I'll second the notion that the schools are broken. The school is a system, and the heart of the system is the people. Administrators and teachers. That is what is broken beyond repair. They are by and large is not very smart. They do not by and large share the values of the people who put public education in place. They are owned by the…
I'll second the notion that the schools are broken. The school is a system, and the heart of the system is the people. Administrators and teachers. That is what is broken beyond repair. They are by and large is not very smart. They do not by and large share the values of the people who put public education in place. They are owned by the Democrat party.
This is true of the Department of Education, the state education associations, every College of Education of which I am aware, and a great number of local school boards and parent-teacher associations. Public and most private as well - see the Brearley brouhaha. Get rid of it all.
I write this as a former parent of private and public school children, trustee of elite private schools, substitute teacher and classroom teacher in Washington area private and public schools, And sometime student of the University of Maryland College of Education.
It cannot be fixed. I do not trust most parents to handle home schooling. I think the best of bad alternatives is school choice among tuition charging institutions, with government money going toward that tuition. Any system will be corrupt – this says the possibility of being somewhat less so.
I write this as the parent a second family of three young children in a country with a fairly honest system of education, Ukraine, where I have nonetheless decided to homeschool.
It’s not just the teacher’s unions, but most professional associations. I finally dropped membership to my professional association when they were censoring any dissenting opinion other than ‘v@x for all.’ My New Years Resolution is a pure focus on conscientious consumerism and any company that actively is against what I stand for gets the 🥾
I'll second the notion that the schools are broken. The school is a system, and the heart of the system is the people. Administrators and teachers. That is what is broken beyond repair. They are by and large is not very smart. They do not by and large share the values of the people who put public education in place. They are owned by the Democrat party.
This is true of the Department of Education, the state education associations, every College of Education of which I am aware, and a great number of local school boards and parent-teacher associations. Public and most private as well - see the Brearley brouhaha. Get rid of it all.
I write this as a former parent of private and public school children, trustee of elite private schools, substitute teacher and classroom teacher in Washington area private and public schools, And sometime student of the University of Maryland College of Education.
It cannot be fixed. I do not trust most parents to handle home schooling. I think the best of bad alternatives is school choice among tuition charging institutions, with government money going toward that tuition. Any system will be corrupt – this says the possibility of being somewhat less so.
I write this as the parent a second family of three young children in a country with a fairly honest system of education, Ukraine, where I have nonetheless decided to homeschool.
It’s not just the teacher’s unions, but most professional associations. I finally dropped membership to my professional association when they were censoring any dissenting opinion other than ‘v@x for all.’ My New Years Resolution is a pure focus on conscientious consumerism and any company that actively is against what I stand for gets the 🥾