| Abolish Dept of Education - and Start Over; If this doesn't do it - Nothing Will | |
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| Mason | Sep 26 2015, 01:16 PM Post #1 |
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. If this doesn't bring about reforms, nothing will. The U.S. Secretary of Education is sending his kids to PRIVATE schools. Obama's hand-picked Duncan - he knows those schools - and his kids aren't getting near them. Maybe it's time we started being honest. Turn off the propaganda - Public schools in many cities are simply an expensive way to keep the kids off the streets until 3:00 pm, and registering them as voters. . |
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| cks | Sep 26 2015, 01:41 PM Post #2 |
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One of the reasons why I have never been active in public school issues is that I sent my children to private schools. Initially the decision to pursue private rather than public education had to do with convenience. At the time we lived in rural Maryland, the school bus picked up children in our neighborhood after both my husband and I left for work in the morning (we worked on the DC-Maryland border in Kensington-Chevy Chase) and would have returned them home in the afternoon before either of us returned home. We had an excellent child care provided near where I worked - it would have been ridiculous as well as expensive to have two different providers - and with the age spread, it would have been several years before the youngest would be in school full time. Additionally, the pre-school which they attended was attached to the school where I taught so I was able to drop them off at the day care provider during my planning period. Having all the children nearby was also critical. So, despite the fact they are not Catholic, my children started in the parochial system. When we moved to KY and then later to OH, we found that the Catholic school curriculum was stronger than the nearby public schools. While I firmly believe that the educational choices that one makes for one's children is a personal choice - IF one decides to pursue a future in public education at the administrative/supervisory level then one should very well lead by example which, unless there is some very special medical/emotional/ or specific educational need, means that one's children should be in the public system. Likewise, if one is in the parochial system as a supervisor/administrator and barring any of the aforementioned reasons, one's children should be in the parochial system. Arne Duncan, by choosing an exclusive private school for his children, is just another example of "do as I say, not do as I do" mode of leadership. |
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