Fund students, not schools:
If a neighborhood grocery store refuses to reopen, it may be inconvenient, but families wouldn't be devastated; they could take their money elsewhere. Imagine if you were forced to pay your neighborhood Walmart the same amount of money each week regardless of whether they provided your family with any groceries. The store would have little incentive to reopen in an effective or timely manner.
It sounds absurd. But you have essentially just imagined today's compulsory K–12 school system.
Let Portland go, too.
The alternative is hiring ymar to teach lethal hand to hand and metaphysical philosophy. Teachers will be scared back in
ReplyDeleteYes let it go. In the ashes, a new once old golden age will dawn. It is time for humanity to awaken to the dark matrix. All shall see and all knees will bow, but not to human blm.
ReplyDeleteI am watching portland, texan but my primary task is to maintain georgia, meaning the atlanta complex.
ReplyDeleteP reminds me of the game plot in deus ex pc game or mankind divided.
I've seen numbers as high as 20% of ALL parents nationally are considering home school for the next academic year. Distance learning doesn't work for grade school and early junior high, and colleges are going to be less understanding of "everyone gets an A" [the Ivy League and a few others excepted.] That and the rapidity with which students seemed to get "eight hours of work" done.
ReplyDeleteThe parents at Day Job have been most emphatic that we meet in flesh-and-blood, and we're going to do everything in our power to make that happen. With back-up plans in case the governor throws another curve ball.
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The oldest granddaughter finished each day's work, including homework, in 2-3 hours every day, her younger sister took 2.5-3.5. Mother was an elementary school teacher and Dad works from home and can occasionally provide supervision for a wandering mind.
ReplyDeleteThey want to go to school to see their friends and be in band, but there isn't really an academic reason. The worse the student, the more they need good teachers, and the less likely it is that the parent will be that.
Also the less likely they’ll live in a school district in which the teachers will either.
ReplyDeleteAgree with funding students not schools. With this refinement -- fund success, not effort.
ReplyDeleteIf the student passes the end-of-year grade level standardized tests, then they year's funding is paid to the parents. If parents pay tutors or a school system to prepare the student for the test, that's their choice. If the parents do a "home school" prep course, then they have no out of pocket up front costs and keep all the funds.
Students should be allowed to choose when to take the "end of year" test. Some will take it early. Some later. No problem. Postpone if they're feeling sick or stressed. No excuses.