Schools

I'm a big fanatic when it comes to schools and education. Lately on the news they've been telling about the budget cuts and how they are effecting schools. Dallas was reported as letting some hundred(s) of teachers go due to the lack of funding. Now in Texas there are a few ways to lose funding but most funding is handed out by test, such as the TAKS. If the school lost funding because of bad scores on this test what since does it make to cut teachers when obviously the kids aren't getting the knowledge anyway? Because once the teachers are cut the students will be forced to be in larger class sizes and if one teacher can't teach 20 kids how in the hell are they suppose to be able to handle 30 or 40? It's a vicious down-ward spiral. Give a test, kids didn't do to hot, take away teachers because of funding, test comes around again, kids did worse because of less one-on-one learning, punish more teachers by firing them, test comes around again...etcetera. Letting teachers go isn't solving the drooping learning curve it's only going to reinforce it. The next thing that will be happening is school closures, causing people to move, which causes certain cities to lose funding. That one teacher made all the difference in a social structure given the chance think of what a child could do with their teachings too.


Oh and anyone looking for Cameron's blog here's the a link. It'll take you to his granny blog http://firstpost0101.blogspot.com/2011/02/3-super-granny.html