Faster horses said:
Right. Sad day. This from the party of 'tolerance' and why the education system needs revamped. What they have been teaching these kids is deplorable.
I hope she remains safe.
It's past deplorable. So far past- teachers are being hounded if they do actually teach instead of spend all their time "assessing". And if they control their class room by means that would have been thought as a push over during our days, they are fired. This subject is very raw for our house at the moment.
Even the private schools are horrid and have been forced to teach to public school testing at the end. When the feds control what is being tested, they control what is being taught. Killing those damn national assessment tests and graduate tests should be first order for public and private. That is done in the public school by uncoupling the requirement to federal funding. And undone in the private by getting rid of the exit examination at graduation. We already have the SAT and ACT for kids to be measured against each other.
Eliminating the national influence of standards and gotcha testing would be huge, then followed by allowing schools choice in spending their education dollars as they see fit would eliminate 80% of the public schools issues. The remaining 20% need either a counselor or a whoopin, or possibly both.
Cut them loose, then let parent's have a choice with vouchers. Watch the inner city schools or charter schools flourish. With that, the kids will have a chance and the inner crime rates will plummet.
If you really, really, really wanted to fix America and American education, vouchers could go a long way toward that end. And specifically, I can see a path where not only could most kids attend a charter/private school, but likely a religous school- whatever the flavor.
You want to improve society? Get the kids educated in morality. The purpose of public education in America in the beginning was to teach people literacy so that they could read the bible. Without morality, our society is sunk as should have been evident for the past several decades.
There are thousands of nice big buildings with classrooms and large auditoriums bought and paid for sitting idle Monday through Saturday throughout America. If American's would get the gumption, and understand what could be accomplished, it would behoove them to fill them with teachers as soon as vouchers became an option. Maybe a teacher can't lead prayer or teach morality in public school, but they could in private/charter schools where parents have choice. And that would go far towards getting American headed in the right direction again in the inner cities, in rural America and in the suburbs.