Education Secretary Linda McMahon announces mass layoffs at Dept. of Education - 50% of workforce

[hadit]

Pick just about any school in Mississippi, Arkansas or Louisiana.

Dare we delve into inner-city schools into which large sums of money are poured but which graduate far too many students who don't meet basic education requirements? Those areas have been poor and remain poor with dilapidated schools.

 

[hadit]

Exactly

Since Dept of Education is not doing the teaching, they can’t be blamed for poor results.

Are they returning measurable positive results?

 

[rightwinger]

Are they returning measurable positive results?

Yes
Many, many students graduate with grants and loans
Students with learning disabilities receive extra help
Poor communities receive grants to spend on books, teachers and new schools

 

[Slade3200]

What does this “returning power to the states” line actually mean?

OhPleaseJustQuit how is my question fake news?! Haha

 

[Mashmont]

Before anyone asks, yes, this is what we voted for.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that mass layoffs—nearly 50 percent—are just a first step toward eliminating the Department of Education and returning power to the states and the parents.

Linda McMahon: Mass Layoffs at Education Department Are Just the First Step to Returning Power to Parents

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that mass layoffs—nearly 50 percent—are just a first step tow

redstate.com

Love this. Let's abolish it completely.

 

[Mashmont]

Yes
Many, many students graduate with grants and loans
Students with learning disabilities receive extra help
Poor communities receive grants to spend on books, teachers and new schools

Student loans should be private like they were prior to Monkey Boy.

 

[Hollie]

Republicans are threatened by education

You’re threatened by elimination of your tranny story hour.

 

[Curried Goats]

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The school district I live in, and to which I pay the greater bulk of my property taxes, does an incredible job of educating children.

There's a movement in local high schools to squash the gender lies.

My money well spent.


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So it stunts your children for higher education?

 

[rightwinger]

You’re threatened by elimination of your tranny story hour.

Trannies are Skeery

 

[jc456]

Another disaster by Jimmy Carter.

it was created for the teacher union for their support in his victory.

 

[rightwinger]

it was created for the teacher union for their support in his victory.

How does the Department of Education help unions?

There are no laws requiring unions

 

[Frankenstein]

Not their job Skippy
That is up to local and state governments

So you agree that the federal department of education should be done away with

 

[Hollie]

Trannies are Skeery

Your fondness for portly old men dressing as outrageous caricatures of women is skeery creepy.

 

[jc456]

You’re threatened by elimination of your tranny story hour.

Hollie, take a listen to this demofk admit they don't do jack shit but we must expand the do nothing department. Can't make this shit up on just how obvious they admit their failures and stand proud. Truly, I don't understand demofks stupid.

Go to 6:45

 

[Frankenstein]

Trannies are Skeery

Only because of their mental illness, which could manifest itself as violence like shooting things up!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Because that was a bad standard, and it wasn't designed to be a "minimum" one.

Common core took how the smarter kids think and tried to impress it upon everyone. That's why it was a mess.

It was a standard and was in fact, the minimum. It was a list of what kids needed to know in math and language arts. It was not a mess except where school districts went out and bought commercial products that "aligned" with Common Core standards and that is where the problem was. That was at the state and local level and was never mandated or even encouraged by the federal government. The same standards still exist to this day under a different name, because that is how states got around the hatred.

Respectfully, your opinion is obviously media driven. You said, "how the smarter kids think". That is not a standard. That's pedagogy. A standard tells you what a kid will know and be able to do. When asked to give a standard they would change, critics were never able to provide anything specific that was problematic. Many states just adopted the same set of standards under a different name and kept 99% of the actual standards intact and even used the same numbering system.

Unless you were a teacher working with it every day, you really cannot see the whole truth. There was really nothing wrong with Common Core itself, but how the education industry packed their commercial curriculums in order to try and help students meet them. That was the true disaster. They sold snake oil.

 

[martybegan]

It was a standard and was in fact, the minimum. It was a list of what kids needed to know in math and language arts. It was not a mess except where school districts went out and bought commercial products that "aligned" with Common Core standards and that is where the problem was. That was at the state and local level and was never mandated or even encouraged by the federal government. The same standards still exist to this day under a different name, because that is how states got around the hatred.

Respectfully, your opinion is obviously media driven. You said, "how the smarter kids think". That is not a standard. That's pedagogy. A standard tells you what a kid will know and be able to do. When asked to give a standard they would change, critics were never able to provide anything specific that was problematic. Many states just adopted the same set of standards under a different name and kept 99% of the actual standards intact and even used the same numbering system.

Unless you were a teacher working with it every day, you really cannot see the whole truth. There was really nothing wrong with Common Core itself, but how the education industry packed their commercial curriculums in order to try and help students meet them. That was the true disaster. They sold snake oil.

They gave up phonics, they gave up multiplication tables, they went with strategies that confused both students and parents unless they had masters degrees.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The truth is there needs to be some metric to evaluate things. I know it's more difficult to quantify than say my job, where we build something correctly and on time, or we don't and get our asses kicked.

But the reflexive "NOPE" given by the teacher's unions every time someone brings it up isn't exactly a good visual.

What reflexive "NOPE"? I had evaluation metrics that measured what I did as a teacher and everyone was fine with that. The old saying with regard to evaluations, would you measure your dentist's abilities on how many cavities his patients have?

The thing that teachers and unions oppose is saying, well you class didn't achieve metric A and B on their standardized tests and you failed to make them do that, so you are obviously a bad teacher and need more training, although you have been doing the same thing for 10 years with good results. Another year of their preforming poorly, and you will be fired. That shit doesn't fly when you cannot control their home life.

 

[marvin martian]

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Yup, Trump cleaned house on your fellow Russian spies in November! Back to Moscow with the lot of you!

 

[martybegan]

What reflexive "NOPE"? I had evaluation metrics that measured what I did as a teacher and everyone was fine with that. The old saying with regard to evaluations, would you measure your dentist's abilities on how many cavities his patients have?

The thing that teachers and unions oppose is saying, well you class didn't achieve metric A and B on their standardized tests and you failed to make them do that, so you are obviously a bad teacher and need more training, although you have been doing the same thing for 10 years with good results. Another year of their preforming poorly, and you will be fired. That shit doesn't fly when you cannot control their home life.

So only made up metrics and not results oriented ones can be applied?

And you wonder why people who also have things they can't control in their job complain about teachers getting off easy.

My job has one simple rule, "It may not be your fault, but it's still your problem"