Monday, March 20, 2017

Educated in Public

Want to know why your local government schools consume three-fourths of your property taxes, plus lottery money and state and federal taxes and still cry for more dollars?  This was a comment from Vox Popoli that confirms information I've heard before:

dc.sunsets wrote Is this the Aussie version of Mainstreaming?
In US grade schools, a kid qualified one month to be INSTITUTIONALIZED for behavioral aberrations will sit next to your kid the week he or she is released. (This is not hyperbole, it's two anecdotes from my wife's grade school.) 
We see the news of St. Paul high schools being run by (minority) thugs, but it turns out that "Special Ed Inclusion" is near-universal K-5th or K-6th, and it's not just the 60-70 IQ imbeciles, it's the screamers, the furniture-throwers, the pencil-stabbers who all go into the pot with normal kids. 
No joke: <60 IQ kid gets a full-time paraprofessional, annual cost $10k, so said kid's total cost to the school dist for K-H.S. is easily $100,000 and likely three times the cost of future engineers, plumbers & electricians. 
Fake schools deliver fake educations.
This is public education in America.  Yes, there are good schools.  Yes, your school is different.  Yet standards continue to decline even as costs rise.  Teachers can't teach kids who do not have the capacity to learn or the willingness to learn no matter how much you pay them or how few kids are in the room or how nice the physical surrounding or how generous the pensions or anything else.

Public education is a failure.

The reason I don't care who heads the U.S. Dept. of Education is that it is just another spongy layer of useless bureaucracy soaking up money to line the pockets of bureaucrats and contractors.  I will support public education when local school boards have full autonomy on establishing curriculum, classroom discipline, pay, and whom to hire and fire.  Without all the paperwork, I have my doubts that essentially worthless administrators would be able to justify their six-figure incomes to the locals in rural school districts.  

3 comments:

  1. Years back, I was called to my son's grad-school because he had gotten into a fight with the kid that sat next to him in class. My other son saw the fight and stepped in to help his brother. Now they were both sitting in the admin office. The kid who my sons fought with was a hyper-wallbanger who had no business being in a normal classroom. He would run around the room, jumping on tables and trowing things at the other kids while they were trying to work. This was nothing new. My son had complained about this ape-child several times before, and nothing was being done about it. This behavior carried onto the playground; hence the fight. My son had finally had enough.

    I told the teacher that the ape-child needed to be separated from the rest of the kids because of his violent nature. Her response; "That boy is entitled to an education, too." I asked how anyone else was supposed to get an education with the ape-child doing what he was doing. ...Crickets.

    This was California education logic in 1992. ...This kind of Liberal drivel is nothing new...

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  2. "Teachers can't teach kids who do not have the capacity to learn or the willingness to learn no matter how much you pay them or how few kids are in the room or how nice the physical surrounding or how generous the pensions or anything else."

    That there is distilled truth. I don't see how school choice/vouchers will magically change things. Well, it will be giving parents and kids who actually care a ticket out of hell. So, that's good.

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