My answer is obvious, but I'll leave it here to start with.
We need to reduce the representation of women in education massively. The majority of women seeking these roles have malicious intent, and are actively harming young boys.
We know they don't mark boys fairly, but that's just the peak of the insidious feminist plot.
They've clearly been destroying the self-worth of boys in the schools to groom a new generation of woman worshipping simps.
Yes, and the education system should be training them as well.
I'm in roofing right now and I can tell you that, in 10 years, there will be no roofers, regardless of how much you're willing to pay for a roof, because no one will be able to actually climb a ladder and work for 10 hours outside.
I like the idea of adding construction skills as a PE requirement.
The problem with a single high school district is that it is susceptible to being taken over by busy bodies. with an entrenched school elites, It will never matter what the parents think.
parent should always have options and school choice.
More male teachers is a big part of it, but there’s also “tenure” (aka “seniority” aka “teachers unions” aka “you can’t be fired if you’ve managed to last 10 years”) and the climate/culture which has made it so men are afraid of teaching anyone under 25 (and even then they run similar risks)
A surprisingly fair comment from you. Usually you'd tell me to off myself or go on a rant about Jews.
Tenure was designed to stop controversial ideas being avoided. It has been an utter failure at that. Best to scrap it entirely.
Satanic Panic started this one, MeToo was the last nail in the coffin. (casket?)
I was offered a job in teaching, training fully paid and all, a while back. Not a chance in hell. Not a chance in hell. You couldn't pay me enough to risk being called a pedophile because I graded a girl down and she took matters into her own hands.
I think the obvious fix is cameras. I know it's very 1984, but there's no other way. The trust between men and women is shattered.
I'm not sure this is all of it. I think it was intended to benefit not just controversial ideas but unsexy or unprofitable ones, too. The idea is that after a certain point an individual who proved himself would be set free of basically oversight in the hopes that him taking his research any direction he wanted would benefit science more than research done with more supervision. The idea is that managers don't know what line of investigation might yield useful results. That people who have proved themselves to have scientific acumen know this better on their own.
Of course this isn't working either with professors now chasing grants and trying to work on whatever they can profit from at a startup.
I mean, I think the entire system of western education is built on such a flawed premise that it's better to shelve it all and focus on more independent and home/community focused learning so that those that show the initiative can grow more without the restrictions of state education whereas those that don't care to seek further development can survive their own way.
But that's my more pessimistic view on education thanks to the amount of force fed propaganda I see.
At the very least, a total redesign; we don't need factory workers, after all.
I've been homeschooling for a few years, and I love it, but there are some limitations. I'd honestly rather have a local school, like we have now, where parents are simply much more involved.
Ideally, every class would have a teacher with training on how to prepare lessons and create exercises. The teacher would have 2-3 parents assisting them by working with the kids individually, who would rotate so that every parent would have to put in some time. As I mentioned elsewhere, classes would have the same kids K through 8 so the parents and teachers would build a raport over the years, promoting culture.
With these highly trained teachers and hands-on parents, curricula could be designed at the school level based on State-wide standard tests. Exchanges could be done with schools who consistently score high on tests to create best practice guidelines to help schools that are struggling.
Well you can't do that with cookie cutter public schools. People seem to want to make our schools even more uniform, envious of tiny countries whose uniformity transcends the schoolhouse. No one tells us to emulate the countries our own size and larger. If that's too few countries for you, then allow for somewhat smaller ones, too. Just once you get to the size of a single state or smaller you better be comparing to the best state in the country.
I'm reluctant to endorse homeschooling.
You hit the problem of what happens when the only influence in the child's life is a malicious mother teaching him to hate himself, and it's very difficult to get around it.
The most likeliest solution to get approved and have an immediate effect is cameras with a private live stream for parents and then store the recordings for about 30 days or so.
Students won't be on camera for obvious reasons, just the teachers.
Even if the feed is locked up offline just the threat of evidence and accountability will still fix a lot of the problems.
Girls won't even accuse their male teacher if they know the video will just be pulled up and they'll be proven a liar.
Feminist teachers will be afraid of teaching anything besides the curriculum knowing any kid can complain and have the teacher's bigotry used against them.
I wouldn't bet on that one.
Especially as a female employee could make the footage disappear.
Nah, I mean, there's enough women dumb and entitled enough that they think that a man should be punished even when there's video footage proving that he didn't do anything wrong just because a dumb cunt said so.
No evidence, accusation dismissed.
Right now, I'd be worried enough teachers don't want to submit to that that you'd have an even bigger teacher shortage. I mean if your school district already has a waiting list, then by all means. It's going to be hard to do this in places where teachers have a lot more rights and power than parents. Even if you get a law passed. People do not want to work for these school districts. Anything you do to make their job worse makes staffing that much harder.
And it will make it worse. However I feel about teachers, parents can be just as bad. For certain values of parents, them not watching is a good thing.
A teacher who's doing their job won't care.
A teacher that's indoctrinating children will absolutely protest, because they want to manipulate children and you're taking that away from them.
If teachers leave because they're not "comfortable", there's a high probability that they were indoctrinating children and don't deserve to be "teaching" children.
At the end of the day, for public school teachers, they're funded by tax payers and, therefore, beholden to tax payers. They do not enjoy the same privileges as private institutions.
I would care. If people actually watch and criticize this would quickly get overwhelming. Not just legit criticism of lesson plans. Parents are going to be complaining that their Johnny doesn't get more attention. Parents are going to complain if their children get disciplined. The only mitigating factor I can think of is that the worst parents will probably be the most likely to ignore the videos, but busybody parents are about to become more of a pain.
I like the idea of having video tapes, in case a question arises whether a teacher broke a rule, but I'd rather use them like security footage than a broadcast. We already have a pretty powerful feedback mechanism in that parents get to talk to their children. Sure a child is a bit of an unreliable narrator, but that's something adults can work through. Lesson plans should absolutely be shared with parents.
That's my guess of what will happen, but I hope somebody tries it. If these problems are going to happen, they will happen quickly.
If it were a college, you'd have a point. But it's not college, where a lecture is given and students are expected to to do everything on their won. If a child is failing or doesn't understand the subject material, a teacher has a responsibility to get involved and help them out.
If they don't have a case against the teacher, no disciplinary action against the teacher would be taken. If they do have a case, then disciplinary action against the teacher is warranted.
It's not like children don't talk to their parents about what goes on in the classroom, whether they're telling the truth or not. Many kids have smart phones in class and also record what goes on, but only for stuff that they care about.
Also, it's not like teachers don't deal with bad parents as it is.
Worst case scenarios: cameras wouldn't change anything.
Best case scenario: cameras would tell us who's lying and who's telling the truth.
It's the same thing with cops wearing body cams and that's been one of the best things that's ever happened with law enforcement, for both the public and the police officers.
I'm assuming we're going more idealist rather than realist here.
Use the DoE to ban the LGBTP groomer shit nation wide and impose basic math and literacy requirements.
Teach sexual dimorphism and HBD.
Allow racial segregation.
Fire nearly 100% of current teachers and administrators.
Hire new teachers who are based and pay them better.
Gut the education requirements for teachers so they are reduced to a few basics about dealing with children and otherwise consist of relevant field expertise.
Expel violent little bastards who are irredeemable.
Don't let sports be pro-sports pipelines and instead use them as fitness/communal activities.
I'm not sure banning talking about being gay at every level is the best idea. I thought there already were math and literacy requirements?!
No. We don't need to teach stay at home mom propaganda. They leech enough.
No, because then women will demand their own schools for the same reason and they will suck up all the tax dollars.
That's aside from the moral issues with this.
Please.
Depends on what you mean by based.
It would be nice to cut the "if you can't do, teach" pipeline.
I don't see why not. It would be good for everyone.
Seems logical, but it would create a large disparity with the college system.
Seriously? Sure, on paper, there are requirements but anyone who has spent even a few minutes looking at educational results knows that those requirements are being consistently not met, and ignored.
In 2019, 40% of US high school seniors failed to achieve "Partial mastery of fundamental knowledge and skills". On reading, that number was 30%. Only 37% were proficient at reading, and only 24% were proficient at math. Plus, the next time that data is looked at, those numbers are going to massively tank due to the damage done by the covid lockdowns (the recent reports on 4th and 8th grade students both showed massive drops)
And that's national level data. In a lot of places, it is even worse. From February, there were 23 schools in Baltimore which did not have a single student proficient in math, and another 20 schools where there were only 1 or 2 students who scored as proficient.
Step 1 in fixing the educational system is start holding students back when they fail to meet the requirements, and start mass firings (beginning with the administration) if the students consistently fail to meet requirements.
I can't even blame this on women, their malice is obvious when looking at other metrics but the system itself is flawed beyond belief to produce these results.
I hate the idea that public sector workers are just rewarded for trying. It should be more ruthless, like the corporate world. If you don't achieve your targets, you're out.
Of course, this kind of environment will have to have higher pay to be viable and that's probably why these jobs are so comfortable. It compensates for the private sector's higher pay.
It is so, so, SO much worse than that. I've said this before on here I think, but I'm a community (junior) college computer science/IT professor. Probably about half my colleagues don't bother giving final exams in their classes. Many of them have a noticeable (10% or even more in some cases) portion of the student's grade in college level coursework (yes, anyone who wants to feel free to make jokes about community colleges being a continuation of high school, I've heard them all, but it's supposed to be college coursework) be "did you show up to class?". Because, when you fail Jimmy there's a chance Jimmy or Jimmy's parents start whining, and that gets escalated to the administration - and THAT gets into how most public sector employees function.
You do not try, unless absolutely necessary. Not only does trying potentially require effort on your part, but if you try you might have to get your boss involved, and if your boss has to get involved and maybe actually do some actual work then you might get in trouble. No, the goal of most public sector employees is "shut up the person on the other end of the desk/phone/etc. so they don't get the boss involved." And in an educational setting, that is just floating students through regardless of how little they actually know, because the lazy incompetent with a C who did nothing all semester will almost certainly be glad to take it and leave, whereas some of them may complain if they get a F. (Fortunately my department chair agrees with me on trying to have some rigor so he is willing to have my back in those cases, but I know at least 2 cases - one of mine and one from another professor in my department - did get escalated past him to the administration this past semester).
(and that holds for probably all public sector stuff, not just education. If you have time, listen to this playlist of a guy [Louis Rossmann, a few of his videos have shown up here before] spending literal days trying to figure out how a lien got placed on his business by New York City, and how to resolve it only to get bounced from department to department to department because no one in the bureaucracy even understands their own systems).
That's one way to put it, even then it is worse than anyone outside the system can imagine. At the high school level (and lower) in the US, it is even worse. Thanks primarily to No Child Left Behind (from George W Bush) and also other US Department of Education policies, it is nearly (if not literally) impossible to fail someone in high school. And that is not an exaggeration. You are forbidden from giving someone below a 50% (or is it 60%, not sure) as their grade in the first quarter of the school year even if the student does absolutely no work and gets a 0 on every exam - because a lower score is too difficult for them to make up. If a student does no work all year, and comes to you with 2 weeks left and says "I want to make up all the work I did not do" you are obligated to give them make up assignments, and give them credit for those makeups. And in the unlikely event that someone does fail a class, the district gives them some remedial stuff to do over the summer and then they're considered good to go for the next year. The US educational system is literally training people that they don't need to do anything they don't want to do, then they can just whine if things will end badly and their whining will be catered to.
It wouldn't be a ban about acknowledging gays exist, just not allowing "selling" the stuff.
Whatever requirements we supposedly have aren't working. What I mean is bare-minimum stuff where you can't get a diploma if you're an illiterate retard. As a Brit Bong, I don't think you understand how bad American schools truly are. There are actual illiterate people with diplomas because the schools just rubber stamp kids who don't do their work or pass tests. That's what I want to stop.
WTF are you talking about? If you reject sexual dimorphism, people will start calling you a tranny again.
I'm not particularly concerned about sex-segregated schools. I don't think they need banning, maybe monitoring them at worst. It's racial integration that is immoral and is causing many horrible things to happen. Just let people segregate.
We both know we're not going to agree on what "based" means. That's not going to have much direct relevance to this discussion.
College sports in the US is an extremely corrupt pipeline to pro-sports and is, in many instances, already a pro-sport anyway.
That's concerning. No wonder the qualifications to get a basic job keep rising.
I'm just not a fan of "Women are better at X and men are better at Y" logic. It usually ends up with men dying in war while women sit on their fat asses. See how the right thought it was so "based" to vote against drafting women.
The irony of it all is that if you ask an unbiased AI, I'm not sure it could actually come up with something women are genuinely better at. Raising kids is a no, their infanticide rate is ridiculous. Cooking is a no, most of the best chefs are men. Anything to do with empathy is not likely due to their in-group bias.
Correct. I'm still not entirely sure I understand it. They don't get paid, for reasons that don't make much sense, and their studies suffer so if they fail as athletes, they're fucked.
You have a lot to learn about America. These have been tired, dead horse issues for my parents let alone me.
One thing on the college sports thing, they actually lifted that ban on getting paid right before COVID hit so the top college players are getting million dollar endorsement deals now.
The whole system needs uprooting.
1,
Inclusion needs to be mostly thrown out. It's all well and good for the kid with a bit of a limp, or poor vision, or something minor which can be compensated for to be fully included. But we've swung far too far in the wrong direction where everyone's education is impacted by violent and screaming distractions. They learn far less because they're not getting the specialist care they need, just an EA under a teacher trying to educate 29 other kids. And the 29 learn far less because the kid is screaming, throwing shit, and just disrupting the whole class.
But also the past went a bit far, isolating people of disabilities when it wasn't necessary.
Ask anyone who went through the old systems, an old specialist school for cerebral palsy for example, and you'll commonly hear that they've swung too far, and that the schools set up to deal with a specific disability had a lot of merit. The whole place was set up to deal with that disability, and because it was the school's specialty, the teachers and aids essentially become experts in it.
There's a mid point that some schools do, specialist modules attached to larger schools. That way you have the best of both worlds, they need to learn to cope in wider society, but also you have a school that is better equipped to handle their issue and it is far more economical to outfit that school to suit that particular disability. AND you can consolidate staff. Sign language interpreters for the signing deaf kids for example, instead of each kid in a separate school needing a separate (and usually unqualified) interpreter, you can run classes with just the one good teacher of the deaf or interpreter.
Admin out, teachers in. It's become far too top heavy.
Gut the arguments of the teacher's unions by paying them for a full year and have them work for that period also. And there's a good use for that 4th quarter:
Lumping everyone aged the same into the same group? Asinine. They are all taught to the average so that the gifted kids get bored and lazy, while the kids who are behind get left behind, with no chance of catching up. Things should be far more flexible with kids floating between different year groups. A 3rd year student excels at maths? Move them up a 'year' into 'lvl 4', but poor at English, well for English period you're down in 'lvl 2'. Easy.
The issue with that though is that you can excel at something, but to actually move to a higher year has requisite knowledge that you've not been taught. This is where the other 3 months can be used, it's for when kids meet the criteria for skipping a grade for a topic, but need to cram some prerequisite knowledge to be able to do so.
That's just trimming at the edges though, and making the existing system good. What really needs to happen is that most of highschool/year 8 onwards needs to be thrown out. For centuries, man has learnt to socialize from older men in a craft. The apprenticeship model is how we are made to function. Sending your kids to school so they learn to socialise is a grave error. They aren't learning to socialise as young adults, they're learning an entirely artificial and dysfunctional system, being taught to socialise by their other teen peers who learnt it from other peers. Garbage in, garbage out. Far better to learn to socialise from adults who are socializing with each other more healthily, and for those young teens to aspire to earn their respect.
Male teachers aren't enough. 1 man cannot teach 30 kids how to socialise. It would help, but it's woefully insufficient. They need to be learning to socialise in the environment we actually want them to be able to function in.
I like #4, but that also relies on having functional standardized tests.
What is "Level 2" and how does a student acheive it. Will all Level 2 students at a school have the same proficiency? Home about across the Board? Or the country?
The biggest advantage I can see of bringing different ages together is that there's no more of this "no child left behind" feel-goodery.
I picture a system where each teacher takes a group of kids from K-8. Every year, a few more graduate and there's a new crop of kindergardeners; older students are expected to mentor and guide the younger students. Curriculum is clearly laid out and tests are done quarterly, if the student is ready. Some classes are general, but each school will have classes that focus on things like music, history, engineering, athletics, etc that students can transfer to if they meet the prerequisite levels.
I'd also like the general classes to actually run the school, insofar as possible. Stuff like cleaning classrooms, basic maintenance, grounds keeping, and food programs could all be run by classes of kids. This way, everyone gets a turn doing the nitty gritty that keeps the school running, and they also get the choice of pursuing academics or something more grounded.
Yeah it's details need ironing out, and how wide the standards are needs thinking about, but the broad idea is far better than what is done atm imo>
I do like the maintenance class. Makes sense, teaches trades, teaches responsibility, and teaches skills needed to maintain a home too. Good call.
Kick out the Unions and all the leftists that gained control of the school boards. More quality male teachers would probably help too.
His question is irrelevant, he just wants to rant about something [women] again but under the guise of an actual topic. You know, how most Leftoids do.
Initially yes, it was college which infected the teacher trainer which infected k-12. But now that k-12 is infect that is who will populate the teacher training.
Both need addressing, simultaneously.
Kids in our area attend a school district where the PTA influences the school board.
This is an affluent suburban district and the PTA funds are essential to providing classrooms with the latest tech, site trips, free supplies, etc.
The PTA also steers parents on how to vote for members of the school board.
You don't fuck with privileged Karens that want little Gunner to grow up a well educated manly man who can provide for a pretty wife with great genetics for those grandchildren, and also take care of Karen in her old age.
It'll be incredibly difficult to purge feminist/liberal teachers because of unions and lack of good teachers with degrees.
What can be done is make them afraid to show their crazy beliefs.
If degeneracy is not acceptable in general society then those teachers will still be loons but they'll keep it to themselves. That's where things being merciless on Bud / Disney, never letting up and never forgiving comes in. Swing the pendulum back as fast and hard as you can.
parental choice & vouchers.
privatize & eventually eliminate all public schools.
Ending their state enforced monopoly.
Eliminate public school as it exists today and allow parents to take their kids to any school they want. Take the funds diverted to public schools and divert them to an education voucher for parents instead, they will vote with their wallets.
Rethink the basic curriculum so that our kids are actually learning useful things and can tangibly apply their learned skills. For mathematics, this means eliminating bullshit like imaginary numbers and advanced geometry, and adding a greater emphasis to statistics, basic algebra, and data comprehension. For history, this means learning about history's broad strokes before deep-diving into any specific subject. Your state and country history should also be emphasized before anything else. For science, the scientific method should be the only thing that is absolutely taught.
With the base curriculum simplified so that students learn core fundamental skills, students should be given the opportunity to study subjects of their choice in greater detail via electives. choosing a class makes it more likely for the student to be engaged with the class's material and therefore have motivation to learn.
Finally, hold students more to adult standards when it comes to crime. if there's a fight, charge the students involved with assault as appropriate. if there is a theft, charge thief as appropriate. if someone is relentlessly bullied or gained up on, put restraining orders on the table. if a student is caught abusing the system, put them up for fraud. Deck the Halls with passively monitored security cameras, regularly use footage when settling disputes. Schools, especially public schools, have devolved into prison rules which is not a good environment for a developing mind.
At this point, nothing short of abolishing the dept. of education and giving the tax money to families for homeschooling (only net taxpayers will receive homeschool funds)
A race for ai driven education software that offer better results than traditional schools and that can be used at home.
Current schools put kids in an environment where other kids have more influence on their future than adults. This makes them vulnerable to shit trends (eg: tranny cult) on top of not preparing them for adult social life. So the first step is obviously to take them out of that environment and back to their home.
Step 2 is replacing the traditional teacher model.. it is flawed because there is no real standard of quality between teachers so getting a good one is basically lottery. There's also no way to personalize the education to the need of the individual kid since it needs to be delivered to multiple kids at the same time. This is a major pain point as it hinder downs the progress of smarter kids who are forced to follow along at a slower pace while dumber kids must rush through things they barely understand. Software can fix all of these issues.
The main problem with this software homeschool approach though is social life. For this, I would want gov and corpo to work together to have kids go into work places and help out for a percentage of their education. This can both give good working skills to kids on top of socializing them in an adult environment. Business can win by getting free labour and future employees for free. A minimum of age would be required of course. This is a proven model that used to work for generations before our time. Could also be charity organizations instead of businesses.
End the federal Dept of Education to reduce the ease of politics influencing schools. Send the writers of the "dear colleague" letter to the gallows. Same for the "no child left behind" group.
Then implement a near-fascist system of education. Not fully fascist but about the opposite end of the spectrum from today's "who gives a shit, do whatever!" So, pretty severe.
Accountability will be a word that carries repercussions. No capital punishment for poor performance, but definitely something real uncomfortable for laziness, like jail, where you will earn your release by meeting the expectations that were failed to be met followed by probation. They have the ability and will be required to perform.
Rules & expectations will be clear and severely enforced. Failure to conform will result in severe punishment, such as jail, for the parents & child. This way parents will be involved as their freedom depends on it. The family will be required to work with their child on the three Rs outside of the classroom. Students will regularly demonstrate proficiency in the three Rs or be held accountable.
Administrators will be constantly scrutinized. Extensive feedback systems will be employed to give staff, parents and students the ability to participate in this scrutiny.
First year teachers will have already been drilled on classroom management before eligible for hire. Regular refresher training on classroom management will be mandatory. Students and their parents will receive similar behavioral training.
Electronics will not be permitted as personal possessions of the students at all. Electronics that are to be used for schoolwork with be severely restricted particularly in regard to internet access. Electronics usage will not be the default for classwork, pencil and paper will.
Dress codes and uniforms.
The elimination of the majority of IEPs and 504 plans. They are handed out like candy. Parents would practically need to demonstrate the necessity for either before a judge, or better, the teacher who has to actually implement that and work with it.
Special Education teachers will have to earn their paychecks rather than only working when it comes time to copy and paste last years' IEP with some minor wording changes for this year. Some assistant could do that.
The students will be limited to 12 per classroom, single or co-taught class, same amount. An individual teacher will not be responsible for more than 80 students a semester. Parents will work as paraprofessionals in the same building and classrooms as their students at times, in addition to full time paras.
Schools themselves will be limited in total population size. None of these 1,000+ students schools will be permitted. 100 students would be good, 400 would be the maximum that would require special, demonstrable need and additional, ongoing scrutiny.
Grievances will follow the "innocent until proven guilty" system. No complaining about shit you have no evidence of to offer at the time of complaint. Anything less is dismissed with prejudice.
General lesson plans and the tasks given to students will be available online for the public to access. Not some minute by minute bullshit accompanied by a script of every word the teacher will say. "Wednesday will cover the history of democracy with a lecture on Greece and Rome" with the assignments, would be plenty. Anyone wanting more detail can to come shadow their kid.
A system for students to be in the level of education that meets their current ability. The kid who is good at reading and writing will be in the higher level but held back in math where they are not at level. Class population size will still be in effect, requiring additional teachers.
Curriculum will focus on the three Rs primarily. The core of ability. Any student who is well prepared here will possess the ability to achieve in most anything. Physical fitness will also be treated with respect and importance.
hmm thats a toughie,
no child leftbehind going away is a good start. but i think the problem is partly schools are not allowed to really even atempt to fund themselves. thanks to things like grants and what not from the us gov if told to jump the response they only have would be how high, changing that can allow schools to have a bit more autonomy with how they persue things granted yes this runs the risk of turning schools into a sweatshop or door to door salesmen annoyance if this happens is the kids need to be payed fairly for any work that makes profit and be able to list the school as work experence for any future resume.
annother set of things that needs to hapen, schools need to be as neutral as possable when it comes to instilling morals, thats the parrents job. i wouldnt want my hypothetical kid being taught satanism just as much as i wouldent want them taught christianity unless i was the one doing it.
annother thing that i think might improve things. community involvement with incentive of course. from simple charity work to allowing the community to donate money or resources to the school we need to tie the community to the school in a positive way as they are now they kinda are seprate and aloof this can have a positive effect on the students futures as well.
Abolishing government schooling. While it may benefit a state to have educated workers, state schools barely achieve that.
A Voucher program that would allow the money to instead to go to a private or homeschool community would be a huge step in the right direction. The schools should be fighting to be the best in the area that people want to send their kids to.
Reducing their funding if they can't improve educational standards to what they were thirty years back.
From another side of it, as a student I found i could game the female teachers just by being attractive. It sadly prepared me for real life more than I would like to admit. A lot of male students can still do well to go that route and not get marked down.
As a parent I think it's harder strategy but breaking the teachers union should be first.
The amount of female teachers who molest kids is probably way higher than we think.
Why does a teacher's union even exist? Unions are supposed to fight unsafe working conditions, nothing is safer than sitting at a desk grading papers.
Unions are necessary because administrators have proven themselves to be retaliatory against good teachers. They can actually help retain a good teacher who the admins would rather leave as that person disrupts their narrative.
Absolutely. In retrospect I am certain I had at least one teacher who was trying (in 6th year), and I was at a really high-end expensive school no less. She would wear loose top and no bra and lean way over to help me with math among other things. I realize looking back that I was lucky to be clueless and too busy trying to survive to notice.
I had an art teacher who was obsessed with me, but luckily I sucked at art and dropped it (and her) before anything crazy happened.
Who knows, maybe if I couldn't have gotten out of it, I'd have been the next President of France.
They're gonna suck as long as the government runs 'em. The existence of good public schools does nothing to provide a path for the rest of them to get good. The existence of good public schools proves that you can have some good schools no matter what system of organization you use.
The existence of good public school systems in other countries similarly does nothing to help the United States. Stuff that our government does usually sucks. Yet the country still does a lot of things well, because they get done in the private sector.
Someone explain to me what about education makes it different such that only the government can do it well.
As I've said in the past, the problem with the schools comes down to recognizing that the American secondary education system as it is currently structured is frozen in a compromised state that only made sense between the 1940's and 1950's.
To explain this, I need to give you some terminology.
Primary Education - Is defined as what Americans would call grades 1-8. A person who completes primary education should be capable of reading in their native language and performing arithmetic and trigonometric math.
Secondary Education - In most of the world secondary education is bifurcated into two separate systems. Vocational education, and college preparatory education. These are different outcome objectives, with very different needs. To be effective, vocational education needs to be producing the workers the job market needs.
College prep education focuses on two major things: advanced math, and learning the lingua franca (today english, previously french, historically latin). Americans being english speakers, this means that college prep in the US is mostly about math, and sure as hell shouldn't take 4 years.
In the aftermath of WW2, the US was riding high. Economic prosperity was everywhere, and it was possible for most school districts in the country to combine vocational and preparatory education in the same schools.
I want to emphasize: This is not normal. Aside from Canada (which is basically just America in this regard), no other first world nation does this. College prep and vocational secondary education are different programs, and pretty much every European and Asian country forces people to decide, at a younger age, what path they want to try for.
But for a brief while after the war, the US was able to pretend that its high schools could offer vocational education. Then the baby boom hit and this illusion went to shit. In the face of surging enrollment numbers, schools had to drop hiring in favor of emergency facilities expansions, which would stress budgets for decades. Across the country, voc-ed took the worst hits, staying basically frozen in a 1950's state of affairs until the late 80's when Apple Computer came along.
To pick up the slack, community colleges emerged and quickly grew in the '70s and '80s, providing the actual voc ed programs that the high schools neglected.
What should have happened at this point is that the community colleges should have become alternative options for secondary education. That is, you could attend a CC as if it was a vocational high school.
Obviously, this didn't happen. And so the the US secondary school system rotted into its current state where everyone is given a college prep education that takes entirely too long.
Complete evacuation, followed by flamethrowers?
Nah, to be more serious, deregulation, competition, and decoupling from the government (especially federal) as much as possible. The teachers themselves are a massive problem, but at least if you allow competition and school choice, and get rid of the complete monopoly, "woke" schools would have to compete with sane schools.
Kick out the Activists and keep them out
Larger focus on getting kids ready for life outside of school
Getting rid of Public Sector teacher unions
Cutting all the useless degrees and reconsolidating resources around degrees that actually matter (STEM, Finance, Law, Education maybe, History, Geography etc)
Larger focus on vocational studies and trades
School choice
Ensure there's no extreme ideological slant in teachings
That's all I can think of from a strict policy standpoint. Other suggestions are more societal things you can't really change with a pen stroke.
AI will make very soon make physical schools obsolete.
There will still be taxpayer-funded warehouses to corral kids while their parents go contribute to GDP (or sit around spending welfare money), but the notion of that being for education is pretty much finished.
Instead the "education" will be a step-by-step state-approved curriculum that parents or the state-employed babysitters at the warehouses will make the kids go through. The system will eventually be gamified to use corporate sponsored tax-writeoff bribes to make the kids "self-motivated." The AI pedagogue will grade and otherwise assess progress, moving the kids between assignments with infinite granularity between skill levels so each student learns at exactly his own pace and each subject is perfectly tailored to his specific interests at the moment. This feedback will yield a treasure trove of psychometric and marketing data and create customer profiles starting from as soon as the kid has the capability to interact with a touchscreen.
And, like every standardized system, there will need to be a lot of lampshading and euphemization so that nobody has to outright say that at least half of the black kids are retarded and unfit to function in modern society.
The fight will be over who controls the curriculum, AI weighting systems and its training. If we are lucky there will be options and the default for based states will no longer be the gay commie agenda that has been the status quo for the last 3/4 of a century.