I'm slow today, I only had tears after 2:50... This young woman is exactly what conservative philosophy is about. Simple system as you can get it, minimum overhead, minimum middlemen, maximum competition and efficiency. I hope she'll appear in future videos.
Not an argument, your opinion which just came right out of your ass. Lemme guess you are a tax thief government employee? Moderation in politics solves nothing, not surprisingly compromising with retards, incompetents, and feeders at the trough yields sour results.
Thank god PragerU made this video. If there is one thing Dennis loves to discuss thoroughly, it's school choice. And yes, he does choose the topics for these videos. Keep up the great videos!
"Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past." There's a reason why government is so invested in schools. School choice hurts the control of the narrative, so the bureaucracy hates it.
My sister and I also explained a poor educational opportunity in the public schools. We were lucky our parents realized what was going on and homeschooled us. If it were up to the public school we would have had no future as we were deemed to dumb (in reality we simply thought differently than our teachers). But instead today we are both nuclear engineers (our parents worked with us to succeed). Today I have two sons and know from there personality they would have no chance in a public school. So, I must pay for private school so they to can succeed.
But just blame the parents it's obviously their fault that this girl didn't do well at school, we should've just redirected more of the tax money to the public school because money solves all of society problems right? That's the average liberals stance on society money solves, everything not self evaluation, no they believe that because they didn't have a certain amount of money it's society's fault that they're such a despicable, miserable human being. It's just their greed.
I have generalized anxiety disorder. Had it in elementary school. But no one bothered to find this out, or that I have a hard time with reading comprehension. Instead they just put me in a class with children far more troubled than me. Which gave me the impression that I'm a troubled person.
Mine is Asperger's syndrome (autism). In short, I had problems controlling my emotions and this got me in trouble while I was in the public schooling system. My junior year I was accepted into a vocational school and I never looked back. The classes were smaller and the teachers cared about their students learning skills, not passing the finals. This isn't to say that there are no good teachers in the public system, but the entire atmosphere was different when I switched.
Eric Lee Hettver I'm so sorry. My son had the same issue. I had to fight for him because of an abusive 6th grade teacher. She was awful to all the children. I got him away from her, but it was a fight. I hope you are doing well now.
Ondrea Torrence TL; DR If a word is spelled a-s-k-e-d and you say axed then you are uneducated. Having an accent won't *make* someone enunciate poorly, they will just pronounce things differently. Being uneducated surely will lead to poor enunciation and pronunciation. Basically it's Ebonics. That's how you get things like "lie-berry","fingah","finna" or "I *axed* you a question." Then if a black person does speak proper English then they are "acting white."
just because you use ebonics doesn't mean that you're uneducated. it's just like using slang. It's just another way of talking and could be a unique way of conversating with certain people. I hate when pay say you're speaking white though when you're a little more eloquent and proper. you can't speak like another ethnic group that's just stupid. My friends use to say it to me all the time as if some white people don't use slang in certain areas-_-.
if teachers got paid based on real success this would change too. I quit public school three times, smartest decision I made about public education. Now I critique PHD's writings on the side.
But that would be difficult to measure. How do you know if a teacher is good or bad? what would be the standart? how would you test them? And taht without considering the money that this would require.
Bless your family for being proactive in your life and fighting for your success. You did great fighting for yourself and not just assuming you were too dumb to learn.
Public, private, or charter, but what about private affadavit homschoolers. Stay-at-home parents should receive vouchers to make their "full-time job" educating their children: Buying books, purchasing education subscriptions, maintaining internet access and A/C, going to Museums, travelling expenses for going to State Legislatures. If it's a single-parent situation, they can have their children do the typical 3-hour education schedule on math/english at home (secured) or even at work (in their view) if they have an unused spot. On off-days, test your child (student) and do trips then. With the vouchers, of course.
I agree completely with the presenter, i even had some of the same issues in school i did. I was dreading going to school, that's one of the reasons i quit. I regret quitting now no doubt. There's only 1 high school in my area and that's the city's public school. Even if i had school choice, there would only be 1 choice to choose from. So this wouldn't work for me and many others in my position; but if it give many others opportunities i didn't have, i'm all for it, especially if it's for the better, and being an educated nation would definitely be for the better. Many small city's and villages have this same problem. Overall world population is increasing, but the city i live in, is decreasing in population, but also all the high skilled jobs left, leaving only service jobs like fast food or grocery stores and ofc walmart. we have no factory's now, neastles left, miller left, and a few more idk the names of left. The city i live in was called "The city The Great Depression forgot". We even had a sign when u entered the city that said "A City for the Future"; they took down the sign. Now most of us our poor and/or addicted to drugs. I never fully understood how poor people can do drugs, drugs cost money lol i definitely can't afford them, even if i could i wouldn't get them, i would be using it to move some place else.
Interestingly the changes you mention happened after the civil right movement won. I'm not saying because of it, but the timing is undeniable. I wonder if anyone will be brave enough to do a study of what actually happened of the strong black family once existed, and why no more .
A lot of black men came home from Vietnam with mental scars, for example my father can't sleep more than 4 hrs at a time. Not to mention the CIA funded crack epidemic & lastly the riots in which we gutted our on neighborhoods & white flight lowered property values. The most damning effect was through going to white business we stopped patronizing our own. Sprinkle general dysfunction of America & there you go.
By privatizing education the owners can have a large influence on what they teach and for the most part they teach to make profit instead of having the better funding of the government to teach properly and with proper funding.
Harry Christofi A few things. 1) Grammar, or at least punctuation. I had to reread your comment to understand it. 2) Linking your Political Action Committee doesn't make us want to agree with you, it even makes some people suspicious of your intentions. 3) Thank you for not simply shouting "racism" or some other non sequitur, with more people like you hopefully both sides of the isle can sit down for a rational discussion for once.
This is a conservative channel so of course she doesn't mention racial segregation. That said, school choice is very important! America is a dictatorship if it doesn't allow you to attend the school you want. Technically speaking, the problem might be caused by Americans not having an ID, therefore the state cannot easily check mandatory school attendance if the child attends a school far away. Now of course, as mentioned below, the specific solution with vouchers has issues.
I can confirm this. I live in (sadly) democrat Nevada with even more democrat Las Vegas. However we are doing one thing right. We are able to choose the schools we go to. If we work hard we won't be trapped in our home school. I am now going to the high school that was recently awarded the #1 Magnet School in America and I am proud. Ask any democrat in Las Vegas if they like school choice and they will always say yes.
Why is there no mention of the fact that public school funding is based on the property tax of the school district? Perhaps instead of trying to tell people it's only an issue because people aren't choosing to go to private schools, efforts should be made to ensure struggling schools are given adequate funding.
1: The problem doesn't seem to be so much with public education than it does with teachers who were incompetent and impatient. 2: If you, a failing student with a violent record, were able to get the waiver to go to a private school, doesn't that mean that school choice is already available? 3: Just because your private school was great doesn't mean all private schools will be. Some won't be as good at tailoring to students. Some will require things that a government voucher's necessarily limited description won't provide, such as laptops and the sort. Others will simply be too expensive for some people, even with the voucher. Some won't provide necessary transportation. These things will keeps some students out of the schools they need, all the while public education becomes worse and worse because of budget cuts, and just because a lack of money is not the problem does not mean it can't become problematic. 4: Public schools could never compete with private schools in there current state, thanks to the weight of standardized tests, idiotic government standards, and lackluster teachers. School choice would allow private schools to destroy public education easily, and would be the same as privatizing education. 5: You're wrong, school choice is not the only way to fix America's education. Reducing standardized tests, making standards more manageable, and ensuring the quality of teachers through evaluations and student surveys, among other things, could fix make public education better without taking it away.
Questing on point 5 - How reducing standardized tests in number and in the standards themselves make students more educated? - How evaluations and student surveys increase the quality of teachers?
2- its available in some areas. Not MOST states. California is ranked horribly 45th in education yet spends the most on it by far. They spend over 50% of their revenue on education there! Yet they're failing. Because they don't have school choice
I am happy you got out of that warehouse. Although competition does help I believe it wont be anywhere enough. Public education needs to be fixed not abandoned.
The 2 public schools near me tried doing what this video suggested. Instead of helping students who were in the school that had children with worse grades go to a school that has children with better grades, all it did was make both schools bad as the kids who switched to the better school didn't try academically and instead just made it normal to get bad grades. The parents, who didn't go to parent teacher conferences, didn't help by not caring about their children's grades. I admire the person in the video for doing her best after switching, and I especially admire her godmother, but it just doesn't work that way when both the kids and the parents think just switching schools and not pushing themselves will solve everything. I think that the success of the child depends a lot on the pushiness of the parent.
I hope this young lady goes to DC to speak for school choice. That's the same program that President Trump's Education Secretary is trying to implement. If public schools want to stay relevant in today's society, they need to revamp their attitudes, programs, teachers and start producing educated students who are prepared for life, not poverty.
Homeschooling is the best option for anyone. But it depends, you really have to be motivated. I began homeschooling at 6th grade and it was the best decision I've ever made!. I just completed 11th grade with a 3.8 GPA and will be graduating next year. Trust me, Homeschooling is the BEST thing you could do for yourself and your FUTURE.
I'm glad homeschooling worked well for you, and my cousins have been homeschooling their three children from day one, but it didn't work for me. I have Asperger's syndrome, so the structure that regular schooling gave to me was well needed.
Competition Tuition always makes everything better. School choice even makes public schools better. Don’t let the unions brainwash you. Vote for school choice.
school choice + loving supportive family. this young lady's godmother (I believe) made as much difference as choice. hand- in- hand. when I taught algebra at a public school, I received a poorly worded email from a parent complaining that their student, who had always done well in math, was suddenly doing poorly and it was my fault. I explained his poor performance. A month later I received another email apologizing. they called their son on his excuses and took away his Xbox. his grades went from D's to A's. And why were the emails poorly worded? Because English was the parent's second language. Their first was Chinese. I rarely witnessed an American parent, regardless of background, take their child to task for effort. Instead, they blame the system or the teacher. Family matters.
You don't need a great school to get an education what you need is a great support system, the way she said her story is that her parents didn't give a rats ass which in turn make the kid not care. We need to stop blaming the teachers for the students bad grades, when we should be blaming the students and especially for younger kids, the parents.
I have so much to say about this. 1. She repeatedly states that the ONLY way to fix generational poverty, give disenfranchised kids equal opportunity, and fix our educational system is with School Choice. It is the ONLY WAY she says. What about improving upon the public school system that has had its funding cut over and over? She says that she dug herself into a hole and School Choice was the only way she could get out of it. NO 3RD GRADER DIGS THEMSELVES INTO A HOLE. She was in a hole because the SYSTEM failed her, as it does for so many other kids. If the teachers made better wages, schools had more support systems for failing students, etc. she would not have been stuck. 2.The very term SCHOOL CHOICE is an deceptive. These people want to privatize schools and take the focus FURTHER away from public schools. That will only make the problem worse. A solution she neglects to recognize is a major reinvesting in the public education system around the country. But no, rather than doing that they prefer more private schools, and ignore the root of the problem. Lack of funding, lack of incentive for teachers to actually care about the students they are letting down. Systemic disadvantages for poor communities and poor people, not just blacks but whites too! Will every poor kid get into a great private school? No. Private schools favor more wealthy families. They say there will be more choice, but really they mean more choice for the higher ups, while the poor will continue to suffer in the "Warehouses" as she calls them. Not every poor family can afford private schools, yes there are vouchers but it's still expensive! You think a single mom in crumbling downtown Detroit can afford to put her 2 kids through private school? No. This is a way for the politicians to scratch the back of the private school lobbyists that pay them. 3. All this being said, choosing THIS woman to talk about THIS topic is the height of propaganda. "Take it from me, I'm black AND a woman, imagine all the disadvantages I had in our education system. Even though I was in a hole in the public 'warehouses,' private school worked great for me!" It's a way to show that School Choice works for exactly the people it should work for. But in reality it doesn't! For the kids living in downtown Detroit, you think privatizing their education is the solution, when so many drop out of high school and get involved in drugs and crime? NO. The solution is to work on the PUBLIC school system, you know the system that failed them in the first place? 4. Finally, she throws out the number $ 20,000 per student in a vacuum, without giving context as to how much private schools require to put your kid through. If private schools are cheaper per student, the parents are still the ones who have to pay for it, whereas if we as a country actually put enough money into Public schools to make them work, the Government does it's job and you would not pay any more than your normal taxes. But the Government doesn't put enough money into public schools, teachers aren't paid enough, instead politicians prefer to spend trillions on wars in the middle east and give tax cuts to the wealthiest americans and their corporate donors, while the middle class disappears the poor get poorer. But that's a whole other topic. Overall, this is school choice propaganda that attempts to spin and mislead people into privatizing education while ignoring the problem of our failing public school system.
I think you missed the part where she states money is not the problem. We been throwing money after money after money at govt run schools but they govt never fixes it. They don't need to be in schools, or our medicare. They are inefficient and pocket the money. Ironically if more people go to private schools, this will create a free market which will drive the cost down over time like cellphones and internet service has. You have to look at the larger picture. However I doubt you'll understand what I'm saying.
even if we do give school choice this only works if u live in a populated area with many schools near each other. People who have working parents rely on bus transportation. Not everyone can drop their kids off at school & pick them up. I should know, i never joined clubs because no one would take me back home.
In small towns, rural areas they only have 1 crappy high school. The next one is 30 minutes away, not everyone has access to transportation. So i rest my case. Its no a flawless solution.
"What about improving upon the public school system that has had its funding cut over and over?" She explicitly addressed that funding is not the issue. Not gonna bother reading the rest if you couldn't grasp something that simple.
Dear young lady. You are such a refreshing voice in our society today. My heart has broken for years thinking of the parents trapped in poor neighborhoods that had to face the fact that their children were also trapped in failing schools. An endless cycle. I was so excited when Mrs. DeVoss was appointed as the new education secretary. I saw this as finally a way parents and students could get out of this poverty cycle. I know why the establishment schools are against her, but for the life of me I cannot think of a single reason any parent should be standing against what Mrs. DeVos is trying to accomplish. Bless you dear one.
NO ABSOLUTELY NOT!! We spend more money per student than any other country. The problem is NOT HOW MUCH money, but rather HOW it is spent (wasted) by a system that is completely corrupt to its core. The public school system is a bureaucracy that has only its own interests at heart and cares nothing for the students it is supposed to serve. Outlaw unions in education, elininate at least half of the adminstrators and bureaucrats and instead hire more teachers so class sizes are reduced thereby improving student teacher ratios and allowing more one on one interaction between the teacher and student, restore practical curriculum like shop classes and physical education, end tenure, induce competition, make choice universal, insure teachers are teaching instead of indoctrinating, and eliminate the federal department of education (indoctrination).
A lot of individual Democrats support School Choice but the party is beholden to Teacher Unions who want all education funds only for themselves and competition to be suppressed for job security.
Well it looks like the issue of compulsory union membership in order to get or keep a job is going to the Supreme Court. I don't think the Unions will win this one.
this is similar to my journey when I chose to go to a vocational high school. my grades got better, I became a better person, and I enjoy going to school a lot more. people say vocational schools are for dumb kids but they actually match a lot of high schools academically and get kids into jobs after high school faster
As a person who is currently studying to become a teacher, I understand her points. But School Choice in general is not a good idea when used as a blanket statement. You take one look at for-profit charters, and you'll see that they consistently have lower graduation rates, have lower test scores, and if a student finds that they want to return to their public school? Sucks. The money stays at the charter, so they can pocket more of it. Non-profit charters have been shown to be successful, however, we do not, and will not have only non-profits because of the lobbying done in legislatures around the country. The current situation in Texas is a great example of political tomfoolery at its finest. We have a governor who is pushing to actually destroy public schools by lowering property taxes, and cutting state funding, while raising salaries for teachers by $1000. This would ultimately lead to the destruction of so many small-town schools, and where would they go? Nowhere. The argument for school choice only works in the cities. In rural areas, you won't see many, if any charter schools at all, simply because it is unsustainable. But should we leave kids in the dust because it is costly to provide them with an education? No, because God wants us to provide for others even when they cannot provide for themselves, and because education is the one true way to escape poverty.
J Norem And what about Transportation? I had to take the bus, couldnt even get to another school if i wanted to. My parents dont have time or money to drive me to a school farther away. Ive lived in rural areas too, small towns with only one sucky high school. You could go to the town 30 minutes away but you would have to drive yourself and not everyone has access to that.
+Koala Rizo "J Norem And what about Transportation? I had to take the bus, couldnt even get to another school if i wanted to. My parents dont have time or money to drive me to a school farther away. Ive lived in rural areas too, small towns with only one sucky high school." Even if one accepts the premise that vouchers will not help in rural areas, that is not an argument against vouchers. If it only helps in cities, are rural families going to be a dog in a manger saying "If I can't benefit, then I will see to it that nobody benefits"? As a rule, the worst of the problem schools are in the cities.
Be honest. The reason some charter schools are such failures is they cater to segments of the population that tend to fail anyway. There are charters for Native Americans, kids who want "alternative" teaching methods, kids that are flunking out of regular school, artists, teen mothers, or whatever. They are catch basins and a last resort to keep underachievers in school. This would not be the case if all kids could cater their needs to a specialized school geared to competition, success, STEM, and academic excellence.
+J Norem 1. "No, because God wants us to provide for others even when they cannot provide for themselves" He does not want you to use government force to confiscate others' property to provide for them. He wants you to give out of your _own_ wealth. 2. Even sub-optimial competition is better than union monopoly crap schools that can't teach students to read. There will always be inefficiencies in any kind of market, competitive or monopoly. The ones in monopolized systems constantly worsen. The ones in competitive markets improve in the long run. Some charter schools might get somewhat lower test scores, but given time, the market will sort itself out. 3. Is there any kind of selection bias? Are charter schools more heavily populated with underachieving students in the first place? If so, how do they compare to students with comparable histories that don't go to charter schools?
I am so happy for her, but my blood boils when I think she was the first in her family to graduate high school! I'm a generation older, and the first to go to University in my family (at least for four generations), but to think of the level of neglect her family experienced is heart breaking! University or not, the system is pretty broken when high school graduation is aspirational for some. THIS MUST CHANGE! The worst thing is, she is obviously bright - there should have been no barrier for her, and if she is bright, the likelihood that her siblings and parents are of a similar intellect is high. This is a clear case where the system failed.
I'm currently getting a teachers license in the state of Illinois. The leftist, union - dependent mentality they are desperately trying to indoctrinate the students with is horrifying. I applaud this brave black woman by risking comfort and social persecution by making this video. May your bravery inspire and influence many young people.
What a poor country... In my country, companies contract people from public schools. In Portugal, public students are more capable. A public school garantees the qualities of the student. There are no money "on the table" to change the idea of the teachers. In the other hand, how garantees that in the private sistem? You americans need to see the alternatives in other countries. This is the way of progress. Joining good ideas together!
+Brutus Tan At least we don't need to go to Cuba to get a good healthcare sistem! How can you be the stongest country in the world if your people live without a good public educacional sisteam and a good public health care sistem? It is basic need of a society!
How about end "Prussian Model" schooling entirely. Educate or pay to educate your own kids and stop handing them off to the government to be indoctrinated.
"Educate your own kids?" Well, that's disastrous. Most people won't educate their own kids. Some parents may even skip education because it is a "waste" of time!
School choice allows for teaching of things that are against science and rationality like creationism. You're not allowed to screw up education because there are facts that are set in stone, school choice gets rid of this.
Banwait A thank you for your opinion. Will you also be teaching the scientific medical fact that a fetus has life and that abortion ends a life? Will you also be teaching there are only 2 biological sexes/genders, scientifically speaking? Or do you only teach facts that suit your agenda? Also it's impossible to prove God does not exist. God is actually more ambiguous than whether or not abortion is murder
Finland's public schooling system laughs at you. All schools are public and they're number 2 in math and language and number 1 in science. Maybe if republicans and neo-liberal democrats stop defunding public education and end common core and adopt Finland's schooling system, we would be in the top 10 best schooling systems in the world.
Finladn having good public schools is merly coincidental. Not every country would be better with entirely government funded public schools. So countries should find a solution that doesnt depends entirely on culture, like FInland.
I went to a Michigan charter high school from 2000-2004 with mixed results. Previously I attended a good public elementary & horrible public middle school. The charter was quite literally in the middle. Not all of the teachers were state certified, free/reduced lunch was not offered, extra curricular activities were limited, & some classes like gym where not even offered. The school was also not able to teach those who were physically or mental impaired. If you broke your leg you would be doing packets in the office since there was no way to reach the 2nd or 3rd floor. Problem students were gotten rid of after count day & due to the location & lack of busing very few poor students could attend.The school did however host a 98% graduation rate (not hard if the 12th grade hovers between 70-140 students since it opened) my class of 98 students graduated with over 80 accepted to some higher learning institute or the military. This isn't hard when your able weed out your bad eggs & formulate a credit system that will leave you screwed if you didn't leave after the 10th grade year. In the neighboring big city the charters in the poor neighborhoods didn't do as well. The school later closed of malfeasance/misfeasance not quite sure which one since some rumors were true & others weren't
I couldn't agree more. Due to where we lived I was supposed to attend a high school that's known for being ghetto, having fights more often than not, not many programs, and just a harsher environment not dedicated to education. I got lucky enough that my relatives lived nearby in a different zone that I could register in to attend and graduate from Patriot High School. The school was newer, had more programs, and was overall just better in promoting education from the competitive students that strived there. It helped me find my passion for coding and my desire to be a better student. Now I know that's both public school vs public school but the idea that where I lived by even a few blocks forcing me to go to completely different high schools is absurd I think we can agree there
Besides Public School... Prison is the only other Government Institution which doesn't allow a family to choose location & institution.... We get to choose which Post Office to drop our mail or rent a P.O. Box... we can choose which EDD or DMV office to do business... we choose which Metro Station, Bus or Train to take.. We choose which parks and beaches to visit...and which Libraries to checkout books...
AUHSD in Orange County, California denied hundreds of requests to transfer schools since they're against school choice and corruption runs the system. They're against non-public education institutions but can never realize how crappy the public education system is. I can't believe school choice is not allowed in some areas, disgusting!
What a touching story, I am happy for you that your the first in your family to get a master and dig out of the poverty hell hole, and I 100% agree that the current school system is broken... so why not fix it. As I see it what your preaching is a bandaid on an open wound and is most certainly not the final product we should be striving for.
If a student can't get the education they need at their public school, then that school has a problem that needs to be fixed. Just because your example student has the resources to go somewhere else, doesn't mean that every student can. Giving people an alternative to fixing a broken public school system just means that the public school system will stay broken. If public schools need more funding, then we need to support them so that _every_ child in this country can receive a proper education. If your want to make things better for as many students as you can, then _that_ is the only way to it.
To be honest, I was expecting to come out of this video disagreeing, but the points that were made were eloquent, evidence supported, and resonated with my problems with the public school system as well. Well done.
I'm so thankful my parents chose to send me to a private high school. I went to public school before but the public high school I was zoned for was well known for drugs, fights, teen pregnancy(they had a day care for teen moms on campus), and failing grades. My private school pushed for students to be at their best, prepared us for college, and taught us to respect ourselves and each other. It was expensive but the school had a finance counselor who really bent over backwards to help families who were struggling to pay. In the end it was worth it. I graduated with an advanced diploma and a 4.0, got my bachelors, and am now working on my masters.
The Issue people most have with school choice is actually about accountability in different kinds of schools. I've heard a lot of great things about charter schools from all different kinds of people, but I also hear a lot of stories about poorly managed charter schools.
Though schools get about $20,000 per student, there is one major issue that stops this from actually making schools able to spend properly. Sports and gym classes. the athlete budget is about 9 times that of the regular student, the honors student budget? I cant find it now, but last I saw it was only about $15,000 only 1.5 times the average student spending, and still less than a quarter that of the athletes 90K per year. Get sports out of schools and we will have far better education overall.
If you have school choice, you will get your wish. Parents will seek out schools that provide the best education. Many schools will eliminate sports programs in order to spend more in the classroom. Other schools will emphasize sports and those schools will be attended by kids who have natural talents in those things.
0:30 "If a student can't get the education they need at their public school, there has to be an alternative.", and that alternative should be perhaps to upgrade the almost 2 centuries old public education system USA has, not encourage kids to go to private schools.
This almost brought me to tears. This young woman could have been another so-called statistic, but she was given a chance to succeed. How many more poor kids could succeed if given chance.
I live in Jacksonville too and can only clarify this as half true. It really depends on what school district your in. I currently live in Duval county, where poverty is affecting the school communities and school choice is a great system to help deal with these problems. You'd think that because of this program they would become one of the best school districts in florida. Not so. While there are great public schools to go to right now such as Sandalwood and Fletcher, they have their share of bad schools like First Coast and Englewood. I used to live in the neiboring Clay County, where they're barely any charter or magnet schools because all of the public school's rating never drop below a B, making it one of the best school districts if Florida. But then again, poverty isn't as big as a problem there as it is in Duval.
In Mexico, several decades ago (60's-70's) there was no school choice: my parents went to public school, to whichever one was closer to home. Come the 90's and 00's, and I always had school choice, be it private or public. I'm 27 now, and now I've learned from a neighbour that school choice for public schools isn't a thing here anymore. You have to pre-register on the Internet, and you'll be given a list of the schools closest to your zip code. Then, you can choose the 3 schools that you like the most from that list. But ultimately the decision of what public school your kid will end up in, depends completely on the Government, on the Ministry of Education of said State. All for the sake of trying to somewhat copy whatever the US has done thinking it's the best. It hasn't been good for the US, it'll definitively be bad for Mexico. But apparently it Works OK in Canada, right? IDK.
She did not mention the main reason "poor" schools are not the best choice. Student behavior and administration allowing poor behavior are the real causes.
I am proud to call this girl a fellow American. She is a harbinger of a brighter future.
WOW, what a powerful testimony, too bad CNN won't be airing this.
I'm slow today, I only had tears after 2:50... This young woman is exactly what conservative philosophy is about. Simple system as you can get it, minimum overhead, minimum middlemen, maximum competition and efficiency.
I hope she'll appear in future videos.
I'm from Jacksonville. When she says the schools are bad here, it's an understatement for how bad they really are.
3 years late but would you mind sharing some examples?
as a High School student i Would Advotcate for School Choice
Italian Memes, I agree with you, but the Democrats and Teacher's Unions are strongly against it.
Crying Liberals ive know them and their sick to the head
Classic high school libertarian lol
Italian Memes when you're older we will not call you a hypocrite if you start to see thing s little differently one day. :)
John Smith is that a complimate or an insult
how do you disagree with this? should be a bi-partisan issue. just like national defense.
Bigoted Rightwinger because leftism is a mental disorder and the Democratic Party is a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.
brainwashed libtards
Taxation is theft. I do not have kids.
Not an argument, your opinion which just came right out of your ass. Lemme guess you are a tax thief government employee?
Moderation in politics solves nothing, not surprisingly compromising with retards, incompetents, and feeders at the trough yields sour results.
Teacher's unions will disagree with this because it's in their interest. It might force them to actually put in the effort.
Thank god PragerU made this video. If there is one thing Dennis loves to discuss thoroughly, it's school choice. And yes, he does choose the topics for these videos. Keep up the great videos!
Hi Fly I believe Prager lives in California, but boiling it down to living in America still doesn't make sense since it was super late anyway.
"Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past." There's a reason why government is so invested in schools. School choice hurts the control of the narrative, so the bureaucracy hates it.
Fuk yeah!... I've been waiting many years for someone to actually point out that the education system is messed up not the student most of the time.
I agree with this.
My sister and I also explained a poor educational opportunity in the public schools. We were lucky our parents realized what was going on and homeschooled us.
If it were up to the public school we would have had no future as we were deemed to dumb (in reality we simply thought differently than our teachers). But instead today we are both nuclear engineers (our parents worked with us to succeed).
Today I have two sons and know from there personality they would have no chance in a public school. So, I must pay for private school so they to can succeed.
If only these leftists instead of blaming everyone except the politicians could see these reasonable arguments this girl made things would be better.
Yup. No clue why anybody would disagree with this video, honestly
Κυριάκος Μπαρέκας but that will take away their victim card they they hild on to to try to sway people in their agenda
But just blame the parents it's obviously their fault that this girl didn't do well at school, we should've just redirected more of the tax money to the public school because money solves all of society problems right? That's the average liberals stance on society money solves, everything not self evaluation, no they believe that because they didn't have a certain amount of money it's society's fault that they're such a despicable, miserable human being. It's just their greed.
Yukari Yuzuki
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Yukari Yuzuki
You are saying so much shit that I don't even understand your point.
I have generalized anxiety disorder. Had it in elementary school. But no one bothered to find this out, or that I have a hard time with reading comprehension. Instead they just put me in a class with children far more troubled than me. Which gave me the impression that I'm a troubled person.
Mine is Asperger's syndrome (autism). In short, I had problems controlling my emotions and this got me in trouble while I was in the public schooling system. My junior year I was accepted into a vocational school and I never looked back. The classes were smaller and the teachers cared about their students learning skills, not passing the finals. This isn't to say that there are no good teachers in the public system, but the entire atmosphere was different when I switched.
Eric Lee Hettver I'm so sorry. My son had the same issue. I had to fight for him because of an abusive 6th grade teacher. She was awful to all the children. I got him away from her, but it was a fight. I hope you are doing well now.
@@damoclesecoe7184 Same man.
I knew she was educated when she said "asked" instead of "axed."
thatMimosaGrove ....i think it's an accent thing . lol you knew she was "educated" wtf
thatMimosaGrove I live in an ugly ass NY neighborhood and I completely know what you mean
Ondrea Torrence
TL; DR If a word is spelled a-s-k-e-d and you say axed then you are uneducated.
Having an accent won't *make* someone enunciate poorly, they will just pronounce things differently. Being uneducated surely will lead to poor enunciation and pronunciation. Basically it's Ebonics. That's how you get things like "lie-berry","fingah","finna" or "I *axed* you a question." Then if a black person does speak proper English then they are "acting white."
just because you use ebonics doesn't mean that you're uneducated. it's just like using slang. It's just another way of talking and could be a unique way of conversating with certain people. I hate when pay say you're speaking white though when you're a little more eloquent and proper. you can't speak like another ethnic group that's just stupid. My friends use to say it to me all the time as if some white people don't use slang in certain areas-_-.
funny lol
if teachers got paid based on real success this would change too. I quit public school three times, smartest decision I made about public education. Now I critique PHD's writings on the side.
But that would be difficult to measure. How do you know if a teacher is good or bad? what would be the standart? how would you test them?
And taht without considering the money that this would require.
Bless your family for being proactive in your life and fighting for your success. You did great fighting for yourself and not just assuming you were too dumb to learn.
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Steven B what?
Everyone knows that debt free education can only be supplied through politically correct procedures.
Can you debate them?
I attended charter school's from 6th grade to graduation. And I am forever grateful I had that option.
Public, private, or charter, but what about private affadavit homschoolers. Stay-at-home parents should receive vouchers to make their "full-time job" educating their children: Buying books, purchasing education subscriptions, maintaining internet access and A/C, going to Museums, travelling expenses for going to State Legislatures.
If it's a single-parent situation, they can have their children do the typical 3-hour education schedule on math/english at home (secured) or even at work (in their view) if they have an unused spot. On off-days, test your child (student) and do trips then. With the vouchers, of course.
I agree completely with the presenter, i even had some of the same issues in school i did. I was dreading going to school, that's one of the reasons i quit. I regret quitting now no doubt. There's only 1 high school in my area and that's the city's public school. Even if i had school choice, there would only be 1 choice to choose from. So this wouldn't work for me and many others in my position; but if it give many others opportunities i didn't have, i'm all for it, especially if it's for the better, and being an educated nation would definitely be for the better.
Many small city's and villages have this same problem. Overall world population is increasing, but the city i live in, is decreasing in population, but also all the high skilled jobs left, leaving only service jobs like fast food or grocery stores and ofc walmart. we have no factory's now, neastles left, miller left, and a few more idk the names of left. The city i live in was called "The city The Great Depression forgot". We even had a sign when u entered the city that said "A City for the Future"; they took down the sign. Now most of us our poor and/or addicted to drugs. I never fully understood how poor people can do drugs, drugs cost money lol i definitely can't afford them, even if i could i wouldn't get them, i would be using it to move some place else.
I've been all for school vouchers and school choice for decades. We can choose the college we go to, but not grade or high school? That's not right.
I've gone to a public school. It needs to improve.
she looks and sounds like the black women of the 1950s, you know, well mannered and articulated
Interestingly the changes you mention happened after the civil right movement won. I'm not saying because of it, but the timing is undeniable. I wonder if anyone will be brave enough to do a study of what actually happened of the strong black family once existed, and why no more .
rocadezona85 I don't know I you know this, but Black culture has went down hill in mannerism, appearance, courtesy, and diction.
This 1 step away from saying she's a credit to her race. So cringy
A lot of black men came home from Vietnam with mental scars, for example my father can't sleep more than 4 hrs at a time. Not to mention the CIA funded crack epidemic & lastly the riots in which we gutted our on neighborhoods & white flight lowered property values. The most damning effect was through going to white business we stopped patronizing our own. Sprinkle general dysfunction of America & there you go.
Andrew Cawley Welfare and crack affected us a lot.
By privatizing education the owners can have a large influence on what they teach and for the most part they teach to make profit instead of having the better funding of the government to teach properly and with proper funding.
The Federal government does not answer to the individual consumer. They shouldn't be involved in negotiating the best product for anyone.
Harry Christofi
A few things. 1) Grammar, or at least punctuation. I had to reread your comment to understand it. 2) Linking your Political Action Committee doesn't make us want to agree with you, it even makes some people suspicious of your intentions. 3) Thank you for not simply shouting "racism" or some other non sequitur, with more people like you hopefully both sides of the isle can sit down for a rational discussion for once.
+Harry Christofi It's wrong to steal peoples' money no matter how rich they are.
Levi Paladin Except for health insurance, in which government bargaining is shown to work in many countries.
This is a conservative channel so of course she doesn't mention racial segregation. That said, school choice is very important! America is a dictatorship if it doesn't allow you to attend the school you want. Technically speaking, the problem might be caused by Americans not having an ID, therefore the state cannot easily check mandatory school attendance if the child attends a school far away.
Now of course, as mentioned below, the specific solution with vouchers has issues.
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Boy, have you hit the nail on the head. Thanks.
I can confirm this. I live in (sadly) democrat Nevada with even more democrat Las Vegas. However we are doing one thing right. We are able to choose the schools we go to. If we work hard we won't be trapped in our home school. I am now going to the high school that was recently awarded the #1 Magnet School in America and I am proud. Ask any democrat in Las Vegas if they like school choice and they will always say yes.
Why is there no mention of the fact that public school funding is based on the property tax of the school district? Perhaps instead of trying to tell people it's only an issue because people aren't choosing to go to private schools, efforts should be made to ensure struggling schools are given adequate funding.
1: The problem doesn't seem to be so much with public education than it does with teachers who were incompetent and impatient.
2: If you, a failing student with a violent record, were able to get the waiver to go to a private school, doesn't that mean that school choice is already available?
3: Just because your private school was great doesn't mean all private schools will be. Some won't be as good at tailoring to students. Some will require things that a government voucher's necessarily limited description won't provide, such as laptops and the sort. Others will simply be too expensive for some people, even with the voucher. Some won't provide necessary transportation. These things will keeps some students out of the schools they need, all the while public education becomes worse and worse because of budget cuts, and just because a lack of money is not the problem does not mean it can't become problematic.
4: Public schools could never compete with private schools in there current state, thanks to the weight of standardized tests, idiotic government standards, and lackluster teachers. School choice would allow private schools to destroy public education easily, and would be the same as privatizing education.
5: You're wrong, school choice is not the only way to fix America's education. Reducing standardized tests, making standards more manageable, and ensuring the quality of teachers through evaluations and student surveys, among other things, could fix make public education better without taking it away.
Questing on point 5
- How reducing standardized tests in number and in the standards themselves make students more educated?
- How evaluations and student surveys increase the quality of teachers?
2- its available in some areas. Not MOST states. California is ranked horribly 45th in education yet spends the most on it by far. They spend over 50% of their revenue on education there! Yet they're failing. Because they don't have school choice
Awesome... Wish you the best in life and keep believing in yourself.
I am happy you got out of that warehouse. Although competition does help I believe it wont be anywhere enough. Public education needs to be fixed not abandoned.
The 2 public schools near me tried doing what this video suggested. Instead of helping students who were in the school that had children with worse grades go to a school that has children with better grades, all it did was make both schools bad as the kids who switched to the better school didn't try academically and instead just made it normal to get bad grades. The parents, who didn't go to parent teacher conferences, didn't help by not caring about their children's grades. I admire the person in the video for doing her best after switching, and I especially admire her godmother, but it just doesn't work that way when both the kids and the parents think just switching schools and not pushing themselves will solve everything. I think that the success of the child depends a lot on the pushiness of the parent.
I hope this young lady goes to DC to speak for school choice. That's the same program that President Trump's Education Secretary is trying to implement. If public schools want to stay relevant in today's society, they need to revamp their attitudes, programs, teachers and start producing educated students who are prepared for life, not poverty.
You are a very intelligent young lady. I'm so glad you got the opportunity.
Homeschooling is the best option for anyone. But it depends, you really have to be motivated. I began homeschooling at 6th grade and it was the best decision I've ever made!. I just completed 11th grade with a 3.8 GPA and will be graduating next year. Trust me, Homeschooling is the BEST thing you could do for yourself and your FUTURE.
I'm glad homeschooling worked well for you, and my cousins have been homeschooling their three children from day one, but it didn't work for me. I have Asperger's syndrome, so the structure that regular schooling gave to me was well needed.
Competition
Tuition always makes everything better. School choice even makes public schools better. Don’t let the unions brainwash you. Vote for school choice.
school choice + loving supportive family. this young lady's godmother (I believe) made as much difference as choice. hand- in- hand. when I taught algebra at a public school, I received a poorly worded email from a parent complaining that their student, who had always done well in math, was suddenly doing poorly and it was my fault. I explained his poor performance. A month later I received another email apologizing. they called their son on his excuses and took away his Xbox. his grades went from D's to A's. And why were the emails poorly worded? Because English was the parent's second language. Their first was Chinese. I rarely witnessed an American parent, regardless of background, take their child to task for effort. Instead, they blame the system or the teacher.
Family matters.
Absolutely.
Thank you! This is the REAL Choice movement.
*insert stereotypical mocking of stereotypical "early" comments*
I'm so meta even this acronym
You don't need a great school to get an education what you need is a great support system, the way she said her story is that her parents didn't give a rats ass which in turn make the kid not care. We need to stop blaming the teachers for the students bad grades, when we should be blaming the students and especially for younger kids, the parents.
I have so much to say about this.
1. She repeatedly states that the ONLY way to fix generational poverty, give disenfranchised kids equal opportunity, and fix our educational system is with School Choice. It is the ONLY WAY she says. What about improving upon the public school system that has had its funding cut over and over?
She says that she dug herself into a hole and School Choice was the only way she could get out of it. NO 3RD GRADER DIGS THEMSELVES INTO A HOLE. She was in a hole because the SYSTEM failed her, as it does for so many other kids. If the teachers made better wages, schools had more support systems for failing students, etc. she would not have been stuck.
2.The very term SCHOOL CHOICE is an deceptive. These people want to privatize schools and take the focus FURTHER away from public schools. That will only make the problem worse. A solution she neglects to recognize is a major reinvesting in the public education system around the country. But no, rather than doing that they prefer more private schools, and ignore the root of the problem. Lack of funding, lack of incentive for teachers to actually care about the students they are letting down. Systemic disadvantages for poor communities and poor people, not just blacks but whites too!
Will every poor kid get into a great private school? No. Private schools favor more wealthy families. They say there will be more choice, but really they mean more choice for the higher ups, while the poor will continue to suffer in the "Warehouses" as she calls them. Not every poor family can afford private schools, yes there are vouchers but it's still expensive! You think a single mom in crumbling downtown Detroit can afford to put her 2 kids through private school? No. This is a way for the politicians to scratch the back of the private school lobbyists that pay them.
3. All this being said, choosing THIS woman to talk about THIS topic is the height of propaganda.
"Take it from me, I'm black AND a woman, imagine all the disadvantages I had in our education system. Even though I was in a hole in the public 'warehouses,' private school worked great for me!"
It's a way to show that School Choice works for exactly the people it should work for. But in reality it doesn't! For the kids living in downtown Detroit, you think privatizing their education is the solution, when so many drop out of high school and get involved in drugs and crime? NO. The solution is to work on the PUBLIC school system, you know the system that failed them in the first place?
4. Finally, she throws out the number $ 20,000 per student in a vacuum, without giving context as to how much private schools require to put your kid through. If private schools are cheaper per student, the parents are still the ones who have to pay for it, whereas if we as a country actually put enough money into Public schools to make them work, the Government does it's job and you would not pay any more than your normal taxes. But the Government doesn't put enough money into public schools, teachers aren't paid enough, instead politicians prefer to spend trillions on wars in the middle east and give tax cuts to the wealthiest americans and their corporate donors, while the middle class disappears the poor get poorer. But that's a whole other topic.
Overall, this is school choice propaganda that attempts to spin and mislead people into privatizing education while ignoring the problem of our failing public school system.
I think you missed the part where she states money is not the problem. We been throwing money after money after money at govt run schools but they govt never fixes it. They don't need to be in schools, or our medicare. They are inefficient and pocket the money. Ironically if more people go to private schools, this will create a free market which will drive the cost down over time like cellphones and internet service has.
You have to look at the larger picture. However I doubt you'll understand what I'm saying.
even if we do give school choice this only works if u live in a populated area with many schools near each other. People who have working parents rely on bus transportation. Not everyone can drop their kids off at school & pick them up. I should know, i never joined clubs because no one would take me back home.
In small towns, rural areas they only have 1 crappy high school. The next one is 30 minutes away, not everyone has access to transportation. So i rest my case. Its no a flawless solution.
More funding, sure, money are sure comming out of thin air
"What about improving upon the public school system that has had its funding cut over and over?" She explicitly addressed that funding is not the issue. Not gonna bother reading the rest if you couldn't grasp something that simple.
Dear young lady. You are such a refreshing voice in our society today. My heart has broken for years thinking of the parents trapped in poor neighborhoods that had to face the fact that their children were also trapped in failing schools. An endless cycle. I was so excited when Mrs. DeVoss was appointed as the new education secretary. I saw this as finally a way parents and students could get out of this poverty cycle. I know why the establishment schools are against her, but for the life of me I cannot think of a single reason any parent should be standing against what Mrs. DeVos is trying to accomplish. Bless you dear one.
Dear PragerU,
Less anecdotes, more stats.
shes black
See my two posted comments (7/18/17) and Google the sources. Some meat there.
Teachers' Union hear this loud and clear; Let Our Children Go! We want Free choice for our children.
"Does anyone really thing money is the problem?"
Yes. The lack thereof.
NO ABSOLUTELY NOT!! We spend more money per student than any other country. The problem is NOT HOW MUCH money, but rather HOW it is spent (wasted) by a system that is completely corrupt to its core. The public school system is a bureaucracy that has only its own interests at heart and cares nothing for the students it is supposed to serve. Outlaw unions in education, elininate at least half of the adminstrators and bureaucrats and instead hire more teachers so class sizes are reduced thereby improving student teacher ratios and allowing more one on one interaction between the teacher and student, restore practical curriculum like shop classes and physical education, end tenure, induce competition, make choice universal, insure teachers are teaching instead of indoctrinating, and eliminate the federal department of education (indoctrination).
What a difference a school can make !!
A lot of individual Democrats support School Choice but the party is beholden to Teacher Unions who want all education funds only for themselves and competition to be suppressed for job security.
The_Dailey on Twitter in Illinois I have yet to see a single Democrat politician for school choice
Well it looks like the issue of compulsory union membership in order to get or keep a job is going to the Supreme Court. I don't think the Unions will win this one.
this is similar to my journey when I chose to go to a vocational high school. my grades got better, I became a better person, and I enjoy going to school a lot more. people say vocational schools are for dumb kids but they actually match a lot of high schools academically and get kids into jobs after high school faster
As a person who is currently studying to become a teacher, I understand her points. But School Choice in general is not a good idea when used as a blanket statement. You take one look at for-profit charters, and you'll see that they consistently have lower graduation rates, have lower test scores, and if a student finds that they want to return to their public school? Sucks. The money stays at the charter, so they can pocket more of it. Non-profit charters have been shown to be successful, however, we do not, and will not have only non-profits because of the lobbying done in legislatures around the country. The current situation in Texas is a great example of political tomfoolery at its finest. We have a governor who is pushing to actually destroy public schools by lowering property taxes, and cutting state funding, while raising salaries for teachers by $1000. This would ultimately lead to the destruction of so many small-town schools, and where would they go? Nowhere. The argument for school choice only works in the cities. In rural areas, you won't see many, if any charter schools at all, simply because it is unsustainable. But should we leave kids in the dust because it is costly to provide them with an education? No, because God wants us to provide for others even when they cannot provide for themselves, and because education is the one true way to escape poverty.
I am not even religious, but *amen*.
J Norem And what about Transportation? I had to take the bus, couldnt even get to another school if i wanted to. My parents dont have time or money to drive me to a school farther away. Ive lived in rural areas too, small towns with only one sucky high school. You could go to the town 30 minutes away but you would have to drive yourself and not everyone has access to that.
+Koala Rizo
"J Norem And what about Transportation? I had to take the bus, couldnt even get to another school if i wanted to. My parents dont have time or money to drive me to a school farther away. Ive lived in rural areas too, small towns with only one sucky high school."
Even if one accepts the premise that vouchers will not help in rural areas, that is not an argument against vouchers. If it only helps in cities, are rural families going to be a dog in a manger saying "If I can't benefit, then I will see to it that nobody benefits"? As a rule, the worst of the problem schools are in the cities.
Be honest. The reason some charter schools are such failures is they cater to segments of the population that tend to fail anyway. There are charters for Native Americans, kids who want "alternative" teaching methods, kids that are flunking out of regular school, artists, teen mothers, or whatever. They are catch basins and a last resort to keep underachievers in school. This would not be the case if all kids could cater their needs to a specialized school geared to competition, success, STEM, and academic excellence.
+J Norem
1. "No, because God wants us to provide for others even when they cannot provide for themselves" He does not want you to use government force to confiscate others' property to provide for them. He wants you to give out of your _own_ wealth.
2. Even sub-optimial competition is better than union monopoly crap schools that can't teach students to read. There will always be inefficiencies in any kind of market, competitive or monopoly. The ones in monopolized systems constantly worsen. The ones in competitive markets improve in the long run. Some charter schools might get somewhat lower test scores, but given time, the market will sort itself out.
3. Is there any kind of selection bias? Are charter schools more heavily populated with underachieving students in the first place? If so, how do they compare to students with comparable histories that don't go to charter schools?
I am so happy for her, but my blood boils when I think she was the first in her family to graduate high school! I'm a generation older, and the first to go to University in my family (at least for four generations), but to think of the level of neglect her family experienced is heart breaking! University or not, the system is pretty broken when high school graduation is aspirational for some. THIS MUST CHANGE!
The worst thing is, she is obviously bright - there should have been no barrier for her, and if she is bright, the likelihood that her siblings and parents are of a similar intellect is high. This is a clear case where the system failed.
I'm only awake cuz I got exams tomorrow.
Good luck :)
Bellevie Ty :) This comment really made my day
No problem! Go to sleep or else you'd eff up your exams lol :)
I got a 90! :D
As someone who's been through both public and private colleges, I can safely say that private schools are superior.
Jacksonville Represent. Lol I go to the shitty high school in Jacksonville.
I'm currently getting a teachers license in the state of Illinois. The leftist, union - dependent mentality they are desperately trying to indoctrinate the students with is horrifying. I applaud this brave black woman by risking comfort and social persecution by making this video. May your bravery inspire and influence many young people.
What a poor country...
In my country, companies contract people from public schools. In Portugal, public students are more capable. A public school garantees the qualities of the student. There are no money "on the table" to change the idea of the teachers. In the other hand, how garantees that in the private sistem?
You americans need to see the alternatives in other countries. This is the way of progress. Joining good ideas together!
MT Jogos Portugal is very poor, and ranks worse in education than the U.S.!
+Scyanth Really? At least we don't come to television saying that Mexico is part of the USA!
+Brutus Tan At least we don't need to go to Cuba to get a good healthcare sistem! How can you be the stongest country in the world if your people live without a good public educacional sisteam and a good public health care sistem? It is basic need of a society!
MT Jogos Who says Mexico is part of the United States?
its easy for your country to do it when you have a small population ful, of rich and middle class people.
I'm so thankful that I can go to private school.
How about end "Prussian Model" schooling entirely. Educate or pay to educate your own kids and stop handing them off to the government to be indoctrinated.
*way to get out of poverty locked*
Yeah, hand them over to the church. No way the will get indoctrinated over there!
Maybe you are slow to notice religion is dying in the U.S. and not soon enough.
"Educate your own kids?" Well, that's disastrous. Most people won't educate their own kids. Some parents may even skip education because it is a "waste" of time!
And the poor get poorer...
School choice allows for teaching of things that are against science and rationality like creationism. You're not allowed to screw up education because there are facts that are set in stone, school choice gets rid of this.
Banwait A thank you for your opinion. Will you also be teaching the scientific medical fact that a fetus has life and that abortion ends a life? Will you also be teaching there are only 2 biological sexes/genders, scientifically speaking?
Or do you only teach facts that suit your agenda?
Also it's impossible to prove God does not exist. God is actually more ambiguous than whether or not abortion is murder
Oh my goodness, that makes me cry. Good for her!
Finland's public schooling system laughs at you. All schools are public and they're number 2 in math and language and number 1 in science. Maybe if republicans and neo-liberal democrats stop defunding public education and end common core and adopt Finland's schooling system, we would be in the top 10 best schooling systems in the world.
Sorry
Not for americans
Not enough guns and eagles screaming "freeeedom"
Captain Falcon Finland isn't America. we have far more people and diversity. bad argument moron
Finland also has a homogeneous culture they don't have competing value systems.
Finladn having good public schools is merly coincidental.
Not every country would be better with entirely government funded public schools.
So countries should find a solution that doesnt depends entirely on culture, like FInland.
Franco Parnetti
Somebody get this man/woman/other a medal!
I went to a Michigan charter high school from 2000-2004 with mixed results. Previously I attended a good public elementary & horrible public middle school. The charter was quite literally in the middle. Not all of the teachers were state certified, free/reduced lunch was not offered, extra curricular activities were limited, & some classes like gym where not even offered. The school was also not able to teach those who were physically or mental impaired. If you broke your leg you would be doing packets in the office since there was no way to reach the 2nd or 3rd floor. Problem students were gotten rid of after count day & due to the location & lack of busing very few poor students could attend.The school did however host a 98% graduation rate (not hard if the 12th grade hovers between 70-140 students since it opened) my class of 98 students graduated with over 80 accepted to some higher learning institute or the military. This isn't hard when your able weed out your bad eggs & formulate a credit system that will leave you screwed if you didn't leave after the 10th grade year. In the neighboring big city the charters in the poor neighborhoods didn't do as well. The school later closed of malfeasance/misfeasance not quite sure which one since some rumors were true & others weren't
I SUPPORT BETSY DEVOSS!
dude, even Betsy Devoss doesn't support Betsy Devoss..
There are some things money can't buy, a seat on the Trump cabinet is not one of those.
I couldn't agree more. Due to where we lived I was supposed to attend a high school that's known for being ghetto, having fights more often than not, not many programs, and just a harsher environment not dedicated to education. I got lucky enough that my relatives lived nearby in a different zone that I could register in to attend and graduate from Patriot High School. The school was newer, had more programs, and was overall just better in promoting education from the competitive students that strived there. It helped me find my passion for coding and my desire to be a better student. Now I know that's both public school vs public school but the idea that where I lived by even a few blocks forcing me to go to completely different high schools is absurd I think we can agree there
GO TO SLEEP PRAGER
Smack Millan Prager never sleeps
GO GROW A BRAIN
maybe they moved to europe?
Thomas The West
so PragerEU? :D
stop. the world could've lived without that. now im sad.
Besides Public School...
Prison is the only other Government Institution which doesn't allow a family to choose location & institution....
We get to choose which Post Office to drop our mail or rent a P.O. Box... we can choose which EDD or DMV office to do business... we choose which Metro Station, Bus or Train to take.. We choose which parks and beaches to visit...and which Libraries to checkout books...
I live in Jacksonville and my kid went to Mandarin High and did well. I cannot speak for the downtown schools.
When you're failing 3rd and 4th grade you know something is wrong with that school. It's not like they're doing advanced stuff.
How come public schools in America are so bad? Here in the UK we don’t have problems with ‘school choice’ or public schools being bad.
Love the video!! Love that she got her chance!!! Pray more kids do!!!!!
Great video! Smart and beautiful, your family and I are proud of you!
AUHSD in Orange County, California denied hundreds of requests to transfer schools since they're against school choice and corruption runs the system. They're against non-public education institutions but can never realize how crappy the public education system is. I can't believe school choice is not allowed in some areas, disgusting!
She is an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your story.
School choice would give meaning to the phony "School Pride" all my schools have tried to instill in me.
It was the high point of my day hearing your story of success. :). I agree with your point whole heartedly.
What a touching story, I am happy for you that your the first in your family to get a master and dig out of the poverty hell hole, and I 100% agree that the current school system is broken... so why not fix it. As I see it what your preaching is a bandaid on an open wound and is most certainly not the final product we should be striving for.
If a student can't get the education they need at their public school, then that school has a problem that needs to be fixed. Just because your example student has the resources to go somewhere else, doesn't mean that every student can. Giving people an alternative to fixing a broken public school system just means that the public school system will stay broken.
If public schools need more funding, then we need to support them so that _every_ child in this country can receive a proper education. If your want to make things better for as many students as you can, then _that_ is the only way to it.
This is such an important message. I wish these poor young kids weren't pawns and instead those who pretend to advocate for them actually did.
Exactly.
Shining example of how you can be a success. Good for you Denisha, I'm sure you will inspire many.
This is the very reason my children will be attending private schools when I get children. Public schools are the very antithesis of quality.
When a teacher sighs, when i Ask them a question. It really boosts my self esteem
Glad you had luck. It is disgusting to see that the quality of the public school system differs according to which neighborhood or city you live.
in italy school is very cheap and after the middle school(14 years old) you can choose between lots of schools which one is the best for you
To be honest, I was expecting to come out of this video disagreeing, but the points that were made were eloquent, evidence supported, and resonated with my problems with the public school system as well. Well done.
It all comes down to the fact that the parents should do what's best for the child, NOT the Government.
I'm so thankful my parents chose to send me to a private high school. I went to public school before but the public high school I was zoned for was well known for drugs, fights, teen pregnancy(they had a day care for teen moms on campus), and failing grades. My private school pushed for students to be at their best, prepared us for college, and taught us to respect ourselves and each other. It was expensive but the school had a finance counselor who really bent over backwards to help families who were struggling to pay. In the end it was worth it. I graduated with an advanced diploma and a 4.0, got my bachelors, and am now working on my masters.
The Issue people most have with school choice is actually about accountability in different kinds of schools. I've heard a lot of great things about charter schools from all different kinds of people, but I also hear a lot of stories about poorly managed charter schools.
Though schools get about $20,000 per student, there is one major issue that stops this from actually making schools able to spend properly. Sports and gym classes. the athlete budget is about 9 times that of the regular student, the honors student budget? I cant find it now, but last I saw it was only about $15,000 only 1.5 times the average student spending, and still less than a quarter that of the athletes 90K per year. Get sports out of schools and we will have far better education overall.
If you have school choice, you will get your wish. Parents will seek out schools that provide the best education. Many schools will eliminate sports programs in order to spend more in the classroom. Other schools will emphasize sports and those schools will be attended by kids who have natural talents in those things.
Great video, thanks for sharing!
You have a great grandma
Home school was the best choice we made. It was a big sacrifice economically, but our kids have never been happier and more well prepared.
1:16 why do I have the prince of bel air playing in my head now.
prageru, we need more stories like this to share! to spread the prageru word!
0:30 "If a student can't get the education they need at their public school, there has to be an alternative.", and that alternative should be perhaps to upgrade the almost 2 centuries old public education system USA has, not encourage kids to go to private schools.
This almost brought me to tears. This young woman could have been another so-called statistic, but she was given a chance to succeed. How many more poor kids could succeed if given chance.
I live in Jacksonville too and can only clarify this as half true. It really depends on what school district your in. I currently live in Duval county, where poverty is affecting the school communities and school choice is a great system to help deal with these problems. You'd think that because of this program they would become one of the best school districts in florida. Not so. While there are great public schools to go to right now such as Sandalwood and Fletcher, they have their share of bad schools like First Coast and Englewood. I used to live in the neiboring Clay County, where they're barely any charter or magnet schools because all of the public school's rating never drop below a B, making it one of the best school districts if Florida. But then again, poverty isn't as big as a problem there as it is in Duval.
In Mexico, several decades ago (60's-70's) there was no school choice: my parents went to public school, to whichever one was closer to home. Come the 90's and 00's, and I always had school choice, be it private or public. I'm 27 now, and now I've learned from a neighbour that school choice for public schools isn't a thing here anymore. You have to pre-register on the Internet, and you'll be given a list of the schools closest to your zip code. Then, you can choose the 3 schools that you like the most from that list. But ultimately the decision of what public school your kid will end up in, depends completely on the Government, on the Ministry of Education of said State. All for the sake of trying to somewhat copy whatever the US has done thinking it's the best. It hasn't been good for the US, it'll definitively be bad for Mexico. But apparently it Works OK in Canada, right? IDK.
She did not mention the main reason "poor" schools are not the best choice. Student behavior and administration allowing poor behavior are the real causes.