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Now this seems quite reasonable to me so if you and I can spot critical design flaws in the system, why can't tens of thousands of educators do better than us? I will never buy the 'we don't have enough money' idea! We have enough money to do anything 'we wish' to do. I'd say if we are not doing something then it's clear we don't wish to do it. The educators and the government have failed to create an equitable public education system. When both can step up to the plate, and do what is right, Congress must be mandated to provide the funding.
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Federalizing is the only way to ensure the U.S. can keep-up with the world, to be sure. This being Washington we're talking about, tho, means that agency would have to be carefully designed and watched very closely.
I place more blame on the $ than you, but I absolutely do agree that its the system that's more to blame - How they use the money they have now.
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But education cannot be about city size or funding--it must be equitable across the nation.
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Even if nationalized, population limitations on an area basis would be a factor I would imagine.
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I don't agree with this at all. What if changes in the public education system were made to create a school year prior to kindergarten or 1st grade which does nothing more than provide a basic understanding of English? A prep-year to prepare for elementary school. I'd further say that many of the so-called English-speaking kids might also enroll in these classes...it's not just the immigrants or the Hispanics who have trouble with the English language.
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But you do agree. You just allowed for the mechanizations (I didn't, I was going as-is) for providing the English skills necessary to then enter regular schools.
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Us parents need to learn that all of our darlings are not geniuses. Some are going to fail--this is life.
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Not to mention awards for nothing.
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And if people prefer that their kids are not held back or failed, then design a parallel tutoring system into the schools so that with some extra work the kid won't be held back.
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I could support this. Most schools have alternative 'special ed' type classes. If the regular curriculum and school's operations were cleaned up, then these kids could then be afforded more attention without impacting the rest of the student's or their education.
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Nutrition is vitally important for the brain processes and for energy to get through the day. I say why not provide breakfast and lunch to every kid--free?
I say that kids should be given the opportunity to achieve public education without the need for a lousy dime! If we truly want a better educated population, then we must remove all obstacles for all kids.
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Most schools offer this to kids that can't afford brkfst/lunch. Even with no money on his books, my kid can still get pnt/jelly sandwhiches. That the rest of us pay alleviates a great deal of financial stress on the school.
If schools operations are redesigned, as we've discussed, this might alter - tho I think that those of us can pay for lunch continuing to do so will alleviate the over-all money burden and allow school funding to focus on the educational aspects.
As an aside to the money, teachers need to be paid better. Period.
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I agree with you 100% and this goes right back to the issue I have which is our government and it's educators have no idea what their goals are?! And even if they have partial goals, a hit-and-miss system, they have been incapable of providing the funding. So the US has a failed education system, too many kids are not given full opportunities to meet their potentials, other nations are kicking our asses, and life goes on...hecka of a job...hecka of a job...
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Sometimes I think our public schools are Employee Factories only.