Well said. Public education seemed fine when I was a child and adolescent. An Air Force brat, I moved from state to state and system to system with no problem, learned a lot, and went on to higher education. I feel less positive about current education, but problems perceived or real have not kept my children and grandchildren from receiving an excellent education. There have always been naysayers and book banners but also ways to offer the education our children merit.
Hasn't the jobs of local school boards across the country recently become ensuring that nothing in school libraries will help students learn to think? Hasn't most of the reporting on education over the past few years been about the hundreds of schools now banning books? Doesn't it seem that in places like Texas and Florida helping kids learn to be democratic citizens has fallen out of favor?
Most Americans can’t afford a college education to gain the skills required for a well paying tech job. Instead of helping Americans with their education, the GOP wants to eliminate loan forgiveness to keep Americans poor and unemployed while encouraging foreigners who got educated for free to come take jobs here. That’s the sad truth.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan will sentence convicted felon President-elect Donald Trump on his 34 convictions of falsifying business records on January 10, 2025. Justice Merchan said he would not sentence President-elect Trump to jail. I hope the punishment will be enough for President-elect Trump to realize crime does not pay.
WaPo, Shavna Jacobs, updated January 03, 2025, 4:14 p.m. EST.
The republican goal with regard to our public schools
is to not only end the Dept. of Education, the GOP intends to end all public education and make all schools strictly private—meaning all parents will have
to pay tuition in order to send their kids to school.
If you think that’s bad, there’s more. In AZ there’s talk among republicans of putting schools in shopping malls, and requiring only a high school education for teachers.
As for the Musk/Ramaswami dust-up over American
students not being particularly interested in learning, there are several things going on. 1. Bannon, Loomer and others are feeling threatened by Elon’s recent ubiquitous presence in DT’s life. 2. Clearly everyone isn’t on the same page policy-wise. 3. Getting
republicans on the same page policy-wise is probably
a lot like trying to herd cats.
On one hand, republicans don’t want a well educated population, because well educated people don’t readily accept misdirection, lies or the fascism that requires them. On the other hand, our country needs well educated teachers, engineers, physicians, etc. in order to compete with other powerful countries.
As I recently wrote somewhere, Trumpism enables
narcissism. Some people call narcissistic men, “alpha
males.” I call them bullies on steroids. I guess you
could more specifically call it a Putinesque Personality disorder, or a right-wing, morbidly extreme, narcissistic fascism.
Any way you choose to look at it, one thing is
perfectly clear, we are on the cusp of what is sure
to be an entertaining, but destructive and nerve wracking clash of egos. And unfortunately for us,
Isn't it sad to see a party deciding that the accomplishments of this nation are nothing? Attacking education and educators, trashing our progress and leadership...just disgusting...and so very uninformed. Don't worry - we are steady with you, Dan Rather! Thank you
Dan this is a great article. Thank you. Trump has created a civil war within his mega Republican party. I don't see any resolution to solve this division. Trump has to choose between billionaires running this country or Bannon and the rest of the mega Republican party who wanted all immigratants deported from this country. This is want Trump ran his campaign on. Yet he has billionaires tweeting on X,
saying that Americans here are incompetent and to lazy and they want to bring immigratants of a hire intellect to do the job. This is a huge conflict of interest.
On a another note, I do agree our education system has failed. It should of been dealt with years ago. You have children from inner cities not receiving a good education.
The public schools are over crowded. If government officials wanted to solve this problem they built more schools and libraries with our taxpayers money instead of building restaurants or apartments.
I want to drop in a different perspective on “learning loss” and test scores. Our expectations of what a 3rd grader can do are based on a lot of 3rd graders who didn’t live through a pandemic. For the students who did, there were a lot of disruptions which everyone at school and at home handled as best they could.
So, now these third graders don’t know as much as previous ones. What does that mean? It means they will learn all the same things, just when they are a little older. The information is still out there and they are still capable of learning it. The whole world hit a bump in the road. These kids didn’t “lose” any learning, they had a detour and are now back on the path.
I’m in my 27th year of teaching, and this is how it looks to me.
I'm getting ready to be one member of a retired couple. This doesn't automatically mean I'll have unlimited amount ts of time on my hands, but I do want to find things where I can invest some time. I'd love to find a way to help push back against the growth of ignorance. I've always had a conspiracy bug and I know I need to watch that, but it sure seems like malfeasance loves ignorance.
Any American, including all government officials, who disobeys court orders must be held responsible for their illegal actions and, if necessary, fined, jailed, or removed from office. No one is above the law,
No one is above the law? Unfortunately there's proof that's not the case. No one should be above the law. Unless the people of this country can wake up and work together, lawlessness by the privileged will continue. I hate that this is true.
Give teachers the respect other countries give teachers. Pay teachers the money they deserve. Expect excellence from principals and superintendents, the school board must be educated, and understand what is best for the children and how to achieve that. Keep bullies and extremists off the school boards, they are part of problem.
Could Ramaswamy possibly be the break to the left the Gross Obsolete Patriarchs need to climb out of the Toxic Rabble Unifying Malevolent Pit they' are trapped in. That one critical sentence of his could be a rallying cry for beefing up the Education Department, not eliminate it. A Great MAGA objective would be to fill the shortages in engineering positions, and in other professions, with brighter and better educated Americans. I think the MAGA offspring would prefer the G to stand for Great rather than where its heading - Gratuitous, Greedy, Goldbricking, Globalwarming . . . . . . .
"Ramaswamy isn’t wrong that there is a national shortage of engineers."
Maybe there would be more if public education hadn't been on the fiscal and program attack by Republicans for decades, and higher education costs were better subsidized. They have created their own problem; it's hardly fair to totally blame students. They are, however, the low-hanging fruit, so are the most vulnerable.
As for the inner-party squabbling, there may be a three way split -- Musk and his ilk, the main stream MAGA, and of course, the freedom caucus. Also as noted, this cat fight has started and Trump has yet to be inaugurated. It's going to be an interesting year.
Last but not least, Happy New Year to Dan, his team, and the rest of the Steady community.
Trump doesn't have what it takes to think for himself anymore and this is what were left with?Watch out America. We have no idea what we have gotten ourselves into. Mush wasn't born here, and Rye Krisp has zilch experience. This is a tragedy in the making. America needs help desperately Federal government.
We also have a shortage of physicians
Well said. Public education seemed fine when I was a child and adolescent. An Air Force brat, I moved from state to state and system to system with no problem, learned a lot, and went on to higher education. I feel less positive about current education, but problems perceived or real have not kept my children and grandchildren from receiving an excellent education. There have always been naysayers and book banners but also ways to offer the education our children merit.
Hasn't the jobs of local school boards across the country recently become ensuring that nothing in school libraries will help students learn to think? Hasn't most of the reporting on education over the past few years been about the hundreds of schools now banning books? Doesn't it seem that in places like Texas and Florida helping kids learn to be democratic citizens has fallen out of favor?
Most Americans can’t afford a college education to gain the skills required for a well paying tech job. Instead of helping Americans with their education, the GOP wants to eliminate loan forgiveness to keep Americans poor and unemployed while encouraging foreigners who got educated for free to come take jobs here. That’s the sad truth.
Hey Dan and Team Steady.. Breaking News > See > https://www.meidasplus.com/p/ny-judge-orders-trump-to-be-sentenced/comments?publication_id=3078900&post_id=154106411&isFreemail=true&comments=true&action=post-comment
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan will sentence convicted felon President-elect Donald Trump on his 34 convictions of falsifying business records on January 10, 2025. Justice Merchan said he would not sentence President-elect Trump to jail. I hope the punishment will be enough for President-elect Trump to realize crime does not pay.
WaPo, Shavna Jacobs, updated January 03, 2025, 4:14 p.m. EST.
The republican goal with regard to our public schools
is to not only end the Dept. of Education, the GOP intends to end all public education and make all schools strictly private—meaning all parents will have
to pay tuition in order to send their kids to school.
If you think that’s bad, there’s more. In AZ there’s talk among republicans of putting schools in shopping malls, and requiring only a high school education for teachers.
As for the Musk/Ramaswami dust-up over American
students not being particularly interested in learning, there are several things going on. 1. Bannon, Loomer and others are feeling threatened by Elon’s recent ubiquitous presence in DT’s life. 2. Clearly everyone isn’t on the same page policy-wise. 3. Getting
republicans on the same page policy-wise is probably
a lot like trying to herd cats.
On one hand, republicans don’t want a well educated population, because well educated people don’t readily accept misdirection, lies or the fascism that requires them. On the other hand, our country needs well educated teachers, engineers, physicians, etc. in order to compete with other powerful countries.
As I recently wrote somewhere, Trumpism enables
narcissism. Some people call narcissistic men, “alpha
males.” I call them bullies on steroids. I guess you
could more specifically call it a Putinesque Personality disorder, or a right-wing, morbidly extreme, narcissistic fascism.
Any way you choose to look at it, one thing is
perfectly clear, we are on the cusp of what is sure
to be an entertaining, but destructive and nerve wracking clash of egos. And unfortunately for us,
we’re going to be caught in the metaphorical
cross-fire.
Isn't it sad to see a party deciding that the accomplishments of this nation are nothing? Attacking education and educators, trashing our progress and leadership...just disgusting...and so very uninformed. Don't worry - we are steady with you, Dan Rather! Thank you
Dan this is a great article. Thank you. Trump has created a civil war within his mega Republican party. I don't see any resolution to solve this division. Trump has to choose between billionaires running this country or Bannon and the rest of the mega Republican party who wanted all immigratants deported from this country. This is want Trump ran his campaign on. Yet he has billionaires tweeting on X,
saying that Americans here are incompetent and to lazy and they want to bring immigratants of a hire intellect to do the job. This is a huge conflict of interest.
On a another note, I do agree our education system has failed. It should of been dealt with years ago. You have children from inner cities not receiving a good education.
The public schools are over crowded. If government officials wanted to solve this problem they built more schools and libraries with our taxpayers money instead of building restaurants or apartments.
I want to drop in a different perspective on “learning loss” and test scores. Our expectations of what a 3rd grader can do are based on a lot of 3rd graders who didn’t live through a pandemic. For the students who did, there were a lot of disruptions which everyone at school and at home handled as best they could.
So, now these third graders don’t know as much as previous ones. What does that mean? It means they will learn all the same things, just when they are a little older. The information is still out there and they are still capable of learning it. The whole world hit a bump in the road. These kids didn’t “lose” any learning, they had a detour and are now back on the path.
I’m in my 27th year of teaching, and this is how it looks to me.
I'm getting ready to be one member of a retired couple. This doesn't automatically mean I'll have unlimited amount ts of time on my hands, but I do want to find things where I can invest some time. I'd love to find a way to help push back against the growth of ignorance. I've always had a conspiracy bug and I know I need to watch that, but it sure seems like malfeasance loves ignorance.
Any American, including all government officials, who disobeys court orders must be held responsible for their illegal actions and, if necessary, fined, jailed, or removed from office. No one is above the law,
No one is above the law? Unfortunately there's proof that's not the case. No one should be above the law. Unless the people of this country can wake up and work together, lawlessness by the privileged will continue. I hate that this is true.
Give teachers the respect other countries give teachers. Pay teachers the money they deserve. Expect excellence from principals and superintendents, the school board must be educated, and understand what is best for the children and how to achieve that. Keep bullies and extremists off the school boards, they are part of problem.
Could Ramaswamy possibly be the break to the left the Gross Obsolete Patriarchs need to climb out of the Toxic Rabble Unifying Malevolent Pit they' are trapped in. That one critical sentence of his could be a rallying cry for beefing up the Education Department, not eliminate it. A Great MAGA objective would be to fill the shortages in engineering positions, and in other professions, with brighter and better educated Americans. I think the MAGA offspring would prefer the G to stand for Great rather than where its heading - Gratuitous, Greedy, Goldbricking, Globalwarming . . . . . . .
"Ramaswamy isn’t wrong that there is a national shortage of engineers."
Maybe there would be more if public education hadn't been on the fiscal and program attack by Republicans for decades, and higher education costs were better subsidized. They have created their own problem; it's hardly fair to totally blame students. They are, however, the low-hanging fruit, so are the most vulnerable.
As for the inner-party squabbling, there may be a three way split -- Musk and his ilk, the main stream MAGA, and of course, the freedom caucus. Also as noted, this cat fight has started and Trump has yet to be inaugurated. It's going to be an interesting year.
Last but not least, Happy New Year to Dan, his team, and the rest of the Steady community.
Trump doesn't have what it takes to think for himself anymore and this is what were left with?Watch out America. We have no idea what we have gotten ourselves into. Mush wasn't born here, and Rye Krisp has zilch experience. This is a tragedy in the making. America needs help desperately Federal government.