Analysis Needed to Back Up VDOE Policy Changes
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That would make about as much sense as busing kids from the lower student-to-teacher ratio schools like Mt Vernon to higher student-to-teacher ratio schools like Langley.
Let’s face it, liberals have two plans for education. #1 – Spend more … that hasn’t worked. #2 – Dumb everything down until the curriculum is so easy that it appears everybody is equal.
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No. See it is you who is advocting for a uniform, utiliarian education.
You see K-12 as a mess and a hotbed of radicalism. I see a mess and a hotbed of radicalism by design. Been that way for 200 years.
Ours is the only public school system that was not developed by kings, popes, and potentates. There’s no underlying homage built in.
Like everything public in this country, our legislatures, our courts, and our economy, the public school and its curriculum are based on the adversarial method.
We have over 1200 schools of education conferring 10s of thousands of Bachelors degrees annually, and every school and its graduates bring to the system methods and ideas on teaching. In addition, there are 1000s of Ph.D.s conferred annually to people who will study and determine the effectiveness of the current and devise future systems.
We have more such institutions of higher higher education than the rest of the world COMBINED. Doesn’t mean we’re going to have the best ideas, but we’re gonna have a helluva lot more of them.
Throw in 50 States, 100s of ISDs, community needs, desires and standards and you’ve got a real potential to drag the entire country into the future.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. I strongly suspect that you have no idea what you are talking about either. By this ranking the US is #20
https://www.edsys.in/best-education-system-in-the-world/
Many other surveys don’t put the US anywhere in the top 20.
So, when you write, “Ours is the only public school system that was not developed by kings, popes, and potentates. There’s no underlying homage built in.” … I really have to wonder if you’ve gotten into the bloody marys a bit early today.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. I strongly suspect that you have no idea what you are talking about either. By this ranking the US is #20
https://www.edsys.in/best-education-system-in-the-world/
Many other surveys don’t put the US anywhere in the top 20.
So, when you write, “Ours is the only public school system that was not developed by kings, popes, and potentates. There’s no underlying homage built in.” … I really have to wonder if you’ve gotten into the bloody marys a bit early today.
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Which is why one usually ignores outliers in statistical studies.
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In my experience, leadership is one of the biggest factors, if not the deciding factor. That can be leadership at the division, school, or classroom level.
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I stand corrected on the Mt Vernon reference. But I stand by my comments on the 12 to 1 student ratio. Pull the curtain back just a little bit more and you see what is really going on with those numbers.
My last year at Briar Woods HS. Student teacher ratio was 13 to 1. Explain to me why my class ratio was 1st Block 32 students, 2nd Block 37 students, 4th Block 29 students, 5th block 39 students, and 8th block 42 students.-
I don’t doubt that the so-called statistics are biased. Let’s be honest, if our state and local governments didn’t lie they would be mute. The bigger issue is whether the biased statistics are biased in favor of Mt Vernon vs Langley, for example. Fairfax County absolutely spends more on schools in poor areas than on schools in wealthy areas.
In a similar vein, Washington, DC spends $21,974 per student per year while Fairfax County spends $11,700. Which jurisdiction do you think provides the better education?
Liberals have put forth one failed plan after another in their half-witted efforts to “fix education”. Spending more didn’t work so now they want to bus kids from school to school and/or hire more Black teachers.
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Right on the money Mr. DJ. School choice seems to be catching on. That would certainly shake things up. Maybe some radical upheaval that parents have some control over can do some good.
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Right on the money Mr. DJ. School choice seems to be catching on. That would certainly shake things up. Maybe some radical upheaval that parents have some control over can do some good.
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