Agreed. Finally, a statement I can agree with. The parents DO need to do more. All I am saying is that the schools should provide an equal OPPORTUINITY for education.
The Rapist President sent his cocker-spaniel of a daughter to Sidwell Friends a private school. What legislation is going to eliminate the option of the wealthy to send their kids to private schools, or what legislation is going to allocate the funds for public schools to match the opportunities the Rapist President could buy?
Hmmmm?
What standarrds are going to be written and established, after approval of the teachers unions, that provides for teachers of the highest standards all across America that match the best private schools?
Hmmmm?
The fact is, the little darlings HAVE equality of opportunity. The days when the Democrats could hold the blacks down with Jim Crow and Separate But Equal are gone. The only thing holding blacks down from economic equality is themselves. Those that apply themselves and work as hard at improving themselves as white people do....do as well as white people. Ergo, racism isn't the issue.
1. Elliminate Teachers' Unions
Sorry. All workers, by the Freedom of Association guaranteed in the First Amendment, can form unions. School boards and school management need to be disinfected, but if a teacher wishes to join a union, there's nothing in the constitution that can prevent him. Nor should their be.
2. National Standardized Graduation Tests,
so that states can't cheat by making their tests easier in order to meet National standards.
Well....since the Federal Government has no constitutional authority to finance public education, the Federal government also does not have constitutional authority to establish national standards.
Welcome to the federalist experiment called The United States of America.
States have to establish their own internal standards, and they can compete with each other to have the toughest or easiest ones around, their sovereign choice.
3. Give out vouchers so that parents can send their kids to better schools
See the above post, where it was pointed out, correctly, that the federal government has no Constitutional authority to finance public education.
4. Eliminate Welfare for families with parents who are capable of work to eliminate the fall-back for kids who don't succeed.
Here, let me fix that for you:
4. Eliminate Welfare.
There, all better now. Guess what? Welfare doesn't have Constitutional standing, either.
5. Launch a national campaign to promote education.
Why? What's it going to say? "Stupid people don't get jobs?" Or "You stupid? It's your fault!"? or "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." (Oops, that one's copyrighted already.
Again....no Constitutional authority for national ad campaigns.
There, not all of those suggestions will be to your liking I know. But I at least hope you can appreciate some of them.
I pointed out their flaws for ya.