I hate woke crap too, and believe that it has no place in the school system. But I will point out that American schools have always spent valuable class time teaching "citizenship", and trying to impart moral values to the children. We used to get a special grade for how well we learned and conformed to those values. There were awards, too.
Shouldn’t be shocking at all considering that the school system is more focused on gender identity, DEI & other woke garbage instead of teaching reading, writing, math & history
@REBID0MAKYR42 So people's "human nature" should be allowed to fully take over like in the animal kingdom? Sounds like capitulation and encouraging bad behavior. Only a small number of people are bullies. It can be deterred and prevented.
I was born in '51. We had a great education system then. It was much better before the Department of Education was created. We were proficient in math and science and if course we read proficiently. America is really dying. I blame liberal Democrat policies.
@thomasmanning829 A major reason this nation is where it's at is due to your generation's failure to learn history's lessons. Add some entitlement and general complacency as well and we begin to catch a look at the average Trump Supporter.
@thomasmanning829 I think it's a generational realization, spurred on by our current times. It's all slipping away from you, boomers. And your reaction? Terrible. Unforgivable. One generation of separation from our heroes, who fought against evil for YOUR rights, and this is the path you choose?
Check your spelling and syntax Einstein before you get rid of the Dept. Of Education. Many Americans are also bilingual because the Department of Education's policies.
"NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR DISCUSSION!" Every time there is an unfortunate incident in our schools with bad grades, Republicans politicize the tragedy and exploit bad grades for their own personal gain!😂😂😂
Grade free zones in our schools will only create soft targets for more bad grade students to feel emboldened to carry out even more bad studying behavior!😂
If we stop tracking the number of bad grades, we won't have the number of bad grades going up! STOP COUNTING THE NUMBER OF BAD GRADE CASES,AND OUR NUMBER OF BAD GRADE CASES WILL STOP GOING UP!😂
PARENTS!!! These teachers need your help. Prepare your kids. Feed them, love them, HELP THEM. Teachers need to do more, no doubt, but PARENTS...You should shoulder some of this burden too. These are your kids!!!
Good for you! You won’t regret it! I was completely homeschooled and not only did I learn so many different subjects and get good grades, I also was able to graduate at 16 years old because I skipped Kindergarten and did my 11th and 12th grades in one year. I didn’t have to worry about bullies, woke stuff or school shootings, as well as so many other things. I was able to learn at my own pace and in a teaching style that best helped me learn since I had some struggles with things that made it mentally difficult for me to do schoolwork. Homeschooling your child will let you spend lots of time with your kids and can even strengthen your relationship with them! I could go on and on about the wonderful things about homeschooling 😄 I wish you and your child well!
Well, if you can't read you're obviously not going to be capable of reading and vica versa. You can recognize numbers and write numbers but not necessarily be capable of mathematics.
Many, now adults can't either, I'm horrified at seeing how many on social media can't spell, use correct grammar or simple punctuation! No clue on definitions. I constantly see boarder for border, isle for aisle, loose for lose, your for you're, , there for they're or their, & much more. Often there's entire long paragraphs with no punctuation at all! I have some brain damage from heart failure, died 3 times & lost oxygen too long. I struggle with reading now, some memory loss, & can't think of the right punctuation any more. I hate it, but I still try at least. Most people don't care at all, just say you know what I mean! Nobody wants to excel anymore, they don't mind looking dumb & ignorant.
The sad result of woke teachers, woke curriculum and out of control social media. There's not enough emphasis on foundational reading writing and math skills.
Kids want to do what's easiest, like everybody else. Parents and teachers have the responsibility to demand that they learn the skills we believe they will need to succeed as adults, whether or not the kids want to learn it. That's our job!!!
It's much worse than that! We define success as 70% of students performing at minimum standards with a passing grade of 50%-60%. The bigotry of low expectations is very real. Ridiculous! Talented teachers are drummed out of the profession by the woke nonsense and focus. I consider myself a good teacher. I went into teaching with 30 years of experience in the US Navy, electronics, computers, and business because I wanted to, "Give Back." I lasted 11 years and couldn't take it anymore. The average teacher lasts less than 5 years before abandoning the profession. The so called "teacher shortage," is not a shortage at all, but a system with a goal to keep young inexperienced teachers who can be controlled, manipulated, and used as tools for the woke ideology in front of children.
Thanks, Tom Maxwell for your service and your insight. I do believe that our top students, at our top schools, are doing well. I base that on my own grandchildren and how they talk, read, and write, plus good grades and excelling in extracurriculars, too. The less privileged are dragging down the overall scores, which is not a matter of monetary investment, but rather misplaced focus on the part of the education system, our society, and the parents. In my opinion.
@@smasome I don’t disagree. There are exceptions. But I will submit the top students are being neglected for the rest. Gifted programs are vastly underfunded and exceptional students are achieving in spite of the system, not as a result of a great education. But that aside, the top tier is not the measure of success. The overall results are what count. When 50%+ cannot pass minimum standard tests is reading, writing, and math; that is a problem. When 80% of high school graduates need remedial classes to attend a community college, that is a problem. When the worst performing schools don’t have one student reading at grade level, that’s a huge problem. When overall results over the past 50 years have continued to fall, that is a major problem. Education has major problems and it begins with the federal dept of education and ends with young inexperienced woke teachers in the classroom with problems all throughout.
A child with a good home life can still perform well in a poorly performing school. Why is that? When that question is answered honestly then we can move on to how to handle it appropriately.
"There is nothing more radical in the history of the human race than turning your child over to total strangers, whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for twelve years." John Taylor Gatto
Social promotion = move up a grade level regardless of academics because their feelings will get hurt. Social emotional learning SEL = time away from academics. I watched the dumbing down happen in real time as a teacher.
If politics would stop blinding people from the truth of the problem then they would realize this is a statement of culture. A child’s foundation starts in the home. The parents teach their child how to grow in the world. The problem is not the schools or the amount of money being dumped into those failing schools, or Baltimore with the highest per student spending would not be at the bottom of performance across the country. A child from a good home can still perform well in a poorly performing school. Why is that?
Schools don't focus on the basics...as a former educator kids do not advance a grade level in literacy especially math and science...when they are the difference makers for bringing value to businesses as a future employee...
I’m a teacher… and I can 100% confirm that kids are behind… some are way behind grade level. I have 8th graders who can’t write a paragraph. Who don’t know there 50 states. Who can’t do basic math. I think big things are: Very little parent involvement these days. Teachers are being told to “teach to the test” instead of how it used to be with “Let’s have fun and learn while having fun”. If it doesn’t completely align with the “standard”, we aren’t supposed to do it. I have a masters degree in history and I feel like I’m not being trusted to teach my kids the way I know they need to be taught to learn. It’s really hard to stay in education right now as a teacher but I’m trying because these kids need someone who cares.
If the tests are written to look for the things we need the kids to learn, then we should teach to the tests. If doing so is not producing capable students, then the tests need re-writing.
@@KSRobinette I can tell you... that the end of year state test does not give a real account of what the students learn all year. They need to get ride of the end of year state test.
Why are we pretending that parents used to do school with their kids? They may have made us do our homework but they did not know what we were learning. Most of them weren't even home until bedtime. All of this technology and lack of textbooks that they can look back on and focus on sociology instead of core subjects, and even the teachers with poor attitudes are to blame.
Cell phones are only a secondary issue. It's not covid, or a teacher shortage. It's NOT teaching the right things bc they're teaching trash, no discipline, and no consequences when teachers fail. Those stupid tests they study for that are worthless.
Dumb dumb and dumber. Phones are not as big of a distraction as people think. I know because I graduated within the last decade. School year round? Stupid idea lol. Not advancing a failed student? If you knew anything you would know that when kids are held back it hurts them more than it helps
@@zackwoodd4606 I don't care how much it hurts if you fail you fail you need to learn that what failing means just like when you have baseball games someone wins and someone loses
@@criticaltheories5222you obviously don't have a clue on what you're talking about. The very reason why public schools aren't allowed to hold students back anymore is because it does more harm causing more problems for the kids socially and discourages them even more from trying harder.. It's a good thing people like you aren't in charge of the education system with your foolish beliefs. Your analogy to baseball shows just foolish you are
Everything in the US is backwards....we pay sports players millions while paying those that teach out children barely enough to make a living......something is wrong with this scenario
How about the role of parents? Parents must encourage as well as work with their children in order to improve reading skill. The teachers and schools do not have 100% responsibility in teaching children to read.
It's using laptops instead of textbooks. It's teaching social justice, 'social emotional' learning instead of math, reading, and science. And they dumbed down the literature to tabloid level language.
One of the many, many reasons we decided to homeschool our kids. I taught phonics early, and they were reading at 3 years old, chapter books at 4. They're still 1 to 2 grade levels above their peers in core subjects. I'm very proud of them (& myself). Homeschooling gets mocked a lot, but it works when it's done well.
And it would be better and smarter if you taught Spanish now that they are small. Trust me, they will NEED it in the workplace whether American's like it or not.
It does need to be put back on the parents…parents step up and become engaged… I’ve raised three kids with my wife and all three graduated with honors…one very proud father here… notice how I said my “ with my wife”…just a observation from my life society has issues because of the destruction of the family unit and the removal of God from our lives..be present in your child’s life not a friend
My wife and daughter are Chinese. In China the kids go to school from 8 am to 7 or even 9pm at plus they go to school 6 to 7 days a week. If they miss a day they have to make that day up on a off day. Plus they all have Uniforms. This takes the Jealousy out of school out who has got what on. Plus no cell phone or iPad Aloud in schools
Some schools in the US have uniforms. They are private academies. One main problem is the Federal and State money spent per student does not follow the student when they want to go to a private academy. This means the parents or guardians are paying out of their pocket for education.
Maybe we should begin with basic sentence structure, correct spelling and grammar. Also, checking our work for errors. Then we might discuss other topics.
These numbers aren't shocking you're letting 150 countries come in with different languages cultures and everything goes kids are in the schools preventing english from being thought arithmetic writing there are going to be stupid next generation
My Grandmother did not start learning english until she was 6 years old in a little one room shack/ schoolhouse. She went till the 6th grade. She was quite literate and could write quite well too. Kinda make you think.
Have any studies looked at the skills and attitudes of the children who ENTER the public school system? Have these changed and gone downhill over time? I personally suspect that broken homes, single parents, dysfunctional families, and part-time mothers have all contributed to creating young children who are not prepared to learn in a social setting. There is only so much that a teacher can do with an undisciplined, unmotivated child, let alone a class full of them.
Two issues with our schools, The Department of Education interfering with local schools, and Teacher's Unions. Get rid of The Department of Education and return control of what schools teach to the local communities and get rid of the teacher's unions, both of which are destroying our schools.
The mapping of each section is interesting. I'd be interested to see state by state. Also what's being used to evaluate the students in every state to get these results?
It is very bad. I pulled mine to homeschool them last yr and was shocked to find that while my.7th grader was a straight A student, he didn't know his parts of speech, multiplication, how to write a paragraph, capitalize a sentence...it's appalling.
I started Catholic school, first grade, in the mid-1960s. Phonics was taught there. It helps with reading and spelling! My daughter and two granddaughters didn’t have it stressed the way it was when I was in school!
Compare public school to homeschooling and the difference is like night and day! I was homeschooled and I am so grateful for that! Even though schoolwork was difficult for me to do, I still was able to learn well enough to get great grades! I didn’t have to worry about bullies, what to wear, bad teachers, not fitting in, school shootings, drugs, being forced to learn about crap like evolution and woke stuff, etc. I could do my schoolwork at my own pace each day…I could fill a whole notebook page about why homeschooling is the best.
If you become a teacher, remember that the salary is lower than other professions. It’s been this way since I can remember. I don’t understand why my friends, knowing this, became teachers? Two months off in the summer and every fed/state holiday. Spending money of your own to decorate classrooms for the new school year is nice, but I don’t remember anything about the decorating. A clean and up to date classroom is better. Not having money for supplies goes back to the classroom. School Boards need to find money to support teachers so they aren’t cleaning the classrooms, painting them, and even buying supplies for the school year. There must be a fix for this. My state proposed a Lottery. So much money was going to go to schools if passed. Voters passed it. I’m not sure where all of the money went for a long time, decades. Now a group wants to make marijuana legal for recreational use. They promise if passed so much money will go to schools. Smh.
I would like to see the data collected here. Considering how many foreign students are in the schools now, are they holding our own children back? Are these illiterate foreigners being counted in the data? Would the results look different if we separated native English speaking students from non-English speaking students?
With all the acts and bills passed for money intended for education, the return on investment is appalling. The State and Federal money spent per student should be able to be spent for a school choice other than public schools. In NYC, the private academies have a better education result than the publicly funded schools.
Now... imagine what the real numbers are. When I get a call for tutoring help for a man pushing 40, going for his Masters and not knowing what a thesis statement is, proceding to have his work written by his professors and other tutors then receiving said degree, that says it all!
Just saw this, and not surprised. NY kids I've seen - can't read, spell, print/write, the list goes on. Terrible. What does the head of the teacher's union say.
Education has fallen since Nov 2008. Smart phones in 2010. The eyebrow beating into submission by minority groups. Agendas of the far fetched to the lack of who, what, where and why questions without being cancelled
I’m sorry. But I was at the 12th grade level in the 6th grade. 5th grade actually. My 6th grade had. I teacher. No one. We had ditto sheets. Do 3 get a C Do 4 get a B Do 5 get an A Get it yet. School got paid. We got parked in an empty room. Most of my classmates ditched b4 noon. I hung out in the library. I was a crossing guard after school or I’d of ditched too It sucked. Randall elementary in Milpitas California. Decades later. My youngest daughter was enrolled there. When I enrolled her. The people in the office? They discouraged me. Said the scores were sub par for sub par. Private schools were full. She was tutoring kids. Not learning.
Teachers were pushing the "Look-Say" method way back in the 1960's. I'm thankful that my mother taught all of us to read with phonics or we might have struggled as much as a lot of the other kids. Now they are letting elementary school kids use calculators to do arithmetic, so they don't know their math facts by 8th grade and therefore cannot recognize number patterns in order to make any sense of algebra. They do way too much on electronics, so they get no life experience with real-world shapes or practical physics. That holds them back in everything geometry related. They don't learn to read analog clocks or handle money (coins and bills), both of which demand practice of fractional understanding,. That hinders their understanding of fractions. They don't read or get read to. They play video games instead. Then they are "taught" reading by the latest fad "method" rather than by any tried and tested method and neither schools nor parents are ever held accountable for not teaching reading, math, or rational thinking. Instead, they are taught never to tolerate anybody saying anything that might make them feel ashamed and given no incentives to strive for excellence in any non-athletic sphere of activity. And they are grouped in classrooms according to age rather than skill levels. No wonder they can't read, think, or calculate.
Fatherless homes and/or both parents working full time and commuting 1-2 hours a day while the teachers teach gender ideology and then they can't punish the disruptive kids.
Here in Minnesota (where I currently live) the states' ranking for education national test scores went from #9 to #19 under the "leadership" of Tim Waltz.
Maybe they should stop worrying about teaching kids all the "genders" and sexuality and teach them the things that their minds need to grow and succeed in life. Indoctrination at its finest.
😂 I think you mean: Reading, WRITING and arithmetic. Oh, the irony! We stopped teaching basics like grammar, spelling, vocabulary and we need to push reading more.
It first starts in the home, parents need to discipline themselves to be strict with their children to study hard and complete their school assignments. There must be consequences for bad grades and poor performance. That little cellphone parents buy for their kids is partly responsible for their kids poor performance in school.
If the students don't achieve or attain a valid high school diploma, the school system should return the cost of their education to the taxpayers. Don't pay for a product or service that is not completed or delivered.
You can't put all accountability on the schools. As a former math teacher, I've seen some parents expecting schools to do it all. I had trouble reaching some parents for phone calls or emails on missing work, general updates, tutoring sessions, etc. Some parents I could only reach if I showed up at football or baseball practice. I think parents should sign a contract at the beginning of the year for their responsibilities, including ensuring their child does their homework, are well rested, get to school on time, etc.
@@1founddaughter740 The schools get the tax money, after the schools repay the tax money to the taxpayers the schools can sue the parents for the cost of the education because the student did not achieve a valid high school diploma which is the social contract the public makes with the parents of the child.
…..Too busy figuring out which gender they are.
Stop teaching woke crap. Go back to reading, writing, history and arithmetic. This is understandable. 😡
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I hate woke crap too, and believe that it has no place in the school system. But I will point out that American schools have always spent valuable class time teaching "citizenship", and trying to impart moral values to the children. We used to get a special grade for how well we learned and conformed to those values. There were awards, too.
Don't forget manners and how to respectfully debate each other.
vote trump and it will stop
Shouldn’t be shocking at all considering that the school system is more focused on gender identity, DEI & other woke garbage instead of teaching reading, writing, math & history
Exactly.
They've never really focused on history. Like, the genocide of the Indians isn't really mentioned much.
History was never really taught. Like the genocide of the Natives.
History - like the Natives were treated?
Yeah you don't hear much about the woman and children the natives captured from wagon trains shocking
The south with fewer covid restrictions is less behind. Imagine that!
@@Adatoode Hence, the word "less".
Social media, DEI, critical race theory, gender spectrum, LGBTQ+
There you go, those are the problems. NO GO GET RID OF THEM FROM SCHOOLS.
How about school shootings?
@REBID0MAKYR42Republicans encourage bullying.
@REBID0MAKYR42 So people's "human nature" should be allowed to fully take over like in the animal kingdom? Sounds like capitulation and encouraging bad behavior. Only a small number of people are bullies. It can be deterred and prevented.
@@LC14-q4x That's where parents come in... but ya know, ipads, smart phones and video games are what's really parenting the majority of kids today.
@@LC14-q4x ❄️
Go back to reading, writing and arithmetic. Then add science, industrial arts and forget asking Johnny
if he needs a kotex.
Get rid of teacher unions and the Dept of Education.
Nope.
Teacher unions? yes
Dept of Education? no
The Dept needs to be clean
@@andrelotscher280 Yes teacher unions
They are one of the causes
FAP.
Maybe your kids are dumb bec parents are lazy
I was born in '51. We had a great education system then. It was much better before the Department of Education was created. We were proficient in math and science and if course we read proficiently. America is really dying. I blame liberal Democrat policies.
@thomasmanning829 A major reason this nation is where it's at is due to your generation's failure to learn history's lessons. Add some entitlement and general complacency as well and we begin to catch a look at the average Trump Supporter.
@@mr.blonde5344 It's not a generational error MrBlond. It's an ideological error compounded by a sad acceptance of our fiat currency.
@thomasmanning829 I think it's a generational realization, spurred on by our current times. It's all slipping away from you, boomers. And your reaction? Terrible. Unforgivable. One generation of separation from our heroes, who fought against evil for YOUR rights, and this is the path you choose?
Check your spelling and syntax Einstein before you get rid of the Dept. Of Education. Many Americans are also bilingual because the Department of Education's policies.
@@mr.blonde5344 explain why the blue states are the farthest behind!
🙏 God help our children
With thoughts and prayers but don't ask Donald about childcare
@@ange6580another idiot. You😊
Trump will spend less on education.
@@iamcedricpowell8051 Our borders are secure! Heels Up Harris 🤭🤡🥓
They may get better if they would Stop pushing the crap they are teaching the kids. Get back to the basics and leave the politics OUT.
Trump will give schools less money.
This will not help.
"NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR DISCUSSION!" Every time there is an unfortunate incident in our schools with bad grades, Republicans politicize the tragedy and exploit bad grades for their own personal gain!😂😂😂
Grade free zones in our schools will only create soft targets for more bad grade students to feel emboldened to carry out even more bad studying behavior!😂
The only way to stop a student with a bad grade is a student with a good grade!😂
If we stop tracking the number of bad grades, we won't have the number of bad grades going up! STOP COUNTING THE NUMBER OF BAD GRADE CASES,AND OUR NUMBER OF BAD GRADE CASES WILL STOP GOING UP!😂
PARENTS!!! These teachers need your help. Prepare your kids. Feed them, love them, HELP THEM. Teachers need to do more, no doubt, but PARENTS...You should shoulder some of this burden too. These are your kids!!!
And teach kids respect.
My son doesn’t go to public schools because they weren’t teaching the kids. They expected us parents to do it. I’ll do it but he’ll do homeschooling.
Wise!
Good for you! You won’t regret it! I was completely homeschooled and not only did I learn so many different subjects and get good grades, I also was able to graduate at 16 years old because I skipped Kindergarten and did my 11th and 12th grades in one year.
I didn’t have to worry about bullies, woke stuff or school shootings, as well as so many other things. I was able to learn at my own pace and in a teaching style that best helped me learn since I had some struggles with things that made it mentally difficult for me to do schoolwork.
Homeschooling your child will let you spend lots of time with your kids and can even strengthen your relationship with them! I could go on and on about the wonderful things about homeschooling 😄 I wish you and your child well!
Idiocracy- is becoming reality……..
GOP/maga needs poorly educated people. So, nothing will change.
Idiocracy was a send up of the right and their celebration of generational stupidity.
Babylon is falling!
@@BANE616 like the other past collapse Rome and Soviet collapse societies and empires
They can’t read OR write..
Or add, subtract, multiply, or divide.
Well, if you can't read you're obviously not going to be capable of reading and vica versa. You can recognize numbers and write numbers but not necessarily be capable of mathematics.
But they can tell you all 3,852 genders
@@lenaadams786 I think you meant to say if you can't read, you can't write. There is no vice versa between reading and reading.
Many, now adults can't either, I'm horrified at seeing how many on social media can't spell, use correct grammar or simple punctuation! No clue on definitions.
I constantly see boarder for border, isle for aisle, loose for lose, your for you're, , there for they're or their, & much more. Often there's entire long paragraphs with no punctuation at all!
I have some brain damage from heart failure, died 3 times & lost oxygen too long. I struggle with reading now, some memory loss, & can't think of the right punctuation any more. I hate it, but I still try at least. Most people don't care at all, just say you know what I mean! Nobody wants to excel anymore, they don't mind looking dumb & ignorant.
The sad result of woke teachers, woke curriculum and out of control social media. There's not enough emphasis on foundational reading writing and math skills.
In my trailer park all the kids are AP students maga
@@JeffreyRoselandJudging by that comment you could use a lot more schooling
Kids don’t want to learn
@@zachaddington5264 that's true. All they want to do is play video games.
FACT !!! ONE PROCESS OF THE , RISE AND FALL OF AN EMPIRE.
Glad to be a southerner
Kids just don’t want to learn all they care about is their phone’s ,social media ,video games and become popular
Kids want to do what's easiest, like everybody else. Parents and teachers have the responsibility to demand that they learn the skills we believe they will need to succeed as adults, whether or not the kids want to learn it. That's our job!!!
It's very easy to blame an 8 yr old vs the adults in charge right?
It's much worse than that! We define success as 70% of students performing at minimum standards with a passing grade of 50%-60%. The bigotry of low expectations is very real. Ridiculous! Talented teachers are drummed out of the profession by the woke nonsense and focus. I consider myself a good teacher. I went into teaching with 30 years of experience in the US Navy, electronics, computers, and business because I wanted to, "Give Back." I lasted 11 years and couldn't take it anymore. The average teacher lasts less than 5 years before abandoning the profession. The so called "teacher shortage," is not a shortage at all, but a system with a goal to keep young inexperienced teachers who can be controlled, manipulated, and used as tools for the woke ideology in front of children.
🎯 Well said. Thank you for your service.
Thanks, Tom Maxwell for your service and your insight. I do believe that our top students, at our top schools, are doing well. I base that on my own grandchildren and how they talk, read, and write, plus good grades and excelling in extracurriculars, too. The less privileged are dragging down the overall scores, which is not a matter of monetary investment, but rather misplaced focus on the part of the education system, our society, and the parents. In my opinion.
@@smasome I don’t disagree. There are exceptions. But I will submit the top students are being neglected for the rest. Gifted programs are vastly underfunded and exceptional students are achieving in spite of the system, not as a result of a great education. But that aside, the top tier is not the measure of success. The overall results are what count. When 50%+ cannot pass minimum standard tests is reading, writing, and math; that is a problem. When 80% of high school graduates need remedial classes to attend a community college, that is a problem. When the worst performing schools don’t have one student reading at grade level, that’s a huge problem. When overall results over the past 50 years have continued to fall, that is a major problem. Education has major problems and it begins with the federal dept of education and ends with young inexperienced woke teachers in the classroom with problems all throughout.
@@tommaxwell429 absolutely. I'm just trying to not be totally depressed. :)
Teacher shortage because of all the outrageous behaviors
I'm sure feminism and the shame of having anything to do with children has helped.
When you teach kids that math and good grammar are racist, what other outcome would you expect?
Right...maybe this is a result of shaming people.who "talk white"
So youre telling me that the south is becoming the most educated people in the country? My my my how the turn tables.
Trailer park scholars even
More Christians and less woke pushing, they sticking to the basics really.
Schools preparing students for all the high technology jobs moving into the region, often with financial assistance from the businesses themselves.
@@JeffreyRoselandyou’re ignorant.
@@JeffreyRoselandignorant comment.
A child with a good home life can still perform well in a poorly performing school. Why is that?
When that question is answered honestly then we can move on to how to handle it appropriately.
"There is nothing more radical in the history of the human race than turning your child over to total strangers, whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for twelve years."
John Taylor Gatto
All they're learning now is how to vote, the dumbing down continues
Shockingly the south is doing the best
Not really: My Dad woulda whooped my butt if I came home with an "F".
The south not pushing the crap as bad like everywhere else.they sticking to more of Learning.
@@blue-vo1sb @blue-vo1sb I really hope you are mocking how stupid southerners are because that is not even close to a literate sentence.
I thought the exact same thing! 😂
Lower expectations. State testing means state standards. People here in the South barely speak English.
Social promotion = move up a grade level regardless of academics because their feelings will get hurt. Social emotional learning SEL = time away from academics. I watched the dumbing down happen in real time as a teacher.
If politics would stop blinding people from the truth of the problem then they would realize this is a statement of culture.
A child’s foundation starts in the home. The parents teach their child how to grow in the world.
The problem is not the schools or the amount of money being dumped into those failing schools, or Baltimore with the highest per student spending would not be at the bottom of performance across the country.
A child from a good home can still perform well in a poorly performing school. Why is that?
Schools don't focus on the basics...as a former educator kids do not advance a grade level in literacy especially math and science...when they are the difference makers for bringing value to businesses as a future employee...
I’m a teacher… and I can 100% confirm that kids are behind… some are way behind grade level.
I have 8th graders who can’t write a paragraph.
Who don’t know there 50 states.
Who can’t do basic math.
I think big things are:
Very little parent involvement these days.
Teachers are being told to “teach to the test” instead of how it used to be with “Let’s have fun and learn while having fun”.
If it doesn’t completely align with the “standard”, we aren’t supposed to do it.
I have a masters degree in history and I feel like I’m not being trusted to teach my kids the way I know they need to be taught to learn.
It’s really hard to stay in education right now as a teacher but I’m trying because these kids need someone who cares.
If the tests are written to look for the things we need the kids to learn, then we should teach to the tests. If doing so is not producing capable students, then the tests need re-writing.
@@KSRobinette I can tell you... that the end of year state test does not give a real account of what the students learn all year.
They need to get ride of the end of year state test.
Why are we pretending that parents used to do school with their kids? They may have made us do our homework but they did not know what we were learning. Most of them weren't even home until bedtime.
All of this technology and lack of textbooks that they can look back on and focus on sociology instead of core subjects, and even the teachers with poor attitudes are to blame.
@kathywest4868 yes I agree. No more teaching ti the test.
Wow that's crazy and scary
Tell me again why we have a Federal Dept. Of Education...?
So the Feds can more easily block the education of our children.
And they say southerners aren’t bright lol they aren’t woke that’s for sure.
No one can be surprised about this. Come on. 🙄
I think the only way this happens is because parents got lazy. They aren't as involved.
Take away all their cell phones. Make school a year-round program. Never advance a failing student.
Cell phones are only a secondary issue.
It's not covid, or a teacher shortage. It's NOT teaching the right things bc they're teaching trash, no discipline, and no consequences when teachers fail. Those stupid tests they study for that are worthless.
Dumb dumb and dumber. Phones are not as big of a distraction as people think. I know because I graduated within the last decade. School year round? Stupid idea lol. Not advancing a failed student? If you knew anything you would know that when kids are held back it hurts them more than it helps
@@zackwoodd4606 I don't care how much it hurts if you fail you fail you need to learn that what failing means just like when you have baseball games someone wins and someone loses
@@criticaltheories5222you obviously don't have a clue on what you're talking about. The very reason why public schools aren't allowed to hold students back anymore is because it does more harm causing more problems for the kids socially and discourages them even more from trying harder.. It's a good thing people like you aren't in charge of the education system with your foolish beliefs. Your analogy to baseball shows just foolish you are
Some states ARE doing exactly those things to better educational outcomes for students.
This is how you create the next generation of voters
The republican base let's maga
Low-educated vote for Trump.
@@viper_fanNot according to the map. It shows the exact opposite to what you say.
@@timothykrause2327 just search for "Trump voter education".
@@viper_fan
It appears that people become low educated by voting blue 🙄
People who should never, ever have a union: PUBLIC SERVANTS. Next!😊
Everything in the US is backwards....we pay sports players millions while paying those that teach out children barely enough to make a living......something is wrong with this scenario
Well obviously the testing needs to be modified to include the DEI propaganda, and the gender spectrum.
How about the role of parents? Parents must encourage as well as work with their children in order to improve reading skill. The teachers and schools do not have 100% responsibility in teaching children to read.
PUT GOD BACK & GET RID OF GENDER BS & GET RID OF TEACHER UNIONS ! AND PARENTS GET MORE INVOLVED !!
Where is Critical Thinking? Hmm. Read the book “The Dumbing Down of America.” Just a thought?🤔
Prime examples of government and unions doing their best work
It's using laptops instead of textbooks. It's teaching social justice, 'social emotional' learning instead of math, reading, and science.
And they dumbed down the literature to tabloid level language.
One of the many, many reasons we decided to homeschool our kids. I taught phonics early, and they were reading at 3 years old, chapter books at 4. They're still 1 to 2 grade levels above their peers in core subjects. I'm very proud of them (& myself). Homeschooling gets mocked a lot, but it works when it's done well.
And it would be better and smarter if you taught Spanish now that they are small. Trust me, they will NEED it in the workplace whether American's like it or not.
@sep1364-l3d We've done Spanish & ASL from the beginning. Been homeschooling for 10 years now.
Maybe parents are at fault for handing kids a tablet and Cheetos
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It does need to be put back on the parents…parents step up and become engaged… I’ve raised three kids with my wife and all three graduated with honors…one very proud father here… notice how I said my “ with my wife”…just a observation from my life society has issues because of the destruction of the family unit and the removal of God from our lives..be present in your child’s life not a friend
Best summary with the fewest words I've seen so far 👍
@FlightRISC-LLC I learned to read from super nintendo
All the kids end up with by doing that is no attention span and less of a connection to their parents.
Such lazy parenting.
My wife and daughter are Chinese. In China the kids go to school from 8 am to 7 or even 9pm at plus they go to school 6 to 7 days a week. If they miss a day they have to make that day up on a off day. Plus they all have Uniforms. This takes the Jealousy out of school out who has got what on. Plus no cell phone or iPad Aloud in schools
Some schools in the US have uniforms. They are private academies. One main problem is the Federal and State money spent per student does not follow the student when they want to go to a private academy. This means the parents or guardians are paying out of their pocket for education.
Put the 10 commandments back In the school's.
Maybe we should begin with basic sentence structure, correct spelling and grammar. Also, checking our work for errors. Then we might discuss other topics.
"You can't even read." Tuco. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
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What % don't speak English as a 1st language.
Beyond simplistic numbers.
+ No one fails policy ensures this result.
These numbers aren't shocking you're letting 150 countries come in with different languages cultures and everything goes kids are in the schools preventing english from being thought arithmetic writing there are going to be stupid next generation
My Grandmother did not start learning english until she was 6 years old in a little one room shack/ schoolhouse. She went till the 6th grade. She was quite literate and could write quite well too. Kinda make you think.
Perfect for he illegal immigrants kids to catch up. This is what dems created
and no. more money being pumped into a failing public education system is not the answer.
So funny and it's not the south!
That's sad
I know
When I was in Junior High & High School in the 90’s
Our state was one of the best educate states in the country
@@AndrewPriester Really? Okay now I know were toast. LOL
It's alarming, our children deserve better.
Covid did this. But who did covid ?
Trump managed it poorly.
Home school your kids and give them a classical education.
School should not be teaching children to read. The child should be able to read by 5
Have any studies looked at the skills and attitudes of the children who ENTER the public school system? Have these changed and gone downhill over time? I personally suspect that broken homes, single parents, dysfunctional families, and part-time mothers have all contributed to creating young children who are not prepared to learn in a social setting. There is only so much that a teacher can do with an undisciplined, unmotivated child, let alone a class full of them.
Thank this administration.
Two issues with our schools, The Department of Education interfering with local schools, and Teacher's Unions. Get rid of The Department of Education and return control of what schools teach to the local communities and get rid of the teacher's unions, both of which are destroying our schools.
Columbia? That explains it!
But they bash homeschooling
My sister was a grammar school and Jr. high teacher and quit when the problem kids could no longer be suspended for bad behavior.
The mapping of each section is interesting. I'd be interested to see state by state. Also what's being used to evaluate the students in every state to get these results?
It is very bad. I pulled mine to homeschool them last yr and was shocked to find that while my.7th grader was a straight A student, he didn't know his parts of speech, multiplication, how to write a paragraph, capitalize a sentence...it's appalling.
I started Catholic school, first grade, in the mid-1960s. Phonics was taught there. It helps with reading and spelling! My daughter and two granddaughters didn’t have it stressed the way it was when I was in school!
Grew up around Detroit.
Since 1980,
Literacy is 5th grade level at graduation.
Schools needs to wake up!
Compare public school to homeschooling and the difference is like night and day! I was homeschooled and I am so grateful for that! Even though schoolwork was difficult for me to do, I still was able to learn well enough to get great grades! I didn’t have to worry about bullies, what to wear, bad teachers, not fitting in, school shootings, drugs, being forced to learn about crap like evolution and woke stuff, etc. I could do my schoolwork at my own pace each day…I could fill a whole notebook page about why homeschooling is the best.
The bottom 1/3 of any classroom can not keep up. Those numbers are endemic to a nation wide sampling.
States have been trying to hide problems in public school as opposed to fixing and making standards higher.
You can blame this on the lgbethere teachers.
Plus, parents and staffing.
If you become a teacher, remember that the salary is lower than other professions. It’s been this way since I can remember. I don’t understand why my friends, knowing this, became teachers? Two months off in the summer and every fed/state holiday. Spending money of your own to decorate classrooms for the new school year is nice, but I don’t remember anything about the decorating. A clean and up to date classroom is better. Not having money for supplies goes back to the classroom. School Boards need to find money to support teachers so they aren’t cleaning the classrooms, painting them, and even buying supplies for the school year. There must be a fix for this. My state proposed a Lottery. So much money was going to go to schools if passed. Voters passed it. I’m not sure where all of the money went for a long time, decades. Now a group wants to make marijuana legal for recreational use. They promise if passed so much money will go to schools. Smh.
I would like to see the data collected here. Considering how many foreign students are in the schools now, are they holding our own children back? Are these illiterate foreigners being counted in the data? Would the results look different if we separated native English speaking students from non-English speaking students?
With all the acts and bills passed for money intended for education, the return on investment is appalling. The State and Federal money spent per student should be able to be spent for a school choice other than public schools.
In NYC, the private academies have a better education result than the publicly funded schools.
Now... imagine what the real numbers are. When I get a call for tutoring help for a man pushing 40, going for his Masters and not knowing what a thesis statement is, proceding to have his work written by his professors and other tutors then receiving said degree, that says it all!
Ignorance is good for politicians.
Just saw this, and not surprised. NY kids I've seen - can't read, spell, print/write, the list goes on. Terrible. What does the head of the teacher's union say.
Education has fallen since Nov 2008. Smart phones in 2010. The eyebrow beating into submission by minority groups. Agendas of the far fetched to the lack of who, what, where and why questions without being cancelled
Look, the South is doing the best in school. LOL!
I’m sorry. But I was at the 12th grade level in the 6th grade.
5th grade actually.
My 6th grade had. I teacher.
No one.
We had ditto sheets.
Do 3 get a C
Do 4 get a B
Do 5 get an A
Get it yet.
School got paid.
We got parked in an empty room.
Most of my classmates ditched b4 noon.
I hung out in the library.
I was a crossing guard after school or I’d of ditched too
It sucked.
Randall elementary in Milpitas California.
Decades later.
My youngest daughter was enrolled there.
When I enrolled her. The people in the office? They discouraged me. Said the scores were sub par for sub par.
Private schools were full.
She was tutoring kids. Not learning.
Do you think no child left behind is a cause?
Teachers were pushing the "Look-Say" method way back in the 1960's. I'm thankful that my mother taught all of us to read with phonics or we might have struggled as much as a lot of the other kids.
Now they are letting elementary school kids use calculators to do arithmetic, so they don't know their math facts by 8th grade and therefore cannot recognize number patterns in order to make any sense of algebra. They do way too much on electronics, so they get no life experience with real-world shapes or practical physics. That holds them back in everything geometry related. They don't learn to read analog clocks or handle money (coins and bills), both of which demand practice of fractional understanding,. That hinders their understanding of fractions. They don't read or get read to. They play video games instead.
Then they are "taught" reading by the latest fad "method" rather than by any tried and tested method and neither schools nor parents are ever held accountable for not teaching reading, math, or rational thinking. Instead, they are taught never to tolerate anybody saying anything that might make them feel ashamed and given no incentives to strive for excellence in any non-athletic sphere of activity. And they are grouped in classrooms according to age rather than skill levels.
No wonder they can't read, think, or calculate.
This has been going on for a long time
Fatherless homes and/or both parents working full time and commuting 1-2 hours a day while the teachers teach gender ideology and then they can't punish the disruptive kids.
Here in Minnesota (where I currently live) the states' ranking for education national test scores went from #9 to #19 under the "leadership" of Tim Waltz.
Maybe they should stop worrying about teaching kids all the "genders" and sexuality and teach them the things that their minds need to grow and succeed in life. Indoctrination at its finest.
Discipline in our Public Schools in the classroom will go a long way changing these numbers !
Reading, righting and rithmetic, are important.
😂 I think you mean: Reading, WRITING and arithmetic. Oh, the irony!
We stopped teaching basics like grammar, spelling, vocabulary and we need to push reading more.
@@karencavanaugh8894Well, I just think, some are more clever than others. Irony.
@@karencavanaugh8894 .....wow
Just wow. You're dense.
... and yet America is supposed to be the best country in the world.
It first starts in the home, parents need to discipline themselves to be strict with their children to study hard and complete their school assignments. There must be consequences for bad grades and poor performance. That little cellphone parents buy for their kids is partly responsible for their kids poor performance in school.
Years of underfunding, and lack of proper teaching is history & science 🧪 both things the nation is not good at.
Get rid of big Randy.
So why do we need teachers unions and the fed Dept of Education?
If the students don't achieve or attain a valid high school diploma, the school system should return the cost of their education to the taxpayers. Don't pay for a product or service that is not completed or delivered.
You can't put all accountability on the schools. As a former math teacher, I've seen some parents expecting schools to do it all. I had trouble reaching some parents for phone calls or emails on missing work, general updates, tutoring sessions, etc. Some parents I could only reach if I showed up at football or baseball practice. I think parents should sign a contract at the beginning of the year for their responsibilities, including ensuring their child does their homework, are well rested, get to school on time, etc.
@@1founddaughter740 The schools get the tax money, after the schools repay the tax money to the taxpayers the schools can sue the parents for the cost of the education because the student did not achieve a valid high school diploma which is the social contract the public makes with the parents of the child.
Well it looks like the South is actually ahead in the country when it comes to education.