Education in America

[JDHillFan]

Very interesting. Rather than learn from the red states having success, blue states and Randi Weingarten will more than likely double down. 

[B-Man]

 

 

"There's no place to cut in education spending"

 

 

 

Maryland Inspector General for Education estimates over

the last 6 years, Democrats spent over $990 million dollars

to educate students who couldn’t be accounted for.

They weren’t in class

 

This sounds like nearly a billion dollars laundered

 

“The funding of missing students” “This letter,

written by the Maryland Inspector General for Education,

Rick Henry, is eye opening. It's very alarming.

 

In his letter, Henry includes this chart, which shows

the number of instances where students were labeled

whereabouts unknown — designations and estimates

this issue could have cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion over the past six years”

 

 

[Orlando Buffalo]

https://notthebee.com/article/florida-teacher-files-grievance-against-school-district-after-administrators-forced-him-to-remove-charlie-kirk-poster-from-classroom

 

I do not know the teacher but know several at the school. This is a red pill for some people to see the absurdity when we can have Malcolm X posters

[Wolfgang]

Is it education or ideological programming?

[teef]

lol.  Alabama?  Louisiana?

[B-Man]

 

 

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER: 

 

‘Public schools don’t belong to the teachers.’

 

If you’re hired to teach in a public school, you’re supposed to teach your subject and be neutral about your politics, writes Robert Pondiscio. Maybe your ed school professors told you teachers are “change agents,” “child advocates,” or “architects of democracy,” and urged you to challenge “systems of oppression” and teach for “justice.” But that’s not your job.

 

Public education is “an essential government service,” not a personal platform, Pondiscio writes. “It exists not to change society but to sustain it — to transmit the shared knowledge, language, habits, and civic norms upon which self-government depends.”

 

For a long time now, “teacher preparation programs have evaluated candidates not only on their knowledge and skills but on their dispositions,” such as “commitment to diversity,” “cultural competence,” and a “social justice orientation,” he writes. Teachers are encouraged “to treat the classroom as a platform for identity and belief rather than as a civic institution that molds citizens.”

 

That’s eroded public trust, he argues. Neutrality and humility are “required to sustain or restore faith in public education.”

 

https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/public-schools-don-t-belong-to-the-teachers

 

 

We have any number of institutions that seemed happy to sacrifice public trust on the altar of leftism.

[Orlando Buffalo]

On 10/16/2025 at 6:38 AM, Orlando Buffalo said:

https://notthebee.com/article/florida-teacher-files-grievance-against-school-district-after-administrators-forced-him-to-remove-charlie-kirk-poster-from-classroom

 

I do not know the teacher but know several at the school. This is a red pill for some people to see the absurdity when we can have Malcolm X posters

I was at the school mentioned in this article today and they had a quote on the wall of the library from Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is controversial by any standard and half of his quotes are anti school. 

[teef]

i'm making arrangements to home school my kids as we speak.

[All_Pro_Bills]

For me education boils down to a focus on teaching students what to think vs. teaching students how to think.

Rather than memorize lots of facts and figures and face indoctrination in some ideology its more important in life to understand how to diagnose and solve a problem or issue via logic and critical thinking skills. 

But like George Carlin said the last thing any government wants is to be confronted by a population of citizens capable of critical thinking.

Edited 9 hours ago by All_Pro_Bills