Kanye is going to earn more off that track than the combined 2018 earnings of everyone who will read this post. Things that make you go hmmm.
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Well, that reaffirms one thing for me. Art sure is subjective. Whereâs the gong?!
As an aside to your aside, I used to live about a half mile from Andy Warhols grave. At the time it was in the style of the Campbells soup label. All of us stoners would migrate there every so often and not do anything. We didnât know anything about art or the man, so weâd just stand there for a while and smoke a few joints, then wander off.
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Something tells me Warhol would have loved that story.
When it comes to this issue, I slide to the left with @zecarlo.
You canât undo public schools. The best thing to do is make them as good as possible. But that doesnât happen.
Obama had a chance to get rid of NCLB, but he signed it into law every year.
Everybody seems to have a solution, but no one has the right solution.
These forgotten ones at title 1âs are numbers and pieces to move across a game board, nothing more. Those who do care are silenced.
Ram though, rinse repeat.
Why wonât competition work for schools if it works for everything else?
Education is not a business⊠when I grew up you failed the classes, you failed the grade. Now, you can get straight 'Fâs and be passed along.
Schools are not a competition of one institute over another. It should be about the student, but itâs not.
I donât have a problem with charter schools, but they donât sovle the problem writ large.
Kids who fail need to be retained. EBD kids need to be moved to special schools designed to deal with their special needs, but it looks bad for the title 1 schools.
There is A LOT of blame to go aroundâŠmainly, the parents donât give a fuck. Itâs day care for them, where they can do their thing and the schools are expected to be defacto parents, while they fuck off.
Itâs sad, I have seen it for myself and and so has @zcarlo.
You have sexual abuse, vicious beatings, etc⊠and you cannot do shit about it.
I have seen the pictures⊠Call DFACS they say, DFACS donât give a fuck and they sleep fine. Itâs hard to imagine, worse to see.
They are forgotten by every body who could give a damn. It doesnât fit the numbers. Numbers are all that matter.
I have seen it and it makes me sick.
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Duh. It only works for frivolous things.
If schools had to perform (actually educate their students) in order to receive funding, things would improve quickly. State run monopolies are never going to get the job done.
Yes, because itâs not like the students need to bring something to the table. The teachers who work in a suburban school are coming from the same colleges as those who work in urban schools. 1+1=2 in every school. Words are spelled the same. Itâs not like urban teachers are teaching kids something different. What no one talks about is the lower IQs in inner city kids and the higher number of kids who are diagnosed as special ed. Then add in issues that could be considered cultural and/or socioeconomic. No one knows how to teach those kids. Special ed teachers have no clue. Yet they have inclusive classrooms and have relaxed the consequences for behavioral issues, thanks to lawyers, parents who refuse to face reality and SJWs. Schools have psychologists, social workers, special ed teachers, they give students IEPs, and none of it works. I think if some parents knew what their kids go through at school because of students who have special protections because of their special ed label, they would riot.
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Capitalism and the free market are absolutely reliant on the concept of winners, and more importantly losers. Without a large amount of failed business and losers, we donât see the minority succeed.
To institute competition in schools for funding youâre 100% reliant on telling people in every area that regardless of how hard their child works, the funding the school receives is reliant on the average. So youâre telling 2 people that despite the same taxes theyâre paying, one is going to have a lower funding school because of a group of other kids and their shitty parents.
Theyâre untouchable. With all of the insanity, violence, and adverse circumstance they face, they just donât give a shit and have been trained to accept failure. Thats why most of them become institutionalized so quickly.
And what happens when a school ends up not getting funding? Those kids have to go somewhere. Besides, no child left behind fixed everything, didnât it?
If people saw just how many sociopaths some of these schools have they would be shocked. They are not only untouchable but they are unteachable. I asked someone who teaches elementary school kids who are too dangerous to be mainstreamed how he teaches them. He said all he does is make sure they donât kill each other. This guy was absolutely miserable when he was around them. They are vulgar and violent and just do not care. All his job is, is a babysitting service until they end up in jail.
I was a bad kid in elementary school so I can sympathize with kids who have behavioral issues. I donât get mad because I know what itâs like to be that way. But I always had a conscience and I donât know how you are supposed to deal with kids who donât have one.
A never-ending downward spiral for the entire local area probably.
Nah they donât. Weâll just funnel more money into defense spending so we can Murica our faces off. Then we can remind all of the taxpayers that even though they pay an equal amount, weâre screwing over their children because some other kids suck at testing
Because the end consumer of education - kids- are not in a position to maneuver and maximize interest in a supply and demand situation, as they do not have the resources or knowledge to purchase better schools.
And, in any event, we donât want them to compete for better schooling - axiomatic supply and demand rules say the best schools will price poorer students out of the competitive marketplace, and that means closing doors of opportunity to poorer kids to get out of their station in life.
We want - well, I want, at least, since Iâm not a feudalist - quality education for every kid regardless of luck of birth. Without that, the Revolution would be in vain.
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This happens now. Even with inner city schools spending way more $/kid. If you have crummy parents that donât value education, then you wonât. No 8 year old does homework on their own.
Is there a part in the constitution about the state educating your kids?
Ok - so, itâs a bad thing, and itâd be foolish to make it worse.
Nope, thatâs something they left to the states - and those states took the lead with that whole âhey, we have a free opportunity to set up society like we want - letâs ixnay that whole aristocracy thing we just rebelled againstâŠcool?â
Agreed. Whatâs your solution to make public schools actually educate the most difficult children? To avoid a permanent âpeasantâ underclass.
That only holds up as long as you ignore that the department of education and federal funding for schools exists.
Something else about the idea of funding being dependent upon performance is that it affects teachers as well. If you want teachers to be held accountable for student performance then they should have some say in how they do their job; something they donât have now.