tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post661525878937017195..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: Why Can't They Learn?Darrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-79239772458706893612017-02-14T13:38:23.843-08:002017-02-14T13:38:23.843-08:00BB-Idaho:
By some measures that might be true.
Of...BB-Idaho:<br />By some measures that might be true. <br />Of course, both of those countries are pretty non-diverse, mono-cultural 1st world countries. Ask them how well those Middle Eastern and African refugee / immigrants are assimilating into their countries. <br />As for Norway, when the oil runs out, then what? Where's all that sweet money for the social programs coming from then?Pseudotsugahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04113260814272433972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-85048691112468963052017-02-13T15:43:49.265-08:002017-02-13T15:43:49.265-08:00My relatives in Norway and Switzerland seem much h...My relatives in Norway and Switzerland seem much happier than my<br />American neighbors. Poor Europeans.BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-72670056496931819092017-02-13T14:32:17.159-08:002017-02-13T14:32:17.159-08:00It's about virtue signaling rather than result...It's about virtue signaling rather than results. It's important to be SEEN as doing the right thing...whether it works or not.<br />I myself am a proud graduate of the Headstart program, back when it was still a new thing. Did it help? <br />I doubt it. I bet that having a stay-at-home mother who cared, and read to her kids, was the difference. We weren't rich, either, and we lived in a nowhere town up in the far northeast of California (find Alturas on the map).<br />I learned to read before Kindergarten because my older brother (2 years older) brought home stuff. We always had books around the house, and mom and dad both read all the time. <br />It's not about class, or race, but culture. Pseudotsugahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04113260814272433972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-88743693009430340122017-02-11T13:44:55.531-08:002017-02-11T13:44:55.531-08:00Those pushing PreK were hoping it would morph into...Those pushing PreK were hoping it would morph into subsidized daycare. And that is the problem. From what I read in a Dallas ISD study, parents treated it like daycare which meant sometimes the kids would show up, sometimes they wouldn't. Parents would schedule vacations or long term absences during the school year, but because the parents considered it daycare, and free at that, they didn't mind if their children missed. What is more, these classes ended up being aimed at mainly children of color because only the most disabled white kids can even get on a waiting list. Ask any single Mom who has tried.<br /><br />Similar studies demonstrated how Headstart programs misused money, often hiring unqualified teachers and aides who were families and friends. This is a situation that has also dogged the checkered history of charter schools. But in the end, make no mistake, this was a blatant attempt to create a Scandinavian style social safety net that would both give parents paid leave and give them free childcare....eventually.Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.com