If you want school systems that work, start by getting rid of teachers’ unions. They are a Special Interest racket to enrich adults and do not better the educational system for the benefit of kids. Doubt me?
Pull the public contract for your town’s unions and then demand to know from your school board how many children score PROFICIENT in the NAEP standardized tests. Prepare to be unhappy with the results.
Or, you could ask current Manchester City Mayor and candidate for NH Governor Joyce Craig. She is a BIG supporter of the teacher’s unions. HOW is that union helping educate those children? It’s not pretty.
There is a solution – after NOT voting for Craig for Governor.
If you think I’m blowing one bad report out of proportions, the National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] report that came out earlier this year found similarly dismal student performance in the public schools. Reading and math proficiency collapsed over the past four years in part because of the teachers unions’ insistence that public school stay closed during COVID — a national act of child abuse.
The Left obsesses about income inequality and the gap between rich and poor. Yet, they are so captive to the teachers unions that they do nothing about what is arguably the most regressive policy in America: our failing public school system. The decline in test scores is only half the story. The other part of the story is that the biggest declines in learning and achievement are among the poorer families.
I’m the furthest thing from an education expert, but I have had five kids. It’s pretty clear that three essential components to an enriching education are discipline in the classroom, high expectations and a classical curriculum. This isn’t that complicated. It’s not like solving a Rubik’s Cube.
Nor is it rocket science. Our education system, before the 70s, was the envy of the world. Then the Left took control – so here we are.
- Control of the classroom – enough of the modified CRT that is Childism. EXPECT GOOD BEHAVIOR – DEMAND IT and help reset the Culture instead of bowing to it.
- Expectations – enough of the bigotry of low expectations and stop calling those that demand to do so “racists” and “culturally inappropriate.”
- Curriculum – enough basketweaving, social-emotional learning, and other non-academics that have risen and are being deployed in favor of academic rigor. I dare school systems to show me their kids ace-ing tests from the 40s, 30s, 1890s…heck, even the current US Citizenship test. Do that, and I’ll allow you to scream at me.
Let me add to those three:
- Stop with the “Education Fads”. Tell your School Boards to not accept new curriculum unless it has been peer-reviewed with results that can be duplicated to be better than what your kids are being fed.
- Make sure that you AS PARENTS can help with homework
- Start demanding that School Boards start elevating academics over athletics. Start handing out “Academic sweaters” rather than “athletic sweaters.”
HT | Hot Air
