A Failure of Education In America

The state of New York and Washington D.C. rank 1st and 3rd respectively in dollars spent per student in their schools.  The state of New York spent $14,500 per student.  Wherever the money is going it’s not in educating our children.

This is what the taxpayers are getting for their money.  In Washington D.C., nearly half of all black and Latino students drop out. Of those who graduate, nearly half are reading and doing math at seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade levels. D.C. academic achievement ranks 51st, last in the U.S.

Washington D.C. is 3rd and spending and the students rank 51stin education.  The D.C. school system is failing the students.  More money won’t fix the problem.  More money would just waste more money.

New York makes D.C. look good.  The latest report from New York makes D.C schools look like M.I.T.  Some 200 students, in their first math class at City University of New York, were tested on their basic math skills.  Ninety percent could not do basic algebra. One-third could not convert a decimal into a fraction.

If this was a representative sampling of all students, nine in 10 CUNY students not only do not belong in college, they do not qualify for their high school diplomas. As for that third who can't do decimals and fractions, they should not have been allowed into high school until they could do sixth-grade math.

70 percent of all CUNY students are graduates of city schools.  The question arises: What are the taxpayers of New York getting for the highest tax rates in the nation?  The students aren’t being educated.

Scholastic Aptitude Test scores peaked around 1964. Ever since, the national average has been in an almost unbroken descent. It got so embarrassing, a few years ago, the SAT folks retooled the test to produce higher scores. Now there are more 1600s. But the national average continues its decline, and the gap between blacks and Hispanics, and Asians and whites, endures.

The campaign to equalize test scores among unequal students is utopian and unattainable, and amounts to a scam by the education industry.
How many times have they promised progress? And how many times have they delivered? It is time to look not only skeptically, but cynically, on further demands for billions of tax dollars for education.

It’s time to get back to the basics.  It’s time for teachers to start teaching.  It’s time to stop the dumbing down of our children that public schools are doing.  It’s time to rewrite the textbooks to accuracy and not to fit PC feelings.  You can’t change history and rewrite it so that history becomes politically corrupt.

Charter schools, private schools, and parochial schools actually educate our children.  They can read, write, do math, and know accurate history.  The vast majority of these schools do it for half or less of what public education costs.  Public education needs harsh reforms.

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