re: What can be done to improve Louisiana Education

I know a teacher that works in a poor ‘urban’ school who calls parents (or dials the disconnected numbers) but when she occasionally gets one on the line hears “wut u won’t me ta do? Call da cops”

It’s not the teachers’ fault. They can only do so much with this type of mentality.

I thought you had a choice to go the college prep route or the tech route.

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0. Allow students who have not achieved passing scores to enter a technical college training in 10th grade.

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This needs to be done before 10th grade.

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Here are a few of my thoughts

1. Pay teachers better
2. Require a degree in the field they wish to teach
3. Remove student score from SLT
4. Observe more from School, district, and state level
5. Remove some of the frivolous positions created by school boards
6. Make teachers work 200 days a year with more training days
7. Require teachers to show growth in the classroom from the previous year
8. Allow teachers to achieve perfect scores if earned
9. Make curriculum statewide instead of Parish to Parish
10. Allow students who have not achieved passing scores to enter a technical college training in 10th grade.

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1. has nothing to do with improved education - private school teachers are paid less.....

2. maybe

the rest is on politicians..



most of it is on the parents.....and sadly with the LBJ effect fully taking over.. there is no way to end that.

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most of it is on the parents.....and sadly with the LBJ effect fully taking over.. there is no way to end that.

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Correct answer. Public schools are pretty much just very expensive day care centers. Bright kids will be bright regardless of learning environment. We're just raising other people's kids for most of the day.

While that may be the case, the babysitters are being abused by test score accountability and an endless new schemes that must be fully embraced or else. If they are just babysitters, leave them alone.

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the babysitters are being abused by test score accountability and an endless new schemes that must be fully embraced or else

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I agree.

Problem is we put thousands of kids with varying learning styles, attention spans and IQs in the same schools and expect some kind of standardized achievements. When the system is bogged down with kids who will never be more than functionally literate, it's the kids who actually want to learn and need a little assistance who suffer.

Do exactly what Texas does!

Enforce academic standards;

if a kid doesn't cooperate or is violent remove him from the school;

if a child in a poor school shows merit (2% score above proficiency in a crap school where 85% are below proficiency get that 2% out of there);

If 60% fail so be it, create good schools the the other 40% can learn in;

if we had more good schools more people would use the good schools for their functional children

We have a demographic problem where the needs of the dysfunctional are destroying the system