Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So what isreplaces it? Vouchers for the poor masses to send their kids to the fundamentalist Christian school of their choice?
Lots of really uneducated kids being "homeschooled"
I was home schooled, because school was failing me. Went back and ended up graduating top ten.
I learned first-hand how inefficient school is. When I could get all the lessons done by the time the bus got to school.
That doesn’t make school inefficient. That means school is done at scale and your being homeschooled was done only for you.
People really need to understand efficiency better.
Not PP but Yes, educating humans at scale --especially K-8 --is dehumanizing and inefficient. It's done bc in our country education is inextricably linked with childcare. We do it like this bc we've created a society where both parents have to work. But it is hardly any kind of "gold standard" for educating children and it causes a lot of family conflict. Part of burning the Dept of Ed to the ground is a reflection of a larger zeitgeist back to hyperlocal governance. People hate having their families lives impacted by such massive systems of governance and this is partly a symbolic rejection of that
Then you don't really have a country anymore. Just a loose collection of states.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So what isreplaces it? Vouchers for the poor masses to send their kids to the fundamentalist Christian school of their choice?
Lots of really uneducated kids being "homeschooled"
I was home schooled, because school was failing me. Went back and ended up graduating top ten.
I learned first-hand how inefficient school is. When I could get all the lessons done by the time the bus got to school.
That doesn’t make school inefficient. That means school is done at scale and your being homeschooled was done only for you.
People really need to understand efficiency better.
Not PP but Yes, educating humans at scale --especially K-8 --is dehumanizing and inefficient. It's done bc in our country education is inextricably linked with childcare. We do it like this bc we've created a society where both parents have to work. But it is hardly any kind of "gold standard" for educating children and it causes a lot of family conflict. Part of burning the Dept of Ed to the ground is a reflection of a larger zeitgeist back to hyperlocal governance. People hate having their families lives impacted by such massive systems of governance and this is partly a symbolic rejection of that
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So what isreplaces it? Vouchers for the poor masses to send their kids to the fundamentalist Christian school of their choice?
Lots of really uneducated kids being "homeschooled"
I was home schooled, because school was failing me. Went back and ended up graduating top ten.
I learned first-hand how inefficient school is. When I could get all the lessons done by the time the bus got to school.
That doesn’t make school inefficient. That means school is done at scale and your being homeschooled was done only for you.
People really need to understand efficiency better.
Not PP but Yes, educating humans at scale --especially K-8 --is dehumanizing and inefficient. It's done bc in our country education is inextricably linked with childcare. We do it like this bc we've created a society where both parents have to work. But it is hardly any kind of "gold standard" for educating children and it causes a lot of family conflict. Part of burning the Dept of Ed to the ground is a reflection of a larger zeitgeist back to hyperlocal governance. People hate having their families lives impacted by such massive systems of governance and this is partly a symbolic rejection of that
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So what isreplaces it? Vouchers for the poor masses to send their kids to the fundamentalist Christian school of their choice?
Lots of really uneducated kids being "homeschooled"
I was home schooled, because school was failing me. Went back and ended up graduating top ten.
I learned first-hand how inefficient school is. When I could get all the lessons done by the time the bus got to school.
That doesn’t make school inefficient. That means school is done at scale and your being homeschooled was done only for you.
People really need to understand efficiency better.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So what isreplaces it? Vouchers for the poor masses to send their kids to the fundamentalist Christian school of their choice?
Lots of really uneducated kids being "homeschooled"
I was home schooled, because school was failing me. Went back and ended up graduating top ten.
I learned first-hand how inefficient school is. When I could get all the lessons done by the time the bus got to school.
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Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So what replaces it? Vouchers for the poor masses to send their kids to the fundamentalist Christian school of their choice?
Lots of really uneducated kids being "homeschooled"
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Department of Education was founded in 1979 and has spent trillions of dollars. It has utterly failed to even budge test scores for American students. If anything, American students learned far MORE in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s BEFORE the addition of this expensive bureaucracy. It is a colossal waste of resources. There is no justification for its existence. It hasn't succeeded at all.
And 90 percent of Americans couldn't tell you what the Dept of Ed actually does - myself included. I guess they process financial aid for college students? Didn't they screw up FAFSA last year too under Biden? That needs to be fixed.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Department of Education was founded in 1979 and has spent trillions of dollars. It has utterly failed to even budge test scores for American students. If anything, American students learned far MORE in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s BEFORE the addition of this expensive bureaucracy. It is a colossal waste of resources. There is no justification for its existence. It hasn't succeeded at all.
Again, someone who completely misunderstands the Ed's mission. It is the SMALLEST cabinet dept because it has a few, discrete goals, and raising test scores is not one of them:
*Establishing policies on federal financial aid for education and distributing as well as monitoring those funds--hope no one you know filed FAFSA or needs free school lunch
*Collecting data on America's schools and disseminating research-this way we get to know LA and TX are at the bottom.
*Focusing national attention on key issues in education, and making recommendations for education reform--local school boards have the final say.
*Prohibiting discrimination and ensuring equal access to education--IEPs, IDEA, Title Nine.
So all this accomplishes is eliminating a tiny department that protects women, special education students, poor kids, and people trying to access higher ed.
Good work knowing nothing about anything
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Department of Education was founded in 1979 and has spent trillions of dollars. It has utterly failed to even budge test scores for American students. If anything, American students learned far MORE in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s BEFORE the addition of this expensive bureaucracy. It is a colossal waste of resources. There is no justification for its existence. It hasn't succeeded at all.
And 90 percent of Americans couldn't tell you what the Dept of Ed actually does - myself included. I guess they process financial aid for college students? Didn't they screw up FAFSA last year too under Biden? That needs to be fixed.
Anonymous wrote:The Department of Education was founded in 1979 and has spent trillions of dollars. It has utterly failed to even budge test scores for American students. If anything, American students learned far MORE in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s BEFORE the addition of this expensive bureaucracy. It is a colossal waste of resources. There is no justification for its existence. It hasn't succeeded at all.
Anonymous wrote:The Department of Education was founded in 1979 and has spent trillions of dollars. It has utterly failed to even budge test scores for American students. If anything, American students learned far MORE in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s BEFORE the addition of this expensive bureaucracy. It is a colossal waste of resources. There is no justification for its existence. It hasn't succeeded at all.
Anonymous wrote:The Department of Education was founded in 1979 and has spent trillions of dollars. It has utterly failed to even budge test scores for American students. If anything, American students learned far MORE in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s BEFORE the addition of this expensive bureaucracy. It is a colossal waste of resources. There is no justification for its existence. It hasn't succeeded at all.