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.
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.