http://data-points-boise-schools.blogspot.com/2018/09/boise-districts-data-informed-marketing.html

What has always been needed is a referendum on how many children a family can put into the free public/charter schools system without having to pay for some extra services. (Not football, etc., just overall overload of costs, including free lunch.)

It is suspicious that it kills the budget by contracting at the end of the fiscal year. Public secondary and elementary schools don’t need to advertise. Parents want to send their kids to schools. Bad decision BSD.

Trust me, I would not ask you to explain banking or the economy- to anyone- especially not your dear neighbor girl.

If this were a test though, you would fail. Oh, more minutiae… never mind. Pretty complicated stuff to use as an example of our public education system.

Finland? Ha!

Off topic?????
Not really. It is an example of how those critical of our public education system do not have solid across-the- board evidence that the ‘choice model’ is better.

Anecdotes of Susie not aware of “facts”? I doubt that; but, whatever.

So make a social experiment?
Great, let the rich get richer via exclusive education and the poor will continue to hang out with Yossarian for them to talk about monetary policy.

But, Yossa, I leave on your own words, “I still believe in a public funded education”.

For 20 years I was steeped in Leftist culture and have read all the usual promotions of how our public education is the epitome of “democracy.” Everything from Noam Chomsky (who hated his public school education BTW) to any current blather from Dem education promoters.

In the abstract, I actually still believe in a public funded education, but now I can see that cultural agendas serve along with social promotion gimmicks to dumb down kids and deliver them to our society with predetermined concepts that America needs to be anti-sovereign and part of some World Society without borders and constitutions that protect national interests. It’s all very John Lennon Imagine crap. Except, that what they are selling isn’t world Love through equality, but that equality will be achieved by making everyone poor (except for that 1% of know-it-alls that make the rules = Lenin).

I ask people, adults mind you, that don’t even know how money enters the economy. They all think the Govt prints it and injects it. That can happen via bonds sold to private entities, but MOST money enters every time a private loan is made at a bank. It’s printed out of thin air and loaned to borrowers. That’s called principal. Banks are allowed to loan $10 for every $1 they have on deposit. This is not taught to anyone. It’s the most important aspect of economies and no one knows it.

My next door neighbor is a top score student in high school. She is not aware of most facts because they don’t teach them any. They teach for tests steeped in minutiae. World history is not even a serious subject anymore. With everything that is going on, where are the debates and facts? It’s all being handled by Tech Giants via social media. What a joke.

Clancy- if I request to “watch a class” in history or American Govt, would that be approved? In France, all parents are barred from any intervention in their kids’ school activities. Are we next?

Finland is the top dog in education. They actually teach critical skills there. They rarely test. But if you point them out to today’s progressives, you get a lecture about how “white and racist” Finland is. Which is funny because Finland used to be a go-to example for leftists for how America should follow.

Boise Schools generally do a great job educating the students and giving a unique education to each of them. I have two sons at each end of the spectrum. One is taking AP classes as a sophomore while the other is learning life skills in hopes of living on his own someday. The advanced classes are impressive, but more so is my other son learning life and job skills that are not often taught at the higher levels.

What this article does not talk about is how the urbanization of Boise is causing declining populations at some schools while others are busting at the seams.

“The government will take care of you.” If some of you think commie is the wrong label, think again.

Schools are creating corporate robots who will never question their superiors, no matter how atrocious the crimes they experience. They are taught to be obedient to authority, and to memorize and regurgitate information. Schools in other countries have kids in 5th grade who can run circles around our high school graduates. The “history” taught in our schools is outright fiction.

Personally, I found school to be BORING and more akin to a PRISON than a institution of learning, and todays schools are prisons, complete with surveillance systems, security fences and guards.

What I find totally insulting is the endless and obvious fake “false flag” school mass shootings rolled out by the corporate media, while simultaneously putting up NO GUN signs everywhere to keep those who might defend against mass shootings out. Is there any politician out there who has ever explained why they think a criminal would walk up to a school with a gun and see the NO GUN sign and decide they must obey the sign and leave.

How long before endless “common sense gun regulations” to “save the children” disarm everyone in America so the sociopaths can begin the next Holocause with their militarized police made up of the product of school brainwashing.

Is it REALLY the individual teacher’s responsibility, or are they simply one cog in the wheel to facilitate learning?

Teachers have ZERO responsibility to get a student to do homework.
They have ZERO responsibility over whether that student has decent sleep.
They have ZERO responsibility over whether that student is focused on the subject or the boy/girl sitting next to them.
And that list goes on and on- ALL which falls on the responsibility of parents.

Too many parents are failing.

Above comments want schools to ‘compete for students’- This is EXACTLY what they are planning to due, to the tune of $170,000. It is unfortunate they find it necessary.

There is zero evidence ‘School Choice’ provides an equal improvement for ALL children. See Michigan and Devos as the failing model https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/12/betsy-devos-michigan-minutes/32857789/

School Choice only dilutes the public resources and makes a difficult goal even more difficult.

As for any kind of ‘liberal agenda’- yeah right, A, B, C, reading phonics, and the scientific method are so liberal. That rubbish rhetoric that does nothing to advance the goals of good education for children.

The concept of PUBLIC schools is unique to creating democracy in America.
“Education … beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” -Horace Mann

To argue against great, EQUAL, public education is simply arguing in favor of Marxism with a proletariat and bourgeoisie class of people. THAT is the choice!

BTW, the last time I was canvased for the last school bond increase, I gave the promoter a full piece of my mind about school failures. The bond passed anyway, but people are voting with their feet. GoodO for them.

Lots of love from me to the lonely quality teachers who care so much, but look how the schools treat them. How dare they disrupt the cash cow.

https://idahonews.com/news/nation-world/teacher-says-she-was-fired-for-giving-zeroes-to-students-who-didnt-turn-in-their-work-09-25-2018-134627104