Bill Gates: America's high schools are failing our students

Violets are blue
This line of nonsense is dead
Buh bye to you.

This line of nonsense is dead ~~ Evie

Finally! you got the grip.


CL

Good parents help in good schools. Good schools do not result from granting the teacher's union its latest request for funds. They're produced by teachers who are committed to doing their job, and who are backed up by involved parents.

has dyslexia......I discovered it myself before she started the second grade and the school immediately enrolled her in a program to help learn how to learn. She was doing very well in that program.

We moved from the Cleveland Schools into the 'elite' Parma schools and it was a total nightmare year after year. They would test her every year at my insistance, never enroll her into any programs and watched her get further and further behind everybody else.

By the time she entered Senior High, she was constantly in trouble as the class clown or the arrogant, undisciplined, non-acceptor of authority child that they didn't want to bother with anymore. (As if they ever had.) In her junior year (nobody has a clue how she even got that far to be honest, including her), the 'authorities' at the school decided that she needed to be placed in their 'bad kids' building isolated from the rest of the school and had to 'earn' her way back out......which meant even if she was placed back into the general population she would still be placed into a classroom with others who had 'earned' their way out of that other building and had to now 'earn' her way back into the general population.

I took it to the schoolboard, totally disgusted that they created this 'monster' and now wanted to wash their hands of her and throw her away. They agreed with the 'authorities' at the high school.....so I signed the papers to pull her out at 17 at her request.

She started working in a nursing home...found she could pass for 18 in the bars easily enough and began dancing in them. It was legal, paid her extremely well for years, paid for a new car every two years, raised her daughter alone, bought her own home, and has credit the envy of everybody I know. She now manages the clubs instead of dancing and still makes good enough money that she can now get by with only working three days a week and spends more time with her daughter.

She's taken dream trips that her teachers probably wished they could afford to go on and will be flying out to see Derek in San Diego in June with my youngest daughter. She wants to see Bob Barker on Price Is Right before he dies....LOL

The schools are constantly saying they need more parents to get involved but when you try to do that, many of them label you as a trouble maker and a person who wants to rock their boat. Don't ever try to question one either.

The day before kindergarten started for Derek, there was a meeting with his teacher and the parents at the school in the actual room they would be in. As I sat there listening to the spiel, I looked around and saw a handmade calendar on the wall. I asked her who made the calendar. Thinking I was going to compliment her, she couldn't brag enough about how she was the one. Until I asked how she expected to teach my son anything if his teacher didn't know how to spell Wednesday............the meeting ended quickly, and Derek went to a different school just as quickly.

TONI

special education is in a much better state now than back then. Not that it is perfect now, by any measure.

Kudos to your daughter!

Dan

lazy.

shift responsibility for raising their kids.

It's a shame.

Dan