Update (3/15): Kerry Gilliard, a teacher in a Prince George’s County school, responds to a post about the county’s academic failures:
The parents – the bulk of them – have lazy kids. My kids are walking around with 800 accessories to go along with their brand new PSPs, iPod nanos, shuffles, and minis, ridiculously expensive cell phones from every major carrier and our county is the NEXT TO LAST in the state in test scores even though we spend the third most in money per student.
Weak curriculum, weak administrators and officials and too much ‘top turnover’. I’ve been teaching in PG since Aug. of 2001. When I came in, Iris Metts was in office and the title of the office was changed from Superintendent to CEO. After her, we had another guy. After him, the last thief we just had in office (forgot his name that quick, but look up ‘scandal’, prince george’s county and software contract)…
Commenter Robin says:
As far as having the luxury to stay home… well, we purposefully drive old cars and live in a rural area in an affordable old house (small!!) that has allowed me to stay home and raise our family. We made choices. We don’t get to travel as much as we’d like and we have to think hard about every purchase, but the tradeoff is that we’re raising our kids. I can’t think of a better investment.
Emphasis added. See Day Care Deception (reviewed back in 2003, although dated Jan. 2005).
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A “model” school in Los Angeles now ranks #1 among district high schools for crime. Read about this mess, and weep.
Liberals and other social engineers never learn. Immorality, lack of discipline, fatherless homes, fear of being sued, watered-down, politically correct curricula, a repugnance to education among too many students — these are major reasons why government schools are seething cauldrons of chaos and failure, NOT a lack of taxpayers’ funds.
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be government school pupils unless it’s located in a rural area, far away from the ghetto, and/or filled to the brim with traditional-minded teachers, conventional, no-nonsense administrators, and a hefty percentage of families whose men live with and bear responsibility for their offspring.
Otherwise, flee like a cat chased by a rottweiler.
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