A Gallup poll released earlier this month shows that just 28% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in K-12 public schools. The number for Republicans is particularly damning: Just 14% of GOPers view education in a positive light.
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All education should be privately controlled. Government control has been a disaster. While government-controlled union member teachers are indoctrinating our children, our competitors in China, Russia, Japan, Korea, and India, just to name a few, are challenging their students from day one.
ReplyDeleteHomeschool maybe?
ReplyDeleteYou don't honestly think that simply pointing out the issues will have any effect do you? THEY DONT CARE WHAT YOU THINK. The only answer is to not participate in the madness. No yelling, no screaming, no showing up at -insert name of public meeting here-. When schools start to shut down for lack of students then MAYBE republi-,cucks may have a leg to stand on, but as long as the money keeps flowing the leftist couldn't care less what you think. In fact, he laughs at you.
Pull your children out of public schools! Geez, people! Home School, Private School, Parochial lots of options out there. Most people are to afraid of having to "sacrifice" to provide when they see .gov schools as "free" daycare.
ReplyDeleteWasn't public schooling started off the idea of Henry Ford to "babysit" the factory workers' kids all day long so they could work longer hours?
ReplyDeleteFord shortened the work week to 5 days. Others reduced the work day to 8 hours, but Ford could not increase it; in both traditional agriculture and the early industrial age, work hours were as long as possible while leaving enough time for commuting - mostly on foot - eating, and sleeping. In the 1800's and earlier, most men worked 10 to 12 hours, 6 days a week, and never worried about child care. That was their wives' problem.
DeletePublic schools did exist from the Colonial era, but the law did not make attendance mandatory, and for most of the population, these were rural schools with 1 room and 1 teacher. E.g., the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which set the surveying pattern for most of what is now the Midwest, required setting aside 1 square mile in each 36 square mile township for a school, so those one-room schools were usually spaced 6 miles apart. (The land could be sold, rented, or worked by students and parents to generate money to build and run the school, but usually one bit was reserved for the school building. It became customary for teachers to receive room and board at a parent's house, a duty that rotated among the better-off parents.)
Many women's jobs were for unmarried girls, which enabled house maids to live in the house, and others to live in quarters provided by the job (country school teachers and factory workers). It was expected that they would quit when they got married. This even applied to jobs requiring considerable training, such as school teachers. E.g., the author Laura Ingalls Wilder obtained her teaching certificate, delayed marriage while she taught for long enough to put her sister Mary through the school for the blind, then quit to get married. Even when her husband became disabled and she had to go back to work, she became a reporter instead of returning to teaching. There was just one career woman teacher in her stories or her life - her husband's old maid sister Eliza.
Most married women stayed home, some worked in the home, and some left their kids with a stay at home Mom to work outside the house. Generally this was lighter work, and for shorter hours. Some married women did work in factories in in WWI to temporarily replace men who'd gone into the Army. (There's a video on You-Tube of an American airplane factory in WWI - the men built the wooden frame, then the women sewed canvas over it.) Many more worked in WWII, but in most places this was two to three generations after mandatory schooling laws and the changeover from 1 room schools to large consolidated schools. The women needed baby-sitting, but that function of the schools was already there, waiting to be utilized.