Four Important Lessons About School Reform

Four important lessons about school reform:
1) Simply increasing spending on public schools isn't the answer.
2) The federal government can't solve the problems in our nation's public schools.
3) Empowering parents with school choice options works.
4) States can lead the way in improving academic achievement.

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[isaaccontractor]

@adotoa PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE DYSFUNCTIONAL BECAUSE THE STUDENTS ARE NOT WELL DISCIPLINED AND ARE LAZY, HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THEIR TEACHERS THATS WHY OTHER COUNTRISE ARE EXELLING BECAUSE THEY USE CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

[MrGidgid4u]

get off of it CHOICE IS FOR ALL and Charters do not accept all students so these parents do not have a CHOICE... RIGHT???

Watch this to educate yourself:

Search for "public school reform' and lclick on VIDEO to watch Diane Ravitch, former assistant education secretary under G W Bush

[TheRealArchAngel]

heh,heh, so many things to reform schools, none dealing with the foremost problem...wasting the children's time for 14 years with shit their unlikey to remember or need

Pick an Age...lets say 11

First Year:: 6 months: Reading, 6 months Writing

Second Year : Math

3rd Year: Elective (can be Academic like Histoy or Sacial studies or Trade/Carrer training)

4th year: Elective

5th year: Optinal (same as elective but with work permit child can Apprentice/work)

6th year: Optional

[TheRealArchAngel]

Bulk of the cost of Education is the Collective Barganing power of the Teachers Unions that don't care about the Students or even the Teachers they are supposed to represent...they just want dues.

I learn to read from my Mom and Family took excursions to Liabraries State wide to read so that I had to share 1 Social Studies book from 1963 in 1977 with 5 other students didn't really bother me cause I already learned most of the stuff at home

Classrooms were old and worn out

[justaproducer]

I agree with that in part, it is agendas from the NEA and entrenched liberal bureaucrats that have left us with a bad taste in our mouths. I don't advocate running to vouchers... it reinforces a cut-and-run attitude. We need to reclaim our schools with truth and clarity.

[adotoa]

Public schools are not dysfunctional because they are public, they're dysfunctional because of overreaching programs like geography based funding which leaves little money for poor neighborhoods and standardized testing which tries to teach every student the same thing the same way. Many other nations have successful public school systems, so public is clearly not the problem.

[justaproducer]

If we just do those 10 things, we will go a long way in restoring the one thing these so-called progressives have been trying to chase out of the schools... accountability, and decency. It's not their school system nor is it their money.

[justaproducer]

Sorry about the double post... It took forever to post so I thought it didn't make it so I re-added it. So, continued:

7) Ratify a national right to work act so the right teaches get into the schools.

8) No more unjustified educational spending! Let them use what they have. We'll find out real quick what money is important to them when the cash flow is limited, and audited.

9) Make schools accountable for errant teachers.

10) Ban sex education on campus

[justaproducer]

1) Ban tenure we only contribute when we insulate the worse behavior.

2) Eliminate spending on excessive liberal arts curriculum.

3) Mandate a unified standard minimum curriculum across the board that challenges not indoctrinates.

4) Limit the influence of the school board over parent groups.

5) Make sure our school books aren't revising history or data.

6) Re-institute the pledge of allegiance in grade school.

[justaproducer]

These 10 critical steps are paramount in regaining control of our schools, which are:

1) Ban tenure, we see the worse behavior when it is insulated?

2) Mandate a reduction in the curriculum of needless liberal arts studies.

3) Reduce the influence school boards have taken from parent groups.

4) Mandate unified credentials, and background checks.

5) Don't ask don't tell won't cut in schools, we need to know if gay or lesbian teachers are in our gym classes.