Shocking report reveals how many children are falling behind in school 

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I hate woke crap too, and believe that it has no place in the school system. But I will point out that American schools have always spent valuable class time teaching "citizenship", and trying to impart moral values to the children. We used to get a special grade for how well we learned and conformed to those values. There were awards, too.

Don't forget manners and how to respectfully debate each other.

Exactly.

They've never really focused on history. Like, the genocide of the Indians isn't really mentioned much.

History was never really taught. Like the genocide of the Natives.

History - like the Natives were treated?

​Yeah you don't hear much about the woman and children the natives captured from wagon trains shocking

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That's true. Also, if you had a daughter would you want her teaching in some blackboard jungle where the kids are half insane? No, you wouldn't.

@@fredfact5509what? “ also an FYI, those hats with the words MAGA made in China 🇨🇳 😂

@thomasmanning829 A major reason this nation is where it's at is due to your generation's failure to learn history's lessons. Add some entitlement and general complacency as well and we begin to catch a look at the average Trump Supporter.

@@mr.blonde5344 It's not a generational error MrBlond. It's an ideological error compounded by a sad acceptance of our fiat currency.

@thomasmanning829 I think it's a generational realization, spurred on by our current times. It's all slipping away from you, boomers. And your reaction? Terrible. Unforgivable. One generation of separation from our heroes, who fought against evil for YOUR rights, and this is the path you choose?

Check your spelling and syntax Einstein before you get rid of the Dept. Of Education. Many Americans are also bilingual because the Department of Education's policies.

@@mr.blonde5344 explain why the blue states are the farthest behind!

How about school shootings?

​@REBID0MAKYR42Republicans encourage bullying.

@REBID0MAKYR42 So people's "human nature" should be allowed to fully take over like in the animal kingdom? Sounds like capitulation and encouraging bad behavior. Only a small number of people are bullies. It can be deterred and prevented.

​@@LCC-25 That's where parents come in... but ya know, ipads, smart phones and video games are what's really parenting the majority of kids today.

@@LCC-25 ❄️

@@Adatoode Hence, the word "less".

Nope.

Teacher unions? yes Dept of Education? no The Dept needs to be clean

@@andrelotscher280 Yes teacher unions They are one of the causes

FAP.

Maybe your kids are dumb bec parents are lazy

Trump will give schools less money. This will not help.

"NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR DISCUSSION!" Every time there is an unfortunate incident in our schools with bad grades, Republicans politicize the tragedy and exploit bad grades for their own personal gain!😂😂😂

Grade free zones in our schools will only create soft targets for more bad grade students to feel emboldened to carry out even more bad studying behavior!😂

The only way to stop a student with a bad grade is a student with a good grade!😂

If we stop tracking the number of bad grades, we won't have the number of bad grades going up! STOP COUNTING THE NUMBER OF BAD GRADE CASES,AND OUR NUMBER OF BAD GRADE CASES WILL STOP GOING UP!😂

I'm sure feminism and the shame of having anything to do with children has helped.

🎯 Well said. Thank you for your service.

Thanks, Tom Maxwell for your service and your insight. I do believe that our top students, at our top schools, are doing well. I base that on my own grandchildren and how they talk, read, and write, plus good grades and excelling in extracurriculars, too. The less privileged are dragging down the overall scores, which is not a matter of monetary investment, but rather misplaced focus on the part of the education system, our society, and the parents. In my opinion.

@@smasome I don’t disagree. There are exceptions. But I will submit the top students are being neglected for the rest. Gifted programs are vastly underfunded and exceptional students are achieving in spite of the system, not as a result of a great education. But that aside, the top tier is not the measure of success. The overall results are what count. When 50%+ cannot pass minimum standard tests is reading, writing, and math; that is a problem. When 80% of high school graduates need remedial classes to attend a community college, that is a problem. When the worst performing schools don’t have one student reading at grade level, that’s a huge problem. When overall results over the past 50 years have continued to fall, that is a major problem. Education has major problems and it begins with the federal dept of education and ends with young inexperienced woke teachers in the classroom with problems all throughout.

@@tommaxwell429 absolutely. I'm just trying to not be totally depressed. :)

Wise!

Good for you! You won’t regret it! I was completely homeschooled and not only did I learn so many different subjects and get good grades, I also was able to graduate at 16 years old because I skipped Kindergarten and did my 11th and 12th grades in one year. I didn’t have to worry about bullies, woke stuff or school shootings, as well as so many other things. I was able to learn at my own pace and in a teaching style that best helped me learn since I had some struggles with things that made it mentally difficult for me to do schoolwork. Homeschooling your child will let you spend lots of time with your kids and can even strengthen your relationship with them! I could go on and on about the wonderful things about homeschooling 😄 I wish you and your child well!

Or add, subtract, multiply, or divide.

Well, if you can't read you're obviously not going to be capable of reading and vica versa. You can recognize numbers and write numbers but not necessarily be capable of mathematics.

But they can tell you all 3,852 genders

@@lenaadams786 I think you meant to say if you can't read, you can't write. There is no vice versa between reading and reading.

Many, now adults can't either, I'm horrified at seeing how many on social media can't spell, use correct grammar or simple punctuation! No clue on definitions. I constantly see boarder for border, isle for aisle, loose for lose, your for you're, , there for they're or their, & much more. Often there's entire long paragraphs with no punctuation at all! I have some brain damage from heart failure, died 3 times & lost oxygen too long. I struggle with reading now, some memory loss, & can't think of the right punctuation any more. I hate it, but I still try at least. Most people don't care at all, just say you know what I mean! Nobody wants to excel anymore, they don't mind looking dumb & ignorant.

Kids want to do what's easiest, like everybody else. Parents and teachers have the responsibility to demand that they learn the skills we believe they will need to succeed as adults, whether or not the kids want to learn it. That's our job!!!

It's very easy to blame an 8 yr old vs the adults in charge right?

With thoughts and prayers but don't ask Donald about childcare

​@@ange6580another idiot. You😊

Trump will spend less on education.

@@iamcedricpowell8051 Our borders are secure! Heels Up Harris 🤭🤡🥓

And teach kids respect.

In my trailer park all the kids are AP students maga

​@@JeffreyRoselandJudging by that comment you could use a lot more schooling

Kids don’t want to learn

@@zachaddington5264 that's true. All they want to do is play video games.

Trailer park scholars even

More Christians and less woke pushing, they sticking to the basics really.

Schools preparing students for all the high technology jobs moving into the region, often with financial assistance from the businesses themselves.

@@JeffreyRoselandyou’re ignorant.

@@JeffreyRoselandignorant comment.

Right...maybe this is a result of shaming people.who "talk white"

Not really: My Dad woulda whooped my butt if I came home with an "F".

The south not pushing the crap as bad like everywhere else.they sticking to more of Learning.

@@blue-vo1sb ​ @blue-vo1sb I really hope you are mocking how stupid southerners are because that is not even close to a literate sentence.

I thought the exact same thing! 😂

Lower expectations. State testing means state standards. People here in the South barely speak English.

GOP/maga needs poorly educated people. So, nothing will change.

Idiocracy was a send up of the right and their celebration of generational stupidity.

Babylon is falling!

@@BANE616 like the other past collapse Rome and Soviet collapse societies and empires

The republican base let's maga

Low-educated vote for Trump.

@@viper_fanNot according to the map. It shows the exact opposite to what you say.

@@timothykrause2327 just search for "Trump voter education".

@@viper_fan It appears that people become low educated by voting blue 🙄

If the tests are written to look for the things we need the kids to learn, then we should teach to the tests. If doing so is not producing capable students, then the tests need re-writing.

@@KSRobinette I can tell you... that the end of year state test does not give a real account of what the students learn all year. They need to get ride of the end of year state test.

Why are we pretending that parents used to do school with their kids? They may have made us do our homework but they did not know what we were learning. Most of them weren't even home until bedtime. All of this technology and lack of textbooks that they can look back on and focus on sociology instead of core subjects, and even the teachers with poor attitudes are to blame.

​@kathywest4868 yes I agree. No more teaching ti the test.

Cell phones are only a secondary issue. It's not covid, or a teacher shortage. It's NOT teaching the right things bc they're teaching trash, no discipline, and no consequences when teachers fail. Those stupid tests they study for that are worthless.

Dumb dumb and dumber. Phones are not as big of a distraction as people think. I know because I graduated within the last decade. School year round? Stupid idea lol. Not advancing a failed student? If you knew anything you would know that when kids are held back it hurts them more than it helps

@@zackwoodd4606 I don't care how much it hurts if you fail you fail you need to learn that what failing means just like when you have baseball games someone wins and someone loses

​​@@criticaltheories5222you obviously don't have a clue on what you're talking about. The very reason why public schools aren't allowed to hold students back anymore is because it does more harm causing more problems for the kids socially and discourages them even more from trying harder.. It's a good thing people like you aren't in charge of the education system with your foolish beliefs. Your analogy to baseball shows just foolish you are

Some states ARE doing exactly those things to better educational outcomes for students.

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It does need to be put back on the parents…parents step up and become engaged… I’ve raised three kids with my wife and all three graduated with honors…one very proud father here… notice how I said my “ with my wife”…just a observation from my life society has issues because of the destruction of the family unit and the removal of God from our lives..be present in your child’s life not a friend

Best summary with the fewest words I've seen so far 👍

​@FlightRISC-LLC I learned to read from super nintendo

All the kids end up with by doing that is no attention span and less of a connection to their parents. Such lazy parenting.

Marianne Williamson stated on July 28, 2019 in an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation": "We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes." Marianne Williamson talks to reporters after the Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN on July 30, 2019, in Detroit. (AP) Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson rolled out a plan this week to create a new U.S. Department of Children and Youth focused on issues related to American children. "Well, let’s talk about that," Williamson, an author, said. "The truth of the matter is we are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes." Experts said Williamson’s argument boils down to the fact that the United States leaves control of its schools up to the states. That means individual states decide how to generate funding for their schools, said Marguerite Roza, director of Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab. Each state is different, but "nearly all rely on local funding." According to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics, public elementary and secondary schools got about 8% of funding in 2015-16 from the federal government, 47% from state governments and 45% from local governments. *About 81% of local revenues were the result of property taxes,* which means more than a third (about 36%) of all school funding came specifically from property taxes. But a third of all education funding is not nothing, either, and Reschovsky said property taxes tend to be the revenue source that people are most aware of. *That shift is largely due to efforts to reduce the inequalities that result when rich neighborhoods that pay high property taxes end up with more well-funded schools.* "Many states have undergone wholesale school finance reforms in which state aid is used to equalize revenues across school districts," Corcoran said, citing Michigan as an example. What about other countries? How does that line up next to other advanced countries? The comparison is difficult. Experts said there are no international statistics on the share of education funding that comes from property taxes. Corcoran pointed to two related statistics that give some sense of how other nations match up. First, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - an intergovernmental economic organization - ranks the United States above all other countries when it comes to the percent of total tax revenue generated by property taxes. Second, the OECD ranks the United States sixth in terms of the percent of all primary and secondary school revenues that come from local sources. The countries that lean more on local governments to pay for schools are Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland and the United Kingdom. But those five countries are different from the United States because they also "have national funding formulas that are used to ensure equitable and adequate funding," Corcoran said. In most advanced countries, the central government plays a larger role in financing public education, and local governments are less significant players. Still, some other countries also utilize property taxes to help cover a portion of education spending. Reschovsky said a relatively small share of the property tax in the United Kingdom goes toward education, for example. In Israel, the central government provides most of the money, but the small chunk provided by local governments comes from a property tax called the "Arnona." Similarly, for some provinces in Canada, the "model works a lot like the model in the U.S. where provinces take the lead and there is a local portion that tends to tap property taxes," Roza said. But you wouldn’t know that from Williamson’s statement. While property taxes "play a more important role in funding public education in the U.S. than in most other developed countries," her claim is "certainly not literally true," Reschovsky said. At the same time, "her basic point - that no other advanced country relies as heavily on local sources of revenue to fund school (and specifically property taxes) - is correct," Corcoran said. Williamson said, "We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes." More to the point, experts said that while some other countries rely in part on property taxes to help pay for their schools, the United States banks on them the most.

Trump managed it poorly.

Some schools in the US have uniforms. They are private academies. One main problem is the Federal and State money spent per student does not follow the student when they want to go to a private academy. This means the parents or guardians are paying out of their pocket for education.

If Ron DeSatanist would stop doing his Woke Agenda Madness [WAM] and actually starting helping the people of Florida; *we would all be better off!* It seems like everything in Florida cost more like renting a house. -Floriduh's- Whorida's electrical grid and infrastructure is crumbling and our streets are in disrepair. The education level is getting Dumber because of Ron DeSantis Fascist banning school of books. I have not yet seen a single QMAGAt-Fascist Republican that cares about the people. I expect our teachers will start leaving the state in masses because they cannot teach proper education without the threat of being defunded or arrested for felony truth! Ron DeSantos has made one bad decision after another and our Whorida property taxes are going up faster than anywhere in the country! Our education level is now below the national average and *IT* is pushing wokeness to the extreme so pretty soon you can't even walk out your front door without seeing something woke. *Woke is a meaningless word* because it means everything and nothing at the same time but they use this word to control their !nbred, uneducated supporters. If you want to see this for yourself just go to your child's or Children's School Library and look for the books you grew up on or maybe if they have any books at all!

Maybe we should begin with basic sentence structure, correct spelling and grammar. Also, checking our work for errors. Then we might discuss other topics.

So do prisons, at least they get a Bible

America should close all schools and just let the kids learn a trade 😊

Trump will defund public schools.

Plus, parents and staffing.

Is the Unintelligent Turds of AmurderKaKaKa being the *ONLY* country on *EARTH* to fund education from property taxes; bad for our kids, and our nation; yes or no _Qeliverance?_

RepubliKKKlan Ku Dunce Qlan behavior is not motivated by money or ideology but by corrupted "convict-colony" WASP-DNA. Which is due to 500 years of inbreeding-depression concurrent with 260 years of massive self-inflicted poisoning with: aluminum, lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium airborne-pollution from closed or operating steel and aluminum smelters. Radiation, pesticides, PCBs, PBA, formaldehyde, CTE, forced onto ADHD-drugs, estrogen from plastics, and too much _Fox __-News-__ Lies._

I know When I was in Junior High & High School in the 90’s Our state was one of the best educate states in the country

@@AndrewPriester Really? Okay now I know were toast. LOL

It really is valuable, my parents didn't have a lot of money, but they put my sister and I both through private school for elementary school and some middle school, basically til they just couldn't anymore, but both if us wound up in AP classes in public school because of it.

​@@sweetmeatnc1504Ditto! Those six years of private christian schooling with that firm religious foundation, plus my mom forcing me to teach myself Hooked On Phonics and Mavis Beecon's typing courses allowed me to get into the Honor's Program at City then State and graduating with a 4.0. I thank them every day for their great sacrifice for me and people like you. We are blessed, and that's parenting!

So says the educated deprived

That’s how dems get voted in.

True keep all the yt devils in the trailer park

Maga

Aren't the white a minority?

You guys are so racist. I teach ESL and history. I have less behavioral issues, more parental support, and less drama in the ESL classes. I have some ESL students in my history classes as well. Many times they outperform the kids from the U.S. (even on tests) even though they do not know much English because they will actually work harder and actually study for the test.

@@independenttexan3505 You obviously don't have neighbors like mine. We all would have been better off without cotton and tobacco.

Lol whoever thinks money is the issue then public education has failed them as well. Overpaying for infrastructure and supplies doesnt get kids and their parents to invest their time. Its a failure to invest time, not money.

@@Tonyrg1988 GOP/maga needs poorly educated people. So, nothing will change.

More money ?? Your nuts ! Problems aren't solved by throwing money at it.. The lady clearly said.. Progressive ideology changed the successful way students were taught..And you want to give ineffective employees who brag on social media all day About focusing on teaching kids a sexual preference .. Raises ppfftt

Trump is clear on this. He wants to spend less money on education.

Money isn't the issue

You really have no shame in being a racist do you ….

Donny's rallies look like extras from the movie Deliverance. That's no joke, folks.

But but but Democrats 😭

So if the other news outlets were reporting it You would believe them?

Here is once I do…2019 trumpkin was prez….he’ll blame his appointed Maga donor for it…as always

This is actually true. I work in a HS, kids are struggling with basic spelling. It's bad.

@AndrewPriester ....that's just the thing. They aren't reporting it because it's not accurate. Instead, they cover Trump and the asinine things he says. As they should

@joem3502 So do I, and yes, there are struggles, but this still isn't accurate, and it's just a distraction.

Freedom Fighters Two words you don’t understand

FAP. PFFFT 🤡

​@@AndrewPriestercorporate states of america is not freedom.

@@andrelotscher280 Is that your way of saying you lost?

TRUMP LOST 👈 FACT

No just the AGW-denying anti-abortion Ku DUNCE RepubliDUMBs

are lead, pesticides, and estrogen-poisoned brain-de@d stupid.

And it would be better and smarter if you taught Spanish now that they are small. Trust me, they will NEED it in the workplace whether American's like it or not.

@sep1364-l3d We've done Spanish & ASL from the beginning. Been homeschooling for 10 years now.

Only you cowardly Klanginas that refuse to protect its family from the worst effects of the runaway-AGW causing its extinction by the year 2060 and yearly 15% inflation of: food, housing, auto and home insurance costs lie; Klangina weirdo.

The differences are galactic! Freedom and responsibility, versus hive mind collectivism and government dependence.

So the Feds can more easily block the education of our children.

2 One of those other districts sits less than an hour north, in Chicago's affluent suburbs, nestled into a warren of corporate offices: Rondout School, the only campus in Rondout District 72. It has 22 teachers and 145 students, and spent $28,639 on each one of them. What does that look like? Class sizes in Rondout are small, and every student has an individualized learning plan. Nearly all teachers have a decade of experience and earn, on average, more than $90,000. Kids have at least one daily break for "mindful movement," and lunch is cooked on-site, including a daily vegetarian option. About The 'School Money' Project School Money is a nationwide collaboration between NPR's Ed Team and 20 member station reporters exploring how states pay for their public schools and why many are failing to meet the needs of their most vulnerable students. This story is Part 1 of 3. Next week, we ask: Does money matter? Join the conversation on Twitter by using # SchoolMoney. The Simple Answer Why does Rondout have so much and Ridge so little? Over the past six months, NPR Ed and 20 of our member station partners set out to explore this basic question. The simple answer is that many of Rondout's neighbors are successful businesses. They pay local taxes, and those taxes help pay for local schools. Ridge simply has less to work with - fewer businesses, lower property values.

_Trump Dishonors Fallen Soldiers Again_ *Trump’s latest visit to Arlington National Cemetery is a reminder of how little he understands about service, sacrifice, and heroism.* August 20. 2024 This news article was published by _The Atlantic._ On Monday, Donald Trump visited the sacred ground of Arlington National Cemetery, where many of America’s war dead are buried, and posed for photos. In the strangest of these pictures, the former president is smiling and giving a thumbs-up by the grave of a Marine. It’s an image of a man who has no idea how to behave around fallen heroes. Trump was at Arlington ostensibly to honor the memory of the 13 service members who were killed in a suicide bombing during the chaotic final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The event was supposed to be respectful and private; according to a press-pool note, the families of the troops had asked that there be no media coverage in the area where the service members were buried. But Trump seemed to have other ideas. According to a report by NPR, Trump’s campaign staff got into a verbal and physical altercation with a cemetery official who tried to stop campaign staffers from filming and taking photographs in the area of the cemetery reserved for recently fallen soldiers. The cemetery confirmed that an incident took place on Monday but did not provide any details, instead noting in a statement that federal law prohibits “political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries.” The Trump-campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement that “there was no physical altercation as described,” and added in a post on X that Trump had been allowed a private photographer on the premises. But in his statement, Cheung also accused the cemetery official who’d tried to block Trump’s staff of “clearly suffering from a mental health episode.”