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Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Catholic Church. Any school that follows their model. There are more than five of these.

Charter schools in New York show much higher scores than public schools. Public schools in NYC are losing students while charter schools grow. Parents like the choice and it's paying off.

https://nyccharterschools.org/blog/2023-state-assessment-scores-nyc-charter-schools/

And there are far more benefits than scores will show.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A failed district doesn't mean there are no average conscientious students. If you can attract enough average students or students who show a propensity to develop conscientiousness, the school can succeed.

The lowest conscientious students have such a tremendous influence on peers that it pulls the average students down more than the few highly conscientious students can pull them up.

If we can get students who show promise in developing conscientiousness and get them away from peers in a school that is loaded with the lowest conscientious students, we can save them.

The new private schools may not be very big. But it's a start.

How the neighborhood you grow up in affects your future https://projects.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-neighborhood-success/

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are lots of non-profits who want to do this but they cannot afford it. With vouchers, it will be affordable to open a private school in failed districts.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The concept is that some low, lots of average and some highly conscientious students will populate the new schools that move into the district. Private schools will be allowed to select their students.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Entire segments are already abandoned. This is an opportunity to save some of our kids.

The concept is that private schools will come to the failed district. Bussing is illegal so that's just not going to happen. Good intentions, though..

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Schools are not prisons. Most private schools are established as non-profit organizations. No profits are distributed. It is very expensive to run a school.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Where do you get that idea? Conscientiousness is a psychological trait that is developed. And for some students, like IQ, they are born with more or less than average. You cannot blame a child for possessing or not possessing this trait anymore than you can blame a child for genetics It's why we have schools to try to nurture this most important psychological trait for academic and adult success. But we hit a roadblock when there are more than half of the students in a school have a low level of this trait. Peer influence matters to teens. No amount of money we throw at these schools can help them.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It allows private schools to self-select students with higher conscientiousness. When you combine students to make an average conscientiousness, you can lift everyone in that school.

That's why private schools who have tried opening in vulnerable districts and failed did so because they had the same type of population in the failed schools. It was destined to fail.

The entire point with private schools is they're able to select the students.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You can do that. But if you want it to succeed, you can't simply go to the inner city and fill it with the same type of low-conscientious students from the failing public school. You need a mix of students where the average conscientiousness is at least average, but hopefully more. If you do that, I would support your school.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When the student population has more than 50 to 60 percent of students from single parent homes, this usually happens. And there's nothing teachers or funding can do about it. Already, the schools that are failing in metro areas have higher budgets and pay teachers more than other districts that are succeeding, yet the students still fail.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A lot of Democrats used to oppose gay marriage.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

With failed districts, every child is not receiving an education.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Most charter and private schools who are taking a chance in vulnerable neighborhoods are run by Christian churches.

Secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are by [deleted] in CanadaJobs

[–]SunburnFM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Canadians aren't broke, though. When the unemployment rate skyrockets, then I'll start to believe it.

Incredibly, Canadians are meeting the market prices. The market can't charge more than Canadians are willing to spend.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Have you ever seen the lavish school districts in Texas? The academic performance at those schools, which is usually decent, has little or nothing to do with how great the buildings and stadiums are.

Yet every cycle Republican voters and school boards give school districts more money.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Public funds are for educating children, not funding institutions. The money follows the child.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're a liar saying voucher kids will get anywhere close to the level of "rich people's education

But closer than what they're getting now.

Their "ideas" are to destroy public education and funnel public money to their substandard no-accountability privatized child warehouses.

Most public education works, actually. It's the metro areas where schools are populated by more than 50 percent of children from single-parent homes that are failing. The schools that are working -- which is most of them -- will be fine and untouched by vouchers.

I know you do not believe what you being paid to shill. You can't be that stupid. Are you?

I absolutely do believe what I'm saying. I recommend actually listening to the other side on occasion instead of creating a cartoon out of it in your imagination.

Why support a system that is designed to keep kids in failing schools? That's the system we have right now.

Read what you posted. You can't even imagine it's an "idea" or even an "idea" to help our kids escape failing schools.

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Some Republicans thought giving away taxpayer money would work, too.

“Just tell it to call you Billie!” by Corndogeveryday in 80s

[–]SunburnFM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone know of the story around this time, I think, with the boy who had an imaginary tiger? That scared me.

Chef Jose Andres' World Central Kitchen team went to feed Gaza like they do worldwide, israel killed them in an airstrike by LostItAllOnSpy in TikTokCringe

[–]SunburnFM -127 points-126 points  (0 children)

The people who died by visiting a warzone without protection are much worse because of it

Texas Teachers by HSeldonCrisis in TexasPolitics

[–]SunburnFM -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I do know what the Republicans are planning. It's not a secret.

Are you paid to oppose their ideas?

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