Right - and it should fail as it cannot compete.
If I would be a parent (I am not, but there are children in my extended family), my primary concern would be not to fix the public schools but rather to protect my children, now. Having attended a rough public school for the first 8 grades, I know exactly what I am talking about. Kids coming and picking fistfights with you during free time when you are trying to look into your schoolbooks and have some homework done. Teachers overwhelmed with the amount of problems and unable to protect you. I would rather protect my children from having to experience anything remotely similar to what I experienced.
This is so true. School districts help only very small percentage in vocational schools but not nearly enough. Too many fall through the crack and struggle to identify their place in the workforce. The result is a ‘dumbed down populace’. Public schools offer a one size fits all mentality. Heck - 17 and 18 year old seniors in highschool still must ask permission to go urinate in a toilet or ask to get a drink of water! Sorry if I sound vulgar but it is the truth. Don’t you dare urinate or drink outside the lines or you are in trouble Bub.
And they are going to get worse using the current system…so why continue to support it? We don’t need a social healthcare system in this country. We need a new system to educate our young and that means Big Government - hands off - you don’t work. The biggest proponents of this system are teachers and unions that continue to get really fat off the system.
My children were fluent readers when they entered Grade K. Did that matter? No – they were lobbed together with the rest of the students to dehydrate and to learn 1,2, 3 and A, B, C. Granted the Grade K teacher allowed my kids to read to the class now and then. I haven’t quite figured out if she just wanted a break from teaching.
our schools allow and even encourage the kids bring to water bottles or a thermos so they don’t get dehydrated and it also cuts down on germs being spread at the water fountain. Our kids take a water bottle, filled, everyday and then there are certain times during the day that they can refill them, if needed.
Certain times for refilling? There we go again with a rationing mentality.
Wow this thread is now full of potty talk!
yeah, they have breaks throughout the day, like after every subject, to use the bathroom and refill their bottles, I don’t see a problem with that. If the young man you wrote about would have just asked to use the bathroom, there wouldn’t have been a problem. I understand the concerns about the schools now, but I don’t think this is really what the problem with public education is. Now if you want to talk about children getting pushed through school or them teaching only certain parts of history, that’s fine, those are valid concerns, but having to ask to go to the bathroom, even in jr and senior high school, is not the demise of the school system. If you have high school kids just getting up in the middle of class to go to the bathroom or get a drink or stretch their legs, you don’t think that is distraction to other students? There is time in between classes for potty stops and drinks. now if someone is ill, then that is different, but just because the are in high school doesn’t mean they can’t have rules. How is them being able to get up and go out of the class room whenever they want going to help them with college? I don’t know too many college profs. who are going to put up that. Or how’s it going to help in the work force…can’t just get up and leave in the middle of a meeting or presentation. Let’s worry about making sure they are learning instead of how many potty trips they get in a day. My kids are in 1st and 3rd grade. They are above average in every subject and they read well about their grade level. I don’t think having to wait until after math to fill their water bottles is hurting them any:shrug:
Sure is selfish, wanting to save bodies, minds and souls.
By the Grace of God I was able to long enough to help them be wiser. They eventually returned to the public system in high school a little more self confident and aware than the rest. They were smart enough to protest lack of handsoap in the bathrooms. This unsanitary condition happened for days and weeks on end until someone mysteriously called the health department. More potty talk - I know - but it is undeniably another good example of the sick situation we are in.
Taking your own children out and leaving the others, instead of working for a good school for all is, in fact, selfish.
Call me selfish then. I will accept it.
You would tell my sibling that? She teaches her 5 at home and with great success. She and her DH make tremendous sacrifices to bring their children up in the best possible way and all you can think about is the children that are left in a crumbling rotten system that doesn’t even begin to compete with most others in developed areas around the world. Focus on the obviously broken system run by mostly liberals who run around like free-range chickens drinking up all the water from the fountains and leaving rationed amounts for their students. Sick
where do you live, because our schools are not like this at all!
Give me a break - do you know who gets on a public school board? Pretty much the ones who just go along with the spending plan. We need more money to solve these problems. Teacher moral will go down if we don’t give them a raise. The kids can’t learn unless we build a bigger and newer palace. We need more highly paid administrators. It goes on and on.