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Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:21 am to tduecen
This isn't going to be popular, but getting rid of some of the charter schools, and weakening the private Catholic school system would go a long way.
Let's just be honest, none of us want our kids going to school with the ghetto kids that the cities see fit to bus into our school systems, so we put our kids in Catholic school for 15k a year or fill out a novel of paperwork for Charter. This leaves some of the parents without these options to stick their kid in a school where he/she is the only white kid. Before long, they have a little Eminem on their hands.
It sucks but integrating the schools is the only way the public school system gets better. If the college educated parents with money and that do care has their kid in a public school, you best believe they would be holding the school administration (not teachers because they are truly powerless) accountable. But as long as the public schools are left to rot, this will continue to be the case. If the parents with real money and influence in the community had to send their little Johnny or Suzy to public school, they are going to do everything imaginable to make their kid successful and make it a good environment for their kid; now imagine the parents of the 100,000 population of kids in private and charter schools doing that. Pretty powerful I'd imagine.
My wife had to suspend a kid yesterday for eating chalk in her class. Of course he dindu nuffin and the parent called my wife at 11 o'clock last night telling her she was wrong.
I wish Louisiana had better demographics, I really do, but we'll always have Louisiana culcha.
Let's just be honest, none of us want our kids going to school with the ghetto kids that the cities see fit to bus into our school systems, so we put our kids in Catholic school for 15k a year or fill out a novel of paperwork for Charter. This leaves some of the parents without these options to stick their kid in a school where he/she is the only white kid. Before long, they have a little Eminem on their hands.
It sucks but integrating the schools is the only way the public school system gets better. If the college educated parents with money and that do care has their kid in a public school, you best believe they would be holding the school administration (not teachers because they are truly powerless) accountable. But as long as the public schools are left to rot, this will continue to be the case. If the parents with real money and influence in the community had to send their little Johnny or Suzy to public school, they are going to do everything imaginable to make their kid successful and make it a good environment for their kid; now imagine the parents of the 100,000 population of kids in private and charter schools doing that. Pretty powerful I'd imagine.
My wife had to suspend a kid yesterday for eating chalk in her class. Of course he dindu nuffin and the parent called my wife at 11 o'clock last night telling her she was wrong.
I wish Louisiana had better demographics, I really do, but we'll always have Louisiana culcha.
This post was edited on 10/4/17 at 7:26 am
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:32 am to tduecen
Very simple fixes that will never happen:
1) Make ISD's
2) @9th grade, testing to identify talent and career paths. Something similar to the Uni system overseas.
3) Hold parents accountable for their children's actions. If they have skin in the game, they have a higher probability of having interest in their child's progression. It's fricking crazy I had to say that.
4) Remove bad apples. It's proven that terrible students bring down an environment. However, it's also proven competition raises the bar of the environment.
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You will need to implement this over two generations to see an actual local change in society.
Here comes the downvote section:
1) No teacher raises. It's actually too easy to become a teacher. People who cannot do, teach. There's a reason why doctors, lawyers, and engineers/scientists get paid the way they do.
2) Require student fees like they do in college.
3) Actually vote in politicians who care about you. News flash, politicians in La have a vested interested to keep things as they are.
4) Promote gentrification of not only NOLA but the Wank as well. Push the riff raff out and the Metro area will have a chance to make a comeback.
1) Make ISD's
2) @9th grade, testing to identify talent and career paths. Something similar to the Uni system overseas.
3) Hold parents accountable for their children's actions. If they have skin in the game, they have a higher probability of having interest in their child's progression. It's fricking crazy I had to say that.
4) Remove bad apples. It's proven that terrible students bring down an environment. However, it's also proven competition raises the bar of the environment.
/-------------------------------------------------------/
You will need to implement this over two generations to see an actual local change in society.
Here comes the downvote section:
1) No teacher raises. It's actually too easy to become a teacher. People who cannot do, teach. There's a reason why doctors, lawyers, and engineers/scientists get paid the way they do.
2) Require student fees like they do in college.
3) Actually vote in politicians who care about you. News flash, politicians in La have a vested interested to keep things as they are.
4) Promote gentrification of not only NOLA but the Wank as well. Push the riff raff out and the Metro area will have a chance to make a comeback.
This post was edited on 10/4/17 at 7:36 am
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:34 am to tgrbaitn08
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Higher pay for teachers
Let's fix the system first...they way most curriculums are set up now, a highschool senior could follow the plan and teach. Teachers don't get to come up with their own plan/way any more. You can take the most brilliant scientist/whatever and put him in a job where he has no power to change it, an assembly line type of process with exact instructions and he's not going to improve it.
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Quit letting every Tom Dick and Harry teach with a general studies degree.
Agreed, still need to fix the system first.
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Hold teachers accountable for failing students
Just no. If every student fails, that's one thing. If a few fail....that's a different thing.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 7:52 am to Steadyhands
The thought that no child should be allowed to fail makes the system worse. It results in the bar being slowly lowered over time. That is why we have kids "graduating" high school who can't write competently, can't do basic math, read at a 6th grade level.
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