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High schoolers’ reading, math scores drop to lowest level in decades

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So naturally, we must disband the Dept. of Education & withhold funding from schools.


High schoolers’ reading and math scores dropped to the lowest level in decades, along with declines in science scores from eighth graders, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), the gold standard exam for comparing student achievement over the years.

The results on what is commonly known as the Nation’s Report Card are the first for these groups since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

 
The dept of Ed has gone along with a long list of stupid ideas in education. Instead of concentrating on education they have concentrated on social "causes" and allowed politics to govern what our kids see and hear and learn or don't see, hear or learn.
We need to go back to basics, get the social agenda of politica out of our schools and worry about kids getting an education instead of constant social programming.
 
More baseless lies and bullshit.

Turn the faux off. They lied to you.
 
aociswundumho said:
Obviously the solution is to funnel more taxpayer dollars to the teachers' unions.
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Teachers need to be better paid and need to have stronger unions. This will keep the creeps in red state governments from doing any damage.
 
Must be Joe Biden's fault!
 
They’ll be graduated anyway because the public school system is just one big diploma mill.
 
Maybe you should actually go to a school and see what's happening...
 
aociswundumho said:
Obviously the solution is to funnel more taxpayer dollars to the teachers' unions.
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Obviously the ridiculous, idiotic, asinine comments like yours come first in a thread on education.
 
mrjurrs said:
Maybe you should actually go to a school and see what's happening...
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… the home-schooled won’t do that, and they’re ruining their kids as well.
 
Napoleon said:
They’ll be graduated anyway because the public school system is just one big diploma mill.
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You’re speaking of Republican helicopter parents and their NAGA school board members.
 
Integrityrespec said:
Just get back to basics, get political agenda's out of education and make sure we are teaching and not indoctrinating.
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Ask Republican school board members why they protect illegal immigrants, for state aid.
 
Have educational results improved or gotten worse since the DoE was created?
 
Fletch said:
Have educational results improved or gotten worse since the DoE was created?
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Have students in public schools changed or remained the same since the DoE was created?

Class sizes? What is taught? Curriculums?
 
I went to first grade on Air Force Base schools right after Sputnik went up.
Everything was taught like Math, and I loved the explorers first.
We didn’t get the English and History thru 8th grade, and it hurt us in civilian schools.

I still crave every kind of history, and taught the history of Chemistry and Physics alongside the concepts.

For English, they should use tougher reading passages from law and civics to prepare.
For math, they must take at least Chemistry to see how Math works.
College football coaches at the Armed Forces Academies demand Chem-is-try, the Central Science.
 
aociswundumho said:
Obviously the solution is to funnel more taxpayer dollars to the teachers' unions.
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No kidding. Maybe if we do funnel more taxpayer dollars to these unions, the next time the scores roll out, they'll be even lower.
 
Taco loves the poorly educated.

He certainly won't be doing anything other than accelerating the decline of public education in 'Murica.
 
aociswundumho said:
Obviously the solution is to funnel more taxpayer dollars to the teachers' unions.
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Nah, clearly it's to get rid of government and hope that warlords stay away so we can enjoy a magical utopia where all the good things work like they should and we can all celebrate nobody telling us what to do! Libertiarnism FTW!
 
Integrityrespec said:
Just get back to basics, get political agenda's out of education and make sure we are teaching and not indoctrinating.
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"political agenda":

-The Earth may be more than 6000 years old
-Vaccines work
-The founding fathers of this country wanted separation of church and state, not a White Christian theocracy
- The founding fathers of this country did not want a strong man president
-The founding fathers of this country welcomed immigrants from all sorts of religious, ethnic, and national backgrounds
- Climate change is real and potentially catastrophic
- Vaccines were one of the greatest medical advancements in history
-Trickle down economics doesn't work

... and other such nonsense.
 
The US isn't one national education system, it's 50 states and 3,144 counties. Massachusetts a decade or so paid to have their state test separately in the international testing and placed among the top 10 in the world, 9th in math, 4th in reading, and 6th in science. At the time US scores were dropping globally.


The Dept of Education was supposed to help bring up the states and counties that represented the most challenging to educate, we'll see how well they did now that it's been gutted.

Overall, I get the impression that at least one political party likes the citizens in this country to be as dumb as possible.
 
aociswundumho said:
Obviously the solution is to funnel more taxpayer dollars to the teachers' unions.
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Yep, and to allow ‘social promotion’ to ensure every child gets advanced to the next grade level annually and graduates (with their participation trophy?), regardless of their academic achievement.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Yep, and to allow ‘social promotion’ to ensure every child gets advanced to the next grade level annually and graduates (with their participation trophy?), regardless of their academic achievement.
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Well no. The solution is obviously to just cut funding to education and tell the kids to just go pick themselves up by their own bootstraps. Duh.
 
I bet they know how to hide from bullets and know how to spell pedophile now.
 
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