I'm the product of public school. While it can be great, it is up to the student to care. I didn't care; furthermore, I was just told to study and pass, over and over again. For 18 years i was forced to go to school and attend. I genuinely didnt care so i dropped out, but i did realize I needed education for my own sake. I went back with a different mind set and now I am enjoying and succeeding in my classes with A's.
It's up to the student to an extent. The same student with the same attitude would not have the same academic performance regardless of school. Good teachers and a good environment make a big difference, whether the student cares about education or not.
This seems crazy until you take dismiss the perspective that school is for children. If you see it as school is for staff, it all makes a lot more sense. Still horrible.
i sent my sister since the last year in a private school, the level of competence and care techers put in kids there is incredible, the experience from public to private school is night and day. The argument i hear is that we need public schools otherwise poor kids will not get an education, i live in romania and i look some data, what i've seen is that i spend 5 times less ( yes 5 times, when i made the calculation i tought i made an error) to send my sister to private school than the government spends to send a kid to theyr awful schools. I'm sure that if the govenrment would get out more private schools will entert the market increasing competition with the result with even lower prices and even better education.
Competition leads to innovation and businesses scrambling over themselves to "shine your shoes" for money. Competition always lowers prices because they want YOUR business and will do everything to convince you that their product is top notch.
Good teachers, make you think. They challenge the students to be better people. I had great teachers. I wanted to get good grades to make them happy, and I would always be on my best behavior. Bad teachers, I hated them, I would show up late to class, talk, I would try for my GPA, but I was checked out. Now as a preschool teacher I know other bad teachers who I question if this is their calling. Some of them are mean. I love my students. I spend a lot of my money on supplies, art, science, music and movement etc. Then I have teachers who come into my classroom to take supplies. Not borrow take. I was then told by administrative staff to give the receipt for a refund. That never happens. I do my job out of love. The love for the kids. Watch them grow in a course of a year. It is amazing.
If you are an Union leader making millions of these teachers, sure you are going to defend who pays you. The teachers do , the students do not. Who suffers, the students and every body in the long run.
whenever i see fairly successful small towns and cities, they adopted for less regulation, less taxation, and to have a open and accountable local government. places like sidney nebraska, decatur indiana, and others, have fairly open and accountable governments. they know for a fact, being open and making sound choices, means prosperity for the townspeople. hell in sidney nebraska, its under 7 thousand people, yet its the flagship town for cabelas, where the headquarters, flagship store, travel center and store reside. bentonville arkansas is another flagship town for walmart. so basically, if you think about it, not everything is reliant on the big city. my hometown is plagued with crime, tennessee bureau of investigations first death even reigns in that town. jackson tn, is what im talking about, but its still growing. the schools are shit tho too.
Its ridiculous. My cousins mom is an elementary teacher and a major meth and heroin addict and had her kids taken away for abuse and neglect. She was tranfered to another school after people found out and is still teaching to this day. They almost kicked me out of the PTA over a misunderstanding of a background check where they mixed my stuff with someone elses record. Saying they were sorry but they take these serious for the kids sake etc. But yet, they have a known drug addicted child abuser still working directly with children.
Most unions in New York do have connections to organised crime. Just when I was thinking this union leader probably has mafia connections, he suddenly starts joking about what things are like in the mafia. So, yeah. There's your explanation.
My senior year of high school we had two teachers who did no teaching. Nothing at all. One of them wasn’t even In The room. My sophomore year our Latin teacher showed up for class maybe 4 times. This is nothing compared to the teachers who were angry, verbally abusive bullies. At least with no teacher there we could do homework. My freshman year we thought our English teacher was losing her mind. Some of these people were honors teachers who were undoubtedly the better teachers. I found out in junior high honors teachers were much nicer.
Local taxes pay for local schools. If a higher taxed community pays a higher amount of taxes towards it's local schools why would that community allow kids from lower taxed communities attend the schools that the higher taxed communities are paying for? Equal access already exist. If a families in those lower taxed communities start earning more than they can move to the higher taxed area where their kids can reap the benefits of the higher amount of taxes that their parents are paying.
My father worked for NASA; This guy faked his master's degree certificate and got the job. First day of work, he says 'I don't know anything about computer programming'. NASA had to pay this man for 90 days at a salary for a computer engineer and God only knows how much in legal fees before he could fire him. They made him collect copies at the printer all day lol
In my state homeschools are considered private schools. I pay less for one year of curriculum and supplies that I would for one month of private school. And for the brief time my children were in public school, I spent ridiculous amounts for supplies and fundraisers, more than I spend on homeschooling. 🤷♀️
I run the BEST private school there is, right here at home. Noone is going to care for my children the way my Wife and I do. Public schools are a joke to put it mildly and are there for parents who don't care or are too lazy to take time for their children.
Unbelievable, their private school costs $32,000 per year which is greater than what my university charges out of state. What are those private schools and who puts their kids there other than keeping the rich children away from the rest of the population children. Come here to Ohio where certain public schools that we have are some of the great schools in the entire US.
It is insane. The private high school I went to currently charges only 9,000 but they will take 6,000 for a year. Still a good deal of money but something a hardworking family could manage if they made it a priority.
I agree that public schools need competition, but let them compete with each other like they do in Finland. Private schools work not because of who attends them, but because of who doesn't attend them, which is the kids whose parents don't care enough to pay through the nose and make it clear to them that they had better perform.
Nothing against teachers it's not their fault, it is the government's fault. Our schools are not teaching. They are teaching the student to pass a government issued test. As a guide at a historic site, we have hundreds of kids who take part in our program. They are given a book to learn from and a reward when they finish the book. When I ask them what they learned, all I get is a shoulder shrug. In most cases the parent did the book.
It's naive to think children of upper wealth in danger of being kidnapped for ransom going to public school. The kids would need security and it would disrupt classes much less the other kids jealousy. It's unrealistic to think this is possible. I have no qualms with private schools. I feel bad for these kids in a way but it's a real concern. I understand this.
If the taxpayer is footing the bill then the taxpayer should have the right to pick the students going to charter schools. Sure they spend less, they don't take the special needs students. I went to a Catholic school the dumped their bad students back into the public system if they has issues.
Choice is great, unless you have a kid with a disablilty or a behavioral problem., then good luck finding them a place, even if you have a voucher. Also, charter schools should get less because kids with disabilities and behavior problems take a lot more resources, the kids charter schools reject.
Local taxes pay for local schools. If a higher taxed community pays a higher amount of taxes towards it's local schools why would that community allow kids from lower taxed communities attend the schools that the higher taxed communities are paying for? Equal access already exist. If a families in those lower taxed communities start earning more than they can move to the higher taxed area where their kids can reap the benefits of the higher amount of taxes that their parents are paying.
