Random thoughts about education

Tomorrow is high school football night.

The cheers from the stadiums will spill into the surrounding neighborhoods.

The sound of the band, smell of the concession stands…everything that is a part of the Friday night tradition will happen as it has for years and years.

The hundreds of thousands of dollars that we will spend on this activity without a single thought is incredible.

Our public schools are failing, and every time some public figure comes up with an answer it always comes down to more funding.

Come on.. We waste so much on things that have nothing to do with education.

Do you really need a state of the art stadium with air conditioned press boxes and the very latest in training equipment to play a game of football?

I wish that football was the only waste in our schools.

Every time the Democrats come up with a plan to “improve” our schools, it always amounts to pumping more cash into the districts.

No, lets quit wasting the money and keep the funding the same.

The Dems say we need to pay our teachers more.

Well, that’s good, except they don’t’ ask for more accountability to go along with that money.

Dems openly mock plans like no child left behind, but offer no alternative.

If test scores are failing… if the kids cannot spell, speak with proper grammar… if they kids have not learned the importance of showing up to work on time and other life skills, then the schools that failed them need to be held accountable.

Actually, it pisses me off when I catch a teacher misspelling a word or using bad grammar.
My spelling sucks… my grammar is bad…and I…even I… can catch these types of errors on notes my kids bring home from school.

Football is fine… it’s a good diversion… but why are we spending more on a Friday night game than we do on fixing a failing educational institution.

Lets NOT pay failing teachers more money… lets get more teachers on the job that are willing to spend time with kids and TEACH.

Why is it my oldest daughter… who was home schooled until she was 10 is so far ahead of all of those other kids who went through public school all their school days?

My wife is not a specially trained education expert. She is a woman who wants her kids to learn, so she spent her efforts on teaching.

I wish we could afford to keep my daughter and all of our kids at home for home schooling, but this is not practical these days.