Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s education speech on Thursday has conservatives cheering and moderate voters paying close attention — especially because his promises have unpopular teacher’s unions across the country furious.
The Republican presidential nominee announced plans to spend $20 billion during his first year in office to help states expand school choice programs, which would take power away from public school unions.
Trump wasn’t shy about his intentions, debuting his ideas at an inner-city charter school in Cleveland as part of his new outreach to minority voters.
“There’s no failed policy more in need of urgent change than our government-run education monopoly,” Trump said at the school, blaming the Democratic Party for having “trapped millions of African-American and Hispanic youth in failing government schools that deny them the opportunity to join the ladder of American success.”
“It’s time to break up that monopoly,” he said.
The announcement caused an immediate backlash from Big Labor, which supports Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said the speech “repeats the same flawed ideology anti-public education zealots have been shilling for years.”
The president of the National Education Association, Lily Garcia, said in a press release that, “His silver bullet approach does nothing to help the most vulnerable students and ignores glaring opportunity gaps while taking away money from public schools to fill private-sector coffers.”
Trump argued his approach would create “a massive education market,” one that produces better outcomes than the nation’s existing public education system. Beyond his $20 billion in federal money, he wants states to divert another $110 billion of their own education budgets to support school choice efforts, providing $12,000 to every elementary school student living in poverty to attend the school of their choice.
The billionaire businessman has embraced the concept popular among conservatives, which calls for students and their parents to be able to select the school they wish to attend – public, private, charter or magnet. To support that effort, Trump proposed reallocating an unspecified $20 billion in his first budget as president into block grants to states, and directing them to use the money to help millions of elementary school students living in poverty attend the school of their choice. That money “should follow the students,” a concept known in education policy as portability.
Trump also took aim at “Common Core.” The academic standards adopted in more than 40 states are a frequent target of Trump’s ire. “We spend more by far, and we’re doing very poorly. So, obviously, Common Core does not work,” he said this past week. Trump has pledged to do away with the standards if elected, which could prove a challenge: they were created and adopted by states, not the federal government. Trump has also pledged that ripping up the state-developed standards and bringing education “to the local level” would immediately boost student performance.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Mailman says
I absolutely hope Trump wins. AND I absolutely hope that he DESTROYS all of the teacher’s unions and more than that all of the so-called public service unions. The teacher’s unions have virtually destroyed our American public school system.
Connie Fischer says
I totally agree! I would like to see all unions dissolved.
DAVE says
I agree and feel the original idea of the union was good but then corruption took over.
John says
The teacher by me is home at 2 and seems to be off more than they work they refuse to stay after and help students.
Wanda leonard says
She must be a sub Teacher work nine hours a day I know I have a daughter that’s a teacher you need not to assume it makes a ass out of you and me and my daughter works when she gets home lesson plans and greading papers for two hours to have everything ready for the next day.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!vote for Hillary comment forJohn,,,,h
Ethical Guardian says
The same could be said for all organized labor. Auto workers that built cars without any concern for worker integrity, AFL/CIO with the 26 week paid vacation plan, farmers not growing crops for government subsidies, three and four generation welfare recipients , parents. Not concerned about their children’s education. Do you think these organizations or individuals help make for a better America? Sounds and looks like laziness.
Nelson says
Maybe the teachers union. Need to come up with a better plan. The inter city schools. Are real bad. I grew up in one. The teachers in the city. Where crime in schools are so bad. Teacher are leaving the teach carrier. Why. Because the violence is so bad the teachers hate going to work. I saw this with my Owen eyes. I grew up in L.A
Let’s bring back vocational education. Shop classes. Where students can learn other skill. Like plumbing. Carpenters. Auto mechanic???? Where they can make things. With there hands and mind. This is what trump is talking about. Where I work we cannot find electricians. And machinist. The union don’t offer appertance programs. We need new high ways. New bridges. Not computer games. Kids are lazy today. Because of the leberas minded thinking
Jake Huff says
Nelson, I mean you no disrespect, but your spelling, punctuation, and grammar are an excellent example of how the inner city schools which you attended failed you as a student. I understood perfectly what you said, but only because I was able to read your intent. I am sorry that your schools and your teachers failed to teach you how to write and how to spell. Nevertheless, you communicated your ideas very well, which shows that you have a keenly intelligent mind and tremendous potential.
As to your suggestions about vocational education and training: YES, YES, YES!!!! As you have so very well explained, not everyone is interested in academics and not everyone can learn at the same rate or the same level. Yet, our education system continues to attempt to use a cookie-cutter method of teaching, expecting all students to learn the same things. Vocational education is an excellent alternative to academics. Not that reading, writing, and arithmetic should be ignored, but those things should be taught as they apply to learning how to do carpentry work, auto mechanics, body work, plumbing, electrical, sheet rocking and plastering, agriculture, animal husbandry, and so on, which are all honorable professions and could make a world of difference to those who are otherwise left behind in our present deplorable education system.
Mathew Molk says
Hey Jeff.
I don’t think you have a realistic grasp of vocational education and being a professional skilled tradesman. .
Before I retired I was a electrical/millwright contractor. I will show you calculations like delta/wye conversions that many electricians must make every day that will send a collage algebra instructor running down the hall screaming.
And on the money end. My younger son in an Iron Worker. Last year he paid taxes on over 100 grand. and he is approaching 90 large already so far this year – Seeing he made money during his 5 year apprenticeship and took out no student loans can you tell me any other profession with a collage degree that will EVER catch him? Not a Doctor or Lawyer for sure. He has over a quarter million head start on them on student loans alone. Add to that the close to 200 grand he made as an apprentice over his first 5 years, and the doctors and lawyers have to gross over a half million dollars to just break even.
So between the calculus and money, being able to actually make something is not an alternate to academics, it is actually far superior to them. (Unlike most “academic” careers though you do have to have talent, and physical ability to so the job)
OH and just for the record, I am an engineer as well as a journeyman and my oldest son., who is an electrician is going to school part time to get his EE Degree. – The Iron worker is also an EMT and, you ready for this? A Paralegal. — And he also qualified with an associate degree in structural Iron erection and has tins of welding and NDT certs. .
Don’t think the Ivy League kids have anything on the trades, especially at the bottom line.
doc says
very well said and written–and im a DMD
Mathew Molk says
I sort of take issue with teachers leaving and going out into the real world. First most teachers today ended up there because they busted out of something like engineering or pre med/law etc. Just what are they qualified for and who is going to hire them? (I have seen people who can’t cut it out here become teachers, though)
Second I don’t see someone who was overpaid and then only worked 9 months for 12 months pay getting out here and scratching for a living. We have no “Tenure” out here you know, just wolves and sheep and the wolves eat the sheep.
Either way, The teacher’s unions have to go.
Gigi says
If Nelson is a typical student in an inner city school, I’d say we definitely need to change the system. This is not a slam against Nelson, it’s a slam against the school system he was forced into. Go Trump! Insist that all school kids get a top notch education! You can bet that the democrats don’t care about their school, their teachers, their education, or even them.
JOHN says
I know quite a few friends who went to vo-tect and live very comfortably with assets for retirement.
Dave Fiorini says
I remember many years ago my Dad was a union leader. The unions were for the workers. Now they are a political tool. The left wing loons control them now.
We have to change that.
The old adage of The Good Old Days, is very true with Unions.
debdell says
The unions milk billions out of their members and spend it on themselves and on expanding their grip on more members as well as lobbying. That money should stay in the hands of the members and they would have a better life and so would the rest of us. Unions have turned into parasites.
Diana Jones says
My dad built cars for over 30 years and never got paid vacation. The plant shut down for 2 weeks in July to change over for the new models to be released in Sept. The plant employees had to file for unemployment for those 2 weeks.
Ernie says
I agree with you Diana. I worked for GM and that’s the only time I got off, and had to draw unemployment
joe says
I agree
John says
Go Trump. His hand up approach to the educational system is long overdue versus the
Monopolistic union controlled system we have today. Unions have outsmarted themselves by supporting the socialistic public system in place today.
Go Trump. Let’s take America’s future back to a successful educational system.
Paul says
Agreed, if only our public school institutions would get back to teaching the old fashioned way, while learning mathematics @ least up to a certain grade, NO Calculators!!! ( they make the mind lazy ) and soften our ability to problem solve without them. Someone also need be put in charge ( and held accountable ) of proof reading every study book for our students to ENSURE that the contents are factual, spelled correctly and used in ” proper context ” when being used as an example. Growing up @ the time I did ( born 60 ) we had a class in J.h. and H.S. called ISMS IIRC and it covered the Worlds differing forms of government, and went into detail what life under these differing bodies was like for the ” citizenry “….. not life on paper, no life in reality under those regimes who only oppress their people. This class needs to be brought back and made mandatory for each student to take, with this they’d have a much better idea just WHY we really do live in an EXCEPTIONAL COUNTRY and that we don’t need to apologize to anyone for that.
Geri Randall says
Great idea, and also students should not be moved up if they can’t pass the exam.
Christopher S. O'Rourke says
Geri Randell I lived in the nations most hated state of New Jersey 5 1/2 years, I did my Freshman year of High School in the state of New Jersey during the 1968-1969 school year, at that time if you averaged all D+ & below, you did not get promoted up to the next grade, you failed and had to repeat that grade the following school year. The 1970’s after the Kent State University killings, our public school system went all downhill. In 1974 a cousin of mine was enrolled in Broomfield High School in Broomfield, Colorado, he was 3 years behind the rest of the students in the grade he was enrolled for, the 10th. Grade, he had moved from my no good ROTTON birthstate of New York which is ranked among the very worst public school systems our nation has, my cousin had to repeat his Freshman year of high school, he later dropped out at 17, just shows how bad the public school system has become. The very best public school systems our country has are the Department of Defense Dependent School System & the American International School System overseas in many countries whose education system is vastly superior to our own public school system. The NEA is now Clinton owned, the stare of Arkansas is dead last in education, that was during the Clinton years as governor of Arkansas and next to last is none other than my birthstate of New York. There are labor unions that are endorsing Donald Trump, he’s going after the garbage when he wins the election, that garbage is the Clinton owned NEA Union, and others who are pro Clinton.
Mike says
I was born before your time and the main crux of educating was English, Math, and Science. Of course in first grade we were taught to learn to write and read. As I went up in grades subjects like American History was added. It’s a total shame that most Americans’ don’t know squat about the history of their own country to see just how far we have gone away from its principles. Why would I want to learn anything about other countries when even television shows how corrupt they are? Children are not mindless little robots that need to be filled with all the garbage that other countries don’t teach their children. I was in Korea in 1968 for a year and learned how the college educated people worked in Soule, Korea for $100 a month! Most people in Korea lived like people I imagined that lived back in the medieval age! Maybe learning about the majority of the people in other countries, which is like our country is becoming more and more filled with people who live in poverty! For the first time in my life I now life in poverty because I can’t work for more than an hour or two. I don’t like being in poverty and not being able to work because of an Army telling their medical staff to not put in our medical records anything that could come back and bite them having to give service connection and disability payments! I’ve had a job since I was 11 and when I needed something, I worked harder to get it! I didn’t know what it was like to go and ask someone for help! At least not the government as I didn’t think it was there place to GIVE me anything, not like today with over 110 million people on welfare! I don’t think my Social Security retirement is an entitlement as this Obama administration thinks that it is because I paid my taxes and Social Security taxes into it! I paid into it for years, but because of my disability and not being able to work, Social Security says you have to have the last 5 years paid up which I didn’t so I get the lowest amount to be paid to me, yet I know that I’ve seen illegals that NEVER PAID a dime into it get maximum benefits for everything! I’ve seen healthy males not wanting to work because their unemployment, welfare benefits, and housing assistance would mean that they would lose money working! What incentive is there to work when you have a Democratic process that wants to keep welfare recipients where they are because they realize that most people don’t mind being given for free welfare money compared to working for it and having a sense of pride in accomplishments’?
Timothy Thompson says
The simple fact that teachers now are paid far more than ever before and also have many days that kids are out because of teachers conferences or this or that day off, our kids are the victims of Unions and since they support the Democratic Party which is like a money laundering program. Terrible. Get back to reading, writing and arithmatic period. All those feel good clases don’t do anything except waste time and money.
Wanda leonard says
Connie why you probably don’t work? Teachers need the union! Go spend just one day in a class room you will see what iam talking about.
Charles McDonald says
I think Donald Trump will be the best choice for Black White Hispanic Americans. I love this country and a vote for Hillary will put another step in destroying America. I wish every one would think she will have the power to appoint people to sit on the court for years to come.
If she is elected your sport of hunting will be gone the first year she is in office. We need to save America, look into your children and grandkids eyes before you pull that handle and vote.
debdell says
You are 100% correct. When you remove incentive you destroy innovation and creativity. Our criminal government has done major damage to our country by allowing corporations to move jobs over seas with the help of labor unions. Our manufacturing has turned into buying all the parts made in China and assembling it here, if that. We don’t create items that generate money. We get money created out of debt that just puts us deeper in debt. It is a Ponzi scheme. go to youtube and watch “money as debt” if you really want to know what is destroying our country.
Mathew Molk says
Get rid of OSHA and the EPA, and get the government out of the books and we will be able to make our parts here again. Stop taxing industry to death too. We did just fine before either of them screwed things up.
The way things are now you have 2-options, use Chinese parts and be able to sell your products, or , if you can find them at all use all US parts and make products nobody can afford to buy and eat them and go out of business.
The over regulation the Feds put on a manufacturer kills any chance of bringing the country back to where we were in the 60s.
I manufacture a small line of tradesmen tools as a side line. It is impossible to find even small quantities of bar and flat stock steel made in the USA, and as far as tooling if you can’t find a used item on eBay you might as well forget about buying anything new that is American made as it costs 2 to 10 times as much as the :Import” – If I had to depend on all new US tooling I would be money ahead to close down and sell the machine tools for scrap.
I am in the Cleveland Ohio area and there are square miles of abandoned factories here. I would like to get my hands on the bean counters and politicians that destroyed our life blood. Global economy? Yea right.
Trump for the White House
Clinton for the BIG House !
JOHN says
That is why Trump wants to change this and the best way is to remove welfare and assistance to those able to work. Bring back the draft. Get rid of the useless unions like the teachers union that only come in and put time in for their pay and do not teach.
Wanda leonard says
John Trump won’t bring back the draft because he’s a draft dogger!!!!!!!!!!!check yourself you will see that I am right!!!!
Madmarmot says
Wanda, Bill Clinton is a sex offender. Juanita Broderick, Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones- remember them? Hillary used her position as first lady to attack those victims of her husband. I’m pretty sure those women were all Democrats too. Think about it. If anyone else you knew was accused by three different women over any period of time, how would you feel about that person?
RETIRED says
Unions are a necessary evil….. unions helped build this country up to where it was 50 plus years ago…. the only problem the unions like our elected officials go greedy… i am for unions but like our government elected officials they must be controlled to a certain point..
Trump/Pence in 2016 thru 2024 the only two who will break the corrupted Washington D.C. house of cards….. that is a fact……
NO MORE CLINTONS, NO MORE OBAMAS
Carol says
NO MORE DEMOCRATS!
Mathew Molk says
No more RINOS
william says
I agree with you on this. Maybe just maybe they’ll bring back “Shop Class”.
Uncle Buck Ofama says
Correctomundo, Mailman. I went to cat lick schools; the nuns used to beat the tar out of us kids. It was clear that showing up unprepared to answer the nun’s questions…CORRECTLY answering their questions, would lead to an ass whipping, which probably explains why, even at my advanced age, I can read and write…complete sentences and everything. When I got to high school, I was younger than the other kids, and I wondered why they wanted to sit next to me, at test times. They would copy. I didn’t mind, in fact, I was glad to help, but I did wonder why they didn’t know the answers…they were all in the assigned reading. Then, it hit me: They hadn’t read the book! Where I went to school, not reading the book was NOT an option.
A musician friend of mine routinely performs a version of the old Robert Johnson song, ‘Sweet Home Chicago’. Buddy Guy does a great version of it, and it was also covered by The Blues Brothers, but my friend, Dave Molinari and his Rockets puts a whole different twist on it:
One and one is two
Six and six is eighteen
I went to school in Chicago
Baby, you know what I mean
Hidey Hey
Baby, don’t you want to go
Back to that same old place
Sweet Home Chicago
And it’s true; the unionization of the public sector model clearly has not worked. In the private sector, businesses have “Bottom Line” limits on union demands. Everybody wants to earn more money, and derive more benefits for their labor, and as long as that can be accomplished in an equitable way, and a way that respects the bottom line, that is good. But the bottom line HAS to matter. If management gives away too much, then the business will go bankrupt. Then, everybody’s out of luck.
The problem with public sector unions is precisely that there is no attention…NO ATTENTION paid to the bottom line. All that seems to matter is that: I WANT MO! And the taxpayers have to pay whatever that MO comes to. These public sector unions are imposing life-wrecking burdens on taxpayers. Around here–I’m in Illinois–we have one of the highest property tax rates, if not THE highest rates, in the nation. Our Bond rating is junk status: borrowing is very expensive. And the Teacher’s Union–already one of the highest paid in the country–is demanding MO! Regular teachers salaries are in the six figures, their pensions are much higher than in the private sector, and yet, they want more…always more. This is simply not sustainable…already, businesses–and individuals–are leaving because of Illinois taxes and fees. People are being driven out of Illinois, by the tax rates, and the corruption of the democrats that drives those rates. I really don’t see a fix. We’re headed for bankruptcy.
BOPPER says
Dear Uncle Buck, Thank You For Your Insightful And Truthful Comments About The Deterioration Of Our Schools And The Greed Of The Unions Whose Only Concern Is To Take More And More From The Hard Working Tax Paying Citizens Of Your Great State Illinois And All Of The States Throughout Our Great Nation ! The Policies Of The Democratic Party And Their Unions Of Greed Have Placed Americans And Our States All Over Our United States Of America Unto The Destructive Path Our Nation Is Experiencing Under A Democratic Party President “OBAMA”, And Will Experience The Same Destructive Policies Under The Democratic Party Candidate “HILLARY CLINTON” ! The Democratic Party Has Become The Party Of “DOOM AND DESTRUCTION” Through Their WASTEFUL And TAX MULTIPLYING LIBERAL, PROGRESSIVE, SOCIALISTIC POLICIES THAT DESTROY OUR BUSINESSES AND OUR COMMUNITIES THAT MULTIPLY OUR PAIN AND SUFFERING THROUGHOUT OUR GREAT NATION ! I Will Be Voting For ” DONALD J. TRUMP ” As Our President Who Will Improve Our Economy, Safeguard Our Nation From All Threats Foreign And Domestic, Provide Top Notch Medical Care For Our Veterans, Provide Excellent Educational Opportunities For Our Children ~ That They Will Be The Great Leaders Our Nation Will Rely Upon In The Future ! Dear Uncle Buck, Our Nation Will Grow And Prosper; Do Not Fear My Friend ~ The Power Is In Our Hands Once Again! All The Best Always (:~)
Wanda leonard says
Trump wants to line his pockets big mouth draft dogger we need to do away with him not the unions.
JOHN says
The problem is that with the unions you are almost guaranteed not to get fired for not doing your job. I see this in my local government when they sit around and maybe, maybe put in 3 hours of work in 8 hours. They ride around in the trucks and stop at the stores, fast food and other places all day long and when it rains they are still riding around and don’t get out of their truck to do their job with a rain suit on. I want locators put on the trucks and also they have to fill in a log sheet that shows the odometer reading, start and finsh, time arrived and departed and what they did but the union won’t allow it. The taxpayers want it, the hell with what the union wants, for the taxpayers pay their wages and not the union. Time for taxpayers to revolt.
Judy says
I have thought this for years. It’s cheaper to get an education at a private school than it is a public school. People don’t realize how much it costs the government to run a public school. And when I say the government, it’s our tax payer dollars that’s paying for it all.
John Garay says
The teacher unions have been dumbing down their students for decades. While it may not be entirely the teachers fault, they have allowed reduced standards in their classes. Rather than being concerned about teaching students in their classes, they are more concerned about their retirement benefits, etc.It seems to get worse every generation.
I am disgusted when you see Jimmy Kimmel or Jesse Waters going to prestigious universities and asking basic questions: Who’s the Vice President? When was the American Civil War? Who fought in WWII? When was the Declaration of Independence signed? The answers are unbelievable. These aren’t high school dropouts, but students that pasted entrance exams to get into their colleges or universities, and God forbid, tomorrows leaders…
Robert Hagedorn says
@John Garay I hope at least some of the students are just having fun with the interviewers by not giving straight answers. “How much is one plus one?” “Uh, I think it’s three, but I’m not sure.”
Like I said, I hope. I could be wrong. As you say, they will be tomorrows leaders.
JOHN says
Bring back the basic math and not his bullshit that they are teaching them now to get a close answer and not the real answer. Bring back penmanship, history, etc like back in the sixties. The kids today don’t even know how to make change at the fast foods. Give them five dollars and 20 cents for a three dollar and 18 cents order and they have no idea how much change to give you.
Wanda leonard says
John you don’t know what you are talking about the cashreaster showed how much to give back dumb ass,
Mathew Molk says
Hey, what about the TEACHER that introduced one of the members of the Enola Gay crew as a veteran of World War Eleven!
The teachers are even dunderheads now.
Wanda leonard says
Mathew you are a fool and a dumb ass !you don’t know you ass from a whole in the grown. Trump as dumb as you!!!!!!!!!!
Dean Oliver says
You are exactly correct. I have a sister-in-law that was in education for 35 years. I asked her once What the Teacher’s Union does for her, her response was; paid my dues for 35 years, haven’t seen any thing to benefit me. People wonder why American kids are so low on the scale of education….teachers unions only reason. We have individuals instructing American kids that shouldn’t even be in a school house…unions and the teachers so called rights. Trump can and will try his best but, will the power to be D.C. elitiest let it happen?
Mike says
Let’s also make certain that, at least in State sponsored colleges and universities, that there is a balance between professors who liberal ideologues and those who have a sense of America reality. In other words let’s not have universities staffed by those who have no experience in the working world.
Nelson says
This is a great plan. Why would parents support this. They would be give help to send your child to the school of your choice. Are leberas this stupid. Can’t they see that our education is the worse in the world. 20th in the world. When we were in the top 10 back in the 70s
Ronald Simpkins says
It is a parents moral and legal responsibility to educate their children. The choice of schools allows a parent to select the best approach for his child. The Union of Teachers is about the benefits of the teachers and their management, it is not about the children. We spend ample money to get the best education for our kids and the unions just waste a large portion on politics and advertising. Anything the government and unions do together is destined to fail the child. It takes competition, moral values, dedicated teachers, and intelligent use of the peoples resources. Won’t happen when government and unions work hand in hand, it’s about them not the kids.
JOHN says
NO CALCULATORS, COMPUTERS ETC ALLOWED IN SCHOOL IN THE FIRST 6 YEARS.
John Lamb says
That is crazy. Computer usage has become too common place not to be taught in schools. You don’t want Luddites. But the answer is no calculators in exams, and if you can’t pass exams you fail the year. In fact, teach the proper use of calculators but restrict their use in exams is a valuable skill for complicated long answers. As for computers teach programming languages, algorithms etc.
Also bring in World History as it is the only subject that teaches causes and effects/consequences and logic without Maths. If Wold History had been taught in American schools everybody would have known how the elites were manipulating the system for their take over long before now as they are using the same methods that have been used numerous times since the Roman Empire when Scylla passed the law which taxed the independent farmers to pay for the wars but the elites took the war spoils. Reminds you of the banking crisis and the too big to fail Banks situation? That taxing of the farmers broke the Republic and made it into the Empire in two generations. Wealth Concentration breaks Republics and Democracies and gives rise to Elites and Royals who call the normal citizens, plebs, or deplorables and laugh at them.
Budman says
Mailman: the President of the National Education Association fails to mention that they are the problem instead of the solution.
They are against private schools which have proven to offer a better education to students. They are against vouchers to allow students to attend these schools. She says what Trump offers will be hard on some disadvantaged students yet many of those cities have severe problems within the public school system. There are parents who want the vouchers for their children to attend a private school and are denied. The Mayors of those cities have been under Democrat control for decades and who support unions. One only has to look at the political contributions by the Teachers Union to know that 95 per cent goes to the Democrats and a grudge amount to Republicans so as not to look biased which fools nobody.
My daughter quit the public school system years ago and home schooled her two girls who excelled far above the GPA average of public school students. This is another thing that the unions do not like because her children were not taught under the Common Core system which I and many of my friends consider a disaster for children.
Wanda leonard says
Budman I live in Florida most of the private schools went bank rup the kids here get to pick .
name b free says
STRONGLY AGREE!!!!
Mathew Molk says
What other industry that hadn’t made a saleable product in over 30 years would still be in business ?
Most kids with 2 and 4 year degrees are not as well educated as we were right out of High School in the mid 60s – And the pledge of allegiance was not a bunch of dirty words to us either. We had a work ethic too and drop outs were very rare. (Like 5 in our graduating class of 500 odd)
All we hear is it’s the parents fault – Are the teacher;s not getting paid to get the job done WITHOUT outside help. Don’t get me wrong I taught my boys plenty, but it was not things the teachers were getting paid to teach them. (Now one is a union electrician and the other is a union Iron Worker)
They keep saying the kids have Attention Deficit Disorder, when what we have it Teacher Deficit Disorder. 12 months pay for 9 months work too. What a crock. (Rare as an old rusty pick up in the teachers parking lot) No wounder the kids today have no work ethic. I have had kids with 2 year tech degrees that think a full time job is 3 our of 5, 2 with a hangover. – We did not learn things like that in school, in fact we got to the point that we called anything under 50 hours a part time job.
Tenure yurbutt. Like they say in the trade unions —- Get him his money (They give you a check when you get fired off the jobsite.) If you can’t do the job, you can’t stay.
I’m retired now but owned the company for a lot of years, but I was always pro union but the NEA and the other teacher’s union have to go..
Go Mr Trump. Give the lazy sobs a real good spanking.
Wanda leonard says
Mathew you know a lot about being a lazy slob it takes one to know one ,You are so full of BS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!vote Hillary
sarag says
Yes, the teachers should be fireded for abusing the kids. I myself had to fight for my education because I had epilepsy which does not mean I’m crass. Indeed I’m not. So many talented children were left behind. All because of greedy bankers. They need to to jail
Sue Burbach says
I agree with you Mailman!
Sue
Jemb says
He could take a look at what Walker did for WI. Teachers’ Unions are a thing of the past for the most part – new contracts, retirement qualifications and wage scales, fringe benefits have all been re-negotiated and they no longer have a dues paying union and everybody’s happy.
Mary Jane says
I totally agree, unions are big here in New Jersey, our property taxes are through the roof. Teachers keep saying its for the kids. Why is the United States scoring so poorly?
Charles says
I believe him to be on the right track, however I would suggest he go a step further. Let the Department of Education administer the funds (broadly) and set some “broad guidelines”, but pare the agency down by 2/3 to 3/4, eliminate their employees and rule making authority and return the money they collect back to the states, and communities, who have vastly more knowledge and experience with educational needs of their students. I would also attempt to do away with teachers unions. They have know place among professionals, and exist largely to protect time as a teacher as opposed to quality & results,
name b free says
STRONGLY DISAGREE THE NEXT STEP SHOULD BE TO NO LONGER HAVE A BLOATED DOE and GIVE CONTROL TO STATES ONLY TO HAVE A VERY SMALL DPT OF COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING.
Charles says
I believe him to be on the right track, however I would suggest he go a step further. Let the Department of Education administer the funds (broadly) and set some “broad guidelines”, but pare the agency down by 2/3 to 3/4, eliminate their employees and rule making authority and return the money they collect back to the states, and communities, who have vastly more knowledge and experience with educational needs of their students. I would also attempt to do away with teachers unions. They have no place among professionals, and exist largely to protect time and tenure as a teacher as opposed to quality & results, As a general rule I oppose unions paid by public funds (taxes).
James Maxwell says
Over my lifetime I has watched the education system in our Nation go down at an ever declining state and the
education of our children become less and less as we do not see them being taught the basics needed for
employment in society. They are not being taught the necessary skill to go to college without going to remedial
training for a year or two first, they are not employable in businesses even in menial jobs that might have opportunity
to raise up over time. Their communication skills are sadly lacking and their knowledge of History, math, reading,
writing are also painfully lacking. They are dependent upon Social Media, cell phone, calculators and other devices\
to tell then who, what, when and where with little ability to actually think for themselves. True there are many bright
and intelligent students who do progress but that is because they have a family who pushes them and does not let them
fall thru the cracks. We send out kids to Public School where the Teachers Unions have 10 people “supporting”
each teacher and it is more an exercise in corruption than actually teaching students. The Government need to get out
of the education system, except perhaps to set some standars on Basic education and let each state insure that their
students are educated properly. The Unions are the worse enemy of our children as they are corrupt and only out for
making profit for themselves.
Jeanne Giambrone says
Our government NEED to PROTECT it’s citizens by attending to our infrastructure, EMP, safety FIRST! Without this safety factor you won’t need to worry about teachers, students, families ever again! Get your ducks in a row guy’s before it’s too late!
name b free says
STRONGLY AGREE!!!
James morris says
Herd no outcry in the past when the.Catholic schools produced better student scores now the unions rise up to show where they stand but do not have the test scores to back their out cry. Why is this?
Gerald Henson says
Go for it Trump. Our public schools are a disaster. It’s time for Christian schools and other charter schools to take over. The government messes up everything that is given to them exclusively to do. They get lax with billions of dollars flowing in with little to no accountability. May God bless you and use you to straighten this nation that we love so much. Gerald Henson (Brother Jerry)
Floyd Hammond says
Unions turn people into people of entitlements as we see all over these days, for example almost all protesters are brain washed by this entitlement culture.
Holice Pender says
I don’t know that we need to just ban unions completely. They have done a good service by looking out for worker’s best interests. I just think they have gotten out of hand, & now you have union bosses that use mafia tactics to keep their members in line, even if they don’t support what the union is doing. They are trying to get all the right to work laws banned. I think our educators needs to find out how these other countries turn out such smart students. We spend more, but our schools have been dumbed down to the point our kids can’t answer common knowledge questions. Have you ever seen Watter’s world? The DOE has been more concerned with PC, Multiculturalism, not offending anyone, all these things that the socialist/marxist/left wants to promote. Civics, American History is not taught or if it is, it has been changed to match the socialist agenda. We need to teach Patriotism once again, American Exceptionalism, & the good our country does throughout the entire world. I’m not saying that we are perfect in every way, but our nation has come a long, long ways. I say, that these liberal/marxist/socialist know-it-all gurus need to be thrown out of office
name b free says
I most strongly agree with your ideas of CIVICS lessons only in English with testing being the same..
Mathew Molk says
You don’t need top do anything at all about the unions,,,,Now, the board of educations that sign the contracts, well that is another story. You want to go on strike for $100 an hour, be my guest. Just don’t expect to have a job because we are sending all the kids to private schools at public expense.
And you can forget about tenure too. Anybody can be fired for cause, especially for poor performance.
And Pay scale,,,, Purely merit based. You want a raise, have more students pass. You want to make even more? Have more of your students pass advanced tests. And I am including “Special Classes” where the pay would be higher and the more your students learn the more you make. A masters degree won’t get you squat. (Teachers making jobs for teachers) Only performance will get you more money.
You cannot blame the union for trying to get as much as they can, but I sure as hell blame management for not putting their foot down.
(How ’bout making a law that all principals have to be retired Marine Corps Sergents?)
Joseph Corvino says
Mathewe,
Your comments are well said and the most significant statement is the next to last sentence, “…..I sure as hell blame management for not putting their foot down.”. The heart of the problem is that management is the government politicians and the teachers union controls a lot of votes. The result is that, when contracts are negotiated, the government caves into the union demands in exchange for the votes. It creates a self perpetuating system that is totally corrupt. That is why we saw the teachers “rioting” in Wisconsin, (taking over the state house), when Scott Walker corrected this issue, and changed the way collective bargaining is conducted. More politicians need to grow a spine and stand up to these unions.
GO TRUMP?PENCE!
rodney burke says
Why YES, the unions are in panic. They have their failures thrown back in their face for the world to see. The present system sucks, they KNOW it and proudly tout it because it keeps them in control. The man who came up the common core should be hung in public. The education system should go back to the states where it belongs. We were doing just fine before the union and the Dept of Ed. and just like the iRS/FED we’ll do find after they are gone.
Our education system if I understand it right, is another failed democratic system like the Great Society. and the “establishment” is scared to death that their power is going to be taken from them Another group who is scared to death of change. We have too many failures because of democratic bad policy and no plan to win. The war on poverty, the war on drugs, documented failure, educationally, economically, legally and in every way in major cities all across the nation. Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Philly, St. Louis, NO, LA Newark, where demoncraps have been in charge for DECADES and all there is everywhere is FAILURE. and it’s DOCUMENTED failure. There is lawlessness in Chicago, Baltimore (Marilyn Moseby) Mayor’s in jail in Detroit, rampant crime in NO, Milwaukee, DT NEEDS to step in, big cities are BROKE, they need fixing and NOW! We are doing dismally in education and our kids don’t know anything because they aren’t being TAUGHT anything. No history no government, no geography. They can’t write a coherent sentence and need to be taught basic English in COLLEGE. When my son in 1988 says the average student at Ft. Smith High school in Ft. Smith, AR has the IQ equivalent to their shoe size, there is something definitely wrong! We are spending our money is wrong ways.
The billions we send to Iran, we could be spending on education, and health care. military salaries etc. It is time for the fat cats to get LOST and things to radically change The status quo sucks! It sucks EVERYWHERE we look. We have so much criminal activity going on in government, it’s scary! It was time to rattle some cages in 2012, the RNC simply was MAN enough to do it! And how we the people of the USA have suffered for their FAILURE to make the necessary change. We have two documented crime families and no one is DOING anything who has any authority. There is a lot of “investigating” going on but no action. No one is in jail, fined or hung for treason. Why not?
Holice Pender says
Who has run these cities for the last forty or fifty years? Our government is broken. The democratic party keeps enlarging the welfare/social services program. They don’t fix anything, they just throw money at it. I would not at all be surprised if George Soros & his gurus aren’t behind a lot of government & social unrest. Remember in his book on RULES FOR RADICLES, his chaos in the streets, I don’t know even if Mr Trump can perform miracles, but I am willing to try something new, instead of the same ole policies. Hilary has already promised to carry on his same policies. We DO NOT need 4 more yrs of Obama or Hilary.
Daniel Spickard says
I hope they at least get rid of the tenure! Without that they can fire teachers that don’t perform up to the standards, and those same teachers should be randomly tested every so many years! But gutting the teacher’s union would make education more affordable, and would bring back more programs that teach children how to manage their lives once they graduate! This would also make colleges more affordable to the lower income families. I also believe that by getting rid of the unions will open up more teaching jobs with better public support!
wizard says
Academic standards and achievement have been on a steady decline ever since the federal government started getting involved in public education. We have become particularly vulnerable and lagging behind other nations in the areas of mathematics and the sciences. While it is imperative that we assure that all students are provided quality education and equal opportunities to excel. We can not guarantee equal results. It is not only up to the educator but to each individual student to put their best effort into learning. Learning is a joint venture requiring full participation by both the teacher and the student. Parents must also be involved. And it is only natural that parents should want the best education possible for their children. In this matter they should have a choice as to where this might be accomplished. If teachers in public school systems are concerned that this might lead parents to remove their students from the public schools then those teachers should strive to improve the quality of education in their respective schools so that they become a parents first choice. Responsibility for education falls under Amendment ten of the Constitution. It is a State and community function.
Dr. Charles Catanese says
The NEA has been dumbing down students for the past 50 years and it’s time to put an end to
their deplorable tactics. Parents need to have the opportunity and choice to see that their children
have access to quality education. I speak as one who attended private grade school and public
secondary school. The difference between the two has always been night and day.
Carol says
Teachers unions are causing cities to be near bankruptcy and it must stop. No more pensions for teachers and government officials. If others must live with the only choice of contributing or not into a 401K than that should be the same for everyone. Teachers also must teach properly and schools, school boards and teachers MUST keep their noses out of personal attacks and beliefs on our children. Keep your personal opinions for your after hours entertainment and only TEACH! Facts never change, all kids must have gym and eat as their family chooses……stay the hell out of peoples lives. Dodge ball never killed anyone and neither did an imagination. Guns are part of life for our military, police, hunters, etc., so get over that guns are wrong for are children and can’t draw one or make a hand gesture of one……if anyone wants to truly kill someone it does not have to be with a gun so is your plan to get rid of golf clubs, baseball bats, knifes, etc.? Get over your out of mind common sense and ONLY TEACH. STAY out of American families lives!
Abe says
When I was a kid there were real labor unions and no government employee unions. The government hired the people no one else would hire. Now it’s switched around. Taxes are sky high, and families are living on less. No government employee should be unionized!
Reminds me of the joke about the brain, heart, and asshole on what was the most important, and the asshole refused to work!
Inspector Tom says
I feel the need to reply with a story. In my town we own our power company for whom I worked as a maintenance electrician whose main responsibilities were electric substations and traffic signals. I have a friend who felt that the ‘city workers’ were ‘milking it’ until I told him that the next time I was called out to fix a traffic signal at 4am on a Sunday morning with the temperature at -20 degrees and wind chill temperature of -40 degrees that after I got my city truck I would stop by his house and pick him up so He could explain to me how I was ‘milking’ the job. Also in connection with the traffic job part of it was to change light bulbs and for public safety I did this between 2am and 6am usually in July, I mention at the street dept. office one day That I was glad that was done for the year because of the early hours, the foreman asked why, since I was getting overtime because I was working out side of my normal scheduled work hours, it seems city management wasn’t paying all it workers by the same standards with each dept. being treated different (no unions at the time). Unions are a necessary part of a job but not GREEDY ones
John Rossi says
Hil-lie-ry Clinton although she said half the Trump supporters, she meant the American voter in general is a deplorable! You see, she doesn’t care about the people…She just cares about our vote and where it will carry her and once she is in office, she will forget all about you and do everything she can to build The Clinton Foundation which by the way 85% of the proceeds go to expenses (Vacations around the world) for herself and her family and self enrichment for her greedy little self! So folks if you don’t want this slam ball in office to destroy our country while she’s building her family’s wealth then you had better vote…Independent…Libertarian or Republican. Hil-lie-ry is for the Clinton’s…Not the American People!
Sally says
FINALLY! Set us free. Education in this country has declined steadily for years. Free choice in how to educate our children has come. The Government will never know our children like we do. There are special schools for ADD kids that deal with that problem. Give us vouchers so we can choose. One style fits all is insane.
I really feel this our last chance to right a lot of wrongs of “cronyism?” in the USA. Trump has a practical business style that is needed now. He only cares about what works – not “payback” to political allies.
Wanda leonard says
Sally you are dead wrong Trump cares about money a paycheck that’s why he takes people’s money and then films bank rup,please all he does is talk BS teachers have a heard job and he will steal your money if you turn your back.like he’s done with a lot of people vote Hillary.
Stalwart says
I would suggest that the Trump people, and hopefully DJT himself, consult with Charlette Iserbyt about reform in education. Iserbyt wrote the book, “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” and was in on the ground floor at the Dept. of Education in the early 80s. She’s seen the corruption and has had first hand exposure to the documents outlying the department’s dubious agenda.
Rosech says
Unions began with the Masons, but in the 1900’s a worker’s union began and my father was part of the arguments, fights and evil company owner’s killing them, but the CIO was formed and was a great union until the AFofL took it over and all became garbage! The CIO was actually for the working man and woman, but with the AFofL we got criminals in charge who enriched themselves and were not better than the mafia. Remember, at about the same time the DNC published its 1963 Communist Manifesto to take over America, and our taxes via the federal administration (I don’t call our employees our Government as we ARE the government) started paying to schools and unions and from that moment on education became a brainwashing operation. I was fortunate to have received a great education before this but later on as a teacher I dropped out to reality of what was happening. We were so enamored with America we couldn’t see where the country was headed. Now we do, but are we brave enough and mentally intelligent enough to fire the employees via the Constitution and Bill of Rights? I pray to God daily that we are and do what has to be done top down federally and locally, along with removal of 98% of Congresspersons who have betrayed their oaths, promises, us and America. Take time to go online and read Steve Kroft’s article on The Power Behind the Mask and realize we have a battle royal at hand!
gerald serlin says
Donald has expressed the right idea, but he cannot be trusted to carry it forward. His intellect is insufficient to carry the ideas of free competition for students and student choice to fruition. Only a free-market capitalist can do that and Donald is certainly not one of them. Donald, like Hillary and most other politicians today are crony capitalists.
The only real alternative to bad and worse is Gary, who, as a libertarian, is a true free market capitalist, just what is needed.
Holice Pender says
Gerald, for crying out loud, will you please come back from la la land, and return to Realville? Are you so narrow-minded to think Gary Johnson would get within thousand miles of the WH. Mr. Trump may not be a miracle worker but he will surround himself with smart, intelligent ppl. who will do the things to turn this country around. He may not fix everything, but I trust him far more than any libertarian. They lost me when Ron Paul’s Dad ran in 2012, & said, we ought to give Iran one of our nuclear bombs if they wanted one. He may be a good doctor, but I would never vote for anyone with such radical thoughts as that.
female tax payor says
Agree. The institution of learning has become an overpaid inept babysitter holding education back so the ones who don’t grasp English, etc…don’t feel “different”…”no child left behind” holds everyone else back, bored to tears. All the tax money goes to “babysitting” & ” counciling” frustrated youth they manufacture.
John G . says
Based on their efforts and results they have good reason for concern – not all, but teachers, but the Union people and those do nothing teachers who rely on their efforts.
Alan says
The Illuminati Declaration of World War 111. The assault on society by Social engineering and economics. Control the Press (their agents), the voting process – our elections, lower the quality of education among the masses(Goyim), and through terroismn . Does all this sound familiar to you. The American people need to put down their cell phones and video games, wake up and start to pay attention to what is going on before we have no freedom or liberty left. Most people can’t tell you anything about our Constitution or our forefathers.
Nancy Norris says
By all means defeat COMMON CORE.
Holice Pender says
Then VOTE ON NOV 9th FOR MR TRUMP!!!!!!
JerryBranson says
Labor unions were a great idea back in the depression years due to abuse by industry. They helped to protect jobs and to get fair pay. But then the pendulum swung the other way. Now we have unions hurting us in eh opposite way. We need balance. Idaho faced the same issues with unions in education back in 2012. A movement built up and the legislature too action. Common Core was tried as an experiment but it has proved to be less than successful. Unions were corralled but not eliminated. Now we are somewhat at an impasse. The big issues we face in this country is in the lack of the ability to problem solve and the inability to clearly communicate. Common Core sort of addressed the issues but did not go far enough. I firmly believe we need to improve learning skills and especially in the use of tests to bring out the current condition of such shortcomings and proceed to correct them. That means abandoning all forms of current testing and go to short essay types of exams. We can then adjust our teaching practices to improve the shortcomings. Some improvements are being done based on what I have seen on PBS. I hope this continues.
JerryBranson says
I failed to say that these issues are exactly what Trump is addressing. He is right on track.
Ralph Hollister says
Watch Stupid in America by John Stossel, https://youtu.be/yrUBIsFF4fg .
Burnsy says
When I went to school (I’m 65) there was a principal, asst-principle, guidance counselors and teachers. What do we have today? Let’s say… in a mid-sized high school (9-12) with 1200 students. List the top heavy administration starting with the principle right down to the students. Perry Mason would object to my ‘top heavy’ comment as leading the witness….
David says
Democrat leaders don’t want minority’s to have a good education,
that would wake them up and see that they have been supporting the wrong
party.
Wanda leonard says
David Democrat don’t control the union people need the union Trump thinks we need to lower the wages there will be a cold day in hell if he thinks he can get rid of the unions Trump don’t like the union he owes union workers lots of money he is so full of BS
Justin W says
Schools should be held responsible for the quality of instruction they provide. The bad ones should take a financial hit for the poor performance. Incompetent teachers should be fired. America spends a lot on education and have very little to show for it.
Christopher S. O'Rourke says
The Department of Defense Dependent School System is held accountable, they are the very best of all the public school systems, only the Creme of the top of teachers are selected, and their standards are high, many of those DODDSS are on military bases overseas where the education in those overseas countries is far better, and also on many bases here in our country, and in most countries is the American International School System where they are competing with the school systems in countries like Japan, South Korea, Australia, Germany,
Ireland, Israel, Monaco. In Japan school students go to school on Saturday for half a day, wear uniforms. I was in the Navy, visited Japan
in Yokosuka, we sailors ate lunch on a Saturday at Shakey’s Pizza where for a set price you had all you can eat pizza, potatoes & all you can drink soda, we sat with the high school students who were in their uniforms, very polite, nice, very well educated, Japan stresses education very much, and their teachers are better paid, but they have very strict rules & guideline they have to follow or they are with no job.
Wanda leonard says
Justin teachers go to work to teach most of the kids come to school to raise hell and punch teachers in the face someone needs to stop the kids aren’t little angels teachers need the union for law enforcement and not to get sued DS,
Mike dar says
The Unions get support from the Dem party. Dem politicians make recommendation to the Teachers Unions Retirement Funds.
The Union represented Retirement fund gets lousy returns.
The Union elirte get Political recommendations..
The Dem politician gets commissions on the Retirement Fund vestment..
The Teachers get Sc3wed in that their Retirement Funds barely stay above water.
This has been going on for decades, Clinton and Pelosi have both done it, in Chicago and California for two States Funds.
Union membership isn’t aware, media could care less. Trump should point this out to the Public Unions membership.. Dem Politicians are taking their retirement funds and scr3wing the very subset they pander to.
Robert J. Pollack says
I believe our teachers across the country are doing an excellent job with some of the conditions they have to work with. Without
the unions, conditions and salaries would revert back to the days of the “sweat shops”. School boards, school superintendents,
principals and so forth would love the unions to be disbanded. Year after year, the schools are out of money. Most of our
property taxes goes to schools, yet the teacher’s in my opinion are not overpaid. Take a good look at what the salaries and perks are of the administrators and superintendents are……LOOK AND SEE WHAT PENSION AMOUNTS THEY RECEIVE….
Although it is very costly, I believe there should be a “forensic audit” by a reputable firm to all school districts. We then would see the FRAUD, and where all our tax money is going. Regardless who wins the POTUS,we should demand forensic-audits .
I place teachers in the same group as our first responder’s , firefighters and police officers. Doctors and nurses should also be included… Without them all, this country gone..
Big corporations have already devastated our unions by outsourcing jobs overseas, and they’re making astronomical profits. Look throughout your homes and try to find something that is still made in America. Honestly, I couldn’t find anything. Even small
items, like light switch covers to “toothpicks”. All made in China………………………………
If Trump wins the POTUS, and brings jobs back to America, I still and always will believe worker’s have a right to be represented
and someone to speak in behalf of them. Times have changed, and management and unions will basically have to start
negotiations other than they have been….
God Bless America……..
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Mary Bidgood says
It’s a small world after all! Every child is wonderful! My child was made in the most wonderful world! She was made in America-United and was given so much and we are so glad she was born. We love America and have so much more than other people have! We need to say thank you for every day we have! Yes we need some changes but it important to remember what is needed and not needed, We support teachers! They need lots of hugs for putting up with children and all the time and love they give each child!
Bonnie says
Many years ago I attended a State Board of Education meeting to decide what books the state would approve for our schools. Between the board members and audience was a long table where those of the media sat. An elderly teacher went to the podium with one of the books being considered. You could tell she’d done her homework; all the pages had bookmarks. She advised the Board not to buy the book because it taught disrespect for authority and encouraged revolution. She was concerned that teachers and students wouldn’t be safe at school and eventually have to lock classroom doors. Those at the media table totally showed disrespect for the teacher like she was a loony tune. The Board Chairman’s face showed embarrassment red…and I they probably purchased the book. What impressed me was that not many years later teachers were locking classroom doors in some schools…and school shootings (like Columbine) began to happen…because schools had also been pushing Ritalin and Adderall to discipline kids.
Kevin Beck says
When an organization exists primarily to benefit the cogs (school teachers) instead of the true constituents (the students), I can only ask: How whacked is that? And: Who is representing the students?
When school enrollment is tied to neighborhood geography, the areas with the worst schools have the lowest property values. This is because there is lower demand for the housing in those areas. It’s a vicious cycle that guarantees the worst schools never get the proper attention to improve.
This is an example where we have seen what doesn’t work. And the solution is to reduce the power of the cogs in the system, in favor of the true constituents of the system. The way it is now, the complaint we get from the cogs is that they need their incomes raised. But when we judge them by the results, we see that there is no correlation between teacher pay and student knowledge.
We are discovering that the more influence of government, the worse the results. Wherever the parasites have invaded, we see failure. This is the pattern that needs reversed.
Capa 760 says
When ‘COMMON CORE’ decided to end American True Learning Educational Lessons, and brought in Muslim chanting, writing Muslim script, and held secret field trips to Mosques without a signed parent permission slip, then it is TIME FOR DUMPING ANOTHER CRIMINAL OBAMA CASE THAT ISN’T BUILT ON AMERICAN INGENUITY of the tried and true things that have worked for the USA. OBAMACARE was NOT built with the Constitution’s protocol and policies of The Senate and The House having their respective roles of judgment included, and the legal votes to defeat a world class flop.
The Fox says
The Unionized school teachers don’t teach they indoctrinate and unions are socialist by their very nature, everyone paid the same wages regardless of abilities and that is a real problem and sending jobs over sea’s.
betty boggs says
AS A RETIRED TEACHER OF FORTY YEARS, i SUPPORT TRUMP.
betty boggs says
AS A RETIRED TEACHER OF FORTY YEARS, i SUPPORT TRUMP.
Wanda leonard says
Betty in the dates you were a teacher i will bet you didn’t have to worry about getting beaten by a student nowadays you half to the teachers need the union teachers get punch in the face,kids aren’t like they use to be and the mother and father don’t care what happens at school most of the kids don’t care ,I hope someone could stop kids beating up teachers,my daughter is a teacher,no she worked year round people think teachers have a lot of time off not true ,teachers have to plan lessons and grade papers on their dayes off ,my daughter graduated top of her class whith 4 0 we paid a lot of money for her to go to college ,I hope she wlill stop teaching and go into law she has a high IQ ,teachers don’t make much money ,I don’t know why anyone would be a teacher,she has a masters degree,a lot of people put teachers down I wish they had to do teaching for one day it’s not a easy job. God bless Hillary ,maybe Trump will bring his work back to the United States just about all his stuff is maid in Mexico,,,
AW says
TODAY’S SCHOOL SYSTEM SUCKS! GRADUATES CANNOT DO MATH (can’t make change in stores) GEOGRAPHY IS NON-EXISTANT. HOME SAFETY IS NOT TAUGHT (electricity, storms, lightning, outlets, power tools, cleaning poisons) POLITICAL CORRECTNESS HAS WIPED OUT INSTINCT DEFENSES (racism, islamaphobia, homophobia) AND HISTORY & ECONOMICS IS NOT TAUGHT TRUTHFULLY. INSTEAD, ITS BEEN REPLACED WITH TONS OF BLACK HISTORY INSTEAD OF TEACHING ABOUT 9/11. MY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION (1960’S) WAS FAR SUPERIOR TO ANYTHING OUR CHILDREN ARE LEARNING IN COLLEGE TODAY……….IT’S JUST A MONEY MAKING PROPOSITION TODAY TO KEEP KIDS IN SCHOOL, PAYING BIG BUCKS, FOR TOO MANY YEARS! WE LAG FAR BEHIND OTHER NATIONS!
Kathy says
I am in Illinois… My grandchildren are not being taught cursive. They are told that they can print all of their communications. How will they be able to sign legal documents? The school system is dumming down our children with core math and no cursive.
Shelba says
Teachers don’t have time to teach anymore, they are too busy filling out paperwork that is required of them, some of the best in the system are resigning for this reason and our children are the ones paying the price,
Wanda leonard says
Shelba OMG you are so right
Mary Bidgood says
Not to worry Trump is here! He will fix everything! Ask him to pay back collage funds! Oh not worry Trump is here to save the day!
I forgot to tell you Trump has a white beard and a round belly and red suit. Please note he might becoming soon! It is good that we know more than he does! Good by Mr. Trump!
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Mary Bidgood says
Good by Mr. Trump – We can’t have one person! We need to let kids learn anyway they can! I was a teacher aide and for every child a teacher is their parents, a pastor or other- Boy scouts, girl scouts, and yes school teachers. It takes a whole world to teach one wonderful child. Teachers are a child,s best friend. Lets help parents know how much we need them!
El Tejas says
Is this about teacher’s unions or is about the poor quality of education in America?