This just angers me so much, 5yr old gets beaten up

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Quietude imagines:

"Which in no way counters that we have (far too many) poorly funded schools."

We pay more per student for education than any other nation. In my district it is $14,500 per year. We have a 4 year old program, pre-K and Kindergarten before they even hit first grade. That's 15 years of education before they are high school graduates. That is $217,500 per student in our little public school system.

What do we get for our investment? Out of the 36 industrialized nations we are dead last; 36 out of 36 and our academic system is in a steep decline. if we do not kill Common Core and drive a stake through its dvil heart we will soon be down there with Zimbabwe. The United States Department of Education is a giant bureaucracy. It has no schools and teaches nobody.

Next year when the non-essential employees in the federal government come back to work from their paid vacations, they should find many of their buildings padlocked and for sale.

(Pay no attention to the tag line that some spammer put up there under my handle. I have not been a real estate agent for more than a quarter century.)

Harrumph!

[Roselvr]

Originally Posted by Eumaois

The article in the the OP's link said that the bus driver casually told the mom that the kid had been slapped. Someone please give me an example in quotes of that mind sound like and a quote of sounding genuine concerned for the kid's safety. On the other hand, while I agree that he should be sued or terminated from his job, at least he brought the slapping incident to Mom's attention.

That's not what happened. The bus driver never told the mother on their own. The mother asked the girl what happened to her face, the girl told her she was beaten up so the mother went to confront the bus driver, that's when she was told. That's why I said the driver needs retrained or fired.

[ocnjgirl]

Pervthe article, a 9 year old also participated in the attack, he’s since been moved to a different bus. Don’t see how that solves the problem.

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

Quietude imagines:

"Which in no way counters that we have (far too many) poorly funded schools."

The amount of funding, particularly on a collective basis like "per pupil," has nothing much to do with poor funding - poor and misdirected use of those funds - at the classroom level. I see you passed math but failed economics and probably haven't attended a school meeting in a while.

I write as the only non(formal)-educator in a large family of educators, professors, department heads, and education consultants. And school parent of eight. And taxpayer at a very high bracket for most of the school years. This is not vague territory for me.