The Educaton Study ...

Been a while since the last post; I sorta' got tired of reading the same things over & over. However, this on Jerry Pournelle's blog got my attention....

The Education Study

The Department of Education comes out with study after study proving that private schools are no better than public schools, and education today is as good or better than education in the past. There are miles of statistics.

The teachers' unions adamantly oppose even the thought of giving parents any choice whatever in where the children go to school. Money paid to the public schools is tied to attendance and test scores, both of which rise. When investigators look into those numbers they find coaching and false attendance records, but those are always exceptional cases.

The teachers' unions adamantly oppose even the thought of giving parents any choice whatever in where the children go to school. They insist that all teachers be qualified, which means that they have valid credentials, which are given for training in education colleges.

The US Air Force consistently trains young people in mathematics and other fairly complex subjects. The training sergeants retire; and of course are not qualified to teach high school mathematics unless they obtain credentials and learn how to teach. The teachers' union insist that properly credentialed teachers are those who have taken education courses; on the other hand, they oppose state laws requiring that teachers be required to study the subjects they are supposed to teach. Education majors may teach physics, but physics majors are not qualified to teach physics.

The teachers' unions adamantly oppose even the thought of giving parents any choice whatever in where the children go to school. The Department of Education, which is staffed largely from the teachers' unions, continues to prove that the public schools are as good now as ever they have been -- they have the statistics -- and that public schools are as good as or better than private schools (in all but 8th grade reading). Any evidence to the contrary is anecdotal and of no value. The schools are fine and there is no education crisis, thank you very much.

And you can believe as much of that as you want to.