@thefredsays College is subsidized by FAFSA and that is federal. Also the movie is not about laying off teachers. It is about the need to FIRE teachers who don't perform or kick out kid who disrupt others in the classroom. Money spent per student has little affect on how well they learn. We have doubled what we were spending in the 1980s but it has only gotten worse.
Three words... John Taylor Gatto. If you don't know who that is, then congratulations! You're everything we've come to expect of years of government education.
@jarvis365 actually it is not. It is subsidized by the state. The state gives loans to students who attend college and there are plenty of state run colleges that have better track records of students repaying loans than private schools. This movies is a propaganda film for liberalization of schools and laying off of teachers. Of course the public schools are failing, those budgets get cut all the time even before the crisis.
Every case that I've seen in this movie indicts administrators. Hello, the NJEA does not represent administrators. And all the charter schools take kids who want to behave, which makes for a great learning environment, and they kick out the kids who don't want to behave. Where do you think those kids go? Right back to the public school. I would love to see what would happen if every school became private. How would they do if they had to accept every knucklehead out there. It'd be a disaster.
@sfldd Great point, but don't you think that if schools were private, that these "knuckleheads" would have 2 choices: Play by the rules, or GTF out... I think if these schools stood united, it would send a strong message. I think that these kids are messing up, because these public schools are making it too easy for them to mess up... giving them too many excuses. My experience w/my kid has been from kindergarten, the school system(s) were only concerned w/ getting him "classified" ASAP.
@TheEdReformer I agree with your point on the interviewees. The film does a fine job at looking at specific minor facets of education specifically in New Jersey. However, the this film too specific and can't examine the real purpose of public schools: to create obediant workers and employees. Thus, school choice is meaningless.
Uh, I like how they talk about administrators salaries.... everything else sucked! Vouchers take the high-achieving students out of public schools so that teachers get students with serious mental, behavioral issues making the even harder job. While they sound like an excellent and enticing idea, they perpetuate segregation.
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CharterSchoolRadio 9 months ago
@thefredsays College is subsidized by FAFSA and that is federal. Also the movie is not about laying off teachers. It is about the need to FIRE teachers who don't perform or kick out kid who disrupt others in the classroom. Money spent per student has little affect on how well they learn. We have doubled what we were spending in the 1980s but it has only gotten worse.
jarvis365 11 months ago
Three words... John Taylor Gatto. If you don't know who that is, then congratulations! You're everything we've come to expect of years of government education.
bigken61 1 year ago
I thought tenure, sweet penisions, and poor results are "for the children." This movie is racist
Protege385 1 year ago
Yeah let the free market give people an education. Only those who can afford it though.
thefredsays 1 year ago
@thefredsays The public system is doing such a fantastic job. Aren't you people for change?
Protege385 1 year ago
@thefredsays College is free market education and more poor people attend than rich
jarvis365 1 year ago
@jarvis365 actually it is not. It is subsidized by the state. The state gives loans to students who attend college and there are plenty of state run colleges that have better track records of students repaying loans than private schools. This movies is a propaganda film for liberalization of schools and laying off of teachers. Of course the public schools are failing, those budgets get cut all the time even before the crisis.
thefredsays 11 months ago
@jarvis365 So there are more poor people in america than rich people.
MrGnarus 9 months ago
Ron Paul 2012
Rand Paul 2010
Peter Schiff 2010
BJ Lawson 2010
BraveNewLiberty 1 year ago 3
@BraveNewLiberty and gary johnson 2012 as vp
Sexisttroll 7 months ago
Is this movie on dvd yet?
JASHARRIS 1 year ago
Every case that I've seen in this movie indicts administrators. Hello, the NJEA does not represent administrators. And all the charter schools take kids who want to behave, which makes for a great learning environment, and they kick out the kids who don't want to behave. Where do you think those kids go? Right back to the public school. I would love to see what would happen if every school became private. How would they do if they had to accept every knucklehead out there. It'd be a disaster.
sfldd 1 year ago
@sfldd Great point, but don't you think that if schools were private, that these "knuckleheads" would have 2 choices: Play by the rules, or GTF out... I think if these schools stood united, it would send a strong message. I think that these kids are messing up, because these public schools are making it too easy for them to mess up... giving them too many excuses. My experience w/my kid has been from kindergarten, the school system(s) were only concerned w/ getting him "classified" ASAP.
donnygoat 1 year ago
@TheEdReformer I agree with your point on the interviewees. The film does a fine job at looking at specific minor facets of education specifically in New Jersey. However, the this film too specific and can't examine the real purpose of public schools: to create obediant workers and employees. Thus, school choice is meaningless.
MultiSmartass1 1 year ago
Uh, I like how they talk about administrators salaries.... everything else sucked! Vouchers take the high-achieving students out of public schools so that teachers get students with serious mental, behavioral issues making the even harder job. While they sound like an excellent and enticing idea, they perpetuate segregation.
piricarmen 1 year ago
It's great to see so many coming together and becoming aware of a very real problem that is choking America to death financially !
Glsfutrs 2 years ago 7
where can we get/rent this movie?
kingslice75 2 years ago
Seriously, wher can we watch this documentry? They should just post it on youtube or their website like most people do to spread the word
MiClLC 2 years ago
I'm going to spread the word on this video. What's the view count, 1383..... let's get this rolling.
ObamaEqualsStupid 2 years ago
great movie and fatastic reactions!
tjwalker 2 years ago