It's hump day, and I have to be tell ya I'd like to see a few days of sunshine. Wanted to make something clear about what I said yesterday on the show about public education. There is no way under God's blue ski that we can say public education has been successful in this country much less Arkansas.
Here in Arkansas 60 cents of every tax dollar goes to education, then figure in your property taxes, now add in all the money you spend on supplies, and finally add in the 6-7% the Feds throw into the mix. Billions upon billions of dollars yet still over 50% of high school grads who go to college have to take a remedial Math or English class. Countless students are pushed through the system and can't read well enough to fill out a job application, and the graduation rates for minorities is still less then 60%. If I did my job that well, I'd be out on the street in no time.
Perhaps some time in the future we will understand it's not the money, it's the parents and it's the kids who determine if they get educated or not and we will quit throwing good money after bad at public education. Finally it's not my responsibility to make sure your child has an education.
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ReplyDeleteI am hoping to not have to send our children to public schools, as the schools no longer come even close to teaching our values, but I am going to have to pay for it anyway with a Feudal Tax system.
Okay so my view on public education, schools teaching "our values" values start at home it is not up to education to teach them, ("your values" may not be "my values") but to not destroy what parents have and are teaching value wise. The teacher in education does play a fraction of a part in shaping some values,such as sharing, saying please and thank you, don't cut in line, talk with an inside voice etc. If parents want their children to get a good education then they need to give them the know how to do so. My oldest daughter has her EMT certification and just graduated again as a medical asst. with very high honors,she is only 22. my youngest girl is at UNT(North Texas) and will graduate next year at the age of 21. the rule and values at which i taught them, "it is up to you to get the best education you can, i cant do it for you. Make the teachers teach you...if you don't understand something you have to ask, if you still don't understand it ask again. tell the teacher(s) to explain it to you in a different manner, don't stop until you do really understand what it is you need to learn". that was for every subject that was taught to them... so i find it to be some what of a cop-out for parents and others to try to lay the blame all on the schools and teachers... what are you doing to help your child/children to seek the best education they can get? I know i couldn't make them get the best education or do it for them, only teach them the values in which i believe and to guide them in the way to use the knowledge i had given. yes there is way to much money being just thrown and wasted in the public education system with so many parents not teaching; that the child is mainly responsible to get the education. Who does the homework? Who takes the test? Who has to take in the information and put it to use in many manners? Maybe i was just brought up old school that we are responsible for all those things as individuals and that as parents we are to guide them and give them the tools to do so. Throwing more tax dollars into the public education system isn't going to get parents to stand up and teach the values and give them the resources to seek out the best education that they can.
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