Failed Public School system, Stay the Course?

Question

Failed Public School system, Stay the Course?
Failed Malaria Eradication (after banning DDT), Stay the Course?
Failed Nuclear Bomb Simulations (in lieu of real nuke tests), Stay the Course?
Failed War on Drugs program, Stay the Course?
Failed National Debt policy, Stay the Course?
Failed Civil Defense (none in place) , Stay the Course?
…you get the idea

I think my ‘stay the course’ thing was lost on most respondents – a play on Iraq war critiques.

Malaria – DDT was banned by the US-gov as the EPA’s 1st gesture. Somebody [now] dies in tropical areas every 12-seconds. DDT would have eliminated this scourge.

Nuclear test-ban-treaty – we now simulate bombs on a computer w/minimal samplings of materials. These simulations are costly to develop and don’t [yet] work. In the mean time, we really have no evidence that our nukes would work or fizzle if detonated. You may hate them, but if we retaliate against – say NK for an attack on our soil – and all that happens is a 1meter puncture hole in the dirt, we could actually lose a war.

At least 1 advocate of public schools below had ~9 spelling problems in answer, not to mention punctuation.

Answer 1

The only way to save Education is Private Schools with Vouchers. Democrats stopped.
The only way to save Social Security is to Privatize. Democrats stopped.
LBJ's War on Poverty. Poverty won.
War on Drugs. Drugs won.
You have Good Point.

Answer 2

The public school system is not "failed." I know many successful people who are products of the public school system (myself included). It is the parents who have reliquished all responsibility for educating their children to ANY school system who have failed those children.

Also, the US Dept. of Education recently released a study showing no significant difference between public and all private school students in reading and math at the fourth grade level, a small difference in favor of private schools over public and Christian schools at the 8th grade level for reading only, although conservative Christian schools were significantly lower than all other schools, public and private, for 8th grade math.

So the lesson here is that if the "school system" is broken, then it's the ENTIRE school system that needs fixing, not just the public one.

As for your other questions...

1. Malaria eradication - don't know nothin' 'bout it
2. Lemme get this straight, you wanna dentonate LIVE nuclear bombs???!!! Where???!!! And how do you know the simulations have failed???
3. Agree with ya here...the war on drugs is a horrible failure. I have a few ideas on this, too long to list in this post.
4. There are proponents of a high national debt who claim it is actually the best way to go. Too much math for me to think about (must be that year I went to a conservative Christian school! - j/k)
5. We do need to do more about civil defense. Checking our ports would be the first thing. Forget that damn fence that you know is going to have a tunnel under it within 2 weeks after it's built!

Answer 3

My 2 teenagers are receiving a tremendous public school education in Florida. Governor Bush has transformed the state with No Child Left Behind. My son just graduated public high school with 33 college credits that are good at colleges around the world. (International Baccalaureate). My son earned these credits in one of the worst crime areas of our city. Intercity kids have raised their standards and grades too. So if you think you know about President Bush's education programs, I'm telling you that you don't. You must be listening to the powerful teacher UNIONS complaining about the high teacher accountability standards that are now in place.
I want you to look at your lengthy question above and consider if you really do know everything about what you just mentioned.

Answer 4

confident, you're able to pull them out now. Use the subsequent ten weeks to contain them in the arrangements for homestead education. commonly homeschoolers do no longer carry on with the cut-off dates extensive-unfold colleges do, so the time would be positioned to solid use. H/S usually runs longer than reg college and time isn't wasted with extensive breaks between words. it particularly is why H/Sers are smarter than reg schoolers. much less time is spent on revision because of the fact a large variety of the time the youngsters are nonetheless gaining understanding of.

Answer 5

i will just pick one of these , public school system, but i think my thoughts on it apply to most of the others,,,

public school system= has only failed in the context of educating all of our children,,, threw high school,, its very sucessful up threw the middle school age,,, and is getting better,,,,also included in public school is our public colleges, which offer more oppourtunity nowdays for education then in the past,,, we have federal financial aid etc which makes it possible for most anyone to get a college education,,,,, maybe not enough to get them into the "best" or the one they want,,,, but certainly people now have much more chance for opportunity then they did in past, or then they do in many other countries, so we havent failed,,,
part of the problem is the lack of parent participation, as we have moved into single parenting, two working parents etc, how many children sit down and do an hour or more of homework or study a night? who studies on the weekends
yes, our goal is to educate all our children,,,, yet we basically work with the same hour school day that we did 40 years ago,, when we know our children have more to learn!

also, while our test scores might be lower then we want,, and lower then some countries, we educate a higher percentage of our citizens then many. also the focus now is to get them all to that diploma ,,,, lower drop out rates,, and make sure they have a suficient education that a high school diploma represents.

so, if we are making progress, addressing the problems, recognizing new problems ,,, how are we failing? just because we cant solve all the problems right now ?

Answer 6

Stay the course need to change. It should read a new direction that makes more sense

Answer 7

I can agree with you about our failed public school system.

Would we agree on the fix?

People need to be taught that rights are accompanied by responsibility.

Answer 8

That's great He couldn't have done better if he used an Atomic Bomb.

Go big Red Go

Answer 9

We all live in a yellow submarine, except the fool on the hill.

Answer 10

Liberal influence on the school system: DO NOT STAY THE COURSE. The effects of this are justing starting to be felt. The school system must be overhauled.