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Charter schools don't work. Time to try something else. Perhaps it would be a good idea to model our reform after the changes Finland made, which made their education system the top in the world.

Conservatives don't care about education, their motivation has more to do with selling off the public sector to corporations, adherence to an inflexible and irrational economic doctrine and beating down labor.

Schools need to be focused on JUST education, that would shrink their budgets when they don't have to provide stadiums, fields, coaches, equipment, operations after hours for sports, etc.

It's nuts how much money they just throw away on installing all of this stuff that has to be maintained while they have horrible laboratories, no money to do anything remotely interesting in their science classes when it would engage students who don't pick up from books as easy as others, worn out books, and poor technology offerings that are either outdated or completely out of place with no purpose served via software or access to information or whatever (IE, what they provide doesn't contribute to the education to any student, it's just screw off stuff because it's worthless for some reason: lack of software, problems, or just too slow to use effectively).

Make their communities pay for sports fields, etc, and keep it separate from the school budget.

Music, drama, and gym are possibilities for offerings for schools, but schools shouldn't be rivaling colleges for their facilities with olympic pools, and what not for their sports programs. It's too much budget burden to upkeep that crap, and very few people get to actually benefit from it when it's "for the kids"...definitely not enough to justify the outrageous cost they carry and then having ANOTHER or "private" offering for the adults who foot the bill for all that shit.


If they never consider STOP building all these sports related things, they haven't actually looked at their program. Education is their bread and butter.


Local school just tore down a gym, 2 story building and eliminated all it's fields. Built a brand new school with all that crap around it. And then remodeled a new school and basically tore down 75% of it. And they want another budget passed for upkeep costs....when only with the NEWEST budget did they actually improve the place the students spend nearly all of their day. Prior to that they built a gym that was largest in the state for high schools for awhile, a football field, etc. I actually went to this school and I haven't seen the inside of the new places, but it was a shit hole in terms of books, computers, etc... they air conditioned the fucking gym they built and we spent the day melting otherwise.

I have to wonder what in the hell these people think, I know the general public is not very happy with needing new budget increases to pay for stuff they keep pissing away money on instead of teaching their kids.

I have a wacky idea: Change one simple dynamic in public education and the rest takes care of itself~Teach children how to learn instead of what to learn. Public education in the United States has become an overt assault on critical thought.

If we could get a group of elementary school kids from 1926 in a classroom today they'd out-test the teacher (indoctrinator). Public education overhaul Mitt? Your simply popping spit like any politician. Get a life that doesn't involve lies spewing from your mouth with every exhalation. You too, Obama-Yer a tool like all of them are.

>> ^chingalera:

If we could get a group of elementary school kids from 1926 in a classroom today they'd out-test the teacher (indoctrinator).


This is probably untrue due the the fact that the Intelligence Quotient keeps being revised upwards and not downwards. Some of those kids today would be considered legally retarded.

Applying Deweyite school principles of schools today though would be a major change that we con enact and would make our education system better.

Just out of interest a bit. I'm a referee, I used to referee American football but now it's just Soccer (Football). High schools are not the best competition but they pay well and it's steady so I do those games sometimes cause they're easy. Nearly every school I go to has a million dollar almost turf field for all their sports. The larger schools have stadiums with huge stands and scoreboards and just ridiculous amounts of money being thrown everywhere.

Also the kids are the worst...complete idiots who are entitled as hell. Who wouldn't feel entitled when they get this huge stadium to play their really bad (Seriously these kids suck) level of soccer in and a really expensive coaching staff to coach them. Badly I might add, either that or they just don't listen.

That's education...training morons to be absolute stars at a sport in high school. None of these kids is going to get a scholarship to a college for the sport either because that will go to awesome club players. Awesome club players hardly ever play for High Schools, most coaches won't let them.

We have money...it's priorities. You see parents spending THOUSANDS on fucking Prom...one fucking night of these peoples sad miserable lives. Get a fucking education instead of just being absolute nothings that don't matter.