Imagine a world where every American child had access to top tier education, athletics and three healthy meals a day. Instead we get bussing, affirmative action, racist math, and gay porn.
It is time everyone just realized this problem is not intended to be fixed, otherwise it would have been a long time ago.
Precisely. And the imagine that high intellect students are prepared according to their aptitude and high mechanical students are prepared according to their aptitude and every student had a solid grounding in a classical education. What a world that would be.
Bussing: do we still have bussing? My county has “centers” which gives the best and brightest a chance to go to a “better” school. You are screwed if you are normal in a sucky part of the county.
Alternative action: don’t know if that means anything in k-12. Agree that college is not the place to fix earlier failures.
Racist math: this one boggles me. There are better ways to teach math. When I went to school there was “partial credit” to account for good mathematical thinking but getting the wrong answer. I can see from my kids, that such thinking is not predominating now. Now, there is no partial credit but grade inflation and lots of extra credit. The white supremacy is the “focusing on getting the right answer”.. I agree that the thinking is more important. I am biased. I missed exactly one point on a test (I believe it was ”mass transfer” in chemical engineering when I multiplied 3*2 and got 5. It didn’t affect the answer significantly, and was clearly a stupid math error amongst much more complex concepts. So “white supremacy” in math is stupid, but math is really worth partial credit.
Gay porn: I’m anti porn in general, but that isn’t school that is causing this problem. More regulation? I don’t know, but it’s a weird thing to add to the list of ways the public schools fail us. It’s worth sticking to the utter failure to teach math and reading to graduates.
Amy, why don't the parents move (with their smart kids in tow) to where the opportunity exists? As I recall, there existed a strong pull of talented Hungarians, especially Jews, to Budapest during the early 20th century where intellectual and artistic talent was concentrated. If that's the case where you are, it should be a simple matter for those motivated to do so (even at some level of personal sacrifice) to "vote with their feet," no?
As I recall, there has been a marked drop in people moving for better opportunities. I’m not a sociologist, so I don’t know why. I know when I had the reason to, I did just that. But perhaps that is a mindset not everyone has. I have a lot of cousins, and to the one, the willingness to move away from where they grew up is correlated with their economic success. We are talking white country boys… so…?
Yes, they are teaching gay porn in schools, and no, bussing isn't around anymore, but it once served as a "solution" when the real solution is providing good schools.
Break a mirror, intend to fix it (after your 7 years of bad luck, natch). Have at it.
Mix flour and eggs and sugar and milk together and bake. Then realize you need an egg for something else. Intend to retrieve it from the cake. Have at it.
Not everything is fixable. And almost nothing having to do with people is reversible. Go ahead and break someone's trust in you. That should illuminate matters sufficiently.
Schools are buildings, easily built where and when you want. Good schools are buildings with good students in them. Do you understand the difference?
If you're providing "decent food" to children, then their parents must not be doing so. Why not? How do you propose to change the parents' behavior in tending to their children (or at least have no more of them to be similarly neglected)?
The most significant economic unit, and life is economic at its simplest level, is the nuclear family: a man and woman raising the children they created together. We can bend and tweak and excuse other models out of compassion, but they do not stand up on empirical evidence.
We adopted several children (hold your applause…no signaling here), and the data on all “progressive” family definitions turns up inferior outcomes. Trot out the “bad father” and “blame the victim” narratives, but the core data does not lie.
The problem with Blacks and the lower classes is that we have cavalierly destroyed the family and shamed anyone stupid enough to defend it in mixed company.
Yeah, it helps when you don't sell the economic base out to foreign workers and wreck the neighborhoods, but in the meantime, investing in schools is how you produce to good students.
Investing in quality food and making it available in neighborhoods where today people shop at liquor stores would help to.
You act like this all has been a bottom up problem. It is top down and on purpose.
Imagine a world where every American child had access to top tier education, athletics and three healthy meals a day. Instead we get bussing, affirmative action, racist math, and gay porn.
It is time everyone just realized this problem is not intended to be fixed, otherwise it would have been a long time ago.
Precisely. And the imagine that high intellect students are prepared according to their aptitude and high mechanical students are prepared according to their aptitude and every student had a solid grounding in a classical education. What a world that would be.
Bussing: do we still have bussing? My county has “centers” which gives the best and brightest a chance to go to a “better” school. You are screwed if you are normal in a sucky part of the county.
Alternative action: don’t know if that means anything in k-12. Agree that college is not the place to fix earlier failures.
Racist math: this one boggles me. There are better ways to teach math. When I went to school there was “partial credit” to account for good mathematical thinking but getting the wrong answer. I can see from my kids, that such thinking is not predominating now. Now, there is no partial credit but grade inflation and lots of extra credit. The white supremacy is the “focusing on getting the right answer”.. I agree that the thinking is more important. I am biased. I missed exactly one point on a test (I believe it was ”mass transfer” in chemical engineering when I multiplied 3*2 and got 5. It didn’t affect the answer significantly, and was clearly a stupid math error amongst much more complex concepts. So “white supremacy” in math is stupid, but math is really worth partial credit.
Gay porn: I’m anti porn in general, but that isn’t school that is causing this problem. More regulation? I don’t know, but it’s a weird thing to add to the list of ways the public schools fail us. It’s worth sticking to the utter failure to teach math and reading to graduates.
Amy, why don't the parents move (with their smart kids in tow) to where the opportunity exists? As I recall, there existed a strong pull of talented Hungarians, especially Jews, to Budapest during the early 20th century where intellectual and artistic talent was concentrated. If that's the case where you are, it should be a simple matter for those motivated to do so (even at some level of personal sacrifice) to "vote with their feet," no?
As I recall, there has been a marked drop in people moving for better opportunities. I’m not a sociologist, so I don’t know why. I know when I had the reason to, I did just that. But perhaps that is a mindset not everyone has. I have a lot of cousins, and to the one, the willingness to move away from where they grew up is correlated with their economic success. We are talking white country boys… so…?
Yes, they are teaching gay porn in schools, and no, bussing isn't around anymore, but it once served as a "solution" when the real solution is providing good schools.
Break a mirror, intend to fix it (after your 7 years of bad luck, natch). Have at it.
Mix flour and eggs and sugar and milk together and bake. Then realize you need an egg for something else. Intend to retrieve it from the cake. Have at it.
I do not understand these riddles
Not everything is fixable. And almost nothing having to do with people is reversible. Go ahead and break someone's trust in you. That should illuminate matters sufficiently.
I do not think you are making a cogent argument against building good schools, athletics and providing decent food to children.
Schools are buildings, easily built where and when you want. Good schools are buildings with good students in them. Do you understand the difference?
If you're providing "decent food" to children, then their parents must not be doing so. Why not? How do you propose to change the parents' behavior in tending to their children (or at least have no more of them to be similarly neglected)?
The most significant economic unit, and life is economic at its simplest level, is the nuclear family: a man and woman raising the children they created together. We can bend and tweak and excuse other models out of compassion, but they do not stand up on empirical evidence.
We adopted several children (hold your applause…no signaling here), and the data on all “progressive” family definitions turns up inferior outcomes. Trot out the “bad father” and “blame the victim” narratives, but the core data does not lie.
The problem with Blacks and the lower classes is that we have cavalierly destroyed the family and shamed anyone stupid enough to defend it in mixed company.
Yeah, it helps when you don't sell the economic base out to foreign workers and wreck the neighborhoods, but in the meantime, investing in schools is how you produce to good students.
Investing in quality food and making it available in neighborhoods where today people shop at liquor stores would help to.
You act like this all has been a bottom up problem. It is top down and on purpose.