What JLARC’s Education Report Got Right and What It Didn’t
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12 responses to “What JLARC’s Education Report Got Right and What It Didn’t”
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As usual, good, commonsense comments and recommendations. I notice, under working conditions, you did not include Jim Bacon’s favorite topic–feral students. I wonder about the significance of that omission.
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In a way, I think he did. Lets face it: some kids do have issues that are not condusive to learning, or to participation in a school system as a whole.
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Dick, that is a real problem. However to do that conversation justice, it requires much more room than a fraction of a paper. Good Lord willing and the creeks don’t rise, I hope to have something on this in the not to distant future.
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Great article.
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Teacher shortages and retention can be best addressed by first restoring the public’s trust in the local schools and creating a climate in which a teacher can joyfully accomplish the primary objective of actually be able to teach.
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won’t get that by accusing them of “grooming” and “indoctrinating” kids
Did you groom and indoctrinate when you taught?
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Of course not. But knew of some who did. Your capacity for denial is limitless.
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Are you talking about something that is systemic in the public schools that requires the state to step in?
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What a mess Mr. Larry. It will take a generation to sort this out.
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Not in denial at all. If I ask Matt or Kathleen the same question, they’re gonna agree with you?
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The “grooming” has been going on in schools across Virginia for some time such that Matt would also confirm it?
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Thank Matt for your thoughts and the balance you bring to education issues here in BR.
It ought not be hard to see that kids of less-educated, lower income parents are far less likely to be “encouraged” by the parents and may not even have internet.
These same kids don’t do well over summer vacation. They often lose a lot of what they learned and have to be “refreshed” on return the following year
Economically Disadvantaged kids are harder to motivate, harder to teach and if they don’t do well , they can be disruptive.
We once were an agrarian nation where almost all the kids in the classroom had uneducated, economically poor parents so teaching was keyed to that for the classroom. Schools actually had to teach “around the harvest”.
Today , we have many more college-educated citizens but we still have great numbers of parents who are not well educated, and may not value education like higher income folks do and do not motivate their kids to value and pursue a good education.
That’s the simple and harsh truth of the matter.
And it falls to the teachers to try to reach these kids and get them on a better track. Some get there and some do not and at no small cost to the teachers, many of whom give their hearts and souls trying to
get those kids to be educated adults.And for that, they not only don’t get much in thanks, these days, they actually get attacked in an increasingly hostile environment for teachers.
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