Public Schools Are Losing Their
Captive Audience of Children
Reason,
by
J.D. Tuccille
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
12/20/2020 9:07:27 AM
Insisting that "the push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny," the Chicago Teachers Union is fighting plans to return children to the city's public school classrooms. Not only is the union seeking an injunction to keep kids at home, but it says "all options are going to be on the table"—an implied threat of a strike in an already chaotic year—if it's not happy with the school board's decision.
Amidst a multitude of such battles across the country, it's no wonder that families weary of being held hostage to other people's decisions are abandoning government schools to enroll their kids in private institutions or
Reply 1 - Posted by:
NancyD 12/20/2020 9:23:23 AM (No. 637043)
The public education system has been exposed during the Wuhan flu. Parents can find alternative methods to educate their kids and keep them away from liberal commie propaganda. Put them in Catholic/Christian schools or home school with a reputable group.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
planetgeo 12/20/2020 9:36:48 AM (No. 637055)
Public schools won't lose their captive audience until they lose our captive ADA (tax funding for average daily attendance) and ALL parents get VOUCHERS for wherever they want to send their kids to school. This will also have the benefit of killing the Democrat Party.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/20/2020 9:52:39 AM (No. 637064)
One move would fix this whole situation. Stop the paychecks going to schoolteachers for sitting home and doing nothing. They would quickly drop the special interest unions and form their own private school systems. The quality of education would get better without the union management of the LGBTQ, fake history and diversity curriculum.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/20/2020 10:12:08 AM (No. 637079)
Parents have seen what their students are being taught, and are tired of the hate and socialism being distributed under the name of diversity, which is dividing this country. The schools have abandoned discipline and responsibility, and the environment is dangerous and toxic. The teachers dress like street walkers, and act worse. Yeah, I think parents should take their kids somewhere else.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
coyote 12/20/2020 10:25:49 AM (No. 637092)
Now is the time. Walk away from public schools, develop homeschooling and private schools. It will take time, keep at it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
marbles 12/20/2020 10:43:18 AM (No. 637107)
Kids have lost the social experience of going to school. And their sports . As for the indoctrination , no loss at all.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Mushroom 12/20/2020 10:49:30 AM (No. 637112)
I have been printing (3d) items for science project for local home schoolers for ages (it seems). I have never been this busy! I print models and items at no cost. Thrills the heck out of me. Sure wish I could retain those property taxes that go to the non-existent schools.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 12/20/2020 11:14:48 AM (No. 637140)
Red For Ed ! Another public union that should be abolished. Why not privatize all schooling?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 12/20/2020 11:28:56 AM (No. 637149)
This man-made COVID “crisis” may do the exact thing I have been predicting for years - push us back to small, community based schools. These can be public, private, or cooperative homeschools in which technology allows people to educate their students outside of the behemoth institutions that were built in the 60s, 70s, & 80s. This is the destruction that the Leftists dread (they like warehousing people - children, students, homeless) since they will be unable to control every little hamlet. Huge schools in huge school districts give the Marxists the port of entry to the minds of our children.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 12/20/2020 11:30:28 AM (No. 637151)
Not to brag, but as a veteran of a one room schoolhouse with three others in my grade and four grades taught by one teacher, I managed to do just fine in future professional degrees and employment. And witness people like Frederick Douglass, a self taught slave until his mid twenties, became such a brilliant leader, speaker and writer. I think the striking and bitching teachers are pathetic creatures, by and large. A teaching degree is no better, or perhaps less, qualification than being a MacDonald’s worker or waiter. Small private schools teaching the three R’s and civics by an honest, caring teacher would be a big improvement. I suspect that Elon Musk is correct, that college education is much over rated, particularly in what used to be called “liberal arts” has been transformed to political indoctrination. My grand kids are very smart with computer games, but sadly deficient in performing physical tasks. Let them have recess and take the stupid masks off. The masks, along with the educational direction or philosophy, are stupid. Presently we are teaching people to be continually frightened, rather than competent and independent.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 12/20/2020 11:40:18 AM (No. 637161)
Stop paying these left wing, lazy, whining excuses for teachers.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
smokincol 12/20/2020 11:48:01 AM (No. 637173)
I hope this is the beginning of the downfall of the public school system. charters schools and religious private schools are the true educational institutions.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Kate318 12/20/2020 1:18:48 PM (No. 637244)
Do it. Go ahead and strike. Nobody cares. Covid has shown parents there is another way. One more Acme cigar lit by the left.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/20/2020 1:30:48 PM (No. 637252)
This is deliberate, folks. The education system does not have educating US students as a goal. They have been using education to dumb down the population for a long time. Also, leftists have groomed a large portion of parents (all the Titles, free this/that) to depend on the schools/districts alone to educate their children. When Warmonger Sellout Bush and Killer Kennedy created No Child Left Behind, one of the "powers" given to parents was something as simple as the choice of the vendor and the subject for tutoring their children in after school tutoring, Supplemental Education Services (SES). My company became a vendor, even though I told them it was a boondoggle, wouldn't help students, and districts would figure out a way to get that money back in their hands where they feel taxpayer dollars belong. When we asked parents about the subject they wanted us to tutor their children in, eighty percent of them told us to ask their children's teacher. They didn't freakin know! We stopped asking and starting assigning subjects to suit our group sizes. Not knowing their children's weaknesses was a notable shame on the part of the parents. There are large numbers of parents who don't care about their children's education or wellbeing for that matter; it's somebody else's job; it's the government's job. When government fails them, it's that twenty percent of that population who will care and take action. The remaining eighty percent will not. This works well for marxists.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Peach1 12/20/2020 2:28:31 PM (No. 637282)
I watch 2 of our 3 grandchildren when they’re not in school. This past Spring, I helped them with their work for over 2 months. I think those teachers who want to stay home should forfeit their salaries to all of us who didn’t give up on our kids!
I will say though, that the two grandkids I watch have been in school full time so far. It’s a small town and our county, God bless them, have left it up to each district to do what they feel is best. Our county is one of very few here in Colorado who are trying to handle this the same way that South Dakota has handled their state. And they’re doing a great job!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JL80863 12/20/2020 3:14:19 PM (No. 637297)
Thank for your comment #15. I remember when the entire state was a great place to raise a family.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 12/20/2020 3:32:19 PM (No. 637309)
Public schools and colleges have been the most destructive forces in our nation's history during the last fifty years.
Education money currently going to these K-12 and state colleges needs to be put under the control of the parents of these children, to direct to whatever institutions of learning that the parents choose. Parents who home school should get offsetting tax credits equal to the per student funding given to public schools.
Let young people take their share of college funding for job skills education such as various blue collar needed skills (electrician, plumber, auto repair, carpentry, etc) and let "institutes of higher learning " that teach engineering, premed, science, accounting and other useful skills compete for these funds.
No more funding for racist hate departments or sexist hate departments.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Geoman 12/20/2020 4:48:10 PM (No. 637330)
FTA: "Public school enrollment is down in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Maine, Minneapolis, Mississippi, and elsewhere."
Is Minnesota now a city within the state of Minneapolis? This surprises me coming from Reason.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 12/20/2020 7:16:49 PM (No. 637374)
#10, I spent half of 6th grade in a single classroom with three grades, about 5 or 7 students if each grade, and one teacher. I don't remember any particular problems. My parents switched me to a Catholic school run by nuns the following year, and that was a good year, too, definitely learned more than just the 7th grade. I learned something about Catholicism and also learned that a hard right to the jaw of a bully a lot bigger than you will keep him from messing with you any more.
I think that home schooling and small private and religious schools should be the wave of the future here.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/20/2020 11:00:41 PM (No. 637438)
Chicago teachers are getting paid to sit home .
It is no surprise they like it that way and don't want to go back to work.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
franq 12/21/2020 6:55:44 AM (No. 637520)
And in November, Guilford County NC passed a $300M school bond issue. I was flabbergasted. Wife remarked wryly that they must be buying iPads for all the "students".
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Hurray! My daughter knows several women whose kids were doing remote school, who then started homeschooling them instead and were amazed at how easy and pleasant that was. They will remain home schoolers.