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Dogma Always Wins

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New York spends the whopping amount of nearly $30k per public school student per year. I struggle to imagine what this insane amount of money can even buy. Many people live a whole year on that amount. It’s a struggle but imagine pissing that all off on educating a single public school student.

The results of this spending are nil given that only 33% of NY students are proficient in reading.

One of the central beliefs of leftist ideology is that you can solve anything with money. So they keep throwing money at this issue yet it keeps getting worse. Observing any connection between these results and the aggressive addition to the public schools of New York of a large number of students who don’t speak English is beyond them.

I haven’t been able to wrench out of a single Democrat an admission that mass migration will make public schools even more underachieving, costly, chaotic and useless. Dogma always wins no matter what reality demonstrates.

4 responses to “Dogma Always Wins”

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    ShadowsCollide

    As someone who works in education, I can believe it and it’s still horrifying. 30K is about what I make in a year and yet the kids are still lazy dumbasses, too many liberals seem to think that buying students the latest model Chromebooks is going to solve educational issues. The kids are always trying to access TikTok and other garbage and they know how to get past firewalls, so we’re paying money so kids can watch YouTube and TikTok videos on school time.

    The elephant in the room no one wants to talk about is that a lot of kids don’t want to be in school and have little interest in academics, they’re only here because they have to be in school. This is not a racial thing because I’ve taught lazy, dumb white kids too. Your average teenager thinks school is useless and a waste of time, but back then a kid could drop out and get a job or join the military. Now most places won’t hire high school dropouts and few young people qualify to join the military, so kids are kept in school whether they like it or not.

    In addition, the curriculum is dumbed down to an appalling degree and stuff that kids would have learned in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades is now taught in high school. Someone with an 8th grade education in the 1950s could read and write cursive, know the US Presidents, do long division and read novels, now many high schoolers have terrible print writing skills, can’t name the president, can’t do simple math without a calculator and can’t read anything without pictures or with more than 50 pages.

    Recently I watched a documentary on baseball players in the 1930s and while many of the guys had educations where they dropped out around the 5th grade or even earlier, they could sign their names in cursive, read newspapers and magazines, knew basic American history and had math skills good enough to write checks and manage a budget. Many of these guys came from the rural South where schools were often little one room buildings with one teacher for 30-40 kids, yet they got enough education to function in the world and knew more than many modern kids. Many high schoolers can’t write cursive, don’t read print materials, and have no idea what a budget is or how to pay bills.

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      Clarissa

      Im with you completely. The idea that investing in gadgets will somehow cure generational dysfunction, low IQ, bad nutrition, and every other problem is daft.

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        ShadowsCollide

        What’s interesting is that many of these baseball players from the 30s grew up very poor in rural areas and probably had poor nutrition, chewed tobacco and drank whiskey, yet managed to get a basic education good enough to live in a city and play professional sports. Then again, they probably came from stable families and communities and were very likely to have a strong religious background and be regular churchgoers, stable families, regular church attendance and belonging to a religious congregation are all positive social factors.

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    methylethyl

    Florida, for going on 2 years now, has been establishing proof that if you take $8k/yr/student, and just give it to the parents for education expenses (yes, you have to prove it was spent on tuition, tutors, curricula, classes or other qualified ed. expenses), that’s quite sufficient to purchase a pretty high-quality education.

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