it's the unions!!
it's the unions!!
this is clownish. what are you, 22 years old?
The unions play a part, that is for damn sure.
Skype-like services would make class discussions/interactions a cinch, along with apps that could have all the functions of a chalkboard, and many more. Otherwise, clouds are cheap. Thin-client notebook computers are dirt cheap. Finally, while this arrangement might lead the Fed to try to standardize education, it could just as easily allow States to tailor education to their own needs and economic development.
There are still schools/families who can't afford computers. Lots of them. Or who don't know how to use them. Or who find them wholly intimidating.
22? ha! I actually went to high school when they educated people. I learned enough in high school to place out of 26 hours of college credits.
Graduating uneducated idiots at 18 that can't even read is clownish.
Both of these examples can happen now.
I resent the implication that Skype is an appropriate subs ute for one-on-one human interaction.
Absolutely, and money isn't going to fix any of that.
This is exactly how they do it at the college level. Tutors are paid.
Not all of it, but it will some of it.
The discrepancy in funding, across the board, between affluent and impoverished communities is a huge part of the problem. Money would absolutely fix a lot of that.
I've seen first have here in Oregon where increasing school spending hasn't done any good. I completely agree with CuckingFunt, and add that any positive steps attempted at the schools themselves, are stopped by the unions, except for spending more money.
sure, but it gets sticky when you start paying the kids.
It hasn't in Oregon. For a rather long time now, Oregon spends evenly among the schools by enrollment, rather than by community tax base. This still get worse, because community moral vales get worse.
Maybe a funding discrepancy in California but not as much here in Texas.
Are you joking again?
SAISD gets the same amount from the state per student as NEISD.
Oregon schools suck. they continually rank at the bottom of the nation when it comes to education
Is it coupled with any attempts to solve the problems that might be at the root of a particular community's "moral values?"
I think that an increase/evening out of funding is a necessary part of the process to fix the school system, but I've never advocated throwing money at the schools with eyes closed and fingers crossed and hoping like that everything fixes itself.
Most students in public schools want to learn but you have about 30% of kids in most schools who have never been thought the value of a good education...so they make it difficult for teachers, who are over-worked, and fellow students, who are very impressionable...
No pay, no tips. I'd be firm about that.
I said funding across the board. Affluent communities get more funding, in a number of areas, than impoverished communities.
For one, there is a reason online degrees are a last resort.
for two, it is not cheap. the computer in a childs hands does not include the IT expense, which would be massive, and the admin expense. So you trade teachers for IT admins...sounds like a real winner.
three states cant afford to implement it on thier own, THEY ARE BROKE, so they would be forced to rely on fed funding. AND the fed gov would likely be happy to oblige right now...but federal expenditure the last thing we need.
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