Grade school education is failing America and is a disservice to the students. It might benefit the government to dumb down the population because they may be more easily manipulated and controlled. That’s not what the tax payers are paying for.
The traditional work day is 8am-5pm. Why does school let out at 3pm? Kids should be in team sports, band, study hall, getting help with schoolwork, or learning a trade not home alone or roaming the streets looking for trouble.
Not every child has help at home. Homework and assignments should be done at school to ensure no child is left behind.
Teachers should be required to get a college degree in education. We need to stop hiring college graduates that got worthless degrees and can’t find a job in their ludicrous field so they become a teacher. These “teachers” then become activists instead of actually teaching reading, writing, history, and arithmetic. Those people are toxic and not a positive influence on society. They are Marxist who advocate overthrowing the government and don’t belong in tax payer funded schools.
School choice promotes competition amongst schools. No child should be restricted to a school. Their tax dollars should follow the child. Poor performing schools will be forced to improve the quality of their education or close. Tax dollars also follow the child to private and charter schools. What’s best for the child.
Tax payers are paying to educate the students first and foremost. Teacher’s unions abuse their power to the sole benefit of themselves at the expense of the students. That needs to stop.
Teachers that are paid by the taxpayers should be banned from letting their union donate to or endorse any political candidate. The teachers can do so as individuals but not as a union. The union must remain politically neutral.
There is absolutely no excuse for students to not be proficient in reading and math.
Schools need to stop only teaching kids to pass the state tests for school ratings. Some schools spend the whole year teaching this alone.
No child should graduate from school in the United States with a strong foundation in US History and Civics (Government). We need educated voters not people voting based on gender or skin color.
Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Calculus should not be the core math curriculum. Personal finance, budgeting, reading and filing tax forms, home and car buying, credit cards, compound interest, 401k, Social Security, debt management, etc should be taught to every American. They don’t do that know because they want to dumb down Americans and maintain the debtors society.
No child should graduate without a course on law and order, respect for the rule of law, and the justice system.
Bring back shop and home education. Trade school instruction and introduction should begin in high school.