American Public Education is Failing...and Getting Worse Every Year

[Unkotare]

... the people in the System don't know what the hell they are doing, as demonstrated by the results.

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People get sick all the time. I guess that "proves" that doctors don't know what the hell they're doing.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

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I apologize for the length of this article, but it is a good explanation of how bad our public education is, when it started its latest decline (don't blame Covid - that's just a lame excuse), and how pervasive it is.

In other forums you can read about how aggressive other countries are with their public education, their successes, what they expect of their students, and the contrast with our system, where more people care about the record of the school's ******* football team than their test scores.

Who and/or what are to blame? Teachers' unions are at the top of the list; no significant changes can be made unless they benefit the teachers, which makes real change a non-starter. Government employment in general, where the goal is always to make yourself (i.e., the school administration) look good. Two-income households, where the parents can't be bothered to play an active role in their children's education. The cornucopia of extra-curricular activities that take the focus away from learning. Cultural rot, especially in the Black and Hispanic communities.

Colleges are part of the problem as well, as they keep lowering their standards to accept marginally-educated HS grads, which carries through with their course and major offerings, and produces a generation of ignorant people with sheepskins that are close to worthless.

There are some schools that do well, but in many cases, the parents are delusional about how well they are doing. The best public schools are in the suburbs, where the only "diversity" is an influx of Chinese and/or Indian professionals. But if you cannot afford to live in one of those posh suburbs, the best solution, if at all possible, is to send your kids to a private or parochial school - maybe a Charter School if a good one is available.

And one cannot fail to mention that great, involved parents can produce great students in almost any school (district).

For everyone else, get your kids out of regular public schools, before it is too late.

We need more gay left leaning feminists with nose rings and colored hair in education ....

 

[Unkotare]

We need more gay left leaning feminists with nose rings and colored hair in education ....

Be careful. You're gonna frighten brokeloser.

 

[initforme]

We both know that it would never be permitted.

Nor should it be unless one has taken the time to earn their teaching lucense.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Nor should it be unless one has taken the time to earn their teaching lucense.

Oh, the irony...

 

[Hafar1014]

That's better. You could have just said red school districts, which are the vast majority.

Education outcomes are most effected by having two parents. Second educated parents. Also private schools. The worst are democrat urban school systems

 

[Lockback]

Education outcomes are most effected by having two parents. Second educated parents. Also private schools. The worst are democrat urban school systems

All of those are FACTS. Read 'em and weep, Democrats ... if you can read.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Education outcomes are most effected by having two parents. Second educated parents. Also private schools. The worst are democrat urban school systems

Now you are getting it!

 

[initforme]

All of those are FACTS. Read 'em and weep, Democrats ... if you can read.

So only one party has single parent households? Next will come the "people arent having enough kids" rhetoric. And then onto blaming feminism...

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

So only one party has single parent households? Next will come the "people arent having enough kids" rhetoric. And then onto blaming feminism...

I can tell you that the Democrats own the most single-parent households and virtually all of the no-parents living with grandma/auntie/older sister households.

 

[Hafar1014]

So only one party has single parent households? Next will come the "people arent having enough kids" rhetoric. And then onto blaming feminism...

Blacks have the largest rate 73% no father. Democrats advocate single mothers as normal. They just marry the state they dont need a man. The cause is the welfare state that destroyed the black family. Hillary ran on single other issue and made film called Julia. Remember it takes village. Well the village raises village idiots.

 

[Hafar1014]

I can tell you that the Democrats own the most single-parent households and virtually all of the no-parents living with grandma/auntie/older sister households.

The welfare state destroyed the father in the poor family

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The welfare state destroyed the father in the poor family

Drugs and crime helped a lot in the minority communities. I had several students in my inner-city middle school whose parents were both in prison on drug charges or other crimes.

 

[Unkotare]

Education outcomes are most effected by having two parents. Second educated parents. Also private schools. The worst are democrat urban school systems

Schools aren't political parties. Unions maybe.

 

[Hafar1014]

Schools aren't political parties. Unions maybe.

Unions are democrats

 

[IM2]

If we funded public schools with the money we spend on the military, this conversation would not be taking place. Right-wingers can stop with this nonsense because funding private schools is not the answer, nor are vouchers.

 

[Hafar1014]

If we funded public schools with the money we spend on the military, this conversation would not be taking place. Right-wingers can stop with this nonsense because funding private schools is not the answer, nor are vouchers.

The more we spend the worse they got. Private schools or what we call freedom of choice is the answer. 80% of the funds are teachers pay and benefits.

 

[IM2]

Drugs and crime helped a lot in the minority communities. I had several students in my inner-city middle school whose parents were both in prison on drug charges or other crimes.

Drugs and crime are in the suburbs. And in larger amounts and types.

 

[Hafar1014]

Drugs and crime are in the suburbs. And in larger amounts and types.

Thats because inner city blacks go there
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[IM2]

The more we spend the worse they got. Private schools or what we call freedom of choice is the answer. 80% of the funds are teachers pay and benefits.

That's a lie. Private schools are not the answer. Once private schools are overcrowded, you are going to see the same problems. Next year, we will have a trillion-dollar military budget, but we are trying to cut education. We have the best military on earth because we spare no expense to kill people, but we limit what we spend to educate people. That's stupid. If we turned that around, we would have the best education system in the world.