I mean, the point of a charter school is that they do not have the same requirements. I get what you mean, though, and I should have acknowledged that that is a variable. Mid-year transfers rules are pretty loose in many places, as is parent recourse for discipline.
Those are 2 that stand out. I don't even think that they are wrong, necessarily, but you're right in that district schools cannot do that.
I vociferously disagree, but I would accept that my argument would be useless in a country where we had an adaptive and high-quality district education system. I would be with you!
But we've waited 50 YEARS for quality change, and instead we've ended up with unpaid liabilities, uneducated children, and social disaster. I am sorry for good teachers in bad schools, but I am more sorry for good children in bad schools.
In the end, you are telling that 8-year old, "Just wait another decade, and I PROMISE that things will change. Oh, whoops, you graduated. Or didn't."
So, I think urgency is a truly overwhelming argument. The political incentives to help the poor will never align to create change, and, again, if it did happen, the answer is always more money, not all of which goes to the classroom and which has no correlation with achievement, anyway. Choice schools NEED accountability. Some of these states are chaos, not frontiers. But there are high-performing schools that can serve children now, and that's a trump card to me and many low-income families.
Thank you for being intellectually generous. I really do appreciate it.
Again, that's easy to say, but a single mom working 2 jobs is probably not equipped or able to do the job that you would like to see. As a practical matter, I think we trust schools with that job, whether it's "character" or religion, at least for below-middle-income kids.
EDIT: ANYWAY, that it is all to say that I wish there was a bulletproof advocate for Education Secretary.
Dominion Theology. It's going to be the Theocratic States of America in the future.
DeVos has been member and an elder at the large nondenominational Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, which was formerly led by popular author Rob Bell. Former president of Fuller Seminary Rich Mouw said he served on a committee with her to replace Bell, and he said DeVos is heavily influenced by Abraham Kuyper, a Dutch writer and Calvinist theologian.
Perhaps they can roll that into guidance counselor treatment regiments. They can electroshock all of the gays in learning institutions as soon as they're identified by their teachers or outed by their peers.
Add that to their list of "improvements" after bringing in a mandatory lord's prayer and banning the teaching of evolution.
Lieberman introduced her. What a slimeball.
Is the GOP deliberately trying to make the public dumber so that they're more likely to keep voting for them?
Is the GOP deliberately trying to make the public dumber so that they're more likely to keep voting for them?
Lieberman's been doing his part to destroy the U.S. for the better part of 3 decades.Hasn't this motherfucker done enough damage already?
Lieberman introduced her. What a slimeball.
Elizabeth Warren took her to town, too.
https://www.facebook.com/senatorelizabethwarren/videos/711909902304839/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
I love her but when she's going strong sometimes she hurts her points by cutting off people she's interviewing/grilling.
The US education system is an utter joke which needs to be levelled and rebuilt
Big deal. I don't either.
At the same time, it reinforces the notion of personal responsibility, something currently generations are severely lacking (probably because there's always someone there to bail kids out of trouble nowadays so they never take a self esteem hit. And simultaneously it sets a good example for the rest of the kids in that class of how NOT to be, because nobody wants to be the old kid in the young classroom.
I'd take a healthy dose of personal responsibility for kids these days over improved academic scores any day of the week. Turns out one will then lead to the other
My wife has a friend who's a teacher. She brags about her degree all the time. Few people know she got it at a diploma mill.
I love her but when she's going strong sometimes she hurts her points by cutting off people she's interviewing/grilling.
I think that sense of urgency hurts more than it helps in many ways. People are always looking for a quick fix or the next big thing. New initiatives are implemented and if they don't immediately show results it's on to the next thing. I also really wonder if what is "broken" in education is the fact that we have made everything so complicated. I would love to see what would happen if there was a school that just went back to basics and taught things how I was taught as a child. The biggest factor in poor education is poverty and if we focused on low-income communities we would naturally see a rise in educational attainment.
Wow, she actually answers questions like Trump
1. Be asked a question that you definitely don't know the answer to
2. Verbal diarrhea ("I look forward to working with you to address this issue")
3. Profit?
Based on these hearings, she lacks the nuanced understanding that the person WHO WILL DETERMINE OUR COUNTRY'S EDUCATION SYSTEM has to have- its really embarrassing. Even if she's concerned I hope these hearings highlight the idiocracy that is coming our way.
Uhh, good? Send them back to 3rd grade if they're at a 3rd grade level. That's literally what "grade level" means.
Why would creating separate classrooms where all students are roughly at the same level so they can obtain the maximum growth possibly be a bad thing?
I think more likely it would help the underperformers, while boring the shit out of the gifted students.
Remember, her goal for education is to "enhance God's Kingdom."
Look into that as you will...
Is that what they do in countriesb like Russia, China, and Japan that are destroying us in science and math?
That's a serious question btw, I don't know.
Why can't we just do what they do?
Then why are we declining globally, if the methods we use now are supposedly better?
At the same time, it reinforces the notion of personal responsibility, something currently generations are severely lacking (probably because there's always someone there to bail kids out of trouble nowadays so they never take a self esteem hit. And simultaneously it sets a good example for the rest of the kids in that class of how NOT to be, because nobody wants to be the old kid in the young classroom.
I'd take a healthy dose of personal responsibility for kids these days over improved academic scores any day of the week. Turns out one will then lead to the other
Sorry you worked for a shitty charter school. Not all are like that.
Betsy DeVos has that Sarah Palin blank look on her face. Kind of sounds like her too. Actively pissing me off watching clips of the hearing.
I mean, overall, charter schools are like public schools. Some are bad, some are good, and some are just average. The problem is that they divert money away from fixing public schools.
Yes, she is severely under qualified for the position of secretary of education which is a real shame because she is replacing Secretary King who is not only clearly qualified but does have the complex and nuanced understanding of public education necessary to guide education department.
Well, she seems like a smart and intelligent person
Betsy DeVos says guns shouldn't be banned in schools ... because grizzly bears
I love her but when she's going strong sometimes she hurts her points by cutting off people she's interviewing/grilling.
What a shit show. All his cabinet picks are being made fools of. All uneualified. How can this happen? Why are there no restrictions on who can join a cabinet? Same with being PEOTUS
Well, she seems like a smart and intelligent person
Betsy DeVos says guns shouldn't be banned in schools ... because grizzly bears