Legal challenges to Trump funding freezes--will the elimination of Chevron deference limit Trump's goal?

[Lucy01]

If parents can't find 10 minutes to read to their kids a day, then they are probably not raising their kids in the first place.

Lets start with why that is happening then.

If a kid can’t read or do Math and is passed to the next grade it’s on the deadbeat teacher and the worthless worthless deadbeat Union that represents them!

 

[DANC]

If parents aren't reading with their kids at home by the time they go to school, they are way behind the 8 ball.

I don't remember my parents reading to me. And my mom was an elementary school teacher.

However, they always encouraged me to read and I saw them reading newspapers and books.

There's no doubt parents approval and support are crucial for any academic success. Parents are just as responsible for their child's education as the teachers are, imo. That doesn't mean I agree with reading or math programs being used today. And, imo, teacher unions don't encourage excellence - they're more concerned with everyone keeping their jobs, no matter their performance, and getting more money.

 

[BradStevens]

Also...another good opportunity to quote My Man Mitch:

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We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer. When we do find it necessary, we feel a profound duty to use that dollar as carefully and effectively as possible, else we should never have taken it at all.​

I don't know if it qualifies me as a libertarian or not, but I think this is an almost perfect way of describing my general philosophy in this area.

No, I wouldn't qualify that as libertarian. Just general good governance.

I thought you called yourself a libertarian at one point. That's the only reason I asked.

 

[BradStevens]

I don't remember my parents reading to me. And my mom was an elementary school teacher.

However, they always encouraged me to read and I saw them reading newspapers and books.

There's no doubt parents approval and support are crucial for any academic success. Parents are just as responsible for their child's education as the teachers are, imo. That doesn't mean I agree with reading or math programs being used today. And, imo, teacher unions don't encourage excellence - they're more concerned with everyone keeping their jobs, no matter their performance, and getting more money.

I think parents are more responsible than teachers. Some teachers aren't happy with that, though.

 

[crazed_hoosier2]

I think parents are more responsible than teachers. Some teachers aren't happy with that, though.

On average, yes.

As much as I’d love to believe this is universally the case, I…have my doubts.

 

[DANC]

I think parents are more responsible than teachers. Some teachers aren't happy with that, though.

I don't think that's true, as evidenced by our declining test scores.

Parents give a lot of lip service to education, but they expect teachers to do it all. Every kid I know who has failed at school has had parents that expect the teachers to do it all. Little Johnny is not repsonsible for it - it's all his teacher's fault.

 

[BradStevens]

I don't think that's true, as evidenced by our declining test scores.

Parents give a lot of lip service to education, but they expect teachers to do it all. Every kid I know who has failed at school has had parents that expect the teachers to do it all. Little Johnny is not repsonsible for it - it's all his teacher's fault.

Sorry. Bad, ambiguous wording on my part.

I meant "responsible" as in they are more of a causal factor than the teachers, not as in they are always, or even on average, more conscientious.

 

[DANC]

Sorry. Bad, ambiguous wording on my part.

I meant "responsible" as in they are more of a causal factor than the teachers, not as in they are always, or even on average, more conscientious.

Oh, OK. I agree.