Should not be surprised if they find themselves arriving to the wrong location.
Simple. Obvious. Yet ignored by so many. For example, Memphians vote for Democrats and are surprised by the upturn in crime. They are taken aback when they have the worst schools in Tennessee.
Remove the option of student loans, especially those backed by Uncle Sam. To be sure, there would be fewer students, but then there would be huge competition for the rest. Perhaps it would even make a college education affordable. On the other hand, it just might result in the downsizing of many schools. It might even result in some closing their doors.
Many professors would take pay cuts. Some would even need to find another job, which might not be such a bad thing for American society. I mean, when you consider their contributions or the lack thereof.
Of course, it’s all pointless to consider. It would be easier to solve drug abuse problems than the dependence on student loans.
From 3 different sources, I have heard we have problems this year in schools. The teachers and students lack motivation. The teachers are quitting at record rates. The students are not doing well at all and, of course the parents are reaching the point they are about to start pulling their hair out.
I have heard PhDs address it all with a puzzlement. (You like that word. I learned it from the King and I.) At any rate, everyone seems to be confused as to what might have caused it, let alone how to fix it.
I really don’t have the foggiest Idea why we should need experts to figure it out. It is simple. Due to the China virus, they took the kids out of school. They effectively gave the teachers a perpetual holiday and the kids are all stuck at home, causing immeasurable stress for the parents, and I guess grandparents too. You cannot disrupt things for a school year like that and expect things to remain normal.
Sorry folks. The only thing that will help is to just start getting things back into some kind of routine as quickly as possible. Everyone will just have to put up with the stress until then. Well that is not totally true. We just might have to let the current teachers quit and get some new ones. The new ones can’t do much worse than the previous ones.
Whenever I hear someone say something I consider worth repeating, I repeat it. Mostly, I try to credit the source but I no longer have a DVR. So, by the time I realize I should repeat it, I no longer know who to credit. I will say this. I heard it on a news article on 10 pm news, local channel 13, the FOX affiliate. The article was concerning teaching to read, a subject that very much concerns me. Near the end of the article, there was a man that said that third grade is kind of a division point. Before the third grade, the students are learning to read. After the third grade, the students more and more are reading to learn.
How accurate I thought. I knew it a long time ago but I just never thought of a way to put it as he did. Nonetheless, it points out how important reading is. Without being able to read, it is as if they have a handicap, an anchor so to speak keeping them from learning. And of course, the longer the problem continues, the more the student falls behind others, or more important, where he or she should be.
This is usually where students who have problems start becoming frustrated. If the problem is not resolved, the student will frequently throw up his hands wondering why he or she should even try. What purpose is there in giving reading assignments to 5th and 6th graders that can’t read at 3rd grade levels?
It is why it is good that Tennessee put such a priority on students learning to read. It is important, for sure to allow the kids to learn. Far more important, it is important that schools, students and parents know; so that the problem can be directly addressed. Is it that the student is just not interested or does he have a problem that he needs help with? Is it just encouragement he needs or does he need to have special instruction.
It is unfortunate, but in some cases, it is the teacher. That certainly needs to be addressed quickly because if it isn’t it will effect many more students and quickly.
allow me to add this. Saw the same article again. The man was Johnny Blount, Literacy Corps Director.
Let’s assign everyone to stores. If you are assigned to store A then you will go to store A. You will not be able to go to store B or C or even D. You will get in trouble if you go to any store but A you will be called into the Store Control Board and you will be soundly scolded. If you complain that store A is the worst of the stores, you will be reminded, it is for the good of the stores, you see. We don’t want any of the stores to go broke, you see.
Ridiculous. Yes. Of course, it is. Yet, when it comes to schools, your choice is gone. Your child will go to school A, even if it is the worst school in the city, the worst in the state, or even the worst in the universe. Can anyone explain that to me, please?
In general, we know that, that which is cultured grows. That which is not cultured might still grow, but not as much.
Take the farmer and his corn. He plants it, fertilizes it, waters it. He removes weeds and pests. He watches for molds and when it comes time, if all goes well, he’ll harvest a bumper crop.
The farmer is not the only one that cultures. Cultures are used for vaccines and to identify illnesses. You go into a doctor with a really bad sore throat. He might take a swab to your throat and soon, after he runs a culture, he’ll hopefully be able to give you a shot in your backside and send you home to heal.
Recently, as a nation, we have been culturing something else. Liberalism, communism, thieves, killers and mostly controllers. For those who have not read my prior posts, controllers are people who seek control of people, places or countries. Those controllers who are not stopped, seek world control.
They go by different names, kings, rulers, senators, and representatives. Most who are in the House hope to become senators. Those in the Senate hope to become president. They seek control, not for the benefit of the nation, but for themselves and their friends.
In their efforts to gain control, they will frequently culture the worst part of society.
Oddly, when voters vote for a culture (controllers), those voters seem surprised. I mean, it is what they voted for. Why should they be surprised when it is what they get.
Think. The farmer is not surprised at his crop of corn. Why should we be surprised when we culture communism. The doctor is not surprised when his culture grows staff infection? Why should anyone be surprised after culturing crime, when we find our streets full of thieves and killers?
Really, it shouldn’t be a surprise. We put power hungry leaders in charge. Why is it that we should be surprised when they abuse that power?
Five dead from shootings in Memphis over in Memphis, that is if I have heard the news right.
It seems those in authority, stand around pointing fingers and asking, “What should we do?”
Hint: what they are doing hasn’t had a lot of success.
Clue: they might try what has worked for close to a hundred years. You know, putting high priority on God and family. You know, locking up the bad guys. Perhaps, letting the police, police. How novel that would be.
Then again, what is the point. I may as well be talking to a wall.
Well, there is one advantage for those of us south of the state line. The value of my house value keeps skyrocketing. The hitch, occasionally, that crime does make it south. Good thing our officials know how to deal with it.
Perhaps that statement is not fair. I suspect very strongly those north of the state line know very well how to straiten it out quickly. However, knowing and doing is not always the same.
Surprise.
In the last couple of years, I have taken a real liking to Uncle Ben’s rice. I suppose, given that my name’s Ben there just might be some significance. Most likely not.
At any rate, I got hungry and decided to warm a packet. So I put one in the old MW. After pressing the 2 buttons I needed for a minute and a half, I went about getting my ice & cola.
Being just about time, I started to turn to the MW when there was a very loud POW! Well, I tell you, this old 76 year old frame jumped as if I heard one of those rockets in Vietnam. I’m a little slower these days so my jump was but 3 inches instead of 3 feet.
Smoke was billowing from the MW and i just knew the old thing gave up the ghost and I would have to get another.
Then, I realized my foolishness. I never created the small opening to let the steam out.
Other than the 30 minutes of life I lost from the noise, it turned out well. The package opened very neatly the instant it was ready. I wonder if that was intentional.
Also, the rice was effectively pressure cooked. Turned out pretty good.
Still, I think I’ll do it right next time. My recomendation is that others do the same.
You say you haven’t the money. Well, the rich go to to really good private schools.
You know what? Many Republicans would like to send poor children to private schools but the dems stand defiantly at the doors of those schools and say, sorry. You aren’t rich enough. The dems say you aren’t white enough. You aren’t elite enough.
You say, but it can’t be done. But it can. At first a few, and then a few more. As the children leave the public schools, those running the public schools will start figuring it out. If they want to continue to have students, they just might change the way they teach to match the way private schools teach… better. If not, public schools will go away, which really is not that bad. We would have nothing but the better schools with better teaching.
Better that kids all go to private schools than to go to horrible public schools with not so great teachers.
By the way, I do understand we do have good teachers. Maybe it would be better to have the good teachers teaching your kids in the better private schools.
Then all those know nothing folks running public schools would have to go find some real jobs where they will have to do some real work. All those not so great teachers would have to either sharpen their teaching skills or find some other skill to practice.
It is only after a person knows the truth that he can see through the lies. It is the reason we need to make sure that our children get a good honest education. It is the reason we must read the Bible regularly and learn what God says.
Without knowing the truth a person is susceptible to deceit, lies and fraud. Consider, just how many con men would prefer that you know the truth before using his trickery to relieve you of your fortune.
It is why the dems prefer that your education be poor and that they mock Christianity. After all, how else are you going to believe the lies?
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