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Teachers have deserved more money for decades. Politicians have been promising teachers more money for decades so they can be elected to forget about giving teachers more money. I don’t know what the moral of the story is.
First of all, there should be one Federal curriculum for all schools. 2+2=4, CAT spells cat in every state. There is no reason to have 50 separate curriculums. The ONLY reason that exists is so MAGA states can use the schools to indoctrinate American schoolchildren into Confederate Treason, instead of giving their children an education that allows this country to compete in the world, instead of just compete against each other.
You’re aware no child left behind was literally that, and it’s a big reason for schools declining as they are right now, right? Because the standards it set were poorly thought out, and the execution of said standards was also terrible. And that was when the US government was still even mildly coherent.
The educators - the people who actually gave enough of a fuck to go through years of college and take a dirt poor job because they believed in teaching - should be setting the curriculum. Not some bullshitting politician on the hill.
No Child Left Behind was signed into law by George Bush, so it was a Conservative scam from the beginning. Like all Conservative scams, it’s meant to work poorly, or not work at all, so that worse corrupt partisan concepts get promoted as government solutions. And surprise, what followed was the rise of Charter Schools and School Vouchers, siphoning tax money into private and religious educational enterprises where a most of the most gets converted into profits instead of education.
The educators - the people who actually gave enough of a fuck to go through years of college and take a dirt poor job because they believed in teaching - should be setting the curriculum. Not some bullshitting politician on the hill.
I don’t mind politicians who take the issue seriously being part of the solution, as long as they are participating in good faith. Conservative/ MAGA politicians should be totally banned from the table, we’re already too familiar with their “solutions.” They don’t get any input next time, they’re too stupid and corrupt, which is exactly what education is supposed to avoid, not encourage.
The bill was co-authored and championed by Senator Ted Kennedy, a stalwark Democratic, and Representative George Miller (D-CA). It passed the Senate 91–8 and the House 381–41. Just because it was passed during the Bush administration doesn’t mean it was Republican initiative.
Many small government libertarians and conservatives hated the NCLB because they saw it as government overreaching.
Charter schools are legislately introduced in the Obama era bill, Race to the Top, along with common core standards being tied to funding. Common Core is the standards you were calling for.
Look at the state of the federal government right now. You want them running education for the country?
No, not the MAGA Federal government. But when they’re out, and they’ve been crushed, we are going to have to reconfigure the new government. We should take that opportunity to create a new paradigm that serves the people, and then Yes, I expect the government to convene a panel of educators to create a new Federal Educational Curriculum.
That curriculum would look to the future, and not worship dead old ideas from the past. In Florida, DeSatan wants to make Cursive Writing mandatory again, instead of teaching kids real history “that makes white kids feel guilty about being white” (he actually said that). We need a history curriculum that acknowledges and teaches about Slavery and the Native American Genocide, and how to avoid such atrocities in the future. We need two math tracks, one for those who want to go into engineering, sciences, etc., and one that emphasizes Business Math, for everyone else who mostly uses math for their personal finances, or perhaps to start a business.
But mostly, the Federal curriculum would have a strong emphasis on Critical Thinking Skills, which help people recognize and reject propaganda from both sides, and avoid dumb conspiracy theories.
Critical Thinking Skills are literally the most important think any human can learn. All the knowledge you pick up in school is right there on the phone on your pocket, you can look that up in seconds, learning all that is not that important. Critical Thinking is how we are supposed to think, and it has to be taught and practiced at a Elementary/High School level, so students can flourish in college and beyond. Without Critical Thinking Skills, we substitute a chaotic ad hoc style of thinking that is easy to manipulate by bad people, and leads to destructive lifestyles like poverty and crime.
Critical Thinking Skills are what kept the Conservative scourge from rising and morphing into MAGA for so many years. So Cons took advantage of the 50 separate curriculums to deliberately suppress the teaching of Critical Thinking Skills for decades, claiming that it teaches children to defy authority, when what it really does is teach people to think for themselves. Authoritarians don’t want to teach kids how to challenge their power.
We also need free college education, and free trade school educations for all American citizens.
We also need to cancel all outstanding private and Federal student loans. They are a looming and increasing economic time bomb, that is already damaging the economy. They are so high because the federal government loosened up requirements for student loans so all kids could go, but didn’t put any guardrails on it. So the colleges responded by jacking up their tuitions to the max, and making kids mortgage their financial futures for the rest of their lives, enslaving them to mediocre paying corporate jobs, just to keep their healthcare, and make that onerous monthly student loan payment instead of a mortgage payment or take a vacation or get married or have kids…
Colleges and banks became the worst sorts of parasites over student loans, and have destroyed countless lives. It needs to end. They stole enough from our students, that’s enough. Forgive all current student loans, and if the colleges and banks whine about it, threaten to make them pay back all the past loans, too. That will shut them up real quick. Imagine the economic boom that would follow if millions of Americans suddenly got enormous student loans rebates of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars? The housing market would immediately explode, as many people use that money for a down payment.
We could do all this if we had a government that serves the people, instead of the wealthy. Remember that when we get it all back (and we WILL get it ALL back).
kill politicians and put educators and experts in charge.
hearing the experiences from the teacher sub, cant blame them, due to the manospheres reaching male students even in middle school has made things worst, plus indifferent parents and administrations that drove teachers to quit, oh yea and covid of course amplified the situation. first because you cant have inclass teaching most couldnt keep thier jobs
wat? teachers were fired?
No, OP doesn’t understand it fully or isn’t describing the process well.
Every year a budget is set that determines the total teacher FTE (full time equivalent). If the number is higher than last year, new teachers will be hired. If it’s lower, it means teachers will be fired.
Teachers are not hired (fired) at the end of school year/beginning of next year. The way it usually works are the principals have a giant bid process kind of like a draft. Teachers that have tenure (usually 5+ years, but depends on district) are guaranteed a seat and get first pick of their preferred school, grade and subject. All of the other teachers then put in the 3 favorite schools and they get assigned based on principals trading them around.
So if the budget changes during COVID, let’s say dramatic spending on technology, it reduces the amount of teacher FTE. That means in some districts, classroom sizes are increased and non tenured teachers are not rehired. But this isn’t true everywhere, it was just a small trend during COVID due to changing budget priorities for that year.
I actually read this story. She thought it was water so she didn’t drink at school intentionally. If she were a drunk I highly doubt she would have vomited after one chug. Even if gin does taste like pine shit.
Yeah Im calling bullshit on that. There is no way you take a slug of gin and not immediately know you just drank alcohol.
Back in college, I left a plastic water bottle full of vodka at my buddy’s place after a party, so he brought that bottle to campus in his gym bag to return it to me.
During his cardio session, he grabbed the bottle without thinking, started chugging, and then promptly ran to the toilets.
He was fucked up afterwards, but sure didnt have enough time to get alcohol in his system XD
Yeah, but I don’t know if you’ve ever tried straight gin. Even the good stuff is horrible on its own. Definitely could vomit after unexpectedly taking a large gulp.
Eh, I’ve hit a few that were weak enough I wasn’t sure what they were. A bottle filled with someone’s chew spit- instant realization. A wounded soldier that was actually piss? Not until it hit the back of my throat and the cigarette butt at the bottom hit my lips.
I’ve accidentally drank alcohol thinking it was water many times. I don’t think she was drunk from it, and probably spit it out immediately. I could very much see her puking immediately after though because that shit is shocking and triggers a gag reflex immediately.
Did the class/one student replace the drink?
You’ve never once grabbed the movie theater water bottle instead of the actual water bottle?
The world would be a better place if everyone chugged gin more
Alcohol has never made anyone less annoying.
Well, my abusive dad died of alcohol poisoning so technically not true.
In my experience alcohol makes everyone less annoying, as long as you’re the one drinking the alcohol.
This is true. Even when I’m driving, I find myself being a lot more level-headed about things that would give my road rage if I have a few shots beforehand
So true. Imagine a world where everyone drinks and drives… it would be so much more peaceful. :(
No, no, you’re doing it wrong, you shouldn’t drink and drive.
You need to do all the drinking beforehand, so that you aren’t distracted behind the wheel!
