TheEllypsys
New member
...addressing the actual problems...
If you graph spending for education over the last 40 years, the graph goes straight up (adjusted for inflation)...
If you graph the actual performance of the schools during this time, it is a flat line...
Here are my solutions...
1. Allow parents to choose what public school their child goes to...
2. Remove all federal one-size-fits-all regulations on education (as well as at the state level), and bring the power back to the local board of education and the parents, teacher, faculty, and staff of the schools, where there would be accountability...
3. Stop wasteful funding... You don't need a million dollar classroom and a 2 thousand dollar laptop to teach a kid how to read and do math...
4. Allow bad teachers to be fired, and lower the requirements for people who want to be teachers (there are already way more people who apply for teaching jobs than the number of people who actually get the job, but just for good measure)...
@Dale
Just because a Republican sponsored No Child Left Behind, doesn't mean that I support it...
@Jon J
We are not allowed to choose our own schools... The only reason I was able to do it was because I fell through the cracks, and when they figured it out, the let me stay because I was in the top of my class...
We have WAY too many federal funded mandates as well as state level
We waste so way too for me to consider it part of our current system...
What did I miss?
@Disher5
I respect your responses to my proposals, and you are entitled to those opinions... But I have NEVER heard a liberal propose a spending cut to education, except maybe something like NCLB...
If you graph spending for education over the last 40 years, the graph goes straight up (adjusted for inflation)...
If you graph the actual performance of the schools during this time, it is a flat line...
Here are my solutions...
1. Allow parents to choose what public school their child goes to...
2. Remove all federal one-size-fits-all regulations on education (as well as at the state level), and bring the power back to the local board of education and the parents, teacher, faculty, and staff of the schools, where there would be accountability...
3. Stop wasteful funding... You don't need a million dollar classroom and a 2 thousand dollar laptop to teach a kid how to read and do math...
4. Allow bad teachers to be fired, and lower the requirements for people who want to be teachers (there are already way more people who apply for teaching jobs than the number of people who actually get the job, but just for good measure)...
@Dale
Just because a Republican sponsored No Child Left Behind, doesn't mean that I support it...
@Jon J
We are not allowed to choose our own schools... The only reason I was able to do it was because I fell through the cracks, and when they figured it out, the let me stay because I was in the top of my class...
We have WAY too many federal funded mandates as well as state level
We waste so way too for me to consider it part of our current system...
What did I miss?
@Disher5
I respect your responses to my proposals, and you are entitled to those opinions... But I have NEVER heard a liberal propose a spending cut to education, except maybe something like NCLB...