Our schools have failed. Not a little. BIG!
It's all over. The wave of anger and protest is growing every day. I am adding my voice as small as it is.
Public education hasn't worked for a couple decades. In it's present form it has no prospect of working.
I am going to write on this further. But before I do I want anyone who disagrees or wonders what I have against public education to read the following essays by John Stossel. He is no fan of Public Education. He has been campaigning to enable choice in education. Vouchers. I am joining his campaign.
So, that you can know what the issues are read the following and then be ready for more.
The facts are, Public Education no longer works
Open Competition for the Education Dollar will help Children
Being a GOOD teacher is not rewarded and must be
The Teachers Unions are destroying our education system and must be put down forever
The net of this discussion is this, Public Education, particularly k-8 is so destructive and so broken that no incremental fix can ever be made. Schools must be closed and rebuilt for performance from the ground up.
Join the fight to abolish monopoly public education. Competitive schools fighting to do a better job of teaching your children (customers) is the only salvation left.
Reward competence, fire incompetence. Make Public Education about education again and not about teachers.
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Speaking first hand from having been on a school board, the additional monies that the "educators" are continuing to ask us for to reduce class sizes, add computers, buy textbooks, are in fact being used to subsidize the health benefits and pensions of the retiring teachers. The debates to have the states take over the pension funds of the teachers unions are just beginning. The really sad part is that the public buys into the hype that the teachers unions are promoting and then vote for the increased tax levies, instead of addressing the problem of mismanagement. You have administrators and superintendents that are former teachers controlling where our tax dollars are going. Talk about the fox in charge of the hen house. In Minnesota the debate is just starting, to have the state take over the pension funds. The ads are on T.V. now to promote "education" under the guise of the Schools First banner which is really the teachers union, part of the afl-cio. The biggest part is to kill standardized testing, the testing that identifies incompetent teachers and administrators. Imagine a company that wants to kill a measurement of profit for fear it will jeopardize the continued employment of its senior managemnet and its stock price. Sorry for the long comment. This is a hot button for me, having served as the president of a school board.
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