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These are all administration failures. No matter how much tax dollars we throw at the schools it's never enough to fill the big black bottomless hole. Most kids have or are assigned computers these days so textbooks are obsolete when they could be made available to students in PDF file form or online. When my son was in school his teachers would often send home donation requests for supplies and many parents did step up to provide them, but I also know teachers spend their own money as well and that needs to be fixed or have a reimbursement process. Unfortunately there is no magic wand that will fix our broken school system and all of it's problems.
This is a feature, not a bug. There has been a long term strategy in NC (and elsewhere) to starve public schools for funds while diverting the resources to charter schools, private institutions, and homeschooling without any of the standards that public schools must adhere to. The grift doesn’t work when you have too many educated voters who can think critically.
Schools aren't completely responsible for the lack of parenting in most cases
It's not all parenting. It's phones and social media and technology. Kids don't learn right/wrong. They don't learn social skills. And parents are often both working and don't discipline their kids either. Schools don't hold kids accountable anymore. They give a passing grade if they kid just shows up. It's not any one thing but the phones have done more damage than anything else.
I mean I'd put the blame more on parents honestly. I feel like schools hands are tied often times because if they do too much, you get Joe and Jane Bickerson coming out of the woodwork complaining about "you can't touch my child" or "you can't tell them that" or "your facts are wrong I believe the world is run by the peanut mafia" or yadda yadda.
Fund schools better and give them more authority to do sane things.
Spoken like a true teacher/district employee. Just throw more money at the problem.
This is a feature, not a bug. There has been a long term strategy in NC (and elsewhere) to starve public schools for funds while diverting the resources to charter schools, private institutions, and homeschooling without any of the standards that public schools must adhere to.
I mean I'd put the blame more on parents honestly. I feel like schools hands are tied often times because if they do too much, you get Joe and Jane Bickerson coming out of the woodwork complaining about "you can't touch my child" or "you can't tell them that" or "your facts are wrong I believe the world is run by the peanut mafia" or yadda yadda.
Fund schools better and give them more authority to do sane things.
Spoken like a true teacher/district employee. Just throw more money at the problem.
"Fund schools better and give them more authority to do sane things."
Like fund a director of diversity position that could pay for five teachers? That kind of sane thing?
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