Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Merrylander, free public education is in the dock on trail for it's life. After all the puts and takes, the main reason is that large urban districts are producing awful results.

But the main reason is that those districts are serving a population that, as a generalization, does not value education. Alternative schools have turned in much better results, sometimes, mainly by skimming out a subset of the kids who have families that DO value education.

Your one room school taught EVERYONE to read, including the really dumb ones, but it served a population that valued education, expected that result, and would have fired a teacher who didn't deliver.

Do you see any likely way, all things considered, to deliver such results in a modern large urban district?

As long as people do not value education they are then simply using the schools as a publicly funded baby sitter.

The schools that our granddaughters were attending in Ontario are excellent. Now that the divorce is final she has them down in West Palm Beach. From what I saw on the web site the school they are now attending is above average, so we must wait and see. The oldest has an above average IQ, having been down that road it is easy to see, the younger is average, but will likely grow up to be a heartbreaker.

All that said I still cannot really believe that parents do not care if their children are educated. My old one room schoolhouse did the job because there was no outside interference. We had no 'experts' telling Miss Ray how to do her job. And you sure as hell would never have any of the students telling her what to do. She got respect because she darn well deserved it.

Perhaps that is where things have gone awry. People do not show respect today. Whether deserved or not, talking heads, columnists, etc. seem to feel that deliberate insults are the norm.

Modern technology sure has not helped, with the advent of texting the English language has been abandoned. With examples such as Bieber and Cyrus I imagine that we may as well stop worrying and give up. We only have the two girls to see properly educated, we simply must let others worrt about their own children.

It occurs that rather than rushing about blaming this one and that ome, maybe it is time to look in the mirror.

I forgot, the charter schools here in DC are in fact no better than the public schools.