More market share, means more charter schools. You've already explained yourself well enough. According to you 4th graders should just go to work and they're ready to make decisions affecting their future because you hated your experience in school.
Actually you should blame your state, I assume Nevada, for forcing you to stay in school to the age of 18 instead of the public school you wish to replace with charter schools. Why didn't your parents take you out and homeschool you anyway? Why don't you blame them half as much as you blame the cruel teachers.
If we go private schools I will fully be unable to afford to live with my family in this country. If I start seeing this pushed for I am burning down private schools in the dead of night. They want us broke and dead and to have no choice. Society is supposed to help people live easier. This is absolute bullshit and nefarious.
User adien: 'Private in this context means charter, which is still state funded. Furthermore with more market share there would be enough demand for affordable private schools, as seen in India where government schools are infamous.'
It's a traditional right wing position to defund public schools.
Right now :
'House Republicans want to cut Title I funding by 80%'
If you don't know, title 1 funding is money for the poorest public schools. The money is often used for nutrition programs, resource educators, special education teachers and Education assistants.
I think you might be too young and inexperienced to be an unbiased moderator.
I think the basics of what is taught in schools and truly necessary could be taught to most people in under 4 years.
Okay. If you have a kid, pull them out of school at 4th grade. They are ready for the world in your eyes.
13 years I wasted in school.
That's your own fault. Drop out and get your GED at 16.
You mean getting paid and providing a service of value? I'd much prefer it.
Cool. Go to work. Nobody stopping you.
You want to change the system? You need more education. Substantiate your assertions that kids should drop out at 4th grade and go to work with quantitative research after you get your masters or PHD in early education pedagogy. Otherwise you're just blowing hot air about the way the world 'should be'
They should have the right to choose to do what they want.
Wait you are telling me that, at the age of 7 you were ready to make decisions that affect your entire life? If sitting at a desk for 10 years and learning basic life skills for free is abuse and gave you PTSD... As you said... Just how would you feel sitting at a gas station for 40 years, inhaling carcinogen fumes, and living at a very basic level as a result of the decisions you made as a young child? You basically had a bad experience, and I understand. I hated school as well. It's actually why I became a teacher. I don't want to be an abusive dick like my teachers were. But what you are saying is that a young child, who has no basic life skills, should just be able to leave school because it sucks. But the repercussions are that the rest of their life might suck and they're not gonna blame themselves. They're going to blame circumstances. In all honesty, aquiring an education is a privilege, and it is a recent development in society that we universally get a basic education. If it seemed like a horrible experience, well it's behind you. All I am saying is you should have a bit of gratitude for the education you received. If not that, gratitude for the education your mother received, so that she could teach you to read. You seem very intelligent, but you'd not be able to use your intelligence if you didn't have basic literacy.... And consider if your mother, herself, was illiterate and couldn't teach you. Wouldn't school be such a gift?
If you went to a charter school they're just gonna let you go wandering around willy nilly?
I've been a teacher in various countries around the world. Some, mainly third world countries, do just let kids go do whatever if they don't want to learn. These kids usually end up pumping gas, working a cash register, or some other low skill low wage job.
May I ask, Did all your teachers do this, or one in specific? Did your teachers refuse to teach you to read and the burden of literacy was solely on your parents?
Charter schools are hell for educators and students don't benefit. The reason why conservatives push for charter schools is because then they don't have to worry about the separation of church and state. Basically they want public schools, but with Christian nationalism. This means they'd strip schools of scientific rigor, tell us Teachers to teach that God made the heavens and earth a couple thousand years ago, people rode dinosaurs like cowboys, and we're all either going to heaven or hell. I have parents who push for this already. Their agenda is more of the same, anti intellectual, Christian nationalism.
I've been called upon to show kindness and compassion to young children, to help them learn to read, to give them life skills so that they might find success in the world, against all odds.
It is my calling, and it is living according to the literal words of Christ. I do my best to live with loving kindness in a world hostile and violent. I belong to a Union, I belong to a community, and I particate in democracy to elect those who, as close as possible, advance the beliefs I hold. How about you? What is your calling? what are your keys? What is your truth? What did you seek and what have you found?
I don't think you know what Irony means. But I feel like you are the one who the irony is lost on..
John 13:34 Jesus said "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
God is real. Jesus was a socialist hippy. He preached love, forgiveness, and tolerance. Jesus condemned money traders in the court of the temple. He would be chase by a Lynch mob, called an Arabic terrorists, and probably shot by contemporary Christian conservatives.
What's your point? Please elaborate as to what 'reality' you are referring to. Sounds like you aren't a Christian as much as you are a cult member.
“If you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming of four 8-year-old children,” wrote Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw on Twitter.
US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene proclaimed “the Democrats are the party of pedophiles,” adding that "either you are pro-pedophile and pro-transgender biological men or you defend children and women.”
Greene’s comments might be dismissed as the ravings of a crank if the rightwing weren’t united behind her. The moral panic over child porn extends from the lowliest 8chan poster to the halls of the United States Senate. The GOP is tapping into the energy of the QAnon base by repackaging their entire domestic agenda, from education policy to Supreme Court confirmations, as a crusade against pedophilia.
They're getting pretty fucking close to literally being Nazis. They condem social welfare, call opponents pedophiles, lie and cheat, are actively trying to disenfranchise voters and dismantle democracy. The GOP has put business interests above human interests at every turn, they use antisemitic dog whistles, use physical violence to attack political opponents, they're anti intellectual on every level, anti immigration, anti ethnic minority. I really don't know where you come off thinking they're not Fascists, but maybe you'd care to elaborate?
I remember the GOP used to be the party of family values and fiscal responsibility. Now they're just obstructionist. What meaningful legislation has GOP introduced that would benefit anyone but their own business interests?
More market share, means more charter schools. You've already explained yourself well enough. According to you 4th graders should just go to work and they're ready to make decisions affecting their future because you hated your experience in school.
Actually you should blame your state, I assume Nevada, for forcing you to stay in school to the age of 18 instead of the public school you wish to replace with charter schools. Why didn't your parents take you out and homeschool you anyway? Why don't you blame them half as much as you blame the cruel teachers.