kind of unionism that responds to the missions of American colleges and universities.You see?
GI bill is not student aid. It is payment back to you for the time and sacrifices you made to serve your country.
Exactly correct. And that is why there should be no government student aid.
I would never consider the GI Bill as “aid”, it was an earned benefit. “Aid” goes to people who couldn’t or wouldn’t earn it.
That's a lame excuse to avoid even trying. I got hired in LOS ANGELES and I am conservative. I give the kids articles from Breitbart to read. I teach no left wing crap at all. I was on FR 6 years before I even became a teacher. And I'm former military and it was in my resume, so they knew who they were getting. No, this lame, sorry, crying "they're too much for us" BS is not flying with me.
PING!
Thanks for clarifying that; it wasn’t apparent in your original post.
and a TREMENDOUS cut back in the NON-student kind as well!
Right. But the problem is cultural We now have a culture of watching film, video, TV, and the ever-present phones. No one reads or reads to kids.
It’s a vast medium change and we have lost the enormous power of the printed word, which can be absorbed at one’s own pace and reread if necessary.
That is a crazy reply.
Kinda like Fahrenheit 451 without the flames
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