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No, charter schools, private schools, home school, just give the money to the parents and let them decide how to get their kids educated.
Public education in Chicago is about as good as no school at all. We know that is the case with many schools in Baltimore. Worse, Baltimore spends the 3rd most in the nation for that failing education.
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_aQyeGb59Q9Y9R
It is obvious you are a liberal. Why do you come to a place that is for conservatives?
Also: try to educate yourself to our point of view
I can agree with that.
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_LCkiFbAFK28K5
I believe charter schools and pushing for 2 parent families in the black community would fix a lot of the problems facing it. I also know as a single father how hard it is for males wanting to be a father to get the state to support them. If I wasn’t a man of great fortitude I would have called it a day and left my daughter to escape the BS I deal with constantly from my ex.
It’s hard not to turn to crime when you can’t read o do basic math. Schools are owned by the Democrat Party.
I think you are approaching the issue from the wrong angle. True believers view affirmative action as a method of addressing historical racial discrimination, an there is an infinite well of historical discrimination to draw from.
For example, in undergrad I asked my feminist professor during office hours when she thought feminism would be unnecessary. After overcoming the initial shock, she responded: "When there is no more violence against women because they are women." Which I interpreted as pretty much never.
The truth is that supporters of affirmative action are not thinking about the endgame at all. For them the project is still in the beginning stages, as underrepresentation relation to population for many groups is significant. For example, I saw you went to law school, and the percentage black law students (all law students as well due to high cost and low value of a JD) has declined in the last decade (double the rate for black men compared women). Thus, the recruitment efforts to admit underrepresented minorities for universities will not be decreased anytime soon.
There are many good arguments against affirmative action based on race. The fact that it should be unconstitutional to discriminate based on race is the best one, but SCOTUS has tapped danced around it. Probably the next best argument is Mismatch, or that students admitted to schools with median GPA and test scores above their ability through affirmative action do poorly academically, drop out more, and pass professional exams (like the bar exam) at a lower rate. The idpol fights hard against this argument even though the data seems to support it.
So, if schools don't give a shit about race based affirmative action, even if it hurts those it intends to help, I don't there it's going away anytime soon.
That is, of course, the exact thesis of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Mismatch-Affirmative-Students-%C2%92s-Universities/dp/0465029965?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls
It's called the "mismatch theory," and has been confirmed by other studies, although the liberal establishment flatly denies it. You know it's true though because the liberals who run those universities could easily disprove the theory by simply releasing admissions/graduation rate/ending degree/4 year GPA data in aggregate (without violating students' privacy). They don't because they know the data would just confirm the theory.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action#Mismatching
>A 2008 study by Jesse Rothstein and Albert H. Yoon confirmed Sander's mismatch findings, but also found that eliminating affirmative action would "lead to a 63 percent decline in black matriculants at all law schools and a 90 percent decline at elite law schools".[139]
> Lowering the bar to admission is not the same as lowering the standards for graduation. There are many phenomenal potential graduates that now get a chance
You pretty much HAVE to lower the standards for graduation if you lower the bar for admissions.
There's a great book about this:
https://www.amazon.com/Mismatch-Affirmative-Students-%C2%92s-Universities/dp/0465029965
Basically, if you lower standards for admissions, you have students who are mismatched with the university and they tend to have much higher failure/flunkout rates than higher performing students.
Say you have a black high school student who is in the top 25% of academic achievement (however you want to define that) in the country... a respectable figure, but put him/her in a school with top 1 percenters. That student, statistically, is going to struggle and has higher dropout rates than their higher performing peers. If that student went to a school that more matched his/her capabilities, they'll thrive in school and in their careers.
Progressives care more about the aesthetics of what their campus looks like, but they really don't care about how those students fare in school or their post-college career. That is a tragedy.
It was very surprising to see the New York Times, of all places, being so honest.
They are wrong about the issues, though.
For housing, the problem is excessively strict zoning requirements. Stop that, then let the market do its thing, and the problem would solve itself.
For schooling, they wrongly assume that the amount of money per student controls how good the education is. There is no correlation. The problem for low income areas isn't that the schools have relatively less money to play with. It's that there is no competition.
In public schools for rich areas, those schools have to compete with private schools that charge tuition, because if parents aren't happy with the public school, they'll just send their kid somewhere better. In public schools for poor areas, the parents don't have enough money to do that, and the public school doesn't have to get better.
The solution here is school choice. And we know for a fact that it works (see Charter Schools and Their Enemies if you need details).
In both cases, the standard Republican solution to the problem would work, and the standard Democrat solution wouldn't. That the video is wrong about this isn't so bad, but it's pretty clear that it never even occurred to them that the standard Democrat solution doesn't work, or that they should even bother to look at the standard Republican solution.
Still, this is a step in the right direction for the NYT.
Exactly I quit teaching never looked back. They got mad at me for refusing to strike, because the school asked for an extra 14 minutes if class time a day.
Not only does their pay increase, but they get a great retirement and then go double dip in another state.
And the PISA scores show they absolutely suck, like generally teachers are crap and should be liable for any student that they graduate that can’t perform at least at the 11th grade level.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/us-students-international-test-scores.html
The principal at the local school asked me if I was interested in teaching math. I asked if I could fail any student that doesn’t reach grade level. Nope, I had to jumó through hoops, so even if he failed a standardized math test, I couldn’t fail him. I passed on it. They wonder why they are short 2 math teachers and ended up just having General teachers cover it and the math class is taught online. Still can’t fail them if they don’t do the work, it blows my mind.
Public schools should be shut down, give the parents the money and let them decide on a school, let charter schools compete.
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_JEAKGWA6ZTTT7DF16YXS
Well, as an ex teacher, public teachers make well above the average income, when you factor in time off (3.5 months a year) and their pension is outstanding, over half the states pay 105% of their income in retirement and that isn’t including the ability to double dip by being vested with 10 years in another state while earning 100% of your income from the previous state.
All this their the teachers are failing at their job and for the cost, we are over paying for their PISA Test outcomes.
This isn’t to mention that places like Baltimore spend the 3rd most in the nation and have entire schools that can’t read.
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_FTD4WP3M7V5GRA2A3BC0
Sure they do, it when you have a true randomized sample using the NYC public schools and charter schools (random admission into charter schools, same level of IEPs, same buildings and same neighborhoods) the charter schools out perform the public schools hands down.
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_zpt8FbQ978Z6P
Studies also show unions protect teachers who underperform, whereas charter school teachers don’t have that luxury.
What tells me that? The fact that the data shows that non-union charter schools out perform public education:
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_zpt8FbQ978Z6P
They almost never fire for poor performance.
https://www.aei.org/education/k-12-schooling/why-dont-teachers-get-fired-for-poor-teaching/
The union I worked in, had it in the contract that once you had tenure it took 2 years of bad reviews to recommend dismissal and it was appealable.
We had a teacher who was retiring in 2 years. He taught history and so he decided to basically do nothing. He laid out the work and told kids they were free to do it, but he didn’t care. He sat there and watched DVDs on a laptop with headphones. Parents complained and after him doing nothing and getting a bad review, he started to repeat it the 2nd semester. They ended up hiring a long term sub to teach the class and he watched movies.
The district decided to not rehire him. The union forced them to hire him again. He did the same thing, so they told him to take off the rest of the year. He got paid for the vacation and it didn’t matter if he didn’t get rehired the 3rd year because he was retiring with 85% of his income.
That’s when I realized unions suck, doubly so when I watched them refuse to assist a teacher who was attacked, because the teacher defended themselves.
I was glad when I left teaching.
There is a reason private school, charter schools, and homeschooling out performs in general public education.
Who does the union represent? Students or teachers?
Despite the current beatification of RBG, Thurgood Marshall was, in my opinion, a far more important historical figure.
There's an excellent book about Marshall and Brown v. Board of Education -- I think it's this one called Simple Justice.
Teaching pays quite well when you factor in 3.5 months of vacation and other benefits, including many states cover student loans and healthcare is gold plated. Retirement is actually better than the enlisted military.
Homeschooling is growing and the outcomes are repeatedly better.
https://hslda.org/docs/librariesprovider2/public/homeschooling-grows-up.pdf?sfvrsn=69e4f7d1_6
Charter schools are finally becoming more and more acceptable and they consistently out perform public school.
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_TXIzFb9JTS8FW
If we can get through this election, I think we can start turning the corner on the battle and now people have started to realize public education isn’t education, but indoctrination.
Depends, on what school is that? Baltimore and NYC schools in the projects? Not so much.
They spend $17k a year per a student. I think that is plenty and I, as an ex-teacher, could do better with only $10k.
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Q-WuFbHPT7M62
The VA sucked for decades, my brother finally had surgery after 2 years of arguing with them about a service related injury. Now, if you don’t get care in 39 days you can ask to go to a private provider.
The military got a lot better. I went from shooting twice a year to monthly and usually for multiple days. Less missions got scrubbed and less political Bs we had to deal with.
Friends were able to go out and start their own businesses a lot cheaper, especially in the oil fields. Where regulation priced out a lot of the start ups for bidding on fracking jobs, the lower regulation got a lot better.
Lots of new jobs and manufacturing actually grew, until the virus.
Hispanic and Black unemployment was at the lowest rate ever.
Not done yet, but Trump is encouraging charter schools for inner city kids. I think if we can control both houses we can do it to help improve black lives.
And the analysis of charter schools:
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_t4WuFbDAB2SAK
4 million people on food stamps made enough to no longer be on food stamps (before the virus).
The FDA has been on a generic drug approval binge lowering costs for everyone.
Moved the embassy to Jerusalem.
Pushing back on China and slowly limiting it on the international stage.
Helped Israel get the former enemies to work with Israel to off set Iran.
There you go, and I can go on without even searching for reasons.
Having been an ex teacher, many teacher actually are paid quite well when you factor in time off. Starting salary tends to be about 40k a year (not including steps that the state usually pays or reimbursed for) when you factor off the difference vacation periods (3 months for summer, spring and Christmas Break) $40k is about the average salary in the US (60k a year).
Retired teachers in some states make very generous pensions.
laschoolreport.com/antonucci-retiring-california-teachers-will-earn-more-than-working-teachers-in-24-states/
I also am against public pensions for teachers and against unions, because the data shows that charter schools out perform the public schools and they tend to get paid less.
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_VW.oFbNGFJ6AN
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_s4WkFb7HEVRWE
r/classicaleducation
So we don’t talk nice. Let’s just look at one policy
The Democrats refuse to allow poor minorities to escape poor school. The Democrat party literally stands against allowing Charter Schools.
You know this is public education too often:
The GOP stands for Charter Schools. They work, they give a chance to those in the inner cities. There is no dispute (ex teacher who went to graduate school) that Charter Schools out perform public education, even when in the same building:
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_loojFbJ62FHBH
They get paid less per a student, but damn if they don’t out perform them.
The NEA owns the Democrat party and they refuse to let them support Charter Schools.
So tell me who really is heartless?
The teachers pass them even though they don’t understand the subject material. They are then set up to fail. They aren’t “left behind” but rather pushed forward without being prepared.
Read this book or at least the Amazon description:
https://www.amazon.com/Mismatch-Affirmative-Students-Intended-Universities-ebook/dp/B008RZRLHA
Most of the studies are just reviews of the colleges own admissions and performance data.
This book goes into in a lot of detail
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465029965?tag=natioaffai-20
You also don't even need to do a study.
Here's an article about it
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-sad-irony-of-affirmative-action
Here's an excerpt from that article so you don't have to read the whole book.
>For example, according to data released by the University of Texas in connection with Fisher, the mean SAT scores (out of 2400) and mean high-school grade-point averages (on a 4.0 scale) varied widely by race for the entering class of 2009. For Asians, the numbers were 1991 and 3.07; whites were at 1914 and 3.04; Hispanics at 1794 and 2.83; and African-Americans at 1524 and 2.57. The SAT scores for the Asian students placed them in the 93rd percentile of 2009 SAT-takers nationwide; the African-American students, meanwhile, were at the 52nd percentile.
> This has the predictable effect of lowering the college or professional-school grades the average minority student earns. And the reason is simple: While some students will outperform their entering credentials, just as some students will underperform theirs, most students perform in the range that their entering credentials suggest.
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality rocked my world. Twenty years later, it remains one of the best books I've ever read.
1) Purchase Rifle
Find a .22 rifle. Ruger 10/22 may be banned by name in the <bashcalifornia>PCC(Peoples Republic of Commiefornia) </bashcalifornia>. Ask you LGS(Local Gun Store). It is is there are many bolt rifles out there. Ruger American Rifle Standard .22 would work.
2) Go to Appleseed
Go to an appleseed.
3) Try not to go to jail for owning a gun in California
There is literally a book series for this. Example:"How to Own a Gun & Stay Out of Jail (California Edition 2002)" Wait for the 2014 to come out when they sort these new laws go out and buy one.
EDIT: step 3 added
You should definitely buy the Powerscore LR Bible and the Blueprint LG Book. No need for most people to buy a RC book. These books are actual test prep books, they teach you (as much as a book can) how to take the test.
Fox Test Prep is different. They are largely going through explanations of various questions. Some students find this helpful, but they are not standard textbooks. If you want to get them as supplements, go for it, but I don't think they would replace the Blueprint/PS books.
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. This is a deeply researched and nuanced examination of the history, strategy, politics, intrigue of one of the most important legal decisions of this country.
http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Justice-Education-Americas-Struggle/dp/1400030617
I must say after all this I am starting to lean twords the 21. And of course safety is number 1. I was also thinking about picking up this book just for some "safe" reading. I still have alot to think about but like I said im now leaning twords the 21.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Stay-Jail-California-2002/dp/0964286408/ref=lh_ni_t