4 Tactics Public Schools Are Using To Get Butts Behind Desks
School competition leads to surprising tactics to keep attendance from falling.
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4. Online Classes
Teachers unions have historically resisted the development of online courses as an alternative to traditional classroom education. As Reason’s Katherine-Mangu Ward wrote in 2010:
The National Education Association, the country’s main teachers union, takes a hard line on virtual charters such as K12. "There also should be an absolute prohibition against the granting of charters for the purpose of home-schooling, including online charter schools that seek to provide home-schooling over the Internet," says the organization’s official policy statement on charter schools. "Charter schools whose students are in fact home schoolers, and who may rarely if ever convene in an actual school building, disregard the important socialization aspect of public education, do not serve the public purpose of promoting a sense of community, and lend themselves too easily to the misuse of public funds and the abuse of public trust.”
Though the unions are still typically resistant to the development of charter schools, be they real or virtual, public school districts are slowly getting on board with online education, at least as a supplement if not a replacement.
Utah has enacted a law allowing school districts, both public and charter, to offer online classes to high school students. The school would still get some of the state aid, so there is less fear of educational flexibility resulting in funding drops. Even so, as Paul E. Peterson of Education Next notes, meddlers are attempting to game the system in favor of protecting public schools, reducing the funding for online classes, and restricting students from using the system to actually get ahead in their studies.
Many states are actually mandating students incorporate online education into their course load, though the details vary and efforts to require students take classes for credit often get scaled back. A mandate in Idaho to require students to take two semester-long online classes in order to graduate was defeated at the polls in November. But perhaps its defeat is more of a reflection of the way public schools try to manage its students—one-size-fits-all solutions dictated by authority (not to mention some likely rent-seeking from connected private providers)—rather than embracing the flexibility online and charter programs are trying to provide and that parents and students are hungering for.
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My one regret about my school years is that I did not skip school more often.
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1) Pay more to force the future burger flippers to go learn stuff they realistically won't apply in the future?
2) As a resident of San Antonio who hears about this ceaselessly, her objection is due to the badge being against her religion as it is "the mark of the beast".
3) See 1.
4) Would work, but mandating the incorporation should come with a reduction in brick and mortar teacher salaries. IF they do less they should make less.
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If you dislike the idea of carrying an RFID chip around with you, 3-6 seconds in a microwave oven will fry any RFID chip ever made. You can also use a needle to cut the antenna wires within the chip, rendering it incapable of powering itself.
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The school even offered to give her a badge without the RFID chip inside but she declined. It makes sense to me. They just want to make it appear that she obeyed when she didn't. In principle, you would be symbolically showing that you support the tagging and tracking.
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Small steps, very small steps. Having the money follow the child makes a lot of sense. Next step is to allow education to fall away from the industrialized one size fits all model. As far as I understand there are still all sorts of state/federal mandates than every school is still be bound by.
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Sounds like some crazy smack to me dude. Wow.
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Well, I'm fucking clueless that this sort of bizarre shit is occurring in America. I'm absolutely fucking shocked that a fucking subhuman piece of shit cop would ticket a home-schooler. Dude, there's very little I'm NOT aware of on this planet YET somehow this article FUCKS with my pathetic mind. WHAT the FUCK! What bag of worthless intestines-hauling crap human being actually TICKETS for truancy?!!! I'm blown away. FUCKING blown away. whew
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Charter schools whose students are in fact home schoolers... disregard the important socialization aspect of public education, do not serve the public purpose of promoting a sense of community...
IOW, in addition to costing teachers an extra 10 grand a year in health benefits, such schools also lift the boot of social indoctrination off their neck, creating people who don't submit to authority and agree in lock-step with their peers and teachers. Oh dear!
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I say sudbury and democratic schools for the win! I've always just ignored what my teachers say because they have no clue what they're even "teaching" they just read from a book they're given and expect us to just believe them like they were the almighty himself come down to dwell among us. Yeah when I've read more literature then my 60 year old teacher in the 9th grade and read her stupid mandated books in one day there's a problem. What a waste of 120,000 tax dollars for 12 years of public indoctrination.
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Yeah when I've read more literature then my 60 year old teacher in the 9th grade and read her stupid mandated books in one day there's a problem.
Yes, it seems the school system failed you. Is this joe's law? I can't remember anymore.
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