Comments on: Ruston Elementary SPS Scores Continue Decline

By: WOW

WOW — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:58:36 +0000

I don’t know Ed Webb, enlighten me.

By: Ed Webb

Ed Webb — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:09:35 +0000

Guess when decline of education began?

By: Cowgirl

Cowgirl — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:28:48 +0000

Well said, Cowboy.

Good ride to you!

By: Cowboy

Cowboy — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:21:55 +0000

I didn’t say diversity was a bad thing. I did say that diversity is not the basis for America’s strength. Shared values of freedom, the ability to pursue one’s happiness, and a love of the country that makes all of this possible is our true strength. The progressive left’s celebration of diversity at the expense of shared values is balkanizing America into special interest groups. I love Jazz music, Chinese food, Italian sports cars, French wine, and German beer, but one can’t identify as an American if they never have to leave their ethnic enclave and deal with other Americans. Requiring that official government business be conducted in foreign languages allows ethnic groups to resist learning English and assimilating into America. Diversity is being pushed on us by the progressive liberals to create ethnic tensions they can exploit for votes. I heard all of the diversity-is-a-strength crap in grad school, but you still read an income statement the same way regardless of where you come from. Same is true of math, physics, engineering, and any other hard science. Humanities are another story, but then humanities degrees aren’t very much use for a pizza delivery driver anyway.

By: WOW

WOW — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:10:29 +0000

Ditto on the need for discipline in schools again. You are wrong about diversity being a bad thing.

By: Cowboy

Cowboy — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:55:28 +0000

Pairing a good school with a failing school will only result in the good school being dragged down to the level of the failing school – leaving us with two failing schools instead of one. From chemistry, mixing two of anything always results in a dilution of strength and never an increase in strength. Despite the constant propaganda of the progressive left, diversity is NOT a strength. Common values shared across the citizenry is the real strength of America. Stirring students from a good school into the mix at a bad school will not improve the bad school and vice versa.

What is needed to improve school performance is the return of good old-fashioned corporal punishment and school administration not afraid to wield it! This is the argument no one wants to have about school performance. The student thugs have taken over the schools and intimidate the teachers. Discipline wielded properly will result in orderly students which will then translate into better test scores. You can’t test students into behaving. You have to use the rod!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:19:56 +0000

Not all tenured teachers are poor teachers! And you should be happy……..as it is now, even the great tachers are no longered tenured. Lets see how much the governor’s plan improves education………all he is going is bankrupting it by funding vouchers to schools like NLW that teaches via video by uncertified teachers.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:57:32 +0000

Tenure and Unions.