School Choice - It's Time

acesfull86 said:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-school-achievement-choice-money-student-florida-kansas-gap-11657316301?mod=opinion_major_pos17

Jeff Yass is spot on: It’s time to stop writing blank checks for failing public-school systems (“Money for Children, Not Schools,” op-ed, June 23). States with robust money-follow-the-child programs, such as Florida and Arizona, register achievement gains far exceeding the national average. Florida’s low-income fourth-graders went from 12% proficient in reading in 1998 to a nation-leading 28% proficient in 2019. That 133% improvement is more than double the national average, while here in Kansas proficiency declined.

Toni Jennings, a retired teacher and former lieutenant governor of Florida, says, “The more competition we had in education, the better off we became. So, I for one believe that competition is good. But you will hear those who say, ‘Oh no, you’re making the public schools compete with others.’ Well, those children are going to have to go out and compete with others in the workaday world.”

The 2021 ACT results show that 31% of white students are college-ready in English, reading, math and science, while only 14% of Hispanic students and 6% of black students met that standard. Achievement gaps are getting worse, and at least here in Kansas, school districts ignore state laws directing them to identify and address barriers to improvement in each school.

The public-school system needs a healthy dose of choice, transparency and accountability to give students a fighting chance to succeed in life.
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Isn't it telling that despite all this evidence, Dems would rather die than give up this control?
 
Mike Antonucci
@UnionReport74

By a vote of 3,103-1,084, NEA delegates committed the union to "publicly stand in defense of abortion and reproductive rights and encourage members to participate in... rallies and demonstrations, lobbying and political campaigns, educational events, and other actions..."

1:42 PM · Jul 6, 2022·Twitter Web App

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If they were as committed to teaching children how to read and do math, maybe our numbers wouldn’t be so bad…
 
acesfull86 said:
Mike Antonucci
@UnionReport74

By a vote of 3,103-1,084, NEA delegates committed the union to "publicly stand in defense of abortion and reproductive rights and encourage members to participate in... rallies and demonstrations, lobbying and political campaigns, educational events, and other actions..."

1:42 PM · Jul 6, 2022·Twitter Web App

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If they were as committed to teaching children how to read and do math, maybe our numbers wouldn’t be so bad…
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It's wild that our public schools are openly encouraging full blown political activism and the seals clap as if it's a good thing.

Trying to imagine a world where schools pushed protests for church or pro life. Would not gover well...
 
sturg33 said:
It's wild that our public schools are openly encouraging full blown political activism and the seals clap as if it's a good thing.

Trying to imagine a world where schools pushed protests for church or pro life. Would not gover well...
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If you want to be an activist, then leave and go be an activist.
 
Tapate50 said:
Starting to make a lot more sense of you have been paying attention
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Vicious cycle of eroding educational standards, more unqualified kids getting worthless high school diplomas, more government funding of college loans, more unqualified students going to college, said unqualified students struggling to do college level work, eroding of college educational standards due to hoards of unqualified students in classrooms, more students getting worthless college degrees (if they decide to finish), more adults struggling to repay student loan debt for the worthless college degree that they never earned.

The left's answers are (1) continue to erode standards because meritocracy is racist anyway, (2) put the burden of the student debt for the worthless degrees onto the taxpayer, (3) double down on ****ing the taxpayer by making college “free,” because it’s not like we have enough unqualified students already, (4) pour more money into education because that’s obviously worked wonders over the last few decades and didn’t just translate to an explosion of useless administrators who’ve contributed nothing to learning and everything to skyrocketing costs, (5) resist any and all efforts to expand school choice, the best idea to reverse the trend of unqualified students being pushed through the K-12 system, because that would upset teacher’s unions, and (6) worry more about pronoun usage, gender affirming nonsense, and social activism than the fact that our education systems are producing adults who can’t read, do math, or think.
 
acesfull86 said:
Vicious cycle of eroding educational standards, more unqualified kids getting worthless high school diplomas, more government funding of college loans, more unqualified students going to college, said unqualified students struggling to do college level work, eroding of college educational standards due to hoards of unqualified students in classrooms, more students getting worthless college degrees (if they decide to finish), more adults struggling to repay student loan debt for the worthless college degree that they never earned.

The left's answers are (1) continue to erode standards because meritocracy is racist anyway, (2) put the burden of the student debt for the worthless degrees onto the taxpayer, (3) double down on ****ing the taxpayer by making college “free,” because it’s not like we have enough unqualified students already, (4) pour more money into education because that’s obviously worked wonders over the last few decades and didn’t just translate to an explosion of useless administrators who’ve contributed nothing to learning and everything to skyrocketing costs, (5) resist any and all efforts to expand school choice, the best idea to reverse the trend of unqualified students being pushed through the K-12 system, because that would upset teacher’s unions, and (6) worry more about pronoun usage, gender affirming nonsense, and social activism than the fact that our education systems are producing adults who can’t read, do math, or think.
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I’d love for any , and I mean ANYONE at all to refute any of this.
 
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/politics/charlie-crist-karla-hernandez-mats-florida/index.html

(CNN) Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, has picked as his running mate Karla Hernández-Mats, the head of the teachers union in Miami-Dade County, in a clear sign that he intends to put education at the center of his campaign against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Hopefully DeSantis makes school choice a key pillar of his platform and proceeds to annihilate these fools.
 
acesfull86 said:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/politics/charlie-crist-karla-hernandez-mats-florida/index.html

(CNN) Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, has picked as his running mate Karla Hernández-Mats, the head of the teachers union in Miami-Dade County, in a clear sign that he intends to put education at the center of his campaign against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Hopefully DeSantis makes school choice a key pillar of his platform and proceeds to annihilate these fools.
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Didn't she employ and protect a pedophile, too?

Shocker I know
 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/randi-weingarten-flunks-the-pandemic-naep-test-scores-decline-schools-covid-american-federation-of-teachers-11662069418?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores for 2022 were released Thursday, and by any standard they are a calamity. An unprecedented decline in reading and math scores is the first national measure of the damage done by school closures to America’s children.

The 2020 NAEP tests were administered shortly before pandemic lockdowns and school closures, so this year’s results provide a snapshot of how students have weathered those two years. It’s not pretty. Average nine-year-old scores declined the most on record in math (seven points) and in reading since 1990 (five points). Two decades of progress have been erased in two years.

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You’d think this would be cause for reflection by our education elites, but no such luck. Media headlines blamed “the pandemic,” as if Covid-19 ran America’s school districts and decided to force students to sit at home in front of screens for more than a year. Educators—as they call themselves—did that.

 
sturg33 said:
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Budgeted cost of $30K/student this year at Seattle public schools. If only Seattle had a system where parents were given that money to send their kids to the school of their choosing. Instead they’re held hostage.
 
OK so (hopefully) without causing a poop storm or maybe another poop storm, what are you guys gonna do when you do privatize public education and it doesn't fix the problems you are rightly complaining about now?

I have another question but let's see what we can do about this one first.
 
Oklahomahawk said:
OK so (hopefully) without causing a poop storm or maybe another poop storm, what are you guys gonna do when you do privatize public education and it doesn't fix the problems you are rightly complaining about now?

I have another question but let's see what we can do about this one first.
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Are you suggesting there is no solution to the failing education crisis?
 
I'm of the position that kids should go to school, any school. Learning to communicate and how to "get along" in less than optimal situations is by far the most important skill one can learn, imho.
 
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