Journal pudge's Journal: Flunked: The Movie 14
I ordered my copy of Flunked: The Movie. Have you?
I have high hopes for this documentary from the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, hosted by Joe Montegna. It's a nonpartisan look at what's wrong with our public education system and how to fix it.
(Psssst: the answer isn't "more money.")
Cross-posted on <pudge/*>.
Typical Liberal Response (Score:1)
Why do you hate children? I mean, you can't possibly trust parents to know where to send their children to school.
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(Psssst: the answer isn't "more money.")
Why do you hate children? I mean, you can't possibly trust parents to know where to send their children to school.
Parents send their children to school? I didn't get that memo.
Homeschool FTW.
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Then public school is OK.
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I think public schools are a last resort for parents that have no other option, simply because of the fact that with government involved, at BEST, you are almost ensured to have a diluted educational experience, lacking in options, diversity, opportunity, and so on.
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I graduated a crap high school in Seattle in the '80s, got an engineering degree and a couple master's.
Which, combined with about $2, are worth a cup o' coffee at Starbucks.
I'm more concerned with federal thugging of the wallet than with school levies. You can hold your school board (somewhat) accountable. These feds, not so much.
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Yes, you can and should make the best with what you've got. Obviously. But that doesn't mean that we should settle for the least and hope for the best.
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On the input side, fa(ir|re) is what you pay to ride a bus.
Lowering one's expectation of fairness is a key to a low-stress life.
Re:Typical Liberal Response (Score:4, Funny)
Oh no, I don't care too much about fairness, I am talking about me and mine, pal!
Fairness is a great concept (Score:3, Insightful)
This one's for fairness,
Neither hereness nor thereness.
While your money vanishes,
Into thinness of airness.
A word of athwartness,
Is racial bugbearness.
To fairness!
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I was about to ask what the fix it suggested is...
by this response, I am guessing it is homeschooling?!?
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No. That is MY answer. I don't think they touch on homeschooling at all in the movie. Their solutions are about things like giving teachers more freedom to innovate in the classroom.
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That sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out.
Have you ever watched the Hobart Shakespearean Players documentary?
It is very good and about a teacher, Rafe Esquith, that does amazing things with his inner city class. His students consistently score in the top 10% of the country on standardized tests.
He has a couple of books out about the tribulations of teaching in the US system.
Non-partisan? (Score:2)
I have high hopes for this documentary from the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, hosted by Joe Montegna. It's a nonpartisan look at what's wrong with our public education system and how to fix it.
Non-partisan? ... perhaps but doubtful. Here's a bit of information I found about the Evergreen Freedom Foundation:
Its efforts center around public policy research and alternatives in these core areas: anti-union, pro-corporate, state budget and regressive tax policy, welfare reform, health-care reform, privitized education, citizenship and governance issues.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Freedom_Foundation [wikipedia.org]
The first two blogs being introduced in to the main homepage here at Conservablogs.com are Liberty Live, the official blog of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, and the blog of Oklahomans for Responsible Government.
- http://conservablogs.com/2008/04/23/please-welcome-the-evergreen-freedom-foundation-to-cb/ [conservablogs.com]
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Non-partisan?
Yes.
Here's a bit of information I found about the Evergreen Freedom Foundation:
Most of that is propaganda bullshit. However, I never said the EFF is nonpartisan, although it is, just as the NRA and ACLU are: they have very specific leanings, and end up allied with one party more than the other, but are about ideas, not parties.
anti-union
False. They are anti-abuse-of-power-by-unions.
pro-corporate
False. They are anti-anti-corporate.
regressive tax policy
Simply false.
privitized education
Nope. They are for school choice, which is obviously not the same thing. (Interesting that the Wikipedia violator who wrote this can't spell the adjective mod