Since Education Came Up In Another Thread....

[freeper]

Schools in California are struggling with failure rates, so are other states. I'm interested in what y'all think of their proposed solutions. I know several here are educators and all are taxpayers. The largest share of just about every state budget goes to education. Are we getting our money's worth?

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article253635418.html

 

[clob94]

What would help kids..........?

Ready?

Senior year of HS is canceled. When school starts on Sept 1, you will have already enrolled in a "global ambassador" program. You have your choice of destinations. You'll go to Africa or any under developed country on the list and dig water wells, build schools and hospitals teach kids how to read, build irrigation lines for farmers, etc etc. September 1 you will report to your training facility where you'll show up every day for 8 hours and learn your trade. If you're drilling water wells, you'll learn how at home first under supervision. You'll intern under carpenters, welders, mechanics, whatever your trade craft will be-- and after 3 months, your ass is put on a plane with others doing the same thing you choose, and you'll be escorted by a Platoon of marines that will provide security detail for you--- assuming it is needed.

You'll spend the next 6 months building schools, administering vaccine shots, feeding sick babies, helping farmers grow better crops, sleeping it huts, tents, cottages-- you may not have running water or even electricity at times.

But you'll be spreading American good will around the globe, helping your fellow man, and you'll learn how truly fvcking good you have it in this country-- you'll gain perspective as an individual. You'll learn more in those 6 months in Sudan, or Myanmar, or Qatar than you ever will sitting in a classroom.

After your 6 months are up, you get your HS diploma, a free ride home, and you'll be armed with a trade craft and life experience.


This is how you solve education problems.

 

[Metcalf #2]

What would help kids..........?

Ready?

Senior year of HS is canceled. When school starts on Sept 1, you will have already enrolled in a "global ambassador" program. You have your choice of destinations. You'll go to Africa or any under developed country on the list and dig water wells, build schools and hospitals teach kids how to read, build irrigation lines for farmers, etc etc. September 1 you will report to your training facility where you'll show up every day for 8 hours and learn your trade. If you're drilling water wells, you'll learn how at home first under supervision. You'll intern under carpenters, welders, mechanics, whatever your trade craft will be-- and after 3 months, your ass is put on a plane with others doing the same thing you choose, and you'll be escorted by a Platoon of marines that will provide security detail for you--- assuming it is needed.

You'll spend the next 6 months building schools, administering vaccine shots, feeding sick babies, helping farmers grow better crops, sleeping it huts, tents, cottages-- you may not have running water or even electricity at times.

But you'll be spreading American good will around the globe, helping your fellow man, and you'll learn how truly fvcking good you have it in this country-- you'll gain perspective as an individual. You'll learn more in those 6 months in Sudan, or Myanmar, or Qatar than you ever will sitting in a classroom.

After your 6 months are up, you get your HS diploma, a free ride home, and you'll be armed with a trade craft and life experience.


This is how you solve education problems.

MM! ^^ I need more ‘likes’ for this one!

 

[westx]

What would help kids..........?

Ready?

Senior year of HS is canceled. When school starts on Sept 1, you will have already enrolled in a "global ambassador" program. You have your choice of destinations. You'll go to Africa or any under developed country on the list and dig water wells, build schools and hospitals teach kids how to read, build irrigation lines for farmers, etc etc. September 1 you will report to your training facility where you'll show up every day for 8 hours and learn your trade. If you're drilling water wells, you'll learn how at home first under supervision. You'll intern under carpenters, welders, mechanics, whatever your trade craft will be-- and after 3 months, your ass is put on a plane with others doing the same thing you choose, and you'll be escorted by a Platoon of marines that will provide security detail for you--- assuming it is needed.

You'll spend the next 6 months building schools, administering vaccine shots, feeding sick babies, helping farmers grow better crops, sleeping it huts, tents, cottages-- you may not have running water or even electricity at times.

But you'll be spreading American good will around the globe, helping your fellow man, and you'll learn how truly fvcking good you have it in this country-- you'll gain perspective as an individual. You'll learn more in those 6 months in Sudan, or Myanmar, or Qatar than you ever will sitting in a classroom.

After your 6 months are up, you get your HS diploma, a free ride home, and you'll be armed with a trade craft and life experience.


This is how you solve education problems.

You aren’t seriously suggesting that our younsters shelve all of the much needed social engingineering work this country still needs, their creative self expression on tiktok and 4G for a vacation abroad, are you?

 

[clob94]

You aren’t seriously suggesting that our younsters shelve all of the much needed social engingineering work this country still needs, their creative self expression on tiktok and 4G for a vacation abroad, are you?

This is the way. We have an entire generation of kids (millinials, generation Z) that have no idea how the rest of the world lives. They've seen only bling, glamor, insta-fame, excess, partying, glitz-- they know nothing about suffering and hardship. Kids that graduate school in Belgium speak at least 3 languages. We have kids that don't even speak 1 properly. But I bet your ass those kids that get sent to Uganda to drill water wells in the jungle with snakes and crocodiles and lions will pick up Swahili fvcking ricky tick. The best way to learn a language is to be immersed in it. The 2nd best way is to have your life jeopardized if you don't learn it. We will have some bilingual kids in no time flat. I guarantee you that every POW from Vietnam still speaks Tieng Viet to this day. I interviewed a man involved in the Bataan death March during WWII when I was in HS. Still spoke fluent Jap-a-Jap 50 years later.

I bet There's some Nam vets in here that still remember the language.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

This is the way. We have an entire generation of kids (millinials, generation Z) that have no idea how the rest of the world lives. They've seen only bling, glamor, insta-fame, excess, partying, glitz-- they know nothing about suffering and hardship. Kids that graduate school in Belgium speak at least 3 languages. We have kids that don't even speak 1 properly. But I bet your ass those kids that get sent to Uganda to drill water wells in the jungle with snakes and crocodiles and lions with pick up Swahili fvcking ricky tick. The best way to learn a language is to be immersed in it. The 2nd best way is to have your life jeopardized if you don't learn it. We will have some bilingual kids in no time flat.

Maybe we need to import lions and tigers and silverbacks to get this country straight? I'm good with it. Might help with the rid of the cardy b's and kardashions. 😁

 

[dj701919]

Schools in California are struggling with failure rates, so are other states. I'm interested in what y'all think of their proposed solutions. I know several here are educators and all are taxpayers. The largest share of just about every state budget goes to education. Are we getting our money's worth?

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article253635418.html

Kids are not allowed to fail anymore. They have committees at the end of the year to determine if a kid that didn't make the grade should be promoted, and they always are.

We wouldn't want to scar them emotionally.

When Covid first hit, we were told that we could only record grades that positively impacted a students average. Then my district decided that everyone was going to pass. That was around 04/01/20. I had less than 5% of my kids show up to Google meetings or do any virtual assignments for the rest of the year. Last year was more of the same.

I have 8th graders that do not know their multiplication tables. You need a 45% to pass the 8th grade math STAAR and they get to use an fing graphing calculator.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

Yet, school districts keep winning huge taxpayer bonds. 😁

 

[dj701919]

I had a social studies teacher damn near pin me to the wall, while expressing her displeasure in HB 3979.

Seems she really wants to teach her kids about how bigoted and racist white people were/are.

 

[Lampasas]

We should learn from our libtard brethren in Oregon. Academic achievement measurements are flat out racist. The only cure is to eliminate any minimal requirement for reading, writing, and math proficiency to receive a high school diploma.

What a fvcking Clown Show.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

I had a social studies teacher damn near pin me to the wall, while expressing her displeasure in HB 3979.

Seems she really wants to teach her kids about how bigoted and racist white people were/are.

What did you do?

 

[Lampasas]

Did she have big cans?

 

[dj701919]

Did she have big cans?

Unfortunately, no.

 

[dj701919]

What did you do?

Waited for her to run out of gas and then went to my room, locked the door and turned the lights off.

 

[dj701919]

The deterioration of the education system is rather sad. If a kid gets upset and starts cussing you out, you are eventually going to meet with an administrator to discuss what you did to trigger the student.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

The deterioration of the education system is rather sad. If a kid gets upset and starts cussing you out, you are eventually going to meet with an administrator to discuss what you did to trigger the student.

School administrators are overpaid idiots along the same line as yer city's utilities directors. You know, the guy who relates to yer local news chanel that you might lose yer electricity if you don't turn that thermostat down? Ridicuously overpaid humps.