Why CT Needs More School Choices
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I voted Libertarian in the three presidential elections before 2024. One of the big wishes for Libertarians is dismantling the federal Department of Education. Which we just got.
Not sorry. You shouldn’t be either. The DoE hasn’t done anything to improve elementary or high school education. Test scores have flat-lined or dropped since President Carter created it. The DoE under Biden mandated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion rules nationally for all schools. This is why we have young men competeing in girl’s sports. CT is ground zero for young males invading girls sports.
79% of people don’t like that their children have been fed Queer and DEI propoganda. A search on YouTube for ‘queering schools’ will get you a long list of videos about how exactly schools are twisting young minds. Not videos critical of the process, but ‘How To’ videos. Queer Theory has taken over schools of education. Kim Adenski, who recommended comprehensive sex education programs in CT based on the idea of DEI, sits on the board of the NY-based Youth Sexpert Program.
Sen Bob Duff introduced a bill that would prevent librarians from being sued over school library content. Ellen Paul, the executive director of the Connecticut Library Consortium said, “Obscenity has a legal definition in Connecticut general statute. There is absolutely nothing in libraries across the state that is obscene. If you don’t want to read a book, avoid that book. Talk to your children about this. But one parent cannot decide for an entire community what is acceptable for children to read.”
Even if parents are paying for said library out of the property taxes they’re forced to pay? Someone I know was instrumental in making sure such books weren’t banned from the school library in Newtown. I asked to read the books. They were comic style, and had graphic illustrations of genitalia.
CT is rated as having some of the best schools in the country. If that’s true then how is it that Aleysha Ortiz is suing the Hartford School district, saying that she’s functionally illiterate? According to USNews and World Report, test data for reading and math proficiency in Hartford, elementary and middle school students was pitiful, and literally non-existent for high school. Bridgeport was even worse, and New Haven was on par with Bridgeport. Unsurprisingly New Canaan scored much better, but even they didn’t have data for high school scores. Science wasn’t rated at all.
Why would there be no data for HS students? Why is science proficiency not being examined? And how can CT claim such a high education score without these ratings? I suspect it’s the 438 private schools in CT - compared to 1021 public schools.
School choice in CT means your child can go to a magnet school for part of their day, or attend a charter school. There are 21 charter schools in CT serving 11,000 students. That’s .02% of school-age children in CT.
Corey DeAngelis, Ph.D., did this great interview with Jordan Peterson.
He says that schooling is a monopoly for three reasons.
Monopoly of location – you go to the school where you live
It’s a state-mandated monopoly because you don’t have the option to NOT send your kid to school. [Although CT does have good rules around homeschooling which we shouldn’t change.]
You don’t get to pick where your teachers are coming from. 99.5% of teaching PhDs graduate from schools that teach the worst possible psychology and educational principles, and throw in a healthy dose of Marxism. [DEI and Queer theory derive from Marxism.]
50% of state budgets are spent on education. Which means that teacher unions have a hammerlock on 50% of our tax dollars. In CT the teacher unions and their pensions are a huge part of our monetary issues.
Schools of teaching have the lowest SAT scores. That means that your kids aren’t learning from the smartest people. Quite the opposite. Of course, this isn’t true 100% of the time. But why wouldn’t the really good teachers leave when they can’t be compensated based on performance? I’m Gen X and can count on one hand the number of teachers I had that actually gave me information I both retained and found useful in life. [minus reading and basic math] The rest totally phoned it in.
Our question about education in Connecticut shouldn’t be who’s going to throw more money at the problem. The question should be: Who’s going to respect your rights as a parent to decide what’s best for your kids? That’s who you should be voting for.
Sugata Mitra’s Hole in the Wall project proved that children ultimately need way less education than we’ve been led to believe.
There’s an election coming up. Vote.
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