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by eCat » Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:18 pm
I think she knows no more about education than Ben Carson knows about HUD.
I was listening to a podcast this morning with of all people Adam Corolla and they touched on education a bit. I thought he had an interesting take about schools.
A school is just a building and too often we get caught in this trap of thinking giving a kid a computer is going to fix him/her as a student, but a computer doesn't solve the issue of chaos at home.
The person he had on was Kentucky representative Massie, a product of the eastern Kentucky education system who got 2 engineering degrees from MIT. His wife, also a product of Appalachian education, received her degree from MIT as well.
The reason he was on the show had nothing to do with education but they touched on it because Massie was saying many Kentuckians were calling him up and demanding he do something to make sure DeVoss was never confirmed. He said at first he politely told them he was in the House and he had nothing to do with confrimation hearings, but after awhile he said he'd do what he could so he introduced a bill to dissolve the Department of Education. Later on at an Xmas party, DeVoss tracked him down and was like WTF? with him.
Back to the school concept though. I've been saying this for quite some time but never in so quite stark terms as Corrolla did.
A bad school is basically a collection of bad kids - who are a product of bad parenting. A kid will get into school what he puts into it, unfortunately that becomes much much harder when the school is full of kids putting nothing into it.
I will take that a step further - There is no kid in America today, who is deprived of a public education to the extent that if he/she applies themselves they are not qualified to attend college. It may a community college where they have to take 3 buses to get to it, but even in the worst underperforming school I firmly believe a kid who is intent on getting an education will get one that is solid enough, especially in this age with all the peripheral content available, on earning entrance into a college.
Now I understand there is much more that can be done, but at the end of the day what responsibility do we as taxpayers have to every child in school? What responsibility does the federal/state government have to a child in school? and I think most importantly, what responsibility does the community have to a child in school? Its not the federal government, or even the state government that is letting these kids down the most, its the community - and that can't be fixed by throwing a computer at the kid.
I like the stinky pinky but only up to the first knuckle, I do not want a GD thumb up there--I've told her multiple times and I always catch her when she tries to pull a fast one---it's my butthole for Chrissakes I'm gonna know--so cut out the BS.
