Certainly personal responsibility plays a part, but if you want me to believe that 75% of North Dakota’s high school students aren’t ready for college because they’re stupid or lazy you’re crazy. Private schools routinely outperform public schools in this regard.
The problem isn’t the teachers.
We’re spending a ton of tax dollars on education, particularly teacher pay. It’s about time we started holding them accountable

I stand by my previous comments. I think Good Ol Boy has a point, though. Many parents can’t wait for school to begin so they can get the kids out of the house. Academic performance doesn’t mean a thing until they get that “note” from the teacher about Junior failing his classes.
I am really getting tired of everyone praising private schools. If they outperform public schools, it is because the teacher to pupil ratio is low, they have tremendous assets and most importantly, the children want to learn.
Yes. We are spending a lot on schools. But not enough. And, in the wrong areas. No teacher should have to buy school supplies. Tying school districts to property taxes isn’t working either.
When the powers-that-be get their heads out of their asses and return discipline and high standards to our schools, things will change. But not until we ,as a nation, choose achievement and success over money and brute force.

What bugs me about this is that I feel homeschoolers in this state are sometimes held to a higher standard. If a homeschooler doesn’t make a certain percentile on a standardized achievement test, they convene a “multidisciplinary assessment team” of public school officials to determine and assess for a learning disability. Right off the bat they assume that a student who doesn’t score 30% could have a learning disability. If there’s no LD there’s a remedial program of learning to be drawn up.

So who do we blame?

WHAT?? Are you serious?????? Bro….you are kidding me.

How about we start with the teachers who are so thoroughly failing our kids despite making (according to released teacher pay information) on average more than the average North Dakotan (for working only about 2/3′s of the year).

So when blacks blame the school system and the situation you phony republicans pretend that they lack personal responsibility, but when it is your own it MUST be someone else’s fault?

Thank you for the gem. You are in rare form today Rob. You have gone so far down the propaganda road you have lost all of your principles. Not that I really thought you had any to start with.

Then we can move on to the politicians who seem to think that the only solution for education woes is to spend more tax dollars

Ahh….now it’s the liberals fault that you guys are so stupid. Hysterical.

To quote a wise friend, “Nutter’s crack me up”!

Heh!

It’s funny that you call this blog Say Anything.

Both of the links in your post lead to sites where they just ask for registration. Assuming I register on those sites and confirm the data you claim to be quoting is correct..

You GOT THE QUOTE WRONG IN THE SAME POST.

reading comprehension for the win.

78% NATIONAL unprepared.
76% North dakotans unprepared.

do you even read the stuff that you post or do you just try to live up to the blog title?

In Texas, there won’t be any more B.S. in the classrooms!
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5945430.html

“HARROLD, Texas — A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes begin later this month, a newspaper reported.
Trustees at the Harrold Independent School District approved a district policy change last October so employees can carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings, provided the gun-toting teachers follow certain requirements.
In order for teachers and staff to carry a pistol, they must have a Texas license to carry a concealed handgun; must be authorized to carry by the district; must receive training in crisis management and hostile situations and have to use ammunition that is designed to minimize the risk of ricochet in school halls.
Superintendent David Thweatt said the small community is a 30-minute drive from the sheriff’s office, leaving students and teachers without protection. He said the district’s lone campus sits 500 feet from heavily trafficked U.S. 287, which could make it a target…”
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affirmative action has been the worst enemy of education in Texas.

No comments on personal responsibility Rob? I guess the blacks no longer have the market cornered on blaming others for the problems they supposedly create themselves eh?

PP,

All of my friends who work for Oracle, Verizon engineering, NetApp, HP all have cars, jobs, money, cell phones, ipods, play video games, have a myspace and facebook accounts.

I don’t know how old you are but if you are denying your kids the ability to see that being successful isn’t cool, then you are getting the wrong message to your kids.

My opinion is that it all comes down to parenting and even a single parent can raise a smart and successful child, not sure what you implication was there.

As a parent you are responsible for these things:

- Mentoring your child
- Teaching them the importance of education
- Influencing your child
- Watching who their friends are
- Introducing a lifestyle that is cool, so they dont have to worry about being cool
- Sex education and responsibility
- Diet

The list goes on and on. Bottom line is it is a parents responsibility to educate a child that you can be cool and still get a good education and be successful. In fact, I would argue that todays kids see that both are possible with how the tech industry impacted the way Americans do business these days.

It would help if the parents gave a shit about what goes on in schools, but I fear that is not the case. It is only right to blame the educational establishment for part of this. Maybe even most of it.

Surely good ol American kids and their families can’t be responsible….must be somebody else’s fault.

Blacks and Mexicans on the other hand……..now they are responsible for their own failure to educate themselves and integrate.

H: Parents have always been the key. It is the involved, alert parent who limits time and access to TV, the internet, and time spent away from home. It is the alert parent who requires that study-time and home-work get done.

What has changed to day is the predominance of working parents – paired or single – who come home tired and worn out, latch-key kids, and the idea that the school will do for their kid what they cannot or will not do.

Actually, moron, that’s not true. I have long been a proponent of fixing inner city schools with things like school vouchers.

So Republicans DON’T blame blacks lack of education on personal responsibility? And how does you supporting vouchers mean that you don’t hold them responsible for the lack of education they receive?

Let me hear you say here and now that if 75% of blacks are suffering in any way, economically or in education it is not because of their own responsibility, but the failed school system.

No comments on personal responsibility Rob?

Certainly personal responsibility plays a part, but if you want me to believe that 75% of North Dakota’s high school students aren’t ready for college because they’re stupid or lazy you’re crazy. Private schools routinely outperform public schools in this regard.

The problem isn’t the teachers.

We’re spending a ton of tax dollars on education, particularly teacher pay. It’s about time we started holding them accountable.

So Republicans DON’T blame blacks lack of education on personal responsibility? And how does you supporting vouchers mean that you don’t hold them responsible for the lack of education they receive?

Are you really this dense?

My support for vouchers means I hold teachers, and the unions that facilitate their lackluster job performance, for the problems with inner-city schools.