tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post6909483825243255130..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: The Three "Shitties" of Public SchoolsCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-50263943634031731272015-03-12T16:55:28.518-07:002015-03-12T16:55:28.518-07:00A number of years ago I had a vendor booth at an N...A number of years ago I had a vendor booth at an NEA convention - one of the two major unions for public school teachers and administrators. Let me tell you, the collection of mutants would have been right at place in the Star Wars bar scene. Not to mention knee deep in SJWs. @Glen is right - there is no fixing this. What are you going to do with tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of lazy, over-compensated people who are all but unemployable in the private sector?Robert What?https://www.blogger.com/profile/03863449539859132763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-6315721966379651172015-03-12T00:25:46.025-07:002015-03-12T00:25:46.025-07:00You do not improve public education. You abolish i...You do not improve public education. You abolish it and leave education to parents and the private sector.<br /><br />This is the #1 issue that Republicans do not understand. Fix education...and by fix I mean burn to the ground and start over...and you solve just about every other problem within a generation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-64136597953837322722015-03-11T15:26:33.395-07:002015-03-11T15:26:33.395-07:00Of course the schools can't be saved. In fact...Of course the schools can't be saved. In fact, they were originally designed to be gov. run brainwashing warehouses to train the avg. soviet-amerikan citizen to be a good little slave.<br /><br />That was, and is, the original design of amerikan gov. run schools.SM777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-60057173716503398222015-03-11T13:08:52.674-07:002015-03-11T13:08:52.674-07:00Yep, to all of what Cappy wrote.
I was thinking t...Yep, to all of what Cappy wrote.<br /><br />I was thinking that you could maybe add "administrators" to the mix, but these are really just a more malignant (i.e, more degenerate) breed of "teacher."<br /><br />Of course it's really a moot discussion, since it's been pretty thoroughly proven by now that "public school" = "shitty", without any genuine exceptions.liberranterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00555275410576294081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-51285313776354277432015-03-11T12:53:47.800-07:002015-03-11T12:53:47.800-07:00I had a great education outside of the US. We each...I had a great education outside of the US. We each had to sit an exam at age 11 to determine at which school we would attend for high school. So, we had to bust our butts early.<br />Once you got in to the school of your choice, the schooling had just begun; everything was graded on a curve. Five to seven years of Math and science, regardless of what you intended to study. Even the art and history majors took five years of mathematics (I took seven). <br />At the end, if you sat the final exam and scored at the top of any subject, the government would pay for your education in any country in the world, so there was motivation to perform. The best part is that ten years after having done any math, I took a math exam in the US and got a perfect score. Just educate your children in another country; it's free, too. I would never educate my children (on the lower level; bring them into get into Ivy Leagues and to get scholarships so they go to school for pretty much free, as I did) in the US. I've had friends who were failing in my home country and went on to Ivy Leagues in the US and smoked everyone. The standard is that low.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-71974352608363973902015-03-11T12:53:05.565-07:002015-03-11T12:53:05.565-07:00I was inspired in public school.
They set the st...I was inspired in public school. <br /><br />They set the standards low, so I took the lead and set them lower.<br /><br />They have since called my bluff and have established standards I could never reach.<br /><br />Touche, I guess.Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00097451556633262624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-80738740356791719132015-03-11T09:36:55.654-07:002015-03-11T09:36:55.654-07:00sorry you might need an edit here
Another combina...sorry you might need an edit here<br /><br />Another combination, shitty teachers, shitty children, but great teachers. Much as I loathe teachers I do know there's a handful of them out there who truly do care about education and are indeed great teachers. 1432fpcheronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-18742889426320968602015-03-11T08:45:50.916-07:002015-03-11T08:45:50.916-07:00I can't say this enough, fellas. The schools a...I can't say this enough, fellas. The schools are a write-off. They CAN'T be saved - they are infested with union slugs with years of seniority and today Education is basically a useless liberal arts program. Any good younger teachers are being shut out by the old pooch screwers and nothing short of dynamite and mass murder will get rid of them.<br /><br />Forget about your kid being exposed to drugs. Or gangs. Or bullying or peanut butter sammiches ... although those may be major hazards the REAL hazard is the socialism they will foist off on your child.<br /><br />They will treat him/her like a special snow flake. They will encourage and enable copping out, slothful behavior, and excuse-making. Then there will be the warped sexual/feminist/Marxist/socialist crap that you seriously may not want your child indoctrinated in. <br /><br />Also - the academic stats the Captain gave are flawed - what teachers call 'literacy' and 'numeracy' are laughable in my opinion. In Pacific Rim countries kids are doing intermediate calculus in Grade 10. Our kids are taking remedial English in university.<br /><br />Public schools have failed right across the board - not just in the States either. They have become liberal moron factories and if you have ANY interest in seeing your child succeed in life - you are talking private and homeschooling.Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-40421698522587565132015-03-11T07:56:45.352-07:002015-03-11T07:56:45.352-07:00Almost every day I go to work, I listen to Sirius/...Almost every day I go to work, I listen to Sirius/XM in the morning. I catch the end of the Opie & Jimmy (formerly Opie & Anthony) show. One of their sponsors is "Mathnasium", one of these modern "do it yourself" franchises that is essentially a math-tutoring-for-pay franchise.<br /><br />Now, paid tutors have likely existed since the dawn of intellectualism... but in what developed world universe with a "good" education system should a commercial high-overhead franchise operation be able to exist that solely teaches math to kids?<br /><br />I can find no answer to this. I find the existence of commercial for-profit, high-overhead tutoring services a blatant and in-your-face proof-of-existence of the masses of lazy civil servant schoolteachers and the system that encourages such.Jeremynoreply@blogger.com