Since the Department of Education was created performance of the school system has declined and world ranking for US students has declined, steadily. The answer has been to throw even more money at it, the DoE and schools, with the result that performance continues to drop. Inner city schools are the worst, by far. Continuing to fund that is insanity as defined by Einstein. Why is a Vice Principal needed for door knobs? Why are schools centers for nutrition? If a student mis-behaves the teacher/instructor has no real way to correct the situation because, after all, "my child is a good kid". It's all a pile of crap sucking money out of everyone's pockets. The Federal Government got involved, and like most things that the government gets involved in, has turned it into a giant sink hole sucking pocketbooks dry, not delivering on it's core mission and cheating the students, our future and the future of the nation, out of a good education.
Sure, a parent can opt for a private school or private tutors, but that parent is paying twice for the same thing. Is that "social justice"? It sure doesn't help those inner city kids at all. Regulations for home schooling? There's a wonderful idea that the Department of Education could royally screw up and waste even more money on. Standardized testing exists already and can measure the effectiveness of home schooling as well. I know, standardized tests aren't fair because some kids get a better education than others, but that's the point of those tests...to measure that education in the first place and quantify the effectiveness of it. The teachers unions don't want that so it is being swept under the carpet in the name of "social justice".
As an aside, I heard that some teachers are nervous about "virtual classrooms" because they are afraid that parents will see what they are really teaching. Their solution is to try to use apps to hide that. Nothing going on here, nothing wrong here, move along, nothing to see.
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