We have all watched in disgust and horror as Democrat-led public school systems across the country have told boys that they CAN be girls and vice versa if only they want it bad enough. We have seen unreported rapes by “transgender” boys in girls’ bathrooms. We have seen children forced to wear masks IF allowed to go to school rather than being forced to attend school virtually via computer during the planned demic of 2020. We have witnessed how parents who spoke up against the madness at school board meetings were branded ‘domestic terrorists’. We have watched “Drag Queens” (men, often bearded, in women’s clothing) read stories about homosexuality and “crossing over” to kindergarteners. We watched as the Critical (Criminal is a better word) Race Theory instructed white children to hate themselves because they were innately racist. And we have watched our taxes go up to support this madness.
But, the tide is turning. Public school attendance is down across our endangered nation as parents are fed up with the indoctrination of their children so budgets are being cut. According to the Democrat-friendly Associated Press, Des Moines has seen a drop of 1600 students, Minneapolis 4000, California 110,000, Houston 11,000, and on, and on. Olathe (KS) is cutting 140 jobs and Oakland is closing 7 schools. You can be sure this is just the tip of the public school iceberg. So where are the kids? Homeschooling has shot up and more and more private schools are filled to capacity.
Hopefully, this is just a small beginning of the end of public schools. School Choice has never been needed more. Let the private sector open its own schools. Competition will mean lower tuition. Companies would buy schools already built so infrastructure costs will be low. Teacher salaries will be lower as unions won’t be able to force them to join.
If poor parents can’t afford these schools, maybe their families could help out, you know, grandpa/grandma/aunts/uncles. Different strata of schools would open, i.e. advanced studies, average abilities, below average/behaviorally confrontational. Remember that so many “poor” kids go to public schools and learn literally nothing of use because they simply won’t sit quietly or pay attention. Why hurt all the kids that do want to learn? The chips will all fall into their proper places.
Imagine that, for example, the 53% of real estate taxes paid to the Fairfax School Bd was not collected from homeowners. That could be spent on schooling kids. More kids would mean more expense for the child’s parent(s) unless the new schools offer family discounts. IF this doesn’t seem fair to you or if anyone is outraged by these radical changes, they could donate unlimited amounts of their own money…all they want!…to a Voluntary Education Fund set up for outraged people or those with guilty consciences. Or just shut up. And, of course, I’m sure our billionaire class like Gates, Bezos, Musk, Tim Cook, etc. would kick some big bucks or create their own schools.
We need change from what we waste so much money on and we need it now.
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Fund the student, not the school. IF the purpose of schools is to educate and prepare children for tomorrow, let their parents and standardized testing decide where the kids best fit. Dopes like this Eric Troll want to do the same thing over and over while expecting different results. This is the definition of insanity. They are racists who want to condemn poor kids to terrible lives of no work and no money. Teachers’ unions feed the Democrat Party so Democrats will go along with every cockamamie idea the unions come up with, stuff like remote “learning”, no notification of parents when a HS girl wants an abortion, allow cell phone calculators on MATH tests, no phonics, etc. These people like this Troll thing are heartless and must be exposed for who they are, not who they think they are.
This guy is saying all the quiet parts out loud…!!
First this one… yeah this was obvious a Conservative platform objective so no surprise:
“Hopefully, this is just a small beginning of the end of public schools. “
Then on to “we want to pay teachers less”… now that was a surprising admission:
“Teacher salaries will be lower as unions won’t be able to force them to join.”
But this is the beauty here at the end… just gonna let this bit of racial warfare hang out there and speak for itself:
“If poor parents can’t afford these schools…Different strata of schools… Remember that so many “poor” kids go to public schools… The chips will all fall into their proper places.”
Wow… just wow… I’m sure he will have many an admirer here st the old TBE!!
You always ignore issues associated with learners. Apparently, we have to have teachers regardless of their effectiveness or the environment associated with the learner. You have a one size fits all ideology and universally condemn learners to one learning environment. When that environment fails your answer is we need to throw more money at the failure whereas the above article suggests diverse learning environments via school choice. You have become the classic Marxist.
“You have a one size fits all ideology…”
So you are all behind this “different strata” of a school for those “poor” kids then…. understood (really, I understand completely…)
I don’t really care what it takes to help educate Americans. For example, refer to educating Down’s syndrome and other mentally handicapped. Your ideology says throw them into the public schools and that is good enough. A stratified voucher system would focus on their needs as human beings rather than robots for socialists like you. And how about historically underserved black communities, you throw more and more money into the ghetto public schools and solve nothing decade after decade. But you can always say those nasty republicans voted against more spending. Well, smart republicans have tried to create tailored education systems and you have done everything possible to stop and demean those attempts because you don’t want educated black children to reject your ideology.
You know who needs charter schools, Erica, pronoun She It? The black kids of Baltimore. You are just a liberal dipwad who has NO Idea of reality. People like you are just full of your own crap and that doesn’t involve reality. There are entire classes of Baltimore city schools who cannot read… who did not pass the standards of learning because they cannot read. The average amount spent on each student there is huge. Something like 17 k… You live in your little rich white world in Loudoun… pontificating about the world of which you know nothing. If you are so concerned about minority students why don’t you get off your ass and go tutor students at Baltimore city schools… or DC? Or PG County. You might get your lily white butt beat… those schools are not particulary safe… which is another reason for charter schools… the kids who want to learn can go to an environment where they aren’t intimidated by the thugs there.
God you are dumb Erica… why don’t you just give up the political thing and just go read Lawn Mower Boy type literature all day?
Tippy, watch it, you might get censored by Jeanine… oh yeah, that’s right only the left gets censored here… So… put you down for the “let’s pay teachers less!!” vote…. hmmm….?? Oh, and you are all in for the “let’s put those “poor” kids (know what I mean, nudge, nudge, wink, wink…) in a “different strata” school” vote as well … let’s just jump straight to “separate and not equal” shall we…??
You just made my point about your stupid one size fits all ideology. You have virtually destroyed Thomas Jefferson HS with your ignorance. 70% of the students are Asian because they excel. You find that horrible so you want to ignore merit and push racial diversity.
Most Americans don’t mind chipping in to help with the education of children. However, the public schools, in particular, have become counter-productive and anti-American. They are a waste of money at best. Time for vouchers.
you’re wrong. My wife’s kids get a terrific education. Charter schools suck