Is she a good pick? DOes seem kinda weird to have a charter school woman run our public school system. Hopefully all kids have access to great education in the coming years.
I taught in economically depressed areas and ghettos. Nowadays you have to pay teachers 90k a year to get them to stay in those places while all the best teachers prefer the cushy rich districts even if it means less money. Nobody wants to teach in a building where you worry your car or classroom will be broken into. There is no such thing as access to good schooling without the option of charter schools. Let the parents who do actually care send their kids to charter schools even if it means vouchers and buses. I felt so bad for all of my students especially the ones who wanted to learn. You can't fix the problems by continuing to promote students through shitty schools when they don't know how to read and write.
Yeah, that was my problem growing up, the run-down circus of a school I went to. We homeschooled our kids.They're all doing great. Of course, it's pretty hard for some to do this.
I felt so bad for all of my students especially the ones who wanted to learn.
Your quote sounds like it's right out of this ex award-winning teacher's book, John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education. Thanks for your service!
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fred34285 ago
Yeah, it certainly appears that even Ms. DeVos has 52 votes - Sessions should have far in excess of that, or in a partisan shit-fest exactly that.
It's so fun to observe that stalling of his nomination may be the only thing that gives the (R)s enough votes to get Ms. DeVos through.
fred34285 ago
She wound up with 50...and VP Pence broke the tie.
Epic #winning
weedageddon ago
Is she a good pick? DOes seem kinda weird to have a charter school woman run our public school system. Hopefully all kids have access to great education in the coming years.
bopper ago
There is no 'education' in public schools, just indoctrination. Read John Taylor Gatto.
cakeoflightylight ago
I taught in economically depressed areas and ghettos. Nowadays you have to pay teachers 90k a year to get them to stay in those places while all the best teachers prefer the cushy rich districts even if it means less money. Nobody wants to teach in a building where you worry your car or classroom will be broken into. There is no such thing as access to good schooling without the option of charter schools. Let the parents who do actually care send their kids to charter schools even if it means vouchers and buses. I felt so bad for all of my students especially the ones who wanted to learn. You can't fix the problems by continuing to promote students through shitty schools when they don't know how to read and write.
bopper ago
Yeah, that was my problem growing up, the run-down circus of a school I went to. We homeschooled our kids.They're all doing great. Of course, it's pretty hard for some to do this.
Your quote sounds like it's right out of this ex award-winning teacher's book, John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education. Thanks for your service!