Posted by wisbaker on August 10, 2012 at 12:01:06 from (207.118.243.196):
In Reply to: WOW!!!!! posted by charlie n on August 10, 2012 at 11:04:20:
The more we spend on education the dumber our students get, to get where I'm going with this. Mathematically if we reduce school spending our child's learning should go up. Yet we continue to to the same thing over and over again which is spend more money on public schools. I have moved around quit a bit in my adult life, seems anywhere we had decent schools for my girls we also had parochial schools in the community. The village we lived in when we first moved to Wisconsin was less than 2000 people. Their schools were always in the top 10% of state, I think it's because there were two parochial schools in that community, so much for the theory that private schools hurt the public schools by pulling the "good" students away. Being one of those right wing fanatics I sent my daughters to a parochial school. The school they attended had a per studnet budget of about 1/2 of the local public schools yet the school always out scored the public school in the state standardized tests. This is where I usually go in to a rant about public teacher's unions, I'm not going to do that today. I had an opportunity to get a teaching certificate with my AG degree. It took 180 credits for me to get my AG B.S., would of taken more than 90 additional credits to get the teaching certificate. I sometimes wonder if the problems we have are related because our teachers are taught more process (how to teach) that sustenance (what they're teaching). I feel the same about a lot of businesses, that the MBA running the show understands business but doesn't understand the product they are producing.
To fix schools- 1-implement a voucher system allowing lower and middle class families to take their children out of a failing school and enroll them in alternatives. 2- change the requirements for teaching credentials so any one with a B.S or B.A. in a subject and an associate's degree in education can teach, placing the emphasis on the math, science or history that is being taught.
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