Question

Are Public Schools Going Down the Tubes?

Answer 1

No, most of the schools in my area have a rating of A . They can't get any better than that.

I went to public schools and so did my kids and most of my relatives....most of them went on to college with high honors, most are professionals..... one graduated Magna Cum Laude from college. He got his education in a public school

Answer 2

It's not so much as what they SHOULD know, common-**** deals with how they unnecessary steps to get there. ******** can no longer be graded on the correct answer, but the steps they took to get that answer.

You did bring up a good point, though, you are taking the time to ensure your ******** learn.

Common-**** teaches ******** the minimum they must know, rather than teaching them to excel at achieving their goals. If, like you, me and many other families, we spend time ensuring our ******** learn the practical applications of their education, then they are ok. But to just rely on common-**** will just ensure our common substandard system of bringing ******** into the real world.

Answer 3

They have been for 20 or 30 years...multiculturalism is the rage now...forget Reading, Writing,, and Arithmetic now it's about everyone getting A's and 25 - 30 Valedictorians
instead of one Winner...the feel good about oneself is all important now...
Forget about the Postal Worker Evaluation which comes later

Answer 4

Schools are looking at 'the tubes' in the rear view mirror.

Answer 5

They went down the tubes some time ago.

Answer 6

No if anything they are 10 times better than when I was a kid!

Answer 7

Some states are far worse than others. Maine High School graduates who manage to get into college and to graduate do so with the highest college debt in the nation. It takes 4 years for a Maine High School graduate to earn an ********** degree as they have to take two years of remedial courses to make up for what they should have gotten before being handed that High School Diploma and weren't. A Maine High School graduate takes 6 years to earn a bachelor's degree as they spend two years in remedial classes before they are eligible for degree credit courses.

Colleges and universities are looking at doing away with the SAT/ACT as they have come to expect not scoring to standards and the need for remedial classes is now the norm rather than the exception.

Answer 8

But with Common-****, all the states will be able to brag that no state is better than theirs. (or worse).

Answer 9

Not true. Common **** was INTENDED to establish a "****" knowledge to be imparted to every student in each grade. I homeschooled my kids. I had a book for each grade ******, "what your ____grader needs to know" with the grade in the blank. In that book was a list of all the vocabulary words they should know, all the math, all the science, all the history, etc. they needed to know at the *** of that grade. The idea behind that book and Common **** as it was intended was to take us back to the days when a ***** could go to school in one district and move anytime in their school career to another district in any state seamlessly as they had been imparted the same set of skills and knowledge that ALL kids in all districts had.

As with my kids homeschooling, common **** was supposed to keep kids from being advanced to the next grade without that "common ****" of skills and knowledge. Schools would most definitely still be evaluated and so much more easily as we have established bench marks, the imparting of that **** for each grade to go by. If the kids aren't finishing the year having received the "****" the teacher responsible for imparting it and the school are graded accordingly. Common **** doesn't grade the teachers or school, the teachers and schools are graded on imparting the common ****.

Answer 10

That is not what common **** as created by Jeb Bush was. What you see now is a totally senseless distortion of what was created and has done well for Florida. What you have now advertised as "common ****" is a distorted mess created by big unions and curriculum publishers.

As you point out, common **** was supposed to set a "common ****" of knowledge for each grade as a minimum with schools than building upon that. As you have seen instead of starting with the foundation and building the big teachers unions and administrators are teaching to the lowest common denominator the absolute minimum of common ****. As you have seen again, the schools are seeking to cheat our kids out of a good education.

Answer 11

Like my dad always said, a million dollar education with a .50c brain. If the battery goes dead, they are screwed!!

Answer 12

Here come Common **** to make it far worse https://kansansagainstcommonc... https://s-media-cache-ak0.pin...

Answer 13

They're already there. When I was in grade school, I remember going from Catholic to public school and being 1-1/2 years ahead.

Answer 14

They are only going down the toilet in areas that are poor and don't have the money to give a good education because they don't have resources that cost so much.

You don't see that in areas that are high middle class or wealthy communities, they are actually thriving with their education standards because there is plenty of money going to those schools.
But most are poverty stricken.
If one looks back to the times of Kings and Queens you find education was the last thing they wanted, as uneducated people are easier to control, and most american people voted for obama proving we are very controllable because of our lack of education.

Answer 15

NOT true, it isn't how much money is spent, it is how the money is spent. The school district here spends over $12,000 a year per student! They can't read or write for crap, forget math, science, and history. Most of the diploma recipients can't tell you that 9X9 is 81 or who the first US president was. A year of tuition at the state university is less than we taxpayers are swindled out of for a year of "babysitting" at the public schools.

Answer 16

We taxpayers voted for that by voting for the inept people who do nothing to change things, and that was the majority of taxpayers.
The Green Party is the only political party that wants to change the way education is dealt with in America, not the democrats, and not the republicans.

But we the people don't vote for the Green Party, we vote for promises never kept instead!

Answer 17

Could you provide some detail on this Green Party renovation of the public education system? This is the first I've heard anything of it.

Answer 18

Read all about it.

http://www.gp.org/what-we-bel...

Answer 19

No. Instead the people voted for the President who is trying to push Common-**** down the throats of the states who don't want it, as well as trying to eliminate the voucher system and homeschooling.

Answer 20

Yeap.

Answer 21

That was one of the things we forced our ******** to do. At home, they couldn't use calculators until they learned how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide without them. Nowadays, my wife and I would probably be investigate for ***** ************ or neglect.

Answer 22

Standardized testing is a test on how to take tests. There's not much thought when you need to remember what the book tells you and then recall the exact same words on another day when they appear with some more "incorrect" choices.
Sometimes those incorrect answers are just different ways of viewing the proposed question. But that's not a concern for a public school district.

Answer 23

The most effective Soviet Spy for 27 years,and 2nd,or 3rd. in line to run K.G.B., said in a 1985 interview the U.S. ' Educational System ' had been in total control of the Marxist's no later than 1970! It is much worse now.

Answer 24

It definitely depends on where you are. There are better schools in some states than there are in others.

Answer 25

not in my area but in south carolina i'd say they are based on recent news.

Answer 26

And it's Common **** that is doing much of the damage - teaching kids to hate our American form of government and our Founding Fathers! We need to ABOLISH Common ****!!!

Answer 27

And they have been doing so for quite some time now; at least since the mid 80s. One of the biggest problems has been this mindset that says that throwing more money at the problem will solve the problems, and that cutting revenue will cause a decline in educational quality. Both statements are false. I do agree that most teachers' salaries are abysmal, but doing something about it is going to take a lot more than merely giving them raises.

Answer 28

I wouldn't exactly call them schools. They are Public Indoctrination Centers for the Klass of the Liberal Empire, otherwise known as P.I.C.K.L.E.

Answer 29

All the more need for vouchers.

Answer 30

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Answer 31

It's not just the schools. It's the entire country. Our national leadership no longer has the will or desire to do what it takes to lead the country. It's just all about getting votes and getting elected. They buy the votes, which is why we are being crushed under unsustainable debt.

Answer 32

You would think that with all the technology we have today that kids would be learning more but if you take away their calculators and give them a math problem, the are screwed for the most part. Go someplace and buy something with cash and see how long it seems to take to get change. They can't count change back, they just give you back what the machine tells them to. And with the invention of the new common **** junk I'm not sure how they will do math later.

Answer 33

Going? More like gone for some time now.

Answer 34

Our public school system is already down the tubes.

Answer 35

I don't know yet.
******** are getting smarter, actually. Despite popular belief.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/20...

Answer 36

Long gone... it was flushed even before I started going, back in 1979.
The problem is that our "******" are graduating from DAYCARE, not an actual education. They hit *********, not knowing any skills that are useful for most jobs.

Answer 37

People put too much responsibility on the schools. A big chunk of the problem is parents and kids/teens not caring.

Answer 38

Absolutely correct. Students have all of the rights and none of the responsibilities. And with many parents, it's so much easier to blame the teachers. Otherwise, they would have to either take some responsibility for raising their ***** or admit that little Johnny might NOT be the next Einstein.

Answer 39

They are already gone. Teacher's unions and federal government interference are the main culprits, along with a modern culture based on hedonism. My generation was lucky, we received an education based upon common sense in lieu of liberal claptrap. My high school education far surpasses any baccalaureate degree handed out today, indeed the reason a college education is a basic requirement for employment today is the utter failure of the K-12 system.

Answer 40

Going? How about GONE!

Answer 41

I went and read your link. We have all seen what happens when the government takes taxpayer dollars to give more financial aid to college students; the colleges raise their prices leaving no gain for the students. Raising taxpayer funded financial aid does nothing to help students. And the Green Party is in favor of the Big Teachers' Unions which will cost a lot more and get us a lot less education for our kids; that has been proven over and over. Those unions also don't want teachers held accountable so. . .

What the Green Party is opposed to is Charter Schools, the only chance many ******** have to get a good education, most notably poor ******** in inner cities! So if anyone is looking to make sure poor kids don't have a fighting chance, it would be the Green Party with this platform.

With poor kids being ******* of no good schools to go to without Charter Schools and no chance at college as this plan will only make college more expensive and less available to them, they are doomed to poverty for the rest of their lives.

The rest of the platform is more of the DeBlasio crazy government control over what kids can eat, extending the time they are kept from their parents in socialist manipulative school programs.

While the program suggests it supports things like parent invo...

I went and read your link. We have all seen what happens when the government takes taxpayer dollars to give more financial aid to college students; the colleges raise their prices leaving no gain for the students. Raising taxpayer funded financial aid does nothing to help students. And the Green Party is in favor of the Big Teachers' Unions which will cost a lot more and get us a lot less education for our kids; that has been proven over and over. Those unions also don't want teachers held accountable so. . .

What the Green Party is opposed to is Charter Schools, the only chance many ******** have to get a good education, most notably poor ******** in inner cities! So if anyone is looking to make sure poor kids don't have a fighting chance, it would be the Green Party with this platform.

With poor kids being ******* of no good schools to go to without Charter Schools and no chance at college as this plan will only make college more expensive and less available to them, they are doomed to poverty for the rest of their lives.

The rest of the platform is more of the DeBlasio crazy government control over what kids can eat, extending the time they are kept from their parents in socialist manipulative school programs.

While the program suggests it supports things like parent involvement and homeschooling I ****** see that happening with parents and ******** separated many more hours each day in the care of liberal big union teachers and school administrators and much higher taxes will be needed to pay for it forcing parents to work more hours and both parents to work preventing a parent to be home to homeschool.

I suggest others read the information at the link to see for themselves.

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