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  • MadMo44Mag

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    Yep there is truth in that there video!!!!
    My son after graduating high school had already figured out that pubic school had prepared him to NOTHING!!!!!
    That's why as soon as he graduated he took a carrier path in the Army. I did no pushing or prompting; he figured this out on his own and I am dam proud of that fact.
    Even at 18 years old he could see that public schools were a joke.
    I went to public school and graduated in 1979 and luckily for me I had good common sense and made some good choices. Now I have a decent paying job and work from home - what a sweet deal!!!!
    I have friends though that graduated in the same class and because of a lack of common sense and a public school education, they are just barley above the Mc Donolds employee.
     

    Okierifleman

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    My public school education was a joke. When I got to college I thought I was on another planet. Homework? What is homework?

    On the other hand, I had a lot of fun in high school.....
     

    JimmyGreen

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    Public school is a joke. Hell, I knew more about history than my history teacher. I remember vividly that for the final exam, she KNEW her answer key had gotten out and was being passed around the class. I watched as the answer key passed from student to student and finally made it's way back up to her desk. I didn't need the answers...because as it was known, history was my strong point. Well, every one turns in their test and she goes off to run them through the scantron. She comes back and hand a few people their test back, including me. She then tells us that "They're gonna find out ya'll cheated if you don't make at least some of your answers wrong." So the others went and changed a few while I looked at her with amazement. I politely looked at her and said, "Mrs. Brown, I aint changing sh**, I earned my perfect score the old fashion way. I refuse to "dumb-down" just to satisfy someone else". She laughed and left mine the way it was. I guess in her eyes, she was "helping" her students pass. But in reality, she was helping no one. Her intentions may have been good, but her and other teachers like her are what made the education at Sam Houston High School pretty much, well, useless. She was very good friend...even came to the house lots of times and became great friends with my mama, but she wasn't that great of a teacher because of her "helping" students pass exams.
     

    oldguy

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    Liberal schools do hurt our country we see the harm in our current administration.

    I heard on radio past few days AISD has 12,000 employees, that per radio jock is one for every four students, more and more taxes for worse results.


    As a senior who has adult children I would suggest if you have children or plan on having do all you can to place them in private school, home school anything but public school, actually that is the only way for America to win the war with left wingers.
     

    Hoji

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    Careful there DCortez. The government school apologists will come in and whine, cry, and troll the thread till it gets locked.

     

    idleprocess

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    If people gave a damn about public school, it could be reformed. Instead, the people that get all fired up about tend to home school - which like all choices has upsides and downsides.

    Of course, I have no choice but to discredit that amusing little video since it assumes its audience is Christian and blames public schools for everything happening in the culture at large - school-related or not.
     

    idleprocess

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    Primary education in this country - be it a dismal school in the ghetto, a decent public school, or an elite private school, or the best homeschooling - is a waste of time. A bachelor's degree is a general requirement for a good job not because you learn any particular subject in your studies that you need on the job, but because a high school diploma is no guarantee of competence or functional literacy. When high school became "college prep," it already lost its way. There is no reason that most white-collar jobs should require a bachelors' degree. Given the sheer number of people that get stupid-shit degrees like art history or English only to get a job in industry having nothing to do with Art History or English demonstrates that a great many many bachelors' degree have nothing to do with vocational skills.

    As things stand, most kids are bored to tears with the slow rote learning of primary education, squandering their prime years when they could be learning so much more. By the time they're entering college, they're accustomed to a slow pace and curriculum strongly geared towards the lowest common denominator. The fundamental structure of primary education is its failing as a means of teaching children how to be productive in life.

    I would like to see primary education restructured to maximize learning while students are young and best able to learn. Childhood doesn't need to last until everyone's late 20s.

    Assuming I become benevolent dictator-of-the-world, I would structure the traditional "elementary school" education to give kids a good foundation in reading, writing, math, history, basic science, etc - this would be the only "one size fits all" element. "Middle school" or "junior high" would begin specialization and there would be a number of choices with private schools being readily available. The high school equivalent would be further specialized (and largely privatized); graduates would be able to do basic tasks like plan their time, perform basic research like they'll need to perform on the job, solve problems, and otherwise have the discipline and quality expected of university graduates.

    Not everyone would get the equivalent of a generic "bachelor's degree" under this concept. There would be technical/vocational programs for those that just don't show the aptitude for the more "collegiate" tracks... but they'd offer some avenues for redemption to those that work up and realized that they might not want to be blue collar their entire lives.



    There. I've gotten us off track. Continue criticizing the public school system...
     

    cuate

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    The Liberals Did It

    Public Schools way back when taught the required subjects and a child made passing grades or failed. Then they passed Laws of the Land and dumbed down education so the uneducationable could pass and feel good.

    About this time teachers college requirements because more demanding so they went to Universities where leftist professors were the norm, learning how to "think" as the professors do.

    Than along came Unions which got the teachers more pay, gosh they needed it, schools were pretty stingy with teacher pay but they got the
    liberal slant too. and In Texas the old time school boards ran the schools.
    Nowdays they are guided by books, training and so forth from a bunch of
    liberal women and lawyers out of Austin, their powers have been roped in.
     

    DCortez

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    We need another 80 million dollar stadium. The Berry Center is getting lonely.


    I've lived, and paid taxes, in Cy Fair and think this is a total waste of money.
     

    oldguy

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    reading, writing, math, history, basic science, etc -

    The above only should be taught, not about relationships, liberal ideology, etc, however I certainly do not give parents a free ride because they too are selfish and want a baby sitter year around, if you don't want to spend time with your kids please don't have them,our society and jails are filled with the results of the past 40 years of neglect.

    I really do not think public schools can be fixed, perhaps if we could remove the influnce of federal government then we may have a chance.
     
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