{"id":11561,"date":"2012-01-13T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11561"},"modified":"2012-01-13T17:57:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:57:32","slug":"the-lack-of-logic-in-the-american-educational-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11561","title":{"rendered":"The Lack Of Logic In The American Educational System"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0A letter from a friend:<\/div>\n
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Why California Schools are the pits<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n
We moved out here 2.5 years ago as a military family.\u00a0 We don’t have a choice as to where we are sent, so we just go.\u00a0 Our main concern was the California schools and unfortunately, they have not proved themselves to be anything but ……”messed up.”<\/span><\/div>\n
1.\u00a0 During our first year here, in order to deal with budget cuts, the\u00a0schools\u00a0were forced to layoff new teachers.\u00a0 Their definition of a new teacher follows the” last in, first let go.”\u00a0 This, however, included many teachers with 10+ years experience IN the district.\u00a0 Mind you, there are teachers who are way past their teaching prime and are not adequately preparing their students for upward movement.\u00a0 (This is not only an opinion shared by parents, but also by\u00a0teachers.)<\/span><\/div>\n
2.\u00a0 During our second year here, we were sent a teacher who was cut from her school.\u00a0 While that is not an uncommon practice, what is sad\u00a0 is that she was” Teacher of the Year” in the school she was cut from.\u00a0 It was definitely our gain, but is it logical?\u00a0 She was once again cut from our school at the end of the second year. <\/span><\/div>\n
3.\u00a0 During our third year here, once again faced with huge budget cuts, the PTO has been asked to pay for BASIC educational tools – art, walkie talkies for our playground duties, busing for having High\u00a0School students\u00a0come over as teacher’s aides, Success Maker programs, field trips and a host of other literary\u00a0companions to give a rounded education to our students.<\/span><\/div>\n
In addition, the new principal noted that the 1980s decor in our front office was neither inviting or pleasing to anyone.\u00a0 She took money out of her OWN pocket and proceeded to paint, add chair rail, and also refinish the countertops and cabinets.\u00a0 She also plans to have the floor redone and purchase a new desk.\u00a0 All from her funds!\u00a0 Yesterday she was called to the School District office to be reprimanded for using her own money and volunteers to redo the office.\u00a0 They stated she was taking away jobs from their maintenance employees and that she needed to apologize and discontinue the work that was being done for free and instead pay $90 an hour in labor, plus materials, to finish any and all work.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Does this make sense?\u00a0 We don’t have enough money for educational items for our students, BUT we are being forced to spend additional money on items that would have been DONATED by parents and staff at our school.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Yes, California, your logic is a tad “illogical.”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0A letter from a friend: Why California Schools are the pits \u00a0 We moved out here 2.5 years ago as a military family.\u00a0 We don’t have a choice as to where we are sent, so we just go.\u00a0 Our main … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,763,1832,1831,1830],"class_list":["post-11561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-education","tag-educators","tag-school-district","tag-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11561"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11587,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11561\/revisions\/11587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}