Matt Damon 'really dissatisfied' with Obama 'doubling down' on Bush's 'bad ideas' for education

Matt Damon says he is 'really dissatisfied' with Obama 'doubling down' on Bush's 'bad ideas' for education. Read more here: http://nickballasy.com/?p=422

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[sphereme]

We spend the 2nd most on k-12 per capita in the world. We finish out of the top 30 in math and science. I don't want to hear more money in this debate.

[VGTheater]

@svengally1 look in the mirror and you will see the real idiot

[spartancom1]

Look. Teaching is the easiest job, after McDonalds, that a person can hope to achieve after school. When you self-dump into the cesspool of public nipple-sucking (most government positions, frankly), the least you can do is not bitch about the low salary you already knew you were going to receive. Stop complaining. If you need more money, go earn it. Like an American does.

[BorgKing001]

death to unions

[Ganseblumchen12]

I love you Matt Damon!

[WoWDart]

@WoWDart I meant to take off the "For example:" part. If I let myself start getting into it on YouTube, then I'll be wasting the time I need to be researching and writing lol. Good talking to you.

[WoWDart]

@bwebmasta1 Bad teachers often comes up too, but I believe that is slowly working itself out of the equation. In the next couple of decades don't see tenure being the almighty force that it is. Hopefully that will drain the system of those who can't teach. Adminitrators and elected officals are constantly makeing a mess of things. How so many of them got to where they are I have no idea. For example:

[WoWDart]

@bwebmasta1 I love that you refer to it as an arena lol. Parenting always comes up. I find that parents expect a great deal from teachers, but still want to remain the parents. They create a lot of grey area for teachers which just adds to problems we don't need in the arena.

[bwebmasta1]

@WoWDart Good stuff, being that my wife is in the education arena for over 17 years we have a lot of discussions around these areas. There are many problems surrounding the education or lack thereof, but two issues always come up, bad parenting, teachers, and administrators makes a terrible cumulative mix in the system. A great deal of money gets wasted on bonuses, perks, crazy salaries, I am sure you are getting data in those areas. They are some root causes.

[WoWDart]

@bwebmasta1 They all tend to have similar findings for where and why we aren’t doing so hot, yet after 40 years no one thing has solved all the problems. I think that is in itself a problem. We focus on all these problems in Education, but we tend to try and address them as a single issue.

[WoWDart]

@bwebmasta1 So instead of getting that semester of gym, woodshop, calc 2, etc students spend that time in classes designed to prepare them specifically for the tests. I am doing ridiculous amounts of research on topics surrounding Education. The problem is that the problems we have today we also had 30 years ago. When I go searching around I tend to find a lot of documents from the 70’s to today.

[WoWDart]

@bwebmasta1 The upsetting part is that much of the money we spend on students doesn't actually go to bettering their education. We've had so many new regulations and standards to meet over the last 10 years that much of the time and money are spent prepping for getting through the red tape of education today. Many districts across the US have suspended semesters hours of high school student’s educations for ACT and other standardized testing prep courses.