Disconnect? - Must Be The Money

If I understand the general state of the public education system, if it wasn't for the bad students and bad parents, the system would be just fine, thank you.

I was making some notes:

STUDENTS
- Disrespectful

- Poor learning attitude - this could be from many different causes including, but not limited to, social, economic and familial background

- Exploit teachers sexually

- Are "wilted lettuce and rotten tomatoes" - which ruins the "good" salad

- The ones that do respect authority should have known better, such as getting off on the wrong bus stop and willingly giving up their crutches

-Unsocialized behavior

PARENTS
- Disrespectful

- Poor parental skills - do not instill proper learning attitude

- Poor sex education - should teach their children to only have sex with their peers.

- Are not educators and need to understand that premise. However, without their assistance, the real educators can't do it all.

- Must take full responsibility for teaching appropriate socialization skills and understand that the schools will not do that for them. On the other hand, the schools will take on the responsibility of teaching proper sex education, however the students must maintain a proper relationship with the teachers as they (the teachers) are easily exploited. There is a teacher shortage already, and money is wasted on defending the teachers from the students.

- Must join PTA's and other School Support groups.

- Must not tell the "T's" in the PTA group how to do their job.

- Must speak up at school board meeting, but also remember not to tell the administration how to do their job.

- Must continue to be a member of the PTA and "be involved" with the school system despite clear message that their input is meaningless.


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One might think that if there is such a war going on between the student/parent and school people, that maybe they would just do better if they got away from each other.

And they try hard. Students and parents want change of teachers, change of schools and vouchers if necessary. School people want suspensions, expulsions, ATOSS and alternative placements. They readily provide exemptions from high stakes testing, but try getting a 504 plan or an evaluation for a suspected disability.

Home schooling seems like it would settle the problem. The student/parent won't have to listen to how bad they are and the school people won't have to listen to how bad they are.

But not in California. And I am quite sure this will be a eastward movement.

It must be about money.


If it was about education, you would think that the schools would just say "don't let the door hit you". Now these unwanted kids are going to disrupt the education process, drive down high stakes test scores and be a liability to the public school system. If the parents are too stupid to teach the kids, then we all know the kids are gonna be stupid - we see it all the time - don't we? I mean, isn't it a major predictor that if the parent shows up in flip flops, the kid isn't going to pass the FCAT?


I don't think the ATF will have to be called in. Hopefully there won't be any tanks placed around their house with loud music playing. And hopefully the government won't kill them to give them a better educated life. Randy and David were taught not to home school. What about those terrorist schools - do they get voucher money? If we can show that the terrorist schools are keeping money from the public schools, those schools would be shut down in a heart beat.