Good News For School Choice

[Revoltingest]

We've got a real mess down here and it's utterly hopeless....Republicans hate children and education. It's no wonder that we're almost dead last in the union and our own universities don't want to accept Texas public high school graduates because they have to take remedial classes in everything, even with advanced diplomas and good grades. The management of our education system on the state level is criminal and the people responsible for it should be executed.

Stop mincing words, & say what you really think.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Stop mincing words, & say what you really think.

OK. First, all of their properties and assets should be seized by the state. Then, their entire family should be killed in frount of them, their eyes torn out so it's the last thing that they see, and they should then be tossed naked into the street.

There's no consequenses at all these days for wicked and corrupt politicians. Do that to the Texas Board of Education and the gov Rick Perry and I promise the next class will behave themselves just a little bit better.

The contempt they show for children and the future of Texas is dispicable, and they should be treated with the same contempt.

Last year the federal government gave Texas $3bil dollars for education. Perry said he'd refuse it, so he took $3bil out of the Texas education budget and replaced it with the $3bil federal money and used the $3bil Texas money that was budgeted for education for pet projects that benefited his political buddies. Turns out Texas was $3bil short last year and had to fire thousands of teachers and make painful budget cuts.

The Texas School Board is a laughingstock full of Perry's croonies. They're so stupid it's hard to know where to start... their history book fiasco last year made national news. They think that advice from Texas universities and educators are the enemy rather than valuable council - mainly because the Board is made up of uneducated businessmen and politicians who have no business at all being anywhere near issues related to education.

 

[Revoltingest]

And on top of all that, your state is full of fire ants, killer bees, tornadoes & terrible snowboarding.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

We have a plethora of schools. So perhaps instead of 10 public elementary schools, it might 7 or 8....still a whole lotta choice.

Here in Indiana, we have schools that are so over crowded as is that there have been incidents in which students have had to share a desk until more could be ordered. The public schools here are in ruin, and rather than fix what most students will go through, they through a few private school vouchers out and call it education reform.
And what good will come when these private school graduates must take remedial science and history classes, because they were taught the earth is 6,000 years old, everything was created as is, and Alexander the Great prepared the world for Jesus' birth by unifying it (that is seriously what I was taught during my few years in a private/home school setting)? What good will it do, when the vast majority students are still stuck in a school that can barely afford to feed them?

 

[angellous_evangellous]

And on top of all that, your state is full of fire ants, killer bees, tornadoes & terrible snowboarding.

Fire ants would be a bad way to go.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

And how can this be justified, sending a few kids to private schools while neglecting public schools, when the state is projected to have a $1 billion dollar surplus? Millions could easily be pumped into education, which good education attracts better jobs, and an even better education attracts even better employers.
So again, how is it justifiable?

 

[Mercy Not Sacrifice]

Instead of conducting a social experiment known as "vouchers" on our children, we could learn a lesson from someone who had prior educational troubles and fixed them:

Education Success: Finland vs. Tiger Mother, Asia Model - TIME

 

[Seabear]

Teachers should be paid like gods and scrutinized like criminals. If a teacher can teach well then pay them well so they enjoy their job and so they can raise the quality of their teaching but if the cant teach then fire them. Education and science should be held higher then anything else.

 

[Revoltingest]

Instead of conducting a social experiment known as "vouchers" on our children, we could learn a lesson from someone who had prior educational troubles and fixed them:
Education Success: Finland vs. Tiger Mother, Asia Model - TIME

"Social experiment"? Sounds like just more of the typical demonization by you right wingers.
Note that Findland was trying a social experiment too. But it is a different place, & doesn't
have all the answers for us. Experimenting is useful.

Teachers should be paid like gods and scrutinized like criminals.

We don't pay gods anything....that's not enuf.

 

[Seabear]

We don't pay gods anything....that's not enuf.

You know what I meant.....

 

[Revoltingest]

You know what I meant.....

That won't stop me from being a pedantic smart arse about it though.

 

[Seabear]

That won't stop me from being a pedantic smart arse about it though.

Fair enough.

 

[Mercy Not Sacrifice]

Teachers should be paid like gods and scrutinized like criminals. If a teacher can teach well then pay them well so they enjoy their job and so they can raise the quality of their teaching but if the cant teach then fire them. Education and science should be held higher then anything else.

Why is it only the teachers that should be held accountable? What about administration? Or the parents? Or--gasp!--the students? And what about the support staff? The counselors? Hell, even the lunch ladies? Are you assuming that the teachers are the only ones who need to be raked over the coals? Because in practice, that's what happens: Teachers are paid like manual laborers and scrutinized like criminals.

If America really wants good educators, then they should stop asking for better teachers and start asking for better teaching. Stop criticizing them and start supporting them. Pay them what they are worth. Give them the tools they need to succeed. And above all, LISTEN to them. So much could be accomplished if we LISTENED to the true experts of education, the ones who are on the front lines every day. Let THEM explain what the true struggles of education are and how we can alleviate them. And stop letting the Michelle Rhee's and Rod Paige's dominate these discussions with their worthless crap!