According to a federal survey of school leaders, 40% of students in the nation’s public schools were behind grade level in one or more subjects at the beginning of the school year.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) announced its findings this week that the percentage of students school leaders estimated to be behind where they should be was down 7% from the 2022-23 school year but still 8% higher than before the pandemic.
Was that not the plan?
ReplyDeleteOne more example of why the DoE needs to go! Wish we could also get rid of or at least diminish the power of teacher's unions.
ReplyDeleteAnd those of course are numbers from people who also are way behind grade level and only got jobs because of either the color of their skin or what is, real or not, in their pants.
ReplyDeleteThose are also the people whose student loans Joe BiteMe wants to forgive.
DeleteFunny how that works, isn't it?
Homeschool.
ReplyDeleteNegative. It wasn't until I enrolled into college that I realized how shitty and inadequate my K-12 education was. I got to use the Abeka program, and it was horrendously lacking in math and science, and my path ended with what was probably watered down Algebra II. But hey, I can write all about hebrew history in that dead format called cursive! I also had a class called "keyboarding" which was just copying text and using MS word.
DeleteWhile I was learning useless information, like how king Saul fell on his own sword, other kids my age were taking AP STEM courses in public and private schools. Such courses are significantly more advanced than my current college courses on the same subject. I was also cut off almost completely from social interaction, and it wasn't until I got internet access in the mid 90s that I had a window into the world that was hidden from me.
Buuuuut. . . if you don't care if your kids develop socially inept with a few loose screws, start life in last place among their peers, delay or entirely omit their development of self-confidence, and generally handicap them in life, then sure, homeschool them!
-- Arc
There comes a time in every man's life when he has to step up quit blaming everybody but himself for his shortcomings. Nobody had a perfect upbringing.
DeleteMost of the homeschool kids I've met have been much better at social interaction than the kids from government schools. Smarter as well...
DeleteBro. The problem wasn't homeschooling. It was you. And if you think public or private school is important for "socialization" then you're still an ignorant fool. In your case, your gamma ass needed a lot more bullying
DeleteAnd homeschooling now is not homeschooling in the 80's. I know several homeschoolers who can easily deconstruct the ideas of Kant and Nietzsche, and explain why they were both deeply retarded fools whose philosophical opinions should never have been given even a quarter of the weight and respect they've gotten.
I know 2 private school kids who can argue with them. And the private school is a tiny one, with amazing staff, some of whom teach college-level humanities classes. And parents are expected to be involved in the function of the school.
Socialization is a bullshit lie, but social interaction and development does not require a fancy prison, whether it's state-funded or private. How did children socialize before the public childcare prisons were created?
And none of them were convinced to get mastectomies or to believe they were gay beastkin etc
Homeschool or die.
Well, they had to lower the bar when they brought in the Amish.
ReplyDeleteI'll put my bet on the Amish 8th grader vs. your public school 12th grader.
DeleteApparently you need to get the offical Wirecutter Decoder ring!
DeleteSo just under half of students are below average? I think that’s how the math works.
ReplyDelete"Behind grade level" - different from saying "behind the rest of the class".
DeleteNo, 40% aren't even to the minimum standard for the grade level. In other words, they failed one or more subjects the previous year but were advanced to the a higher grade anyway.
DeleteYou win the internet today.
DeleteONLY 40% of them below grade level? In my state, the local high school was placed on a special list of schools in the lowest 25% in achievement. YET the superintendent and principal boast of a 90% graduation rate. QUESTION: Are the diplomas worth the paper they're printed on?
ReplyDeleteAnd in Mass. - they've just ditched the statewide "MCAS" testing. Teachers and students didn't want to be held to standards.
Black students
DeleteYes, by all means, ditch the federal Department of Education.
ReplyDeleteBe beware, your state - yes, even your deep-red state in the Bible belt - has a state version of the Department of Education that's pretty much bought into the same wokeness and lowered expectations that the feds push. Because they got their Ed.D. and M.Ed. degrees at the same woke colleges as the fed-u-crats. And your local school committee members probably buy into the same things, or at a minimum, they're of the sappy mindset that "oooooh, our schools need MORE funding!.... oooooh, teachers are so underpaid!"
Our schools and standards were much better before Carter created the Department of Education. A bureaucracy is never a good thing.
DeleteTrue, but that state group iis more accountable to the local electorate than any Fed bureaucrat in DC!
DeleteIts because of all the illegal immigrants who can't speak english.
ReplyDeleteWait...they ask the school leaders?? LOL. HOMESCHOOL.
ReplyDeleteAnd Democrats say that's why we need to keep the Dept of Ed.
ReplyDeleteA govt education is designed to produce humans smart enough to run the machines but not smart enough to question why. G Carlin.
ReplyDeleteIt's the parents, plain and simple. I was reading before I started kindergarten (granted it was at a rudimentary level) Know why? My mom. I learned early that not only was reading cool, it was even cooler to WANT to read. That curiosity has served me well my whole life. Thanks Mom and Merry Christmas to ya'll. I sincerely hope you n yours are well and happy.
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