EdwardBaiamonte
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April 19, 2017
Go to Bad Schools, Go to Prison: The Teacher Union's Dirty Little Secret
By R. Claire Friend
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A study released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that there is a six- to eight-fold increase in the high school dropout rate among students who fail to achieve proficiency by the third grade. Recent large studies have compared dropout rates and incarceration.
Robert Balfanz at Johns Hopkins University found that 80-90% of students who do not achieve literacy in the third grade fail to graduate high school on time and face a fourfold risk of jail or prison.
Another study by Dr. Andrew Sum at Northeastern University reported by the New York Times noted a 63% higher rate of incarceration among school dropouts. One in 10 young male high school dropouts is in jail or a juvenile detention facility compared to 1 in 35 young males high school graduates.
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It is imperative that every avenue to improve the public education be pursued, from overhauling existing union policies regarding training and tenure of teachers to promoting vouchers, charter schools, Education Saving Accounts, home schooling and online courses as well as developing innovative new teaching strategies.
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Newsflash: Good students graduate and get jobs. Morons drop out and usually go to jail!
Nothing to see here. This just repeats something that everyone has known forever.
PS: There are very few bad schools. They are just lots and lots of buildings filled with bad students.
I had 18 students fail this year. About 15 missed a couple of months of school.
Now you know what everybody wants to change, with an attitude as yours that's why it's hard to do. Maybe we need to get rid of teachers like you...Nothing to see here. This just repeats something that everyone has known forever.
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So why can't you tell me why I am wrong? Are you so ignorant of the school systems that you cannot even put your finger on how you can disprove my points? Your statements are pure bullshit!
The teacher's unions have no control on whether kids even bother to show up for class, pay attention, do their assignments and actually learn something.
If I have such an attitude, why do you blame the union? I am not a union member and have not been for almost 10 years. They have no input on my teaching anyway.
Why can't you see that your scapegoat is the unions, but they are not responsible for anything you find wrong with schools?
You are simply another education critic who obviously failed at learning anything about the process of education, despite the fact that you probably have some diplomas. All you do is repeat the lies that many conservatives have heard over the years and internalize them as fact, when nothing could be further from the truth!
Since you education apparently did not take, it is a miracle that you haven't been locked up yet!
unions are for teachers not students so should be illegal. They are at the heart of our educational problem.