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Just curious.

Postby rusty » Sun Jun 19, 2022 6:57 pm

Who here supports charter schools?

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Re: Just curious.

Postby Sangersteve » Mon Jun 20, 2022 5:56 am

I'm in favor of any school that has it's focus on learning on real skills.

STEM

Trades

Agriculture

Not a fan of arts charter schools.

Once a student can master academic's

Then we can move to the arts

In perhaps after school or summer activities
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Re: Just curious.

Postby grouchy » Mon Jun 20, 2022 6:56 am

Sangersteve wrote:I'm in favor of any school that has it's focus on learning on real skills.

STEM

Trades

Agriculture

Not a fan of arts charter schools.

Once a student can master academic's

Then we can move to the arts

In perhaps after school or summer activities

I pretty much agree with Steve on this.

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Re: Just curious.

Postby Sangersteve » Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:16 am

Funny this story showed up this morning.

A federal court just handed the Biden administration — and everyone else who stands in the way of fixing our broken public-education system — a brand new weapon.


https://nypost.com/2022/06/19/federal-r ... s-at-risk/
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Re: Just curious.

Postby Mark » Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:17 am

I am in favor of anything that gives parents more control over the educational destiny of their children.

My niece graduated from a charter school after a public school failed her.
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Re: Just curious.

Postby grouchy » Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:35 am

Our local High School has a very good dual-credit program. A lot of the students graduate with college credits and usually there are about 10 percent that earn their Associates degree. Our Ag-Mechanics program is very good. This year we had 12 students (including 2 young ladies) that graduated with Welding Certification.
We are a 3A school.

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Re: Just curious.

Postby grouchy » Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:04 am

Rusty, your thoughts?

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Re: Just curious.

Postby rusty » Mon Jun 20, 2022 9:52 am

grouchy wrote:Rusty, your thoughts?


I'm not necessarily against them, but I do have some questions.
1. Charter school funding seems to violate the concept of "no taxation without representation".
2. I believe the main reason traditional public schools don't perform up to their potential is because they have to play by "rules" that charter schools don't have to follow. I'd like to see local public schools be able to adopt curricula that fits the needs of the students, not the whims of politicians.

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Re: Just curious.

Postby grouchy » Mon Jun 20, 2022 10:10 am

rusty wrote:
grouchy wrote:Rusty, your thoughts?


I'm not necessarily against them, but I do have some questions.
1. Charter school funding seems to violate the concept of "no taxation without representation".
2. I believe the main reason traditional public schools don't perform up to their potential is because they have to play by "rules" that charter schools don't have to follow. I'd like to see local public schools be able to adopt curricula that fits the needs of the students, not the whims of politicians.

I can agree with that.

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Re: Just curious.

Postby Sangersteve » Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:33 pm

I'm not necessarily against them, but I do have some questions.
1. Charter school funding seems to violate the concept of "no taxation without representation".
2. I believe the main reason traditional public schools don't perform up to their potential is because they have to play by "rules" that charter schools don't have to follow. I'd like to see local public schools be able to adopt curricula that fits the needs of the students, not the whims of politicians.


I'm confused by this, and I may be entirely wrong.

The charters accept the best and brightest

And seem to preform better than standard schools.

What can be done to adopt a better plan forward for standard schools?

What I see is the standard schools conforming to the lowest common denominator,

Meaning that if a student preforms at a lower level than others in his class

The teachers try to bring up that student to the detriment of the rest of the class.

I'm not sure politicians are the problem as much as

Schoolboards that won't allow the slow student to be returned to a remedial class.
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Re: Just curious.

Postby GFB » Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:39 pm

Teachers are for the most part..Marxist indoctrinators.
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Re: Just curious.

Postby rusty » Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:38 pm

Sangersteve wrote:
I'm not necessarily against them, but I do have some questions.
1. Charter school funding seems to violate the concept of "no taxation without representation".
2. I believe the main reason traditional public schools don't perform up to their potential is because they have to play by "rules" that charter schools don't have to follow. I'd like to see local public schools be able to adopt curricula that fits the needs of the students, not the whims of politicians.


I'm confused by this, and I may be entirely wrong.

The charters accept the best and brightest

And seem to preform better than standard schools.

What can be done to adopt a better plan forward for standard schools?

What I see is the standard schools conforming to the lowest common denominator,

Meaning that if a student preforms at a lower level than others in his class

The teachers try to bring up that student to the detriment of the rest of the class.

I'm not sure politicians are the problem as much as

Schoolboards that won't allow the slow student to be returned to a remedial class.


I don’t disagree with most of this. Traditional public schools have to accept everyone. Charter schools can pick and choose, but still get state funds (taxpayer dollars) and don’t have to succumb to the stupid state regs. Tests, basackward curricula, etc.

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Re: Just curious.

Postby rusty » Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:42 pm

GFB wrote:Teachers are for the most part..Marxist indoctrinators.



Well, you’re kind of a dumbass who’s probably never set foot in a public school since you left one. So there’s that.

As we say in Texas, “All horse and no cattle”.

By the way nobody in Texas says “git a rope”. That’s the invention of West Coast marketers.

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Re: Just curious.

Postby jellowrestling » Tue Jun 21, 2022 12:30 am

Sangersteve wrote:
I'm not necessarily against them, but I do have some questions.
1. Charter school funding seems to violate the concept of "no taxation without representation".
2. I believe the main reason traditional public schools don't perform up to their potential is because they have to play by "rules" that charter schools don't have to follow. I'd like to see local public schools be able to adopt curricula that fits the needs of the students, not the whims of politicians.


I'm confused by this, and I may be entirely wrong.

The charters accept the best and brightest

And seem to preform better than standard schools.

What can be done to adopt a better plan forward for standard schools?

What I see is the standard schools conforming to the lowest common denominator,

Meaning that if a student preforms at a lower level than others in his class

The teachers try to bring up that student to the detriment of the rest of the class.

I'm not sure politicians are the problem as much as

Schoolboards that won't allow the slow student to be returned to a remedial class.

Charter schools have open enrollment. They do not cherry pick students; in fact, they enroll a higher percentage of minority and economically disadvantaged kids than regular public school.

My grandson, on the other hand, is in a regular public school, where he is in a select classroom drawn from the most gifted kids in the school district.

https://txcharterschools.org/wp-content ... 20families.


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