Michael Moore’s New Movie about Government-Run Public Schools?

[luchabee]

I wonder if Michael Moore will follow up with an expose on the billions and billions of dollars spent to prop up our horrific inner-city public schools, who have falied millions of children?

Maybe a nice comparison with private schools and schools accepting vouchers?

Hey, it worked this well for education; Why not use this approach for healthcare system?

As an exemplar of the government spending experiment, I think this topic is ripe for a Moore movie.

I won’t hold my breath, though.

[Anonymous]

Great analogy, luchabee. The bright white light of logic; thank you!

[Anonymous]

Great analogy, luchabee. The bright white light of logic; thank you!

[noone]

Problem is that it would be a really short movie.

Scene 1: When parents don’t get involved in their children’s education it results in poor academic performance.

Scene 2: No amount of money can solve this problem (short of hiring professional parents for each student).

Scene 3: The End.

[noone]

Problem is that it would be a really short movie.

Scene 1: When parents don’t get involved in their children’s education it results in poor academic performance.

Scene 2: No amount of money can solve this problem (short of hiring professional parents for each student).

Scene 3: The End.

[PerryChase]

If you’re a bad parent it’s your fault. Don’t have kids if you can’t raise them.

I don’t know…. If one needs a license to become a hair-dresser, why wouldn’t there be pre-requisites to becoming a parent, if that’s the most important job?

[PerryChase]

If you’re a bad parent it’s your fault. Don’t have kids if you can’t raise them.

I don’t know…. If one needs a license to become a hair-dresser, why wouldn’t there be pre-requisites to becoming a parent, if that’s the most important job?

[Tone]

Good point about the billions upon billions wasted in the failed inner city public schools.

But what about those highly successful public schools in the more affluent areas? You know, those neighborhoods where home prices are at a premium because everyone wants their children to attend a “good” school. Those are public schools too.

How can the same public school system produce such varied schools? Perhaps, and I’m just supposing here, it’s not the school system, but the stratification of American society. Perhaps education, and the value thereof, starts in the home. Perhaps America, unlike most Western countries to which it is compared, has the enormous task of educating the children of a huge non-native speaking, non-tax contributing, third world immigrant population.

Perhaps, and again this is just a guess on my part, if one just looked at the public schools in middle and upper class neighborhoods, America’s public school system would rival that of any nation. In fact our very public university system is already the best in the world. How can we have the best public university system in the world, but the worst public secondary system in the world?

Maybe there’s nothing wrong with public schools. Maybe they just reflect back what is wrong with society.

[Tone]

Good point about the billions upon billions wasted in the failed inner city public schools.

But what about those highly successful public schools in the more affluent areas? You know, those neighborhoods where home prices are at a premium because everyone wants their children to attend a “good” school. Those are public schools too.

How can the same public school system produce such varied schools? Perhaps, and I’m just supposing here, it’s not the school system, but the stratification of American society. Perhaps education, and the value thereof, starts in the home. Perhaps America, unlike most Western countries to which it is compared, has the enormous task of educating the children of a huge non-native speaking, non-tax contributing, third world immigrant population.

Perhaps, and again this is just a guess on my part, if one just looked at the public schools in middle and upper class neighborhoods, America’s public school system would rival that of any nation. In fact our very public university system is already the best in the world. How can we have the best public university system in the world, but the worst public secondary system in the world?

Maybe there’s nothing wrong with public schools. Maybe they just reflect back what is wrong with society.

[Anonymous]

I would like to see a movie by
Micheal Moore about the housing bubble.

Working Title “House of Cards”

[Anonymous]

I would like to see a movie by
Micheal Moore about the housing bubble.

Working Title “House of Cards”

[no_such_reality]

Maybe there’s nothing wrong with public schools. Maybe they just reflect back what is wrong with society.

Self-selection plays a big role in the very successful schools. Good teachers self-select to teach there. Good parents self-select to get their kids there.

Failure to remove problem students, mainlining differentially enabled students, IDLPs, massive ESL issues, promotion for social development, there’s many issues.

The goals start out lofty, bringing all equally to the high bar set by successful schools, the results have been often abyssmal creating a lowest common denominator for all in the school.

[no_such_reality]

Maybe there’s nothing wrong with public schools. Maybe they just reflect back what is wrong with society.

Self-selection plays a big role in the very successful schools. Good teachers self-select to teach there. Good parents self-select to get their kids there.

Failure to remove problem students, mainlining differentially enabled students, IDLPs, massive ESL issues, promotion for social development, there’s many issues.

The goals start out lofty, bringing all equally to the high bar set by successful schools, the results have been often abyssmal creating a lowest common denominator for all in the school.

[Anonymous]

PC (how appropriate your initials are, sir!), parenting is a very important job.

Qualifications on who could have kids? That implies qualifications on who can have sex, as birth control is not foolproof.

Conservatives are all in favor of qualifications on who can have sex: chastity belts for the unmarried and shame and scorn for those who have sex or children out of wedlock.

I second your motion, PC. All those in favor, say ‘Aye.’

[Anonymous]

PC (how appropriate your initials are, sir!), parenting is a very important job.

Qualifications on who could have kids? That implies qualifications on who can have sex, as birth control is not foolproof.

Conservatives are all in favor of qualifications on who can have sex: chastity belts for the unmarried and shame and scorn for those who have sex or children out of wedlock.

I second your motion, PC. All those in favor, say ‘Aye.’

[Author]

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