Public schools in this country are, by and large, swamps of miseducation. The evidence of failure is rampant, and yet we allow the “soft” lobotomizing of students to continue when amelioration would be soooo easy.
13. Require remedial education for PARENTS when their children fail to attain…
12. Objective standards in reading, math, written English.
11. Burn down “schools of education” and
10. Put education professors and remote educrats to work on chain gangs making big rocks into little rocks (as punishment for their abuse of students)
9. Vouchers.
8. Pay school administrators at minimum wage. Give them bonuses for keeping their mouths shut.
7. Introduce State and Federal politicians who want to “fix” public education (after having been one of the chief causes of its problems) to Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether. Seriously. *heh*
6. Shoot Big Bird and all his partners in crime.
5. Eliminate “No Child Gets Ahead” (disingenuously named by politicians, “No Child Left Behind”)–the current political attempt to create the world of Harrison Bergeron as filtered through the rose colored glasses of Lake Wobegon…
4. Track students. Face it, we do NOT live in Lake Wobegon. Half of the students ARE “below average” in intellectual ability. Only a very few can benefit from a genuine university experience. But we keep insisting that kids need to prepare for college, when less than a third of them really can qualify… (and that’s part of the reasonj that colleges are now turning out students who graduate as illiterates *sigh*)
3. Fire crappy teachers. Really. Credentialitis has now laded school systems down with folks who really do make a mockery of even the old slander “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach,” so that it is now all too often, “Those who can, do; those who can’t, can’t teach either… but they have tenure!”
2. Let each and every local school board determine what subjects will be taught, what services will be offered, what teachers will be hired and fired, without outside interference.
And the number one thing that we can do to improve public education in America is…
1. Completely, totally, absolutely and permanently extirpate ANY messing around with public education by the “feddle gummint”–including razing to the ground every office that houses Education Department educrats and their evil *heh* minions, seizing all the assets of these blood sucking parasites and putting them to work on chain gangs with their buddies, the FORMER education professors.
Now, I know some very fine teachers who teach in public schools (AKA “prisons for kids”) who do their utmost to lead the little honyocks in their care into some semblance of civilization, despite the interference of politicians, bureaucrats, administrators and parents (who are themselves, now, all too often “edu-lobotomized” products of a failing system). I am even aware of a few (yes, a few) good schools where teachers, parents, students and the rare administrator have fought the good fight against the fall of night.
But these exceptions to the rule are far too few.
And yes, I know there are other things that can be done to improve public education, but NONE of them will be done by politicians, remote educrats, professors of education or schools of education. All those segments will do is what they have done for years: create more and more ways to destroy our most precious resource.
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