Trump is going to fix American Education

[Tiny]

Woo hoo!  I've decided to get on the Trump bandwagon and cheer on all the cool and wonderful things he's doing to Make America Great (why he wouldn't want to make America GREATER than it ever was is beyond me... but whatever.)  
So,  Trump is going to fix the public school system (in favor of rich people!!)   Woo hoo!  I guess it's about time we stopped attempting to force knowledge down kids (and their parents) throats (or maybe that should be into their brains).   Let's give them a choice of schools and it's all fixed. 

www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/betsy-devos-trumps-education-pick-has-steered-money-from-public-schools.html

Michigan is one of the nation’s biggest school choice laboratories, especially with charter schools. The Detroit, Flint and Grand Rapids school districts have among the nation’s 10 largest shares of students in charters, and the state sends $1 billion in education funding to charters annually. Of those schools, 80 percent are run by for-profit organizations, a far higher share than anywhere else in the nation.

But if Michigan is a center of school choice, it is also among the worst places to argue that choice has made schools better. As the state embraced and then expanded charters over the past two decades, its rank has fallen on national reading and math tests. Most charter schools perform below the state average.

Last spring, the DeVos-backed group was the chief force behind the defeat of legislation that would have established standards for identifying and closing failing schools, both charter and public, in Detroit, where a flood of charter schools in the past decade has created what even charter school supporters call chaos.

Awesome!   The rich will be able to steer their 'voucher' and their kids - to THEIR schools - and everyone else can use their vouchers to go to whatever "for profit" school happens to be open in their area.    There won't be much regulation or oversight of the charter schools... so you'll just have to hope your kid learns how to read and do math.  

This will make America Great for sure!!!

[billisonboard]

I would work to remove all property tax funding for education if a major voucher system were put into place. If it is going to be a commercial relationship between parents and a for profit company, I don't need to fund it.

[tallguy]

(Any chance you can edit out the extra 25-30 lines of blank space?)

[swamp]

I like his choice of Ben Carson to run HUD.  althiigh the guy has no experience or background in housing issues, he's a brain surgeon.  What can go wrong? 

[dondub]

Yes, please remove school funding from my property tax. I need a new car!

[dondub]

I think HUD needs a rocket scientist and not a brain surgeon.

[tallguy]

NONE of these positions are rocket surgery.  

[verrip1]

This is going to be



YUGE!!!!!

[zibazinski]

The DeVos kids are in a private Christian school in Ada, Michigan

[Shooby]

  Of course "rich" to Dems means anyone with a job above minimum wage.  We can't have the unwashed masses having control over their kids' education!  OMG!

[Shooby]

Nov 24, 2016 7:23:25 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

The DeVos kids are in a private Christian school in Ada, Michigan

We have no private schools so vouchers wouldn't help me.  lol

[Shooby]

Common core math is one of the dumbest things i have ever seen.

[toshmanta]

Incontrovertible evidence America's education system cannot be working.


Donald Trump POTUS elect  

Come on folks George W Bush and Donald Trump is Dumb and Dumber.

[Shooby]

Libs always rail about this, yet funny how their kids are always in the best private schools! Lol. The only Lib who actually put his money where his mouth was, was Jimmy Carter who actually sent Amy to public school.

[Gardening Grandma]

The next appointment will be El Chappo to head the DEA

[zibazinski]

Nov 24, 2016 8:28:52 GMT -5 Shooby said:

Libs always rail about this, yet funny how their kids are always in the best private schools! Lol. The only Lib who actually put his money where his mouth was, was Jimmy Carter who actually sent Amy to public school.

Not exactly I believe he said he wanted to but claimed the secret service said no. She ended up in some school called Sidwell, I think. A Quaker school or something.

[rob base]

Shouldn't all u ladies be like cooking or something ?

[zibazinski]

Nope.

[Tennesseer]

Nov 24, 2016 8:28:52 GMT -5 Shooby said:

Libs always rail about this, yet funny how their kids are always in the best private schools! Lol. The only Lib who actually put his money where his mouth was, was Jimmy Carter who actually sent Amy to public school.

Easier to provide Secret Service protection to the minor children of presidents in a smaller school (often walled in campuses) with a smaller student population.

[zibazinski]

Actually the people that voted for him were educated when students were actually educated. Now the crybabies are the products of the feel good generation.

[rob base]

Make America's Education Great Again!

[Gardening Grandma]

Nov 24, 2016 10:01:56 GMT -5 rob base said:

Shouldn't all u ladies be like cooking or something ?

Somebody's mysogyny is showing....

[rob base]

Nov 24, 2016 10:20:32 GMT -5 Gardening Grandma said:

Nov 24, 2016 10:01:56 GMT -5 rob base said:

Shouldn't all u ladies be like cooking or something ?

Somebody's mysogyny is showing...

Sorry....I meant to say "chicks"

[Gardening Grandma]

Nov 24, 2016 10:21:45 GMT -5 rob base said:

Nov 24, 2016 10:20:32 GMT -5 Gardening Grandma said:

Somebody's mysogyny is showing...

Sorry....I meant to say "chicks"

Pretty sure I know what you meant to say.  

[rob base]

Nov 24, 2016 10:24:02 GMT -5 Gardening Grandma said:

Nov 24, 2016 10:21:45 GMT -5 rob base said:

Sorry....I meant to say "chicks"

Pretty sure I know what you meant to say.  

Yes

[Deleted]

There was NEVER a 'golden age' of education where everyone was better educated.

[OldCoyote]

Nov 24, 2016 9:54:51 GMT -5 Gardening Grandma said:

The next appointment will be El Chappo to head the DEA

Who would know more about it than El Chappo?

Certainly not the people running it now!

[Tennesseer]

Nov 24, 2016 8:28:52 GMT -5 Shooby said:

Libs always rail about this, yet funny how their kids are always in the best private schools! Lol. The only Lib who actually put his money where his mouth was, was Jimmy Carter who actually sent Amy to public school.

One other note: None of Donald Trump's five children attended/attend public schools. All attended/attend the best private schools.

[OldCoyote]

Graduation rate from Public schools is like 55%.

Graduation rate from private schools is like 79%

The more the Feds get in education the worse the Graduation rate,   Hmmmm!

[OldCoyote]

Nov 24, 2016 10:26:59 GMT -5 rob base said:

Nov 24, 2016 10:24:02 GMT -5 Gardening Grandma said:

Pretty sure I know what you meant to say.  

Yes

You should have said Babes to be totally correct.