You're still not addressing the central problem with private schools. What happens to the kids they kick out? It's easy to point to success when you don't have to worry about keeping marginal students in school.
A company can fail because it can simply dissolve and go away. A person cannot. They will still exist. So what do you do with them after? Why is it appropriate to dumb down our school systems and be ok with our children failing?
You literally just said these kids should no longer be guaranteed a minimal level of education, but instead be given basic job skills and nothing more. What else would you call that but dumbing them down?
I have tons of respect for blue collar guys. I am a blue collar guy. I come from a family of blue collar guys. But to tell some kid in high school that he is no longer deserving of a full education because somehow you think you can make the determination, by the time he is 16, that all he will amount to is dry-walling is beyond stupid.
The same thing these kids do when they drop out or get done without ACTUALLY learning anything because they chose not to. I am tired of teaching to the low instead of challenging the high. So many kids have zero desire to be educated. They are in school because the law says they have to be. They spend so much of their time disrupting the learning environment for the other 80% of the kids who want to learn. This isn't every school, but these behaviors are prevalent in many larger city middle and high schools.
No. I'm a teacher and the only reason I am in the union is because I coach girls. As soon as I am done coaching I am out. This latest contract vote, when they encouraged us to give up rights our school district has been dying to take from us for years, they lost me. The union does nothing for us now.
It's amazing that the right still cling's to the teachers's union.
I hear you. I think the same way he does but believe if a kid shows he or she want to head back to the college prep path they should be able to. I don't want to pigeon hole kids, but when they are showing no desire to learn the tools they need to get to college, and until they do, they can go to a trade/vocational/whatever you want to call it school.
I don't have the answer and I have been in education for 17 years. But letting kids ruin the learning environment for others who want to learn isn't working for our larger public school systems. Sending these kids to a different type of public school - for kids who don't want to go to college perhaps. I have been in buildings where the kids who want to learn become so frustrated because teachers are constantly dealing with behaviors from kids who are just there because they have to be. So many schools are out of control because of student behavior and the adults don't have much power...and the kids know it.
I would probably think they would have to get an associate degree first from a JUCO. Not 100% sure. Maybe a college prep school for a year to get the tools they need to get a 4 year degree. You are talking to someone who isn't a big math guy. Meaning, I think they push so much math on students at the high school level. In my opinion, the majority of us don't use algebra, calculus, advanced geometry. Most of us use functional math skills. Now if a kid decides he/she wants to get into engineering after they left college prep...well, then we may have a problem!
This figure, although mostly true, explains very little as far as public education goes. It's like saying "cars have windshields"......
How long do you think that will last after the government makes your private school the default public option?
Math skills are so much more than just adding numbers up, it actually has to deal with problem solving skills.I would probably think they would have to get an associate degree first from a JUCO. Not 100% sure. Maybe a college prep school for a year to get the tools they need to get a 4 year degree. You are talking to someone who isn't a big math guy. Meaning, I think they push so much math on students at the high school level. In my opinion, the majority of us don't use algebra, calculus, advanced geometry. Most of us use functional math skills. Now if a kid decides he/she wants to get into engineering after they left college prep...well, then we may have a problem!
Have we cut funding? I think we just shifted it all to trying to educate the imbeciles. Private teachers aids to follow around each special ed kid needs to be rethought.
What does a blind woman in a dark closet mean? Sounds like it might neutralize her disability.
That can't be true. I hear stories where teachers sit around getting paid to eat government cheese and watch movies all day. You can't fool us.
