OMG and they wonder why public schools are in the toilet

[archives]

Is that so, Anchovies?



Poor Anchovies.

And again, quite noticeably, for the third time, you still haven’t offered anything to invalidate it or support your own position

One-two-three, your out

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[Legion]

Government is wholly unsuited to teach America's children anything.

More at link:

https://fee.org/articles/the-failure...lic-education/

[Sailor]

It's armed robbery, and the sickest part of the joke is what the taxpayers get in exchange, Skipper.

Yes. Uneducated dumb fuck people. A democrat politicians dream voter.

[Legion]

And again, quite noticeably, for the third time, you still haven’t offered anything to invalidate it or support your own position One-two-three, your out Next

Is that so, Anchovies?

"How aggregated scores on state assessments compare to U.S. News's expectations given the proportions of students who are black, Hispanic and from low-income households."

Poor Anchovies.

Did you learn grammar in a public school that US News and World Report said was great because they ranked it by "aggregated scores on state assessments compare to U.S. News's expectations given the proportions of students who are black, Hispanic and from low-income households"?

Poor Anchovies.

[Legion]

Yes. Uneducated dumb fuck people. A democrat politicians dream voter.

Sadly, DEMOCRATS don't even rely on voters anymore, Skipper. They can just hire stooges to print ballots, fill 'em out, and mail 'em in.

[Sailor]

Sadly, DEMOCRATS don't even rely on voters anymore, Skipper. They can just hire stooges to print ballots, fill 'em out, and mail 'em in.

There is sufficient suspicion of that occurring Legion. No doubt.

[Legion]

There is sufficient suspicion of that occurring Legion. No doubt.

Indeed, Skipper.

And lazy parents just want "free" daycare. What they get is leftist indoctrination delivered by slipshod unionized ignoramuses who are as likely to molest little Johnnie or Janelle as not.

Many so-called education experts believe that class size—the ratio of students to teacher—must be reduced to improve learning. We’ve already tried it. From 1955 to 1991, the average pupil-teacher ratio in U.S. public schools dropped by 40 percent.

These experts also proclaim that lack of funding hamstrings reform, and that the 1980s were a particularly bad time for school finances. Wrong again. Annual expenditures per pupil in U.S. public schools exploded by about 350 percent in real dollars from 1950 ($1,189) to 1991 ($5,237). In only two years during this 40-year period did spending fall: 1980 and 1981. Spending grew by about a third in real terms from 1981 to 1991.

The average salary of public school teachers rose 45 percent in real terms from 1960 (the first year data are available) to 1991.

This increase masks a more variable trend. Real salaries rose until 1974, when they began to level off and even decline. The average salary reached a trough of $27,436 in 1982, after which it rose to an all-time high of $33,015 in 1991. Instructional staff in public schools generally saw their earnings increase faster than the average full-time employee—from 1950 to 1989 the ratio of instructional-staff salary to the average full-time salary in the U.S. increased by 22 percent (although it sank from 1972 to 1980). Student performance has hardly kept pace with the dramatic increases in resources devoted to public education. While the percentage of students aged 17 at the beginning of the school year who graduated from high school rose 30 percent from 1950 to 1964, it has leveled off since then. In fact, the 1991 percentage is lower than the 1969 peak of 77.1 percent.

Evidence from the National Assessment of Educational Progress and other performance measures shows how poorly served America’s public school students really are. Just five percent of 17-year-old high school students in 1988 could read well enough to understand and use information found in technical materials, literary essays, historical documents, and college-level texts. This percentage has been falling since 1971.

Average Scholastic Aptitude Test scores fell 41 points between 1972 and 1991.

Apologists for public education argue that such factors as the percentage of minority students taking the SAT can explain this drop.

Not true. Scores for whites have dropped. And the number of kids scoring over 600 on the verbal part of the SAT has fallen by 37 percent since 1972, so the overall decline can’t be blamed merely on mediocre students “watering down” the results.

Only six percent of 11th graders in 1986 could solve multi-step math problems and use basic algebra.

75 percent didn’t know when Lincoln was president, and one in five knew what Reconstruction was.

Another measure of the failure of public education is that almost all institutions of higher education now provide remedial instruction to some of their students. The Southern Regional Education Board surveyed its members in 1986 and found that 60 percent said at least a third of their students needed remedial help.

https://fee.org/articles/the-failure-of-american-public-education/

[AProudLefty]

Blech. Education is in the dumps. Those JPP posters are great examples of that.

[Grokmaster]

Talk about cops killing 1 out of 1000 black kids is OK

Talk about blacks killing 999 out of 1000 black kids is racist

[Into the Night]

Buffalo public schools claim 'all white people' perpetuate systemic racism and force kindergarteners to watch video of dead black children to warn them about 'racist police and state-sanctioned violence'

A public school system in New York has introduced a new curriculum to teach that 'all white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism', and show kindergarten classes videos of black children shot and killed by police, instructing them about the dangers of police brutality.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-children.html

Chicago, if you added up dead black kids...99.5-percent were not shot by the police.

Oregon educators are being told that mathematics is 'racist, imperialist,and capitolism' and are being instructed to off more than one solution to a math problem.
In Portland, some colleges are being directed to allow attendance without paying tuition of anything, but only for black people.

That's on top of the religious training in the public schools for the Church of Green, the Church of Global Warming, the Church of Covid, and of course...the Church of Karl Marx.