re: I am the Department of Education: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

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often thought that if you're going to go to some kind of tracking system for kids, the best way to separate them out is not through some standardized test, but just whether their parents show up when called.

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I'll give you an easier one that combines both of those. Give standardized tests to all first graders or heck maybe all kindergarteners. Make note of the results. The kids who showed up ahead of all of their peers are most likely to have parents will answer the phone when you call. Both of my children showed up to school supposedly reading at the third grade level. I don't sit here and think wow my children are the next Einstein. I simply recognize that their peers Across the Nation have generally s***** parents. I mean I don't mean to be rude here but neither of my children are exceptionally bright. They just learned what I taught them. Apparently it's some major life accomplishment to be able to read a complete sentence when you're in kindergarten and add two or three digit numbers. I'll bet that if you did what I said above you'd find that it was more predictive than almost any other thing you could do

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I think people are seeing that graph and shitting on teachers without realizing that teacher salaries have been pretty much the same since 1970 (and declined relative to other professions).

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I would imagine that the increase is because there are probably more support staff, especially with IDEA and the professionals involved in that.

There may also be smaller classrooms sizes, but I may be wrong

I know only a couple poor teachers in my building of 200 plus staff. And they arent even that bad. Most go above and beyond.
The lack of parent involvement at conferences shows up in the results.
I would rank these issues as the primary problems
Poverty
Parenting
Black culture
Pc progressive administration

We need jobs in the country to lift more families into the middle class.

We need better involved nuclear family parenting.

We need to demonize black victim and thug culture and make education cool and relevant for blacks.

We need common sense administration to call a spade a spade and quit making excuses for politically incorrect results. And realize that not every kid is college bound and that school is education not daycare.

B4 DoEd, USA led the world (or was near the very top) of student achievement.

Since DoEd, down the shitter.