(06-09-2017, 11:02 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: Six schools in Baltimore (5 high schools, one middle school) had ZERO students proficient in math or English.


http://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-bal...tate-tests

Hey look here, those teachers weren't teaching to the test! Those students got a real education.

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(06-10-2017, 11:00 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(06-10-2017, 10:10 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Education begins at home. We've destroyed the American home and now we reap the results. No school can overcome the smoldering ruins of the homes in their surrounding neighborhoods.

This is true as well. It's rare you ever hear about a stay at home mom these days. Most parents in most locations are forced to work day and night to make ends meet. Barely make ends meet at that. When I was a kid in the 90s and early 00's. I always had my parents home. They could work and be there during the evening. So I was getting plenty of help, teaching, guidance and support through them. 

Fast forward to nowadays. It's rare. Very rare to see that. And technology has also sapped everyone's attention as well. It bothers me to no hell's end when me and my wife go out to dinner and you see a family of maybe four or five just sitting there GLUED to their phones. Rarely talking, laughing or making eye contact with one another. And anytime someone asks a question they don't know an answer to. Guess what? 

Youtube it! Google it! God forbid you take your son or daughter out to a library for a few minutes and do it the old way. Or you take your son or daughter outside physically to see how to fix a car or repair something around the house hands on. 

Sad times man. The meek will inherit the Earth at this rate. The survivors have always passed down the best skills and techniques. I have a terrible feeling that comes to an end by 2050 - 2100.

I agree overwhelmingly with this. The two worker household has done nothing but make us poorer in more than just money. Its funny that equality just meant lower pay for everyone so that one spouse can't afford to stay home for most people. Also the thing about families on thier phones in resturantes. That gets me too. I was at some hipster pizza joint the other day and well over half the people there were just looking at their phones, not paying attention to anyone across from them. Its crazy, and whats even worse is it isn't just 'young,' I see plenty of people who are 50+ doing it too. People are addicted to technology and 'social networks' that are anything but an actual network most of the time.

And yes, I know we are on a message board, but still this is totally different. We are engaging over common interests, not wasting time browsing nothing, and most of us are not spending all day on here. Its really sad when I see a group of people eating together, and none of them even look up from their phones at each other.

I also agree about problems coming around the corner. Too many people have let technology erode any skills they have. They have gotten so dependant on other overspecialized workers that they couldn't support themselves (like in the 'keep yourself alive without a grocery store for a month' kind of sense) even if they wanted too. If the great depression happened today, a lot more people would die, cause hardly anyone is growing their own food.

Caldrac got me way off topic now. This one is gonna be a 20 pager.

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(06-10-2017, 03:15 PM)Vicbow Rules Wrote: ....

I agree on the most part with what you have written. I think that education should not be run like a for profit business. Especially when I look at the College situation, I can't think of one for-profit school that is better than a State School. Its not true competition when the government is giving all the loans to just anyone, and the system won't innovate in that environment IMO. State funds should not goto schools. Thats the only way you will see real improvement.

True private schools in primary education (not charter) often do outperform Public. They have to, to justify their existence, and convince parents to send their kids there. Without that incentive (see for profit colleges that just have to meet the minimum accreditation guidelines) they would end up being equivalent to a lower level degree mill (University of Pheonix Charter School Duval, don't you want your kid to go there?). If a school couldn't survive without government funds, than it shouldn't exist.

I get it, that school is partly babysitting for the poor classes to help make more factory workers, but really it should be more than that.

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