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Anonymous wrote:It has been proven time and time and time again that the achievement gap is tied to income and parental involvement. There is no substitute for those things, no matter how hard to the government tries. They will just continue to flush money down the toilet.

So your approach is to give up and not try to address disparities?

How are you supposed to address lack of parental involvement? You can’t make parents care.

If parents don't care, the kids don't care. If the kids are disruptive then bring back expulsion.

Obama began the absurd mantra “school discipline is racist; expulsion is racist.”

Says who?

Everyone but you, apparently.

It is a commonly-known fact to anyone in public education.

It is true that the Dear Colleague letter authored by President Obama is generally recognized as the genesis of the viewing of school discipline through a racial lens and curtailing its use wherever possible.

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Anonymous wrote:It has been proven time and time and time again that the achievement gap is tied to income and parental involvement. There is no substitute for those things, no matter how hard to the government tries. They will just continue to flush money down the toilet.

So your approach is to give up and not try to address disparities?

How are you supposed to address lack of parental involvement? You can’t make parents care.

If parents don't care, the kids don't care. If the kids are disruptive then bring back expulsion.

Obama began the absurd mantra “school discipline is racist; expulsion is racist.”

Says who?

Everyone but you, apparently.

It is a commonly-known fact to anyone in public education.

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Anonymous wrote:It has been proven time and time and time again that the achievement gap is tied to income and parental involvement. There is no substitute for those things, no matter how hard to the government tries. They will just continue to flush money down the toilet.

So your approach is to give up and not try to address disparities?

How are you supposed to address lack of parental involvement? You can’t make parents care.

If parents don't care, the kids don't care. If the kids are disruptive then bring back expulsion.

Obama began the absurd mantra “school discipline is racist; expulsion is racist.”

Says who?

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Anonymous wrote:Public education has been ruined for years. Let it crash and burn and we’ll start over.

This. I began working in the schools when my own kids were in MS/HS after years SAH. It has been so eye opening. If I knew when they were younger what I know now, we would have done private K-12 and I plan to pay for my grandchildren to do just that.

Without major reform, public schools will become just for poor and special education students. Even middle class families will find a way out.

And I work at a “highly rated” school in a wealthy area with an active parents community. It’s still atrocious and the parents don’t seem to know. I didn’t back then.

Interesting. Would like to know more. From your perspective, can you name three phenomenon or issues (system-wide ones, not 'Principal Smith is lazy' or whatever) that a) led you to believe this and b) that you believe exist across school (not just the ones you mentioned.)

Not challenging what you said, but would like to understand the problems.

PP here. Just off the top of my head:

-Canned curriculums that are forced on teachers and most materials are predetermined and dictated. Kids, even kindergartners are leaning from slides not even made by their teacher. Even if a teacher wanted to expand on this or teach it in a different way, she really doesn’t have time without falling off the pacing guide. Maybe this raises up terrible teachers a little, but it really blunts the effectiveness of good teachers.

-HUGE variances in ability levels and knowledge among students. It’s literally impossible for a teacher, even a great one, to meet the needs of most or all students. You are either way ahead of your low students or boring your high students to tears. We have kindergartners who don’t know any letter names or sounds and kindergartners who can read complete long sentences. This only compounds with each new year. We brings me to…

- kids are not required to master any skills or knowledge to move on to the next grade. You don’t have to know X, Y or Z to move from second to third grade. You just go up no matter what. It has to be SO egregious for a kid to repeat a grade.

- too many special education students for the amount of resources schools have. Too many students are pushed into a general education classroom, which most often sucks a ton of the teacher’s time leaving even less for the rest of the class. Kids are also routinely exposed to poor behavior, and because this is tolerated due to the IEP, I’m convinced that this, plus permissive parenting, have made ALL the kids behave worse because they can get away with it. Parents would be shocked to know how many times their child has to be told to get our their math notebook or put away their Chromebook or step talking to their neighbor or stop roaming around the room during the lesson. Not IEP kids.

Overall, just the standards and expectations for both academics and behavior are so low. Average and above average students are not remotely challenged. They are given way too much time to do classwork (I guess in the hopes that the lower kids will be able to finish?) that even a slightly above average kid with the ability to stay on task is going to finish every assignment very early and have tons of time to kill waiting for the end of that block. Ie: Reading is a 50 minute block. The whole group lesson takes 15 minutes. The assignment given takes a typical student 15 minutes, so they have 20 minutes to kill every single day. Repeat this for each subject. Then you have students who couldn’t or wouldn’t finish the assignment if you gave them all day u less you sat right next to them and spoon fed them every answer and prodded them to keep going.

If you could just take the top half students of every class, and give good teachers more autonomy, the experience would be unrecognizable.

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Anonymous wrote:It has been proven time and time and time again that the achievement gap is tied to income and parental involvement. There is no substitute for those things, no matter how hard to the government tries. They will just continue to flush money down the toilet.

So your approach is to give up and not try to address disparities?

How are you supposed to address lack of parental involvement? You can’t make parents care.

If parents don't care, the kids don't care. If the kids are disruptive then bring back expulsion.

Obama began the absurd mantra “school discipline is racist; expulsion is racist.”

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Anonymous wrote:It has been proven time and time and time again that the achievement gap is tied to income and parental involvement. There is no substitute for those things, no matter how hard to the government tries. They will just continue to flush money down the toilet.

So your approach is to give up and not try to address disparities?

How are you supposed to address lack of parental involvement? You can’t make parents care.

If parents don't care, the kids don't care. If the kids are disruptive then bring back expulsion.

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Anonymous wrote:It has been proven time and time and time again that the achievement gap is tied to income and parental involvement. There is no substitute for those things, no matter how hard to the government tries. They will just continue to flush money down the toilet.

So your approach is to give up and not try to address disparities?

How are you supposed to address lack of parental involvement? You can’t make parents care.

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Anonymous wrote: Grandma, did you forget to take your pill again?

Actually, am a man thank you very much. Sorry that you're unable to look at something that is a failure, and come up with ways to greatly improve and enhance it. Not everyone is going to be a winner.

If you did an experiment of the status quo, and then my idea and then year's down the road did an analysis, you would be embarrassed.

Okay! Whatever you say “grandpa.”

Anonymous wrote:This. I began working in the schools when my own kids were in MS/HS after years SAH. It has been so eye opening. If I knew when they were younger what I know now, we would have done private K-12 and I plan to pay for my grandchildren to do just that.

Without major reform, public schools will become just for poor and special education students. Even middle class families will find a way out.

And I work at a “highly rated” school in a wealthy area with an active parents community. It’s still atrocious and the parents don’t seem to know. I didn’t back then.

Here's what very very basic reform looks like, aka every other 1st and 2nd world Country around the world, or America before 2010...

Eliminate the idea or semblance of DEI: Merit-based standards. If you're a quality student, you're in accelerated classes. If you're a quality student, Talented & Gifted/Advanced Placement classes exist, and are not cut or called racist by Democrats. Want to be in an AP course? Earn it.

Discipline: Discipline the bad kids, hold them back, more detention, extra assignments for punishment, for god sakes just make them read anything but their phone. Reading on a daily basis is the fastest way to improve IQ, outcomes, work ethic, academic quality.

Eliminate more administrators: Every school district, especially in the inner city has massive bloat in this area. You can easily eliminate 20% of administrators, and give 10% of that money back to the taxpayer, and the other 10% into actual teachers, sports coaches, extracurricular.
In my perfect world, the kids are at school 7am-5pm in the inner city. That's the only way they can accelerate and reach the rest of the kids in the country.
If Lizzo wanted to look like Beyonce, she'd have to devote herself to a daily grind over many year's to reach that. Same thing. Those are the circumstances Lizzo ended up with or caused herself to have (look like), so in order to get to Beyonce, she has to grind, just like these communities and school district's would have to.

If they don't? Then it remains status quo. You can argue against me, just accept that nothing will change for this large group of kids, while everyone else flocks to the best public school versions of a-still eroding system. The other's will talk about this 20 years later after they all went to private school.

Anonymous wrote:Public education didn’t just “go bad.” There has been a systematic attack on it for over 60 years after they were forced to integrate. Would it benefit from reforms? Yes! But destruction has been intentional.

Good luck America