Please and pretty please...won't you come/stay Ms. Teacher?
This story from the wire:
Nobody running with that kind of guts, I'm afraid.
Meanwhile, teachers, kids and their parents are trapped inside a system that can't work no matter how well funded it is.
Jackson Public Schools will receive a five-year, $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to enhance and promote the recruitment and retention of highly qualified teachers in high need subject areas such as math, science and special education.What some politician running for office today needs to say is this: "I hereby support a Declaration of Independence for teachers across our poorly educated state. None of these teachers should ever have to see or be tempted to work in our underperforming government school system again. Let us put up former public schools for rent to to private entities and vouchers given to parents to choose the best place for our children's schooling."
Nobody running with that kind of guts, I'm afraid.
Meanwhile, teachers, kids and their parents are trapped inside a system that can't work no matter how well funded it is.
Labels: Mississippi education
posted by Matt Friedeman at
3:41 PM
4 Comments:
Matt, honestly, if you have the answers, help the system out. Get out there and open up a school and show us how its done. Would not that be the best way for you to get your point across instead of the backseat driving and sideline cheering you do? Its really impossible to see you as an unbiased opinion giver. Like I asked in another post, since you do not support public schools, are you happy when they do not do well? Seems like you are doing the same thing you claim the liberal media does on the war in Iraq. Where are the good news stories about public schools?
1.4 million seems small in comparison to all the casino money we were promised. Where is all that money? I can tell you in our area the schools were terrible before gambling $$$ now they are horrendous. Of course, it doesn't help that the only time schools are fully funded are election years. Home schooling or private schools are the only to go. If you can afford it.
PrayerWarrior
I still think that vouchers are the way to go. Why do I want to send my kid to a school that they have to beg teachers to work at. I think we should have a choice in what school they attend.
Let me ask you all this. How will vouchers work if the schools get to decide what kids to accept? This issue has not been looked at logistically. If private schools doubled their enrollment, they would only account for 10 percent of kids in failing schools. Then consider that most private schools have as a selling point, their lack of association with poor and urban kids. Also, if home schooling was an option, the parents would be more involved in the kids' public school education. You all have not quite thought it out if you think that schools like Jackson Academy would be taking vouchers from any significant number of kids from JPS. I guarantee you that if vouchers were instituted tomorrow, private schools would creat stipulations and it would not simply be parents choicing the school. The schools would be choicing which kids. Thats fine, but that would still leave us with a lot of kids in public school to help. People rarely consider without proper planning, you can make a situation worse, i.e Iraq
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