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In the following article is this quote from a Chicago area school Superintendent:
“One of the many things keeping me up at night is, how are we providing education to those who most need it?”
So it appears education is just another welfare benefit that Is doled out based on some bureaucrats perception of who needs or deserves it.
I think the SOB needs to stay up nights and figure out what education really is.
Agree with you fully. This pandemic has done more to identify and demonstrate the inequity of lots of systems than coasting along acting like everything is perfect could ever do.
Very much Appreciate your sharing the article, too. Read it a couple times. Not sure we have answers. Online education can be great IF there’s online access for everyone. IF the educational system and supports are there. Supports might be construed as administrators, teachers and other “support persons.”
But a primary support system has to be the home environment and encouraging parents, grandparents, neighbors, siblings and others.
It ain’t a simple problem, is it?
Here is the Article
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-schools-specia-idUSKBN2391OT?utm_source=34553&utm_medium=partner
Kids are learning every day many things they will need later in life. Yes, “school work” is important, but during this time, they can learn much they would ordinarily miss by being locked up in the prison of school. Consider that in Sweden children to not start school until the age of seven, because it is considered more important for them to learn other things before that age.
Also, with this administration’s education secretary bent on privatizing all schools, we must demand that education for the many should be public. We all know that in the US little money goes to education. Taxpayer’s refuse to have the rates increased for the benefit of the education of their children. WTF is that all about?
Columbia has the highest school tax rate in Lancaster county and among the highest in the state. It is among the fifty poorest performing districts in the state. There is no correlation between fillers spent and educational outcome.
Remember Jessie Ventura? He was elected governor by posing the question of what hundreds of millions of dollars had done to improve education. This was 25 years ago and is still a valid question today.
I don’t have answers to what should happen but I can make a good guess as to what will. As we move more and more towards rationing ‘education,’ students that are above ‘grade level’ will be the ones to suffer. The further above, the less public resources they will be offered.
I have first hand experience working with gifted students in public school and can tell you this is already the case. To advocate for increased funding for gifted programs, is the equivalent of seeking “tax cuts for the wealthy” in the eyes of both the public and most educators. Of course, these same educators consider education, of all sorts, as simply vocational training.