What's the Case for Hillary?

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Hmm, maybe the fact that she actually has a higher education plan?

When she embraces school choice, and merit pay on steroids combined with firing incompetent teachers, at least for those trapped in down market zip codes where the educational choices are all bad, get back to me.

But how does that fix the sh-tty parents?  I mean you can have the most perfect school in the world but if all the kids going there come from crappy homes the product is going to be sub par.

But there is no easy fix for that (probably no fix at all), so thus the lash out against those outside...

That's basically what you are doing.  Instead of focusing on the home you are expecting the teachers to do the parents' job.  Are teachers to blame for the explosion of childhood obesity?  Most of meals kids eat are at home under the watchful eye of these perfect parents who aren't to blame for anything.  What have the results been?  So you think someone who can't figure out the food pyramid is going to have a child that will have rip roaring academic success?  Kids have most of their leisure time at home under the watchful eye of their faultless parents.  What have the results been?  Are they participating in sports and physical activity and getting sunlight or are they pale zombies staring at screens?

Why is it every single metric says American parents are failing but when it comes to academics all of a sudden it is someone else's fault.  I honestly can't think of a single teacher I ever had in public or private school that wasn't good at their job.  Not one.  The liberal ones were excellent.  The conservatives ones were excellent.  The Bible beaters were excellent.  They came in different flavors.  But they were all competent.  I didn't necessarily agree with all of them but I really don't recall a single one being clueless.  Now contrast that with college and grad school and God forbid just about everywhere I've worked.  I had horrid lecturers in college and grad school and the level of gross incompetence I encounter in the wider economy is disturbing.  I have any kind of technical issue with a good or service and I am treated to multiple 2 hour phone calls to India.  Of all the sh-tbag things in this economy public and private schools were the absolute best in my experience.

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Blaming the parents is not going to improve the situation. The issue is what to do, given such feckless parents, to mitigate their impact, isn't it?

No one is even having the conversation.  No one is standing up to the parents and saying, hey the government can't solve all your problems.  At a certain point you have to take a break from watching internet pron and read to your kids.

I support BLM but police can't raise your kids or fix your community.  Trying to ask them to do that only leads to problems.  Same with teachers.

Do you have children?  Do you know what it is like to try and get through a lesson plan with a classroom with 20+ children when half of them come from homes where no one cares?  At a certain point a teacher is going to focus on the half that pay attention in class and turn in their homework.