Comments on: USA No. 1 in education — spending

By: tamandua

tamandua — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:17:09 +0000

The public school system in California is one of the finest in the nation…if student’s don’t want to participate, so be it…the ccc were not designed to teach remedial math and English to functional illiterates, who could not finish high school, because they can’t conjugate a verb and are incapable of doing intermediate algebra, which most 7th graders can do! If high school overwhelmed these student’s…please find a meaningful blue collar vocation…don’t bottle-neck the ccc for student’s who want a solid education that is affordable, because you think you’re degree worthy…especially when a high school diploma eluded you, due to poor study habits and apathetic parent’s…dig a ditch, or weld some rebar

By: BobA

BobA — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:51:25 +0000

Ulysses Uhaul:

For what it’s worth, I spent my career as a professional engineer and became a stock options millionaire 5 years ago. I retired shortly thereafter at age 53.
I’m fortunate enough to not have to work for a living and I now spend my time in service to this great country of ours via conservative organizations. (And don’t confuse conservatism with republicans. Republicans are as equally inept and useless as democrats.)

What’s your story? still a wage slave and looking forward to that government retirement check?

By: Rex the Wonderdog!

Rex the Wonderdog! — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:48:58 +0000

Bobo…..i just met a freshman gal studying electrical Engineering at Cal Poly…..she went to public schools.
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Huh???? LOL…so what?

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 04:49:16 +0000

Bobo…..i just met a freshman gal studying electrical
Engineering at Cal Poly…..she went to public schools.

Why are you so negative? Are you unhappy working at Big Lots and loving it?

By: BobA

BobA — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:58:08 +0000

cyndikus:

Schools today don’t educate; they indoctrinate. The average high school graduate today is at best a functional illiterate.

By: cyndikus

cyndikus — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:49:42 +0000

Vouchers are the only reasonable solution. Not only are our schools costing a fortune for marginal results, they have joined hands with the police and prison union to easily send unwanted kids to the juvenile detention. Juvenile detention has a 80% recidivism rate and practically insures clients for the prison department. How many people are aware that the school discipline record is the first document the court will request if a kid gets in trouble even when the trouble does not occur at school. That would be equivalent to getting arrested and having no prior record so they have your work send over your personal record. there is a lot of legislation in California’s Congress to try to address this issue but for now the police live on campus in our schools. My personal belief is that the crime rate is so low that we are criminalizing kids for minor infractions to insure the police and prison guard unions can justify hiring more and more people.

By: Rex the Wonderdog!

Rex the Wonderdog! — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 17:30:02 +0000

Oh wait;

Apple Awarded $30 Million iPad Deal From LA Unified School District

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/06/19Apple-Awarded-30-Million-iPad-Deal-From-LA-Unified-School-District.html

By: Rex the Wonderdog!

Rex the Wonderdog! — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 17:29:12 +0000

Well, if all schools bought all students a new Apple Ipad then our problem/s will be solved 😉

By: CSHJ

CSHJ — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 17:01:16 +0000

I moved to L.A. in ’77 and witnessed the schools just being flushed down the toilet by making the schools MULTI LINGUAL. It would be cheaper and better for all concerned (even non English speaking students) if the schools taught in one language only. The schools in Hispanic neighborhoods could teach only in Spanish and the English neighborhoods only in English. If there is a mix, I’m sorry, this is the U.S.A. not Mexico and we speak English here although no one could get it together enough to make it the official language. Kids that don’t speak the language of the nation aren’t going to do as well because they won’t understand what is being said. Whose fault is that???? Not California’s. That rests squarely on the parents of the students AND the students. I would also suggest that they let the students fail. If they can’t do the work or won’t do it then they get held back. If they don’t like it……….well, it sucks to be them.

By: Excalifornian

Excalifornian — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 13:14:08 +0000

My wife is a teacher. The problem with teaching is it attracts too many ” coasters”. If you are a really bright college kid and excel in math and science, what would motivate you to go into teaching? If it was possible for say the top 10% of teachers to earn big league salaries like doctors, MBA’s, etc. perhaps you would get 10% of your teachers being ” big league performers”. Then you select the top 10% of your middle school kids to go to the top 10% schools stacked with the ” big league” teachers and now you have a big pool of talented and well educated high school graduates to fill your now elite public universities. You can then stratify the rest of the kids in 10-20% increments down to the last 20% who learn how to serve up burgers and re tread tires. Instead we lump everybody together and kid ourselves that they are all college material. Instead we teach/serve to the lowest common denominator and wonder why our results are so bad. We need a good chunk of our young people going to trade schools. I’m sorry, we are all not created equal, but we need all kinds of skill sets ( we need people to fix air conditioners and build things just as much as we need good doctors and soft ware engineers). The sad part is there are some very bright kids living in South Central LA and similar environments who will never reach their potential because of their social situation that we can’t change. If we can identify even 10% of those kids with talent and place them in the best environment for learning ( those with highly motivated and participating parents) with our top teachers I bet we would have better results.