The RoanokeSlant

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WSJ: Stop Classroom Learning, Lose Students
School shutdowns cost public schools dearly, as enrollment plunged.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-classroom-learning-lose-students-remote-learning-covid-pandemic-nat-malkus-american-enterprise-institute-11659127902?mod=hp_opin_pos_6#cxrecs_s
Students and families have paid a high price for pandemic school shutdowns. Now a study shows that school districts and teachers unions may pay a financial price for keeping children out of classrooms.
K-12 enrollment nation-wide declined by nearly 3%, or about 1.3 million students, over the past two school years, according to the report by the American Enterprise Institute. Notably, enrollment dropped more in 2020-2021 in districts with the most remote learning (3.2%) than those with the most in-person learning (2.1%). Many parents decided to home-school their children rather than have them stare at screens all day.
Districts that returned to in-person instruction sooner saw enrollments rebound faster, while those that stayed remote longest saw further declines. Those that remained remote longest suffered a net decline of 4.4% since the start of the pandemic, while districts that were most in-person recovered about 1% in the second year and declined only 1.2% overall.
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WSJ: Teachers Unions Don’t Even Hide Their Partisan Agenda
Lost is even a pretense that kids deserve an unbiased education.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/teachers-unions-randi-weingarten-aft-nea-politics-11659027030?cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_4&cx_artPos=3&mod=WTRN#cxrecs_s
The AFT’s website leaves one guessing whether Ms. Weingarten has any interest but politics. It describes her as “an active member of the Democratic National Committee” who advocates “equity,” “sustainability” and student-debt cancellation. It boasts that “Weingarten led the AFT’s efforts to oppose Trump . . . and to stand up to the administration’s racist policies and attacks on facts and democracy.”
The National Education Association shares this partisan zeal. Its website exclaims that President Becky Pringle “is a fierce social justice warrior.”
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Public Schools were a concept embedded in the American experience.
Instead of keeping ‘the common man’ ignorant and subservient, the founders embraced primary education and also implemented the Land Grant Colleges.
Booker T. Washington extended education to under-served black students at Tuskegee with the goal to eliminate ignorance.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/06/breaking-through-racist-math-barrier.html
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For the past two-plus covid-years the teachers unions have closed most US schools in a manner that was arbitrary and capricious and not supported by science.
The unions have intellectually-damaged millions of students compared to private schools and the EU schools that remained open.
Parents are now taking back their children’s education from the government and they have begun to actively participate in local school boards.
Teachers Unions Fail Our Children And Country
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/03/teachers-unions-fail-our-children-and.html
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In addition, Obama-Biden Democrats have plunged schools into a sexual experimental laboratory to further a LGBTQ agenda.
Hug The LGBTQs Or No Free Lunch
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/07/hug-lgbtqs-or-no-free-lunch.html
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In addition, many classrooms are brain-washing stations indoctrinating our students into the joys of socialism and Marxism with scorn heaped upon our economic and social system that has served our people so well.
Good News For UVa And Virginia
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/07/good-news-for-uva-and-virginia.html
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As Democrat teachers and politicians diminish US student education, our adversaries and competitors are surging forward.
In a world economy, an educated population and workforce will win-out.
We must stop our Self-Injurious Behaviors!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763416303372
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The Reality And Challenges Of History
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-reality-and-challenges-of-history.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 8:34 AM