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What has to happen is the kids need to learn to speak english. that will never happen because the parents don't speak english. and the parents don't take responsibilty for their kids because they are not at home. because they are working for $2 an hour because they don't speak english. Most of the schools in the valley have high number of minority non english speaking students. everyone wants to blame the teachers when the kids fail. It is not the teachers fault if theparents won't hold the kids accountable.

What has to happen is the kids need to learn to speak english. that will never happen because the parents don't speak english. and the parents don't take responsibilty for their kids because they are not at home. because they are working for $2 an hour because they don't speak english. Most of the schools in the valley have high number of minority non english speaking students. everyone wants to blame the teachers when the kids fail. It is not the teachers fault if theparents won't hold the kids accountable.

Get a good look and learn. This is what “healthcare” will be like if Hillary, Obama, or McCain get their way. Here in Utah, thanks to the voters, the public schools have no real competition. Now that isn’t to say there isn’t a choice; there is, you only have to pay for it out of pocket, like the “High Street” Dr.s and private hospitals of the UK, Canada and the other socialized countries of the West.

Our Tax paid schools are top heavy, more concerned with control of cost and appearances than the product and ultimate outcome. Yep, we have outcome based education. The only problem it is the producers who determine just what justifies an acceptable outcome, not the Secondary Educators or the employers who must perform remedial education to utilize the final product of these schools.

I am sorry to see yet another idealistic teacher face the institutional discouragement that is our tax payer “education” system, but if one (educators as well as others) looks at history; one will find that anytime the competition is effectively removed corruption and ineptitude follows (US Auto industry in the 70’s!).
The free market with minimal control would advance education and produce educated students fit for the next stage of life. Minimal control for education would be standards for outcome and the “reward”/$ attached to that rather than the “process” and # “served”.

If I had to do it again, my children would have only seen the inside of a public school when I voted, to participate in band/orchestra and play in team sports (football, water polo…). These indoctrination camp

Sorry about the repeat. I don't know what happened there. As slip of the finger no doubt.

I read an ethnography of the USA written in the late ‘40s. It was written by a British anthropologist. I found it interesting that when they listed the top 5 priorities of the public school system educating the student was not listed.

“Educator” employment and the security of “educator” employment, enculturating (sacrificed to the god of Diversity), socializing (one of the highest priorities today), and development of new educational process (testing theories of education/brainwashing) were the top 4. Standardizing the educational process/politicizing education was the last of the 5.

Take a look; they have been very successful.
Once tenure is gained it, virtually, takes imprisonment to remove an “educator” from their position.
The enculterization goal (ensuring the children can go to most any region of the country and function in public for this nation of immigrants) was sacrificed to the “higher” goals of keep my job and let me experiment.
They are very standardized (“no student left behind” is a national standard) they have made it very political (the teacher’s unions run the Utah congress and, by virtue of the education branch of the federal government they have a big “foot print” there too); if an elected official crosses “the union” they are attacked on the party and public level thus risk losing elections.

Again I am very sorry, not only for your friend.

There IS an existing option, but districts are too powerful and have a strangle hold on procedural safeguards. For disabled students, IDEA mandates private education at public expense when a district is unable to meet a student's needs.
The catch is that it is the district who gets to decide when they can no longer meet their legal burden. The incentive for them making that decision responsibly would be ... what? Especially knowing there are millions of dollars at stake if they admit they got it wrong.
In our case, it was the district superintendent who said what the district was doing wasn't working and asked what needed to be done. Our response was private education at public expense. They've been fighting it for nearly two years now.
Currently, they finally put acceptance for one program in writing, but then filled out our paperwork themselves; usurping our involvement to cover for their corruption.
What they don't know is that we got the papers from the program ourselves and will be filling them out without direct district say in anything but payment.
The moment we do that, things like the Carson Smith Scholarship become nothing more than a parental choice program. Every student who would not have chosen it can go back to their district and ask for what we received. Parents of regular ed students will then have a stronger stance for vouchers.

I think vouchers may help some kids into a better education. But do vouchers create a legal means of segregation? After all it will take money still to get into private schools leaving many out. I guess thats a whole different can of worms to open. Clearly schools need to be fixed.