Salt Jones
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I'm for the Dept of Ed. They are the only thing keeping Arizona form having the worse schools in the nation.
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The current crop of repub POTUS candidates including Cain want to see the DOE to be combusted, like "Down the Freakin Road"(DFR). Do you support the idea of giving control of education back to the 50 individual states???
Libertarian minded congressman Ron Paul seems the most aggressive of the current repub candidates on touching off the DOE. Ron prefers to get all government at all levels out of education & going back to strictly private education(non tax funded). I've heard both the pros & cons on this topic from many concerned individuals including those that support home schooling & also the voucher system.
Should we keep the status quo or move on to strictly private education? Your input is appreciated!
Yes. I do. The DOE is a tremendous waste of money and has accomplished nothing but the continued degradation of education in this country.
I'm for the Dept of Ed. They are the only thing keeping Arizona form having the worse schools in the nation.
What is it the right expects to get out of school anyway? They think teachers are overpaid and don't teach anything worth learning. They think a college degree is "just a piece of paper". They don't like intellectuals. They think the occult can be part of science. Many get pregnant and drop out. I think they simply want to destroy another institution they know nothing about. Like what they've done with the economy.
What is it the right expects to get out of school anyway? They think teachers are overpaid and don't teach anything worth learning. They think a college degree is "just a piece of paper". They don't like intellectuals. They think the occult can be part of science. Many get pregnant and drop out. I think they simply want to destroy another institution they know nothing about. Like what they've done with the economy.
My neighbor is 45 years old, teaches high school and has a PHD in history.
She teaches 4 classes a day and is done at 1:30 pm.
She makes 90K a year plus benefits.
6 weeks of vacation during the school year, Sept. week break, Thanksgiving break, 2 weeks for Christmas break, February week break and spring week break.
6 weeks of vacation during the summer.
12 weeks of vacation every year.
With a benefit package to die for.
If that is not overpaid then what is?
No one said that they could not. Should there be no lower limit though, you would have situations where they would concentrate on specific areas of education at the demise of some basic educations. Minimum standards would not take the power away to individualize curriculums. It would limit the ability to individualize it to the point that it becomes a trade school rather than a basic education.Education that only pertains to regional needs is not a good answer. If you are in a county that only produces agriculture you should not be forced into an education system that caters to that particular field. We are not in a country where the state you reside in is the state that you are doomed to live in. Many people end up far from home and the education system should not be a block to your mobility. All public schools should teach each area to a minimum standard and if there are local needs then the particular school can and should raise the requirement in that subject. That does not negate the need for basic education all around.
I was not advocting the end of basic eduction but it makes no sense to me that a state that is heavily into industry no be able to concentrate on that area of education, not to the demise of basic skills.
No one said that they could not. Should there be no lower limit though, you would have situations where they would concentrate on specific areas of education at the demise of some basic educations. Minimum standards would not take the power away to individualize curriculums. It would limit the ability to individualize it to the point that it becomes a trade school rather than a basic education.I was not advocting the end of basic eduction but it makes no sense to me that a state that is heavily into industry no be able to concentrate on that area of education, not to the demise of basic skills.
And why cant states be trusted to determine the lower limit.