Education doesn't need more money

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Business owners, when they come across a successful way of doing business, need to simply duplicate those efforts again and again. If a business is doing poorly, a good strategy would be to study successful examples of their type of business, and duplicate what works. Public Schools should do the same.

The successful examples of schooling our children are private schools and homeschooling. In both cases the results are well educated children who score high in academic testing, and with much smaller budgets.

Good education does not result in lots of money, but in a correct curriculum, an environment that demands high standards, strong discipline, high morals, and more personal attention with the students.

The liberals argue, even when the truth is apparent.

Then we come across a curious situation that has all of the progressives scratching their heads.

In California, as public spending has been reduced due to the fact that the State is broke, student achievement test scores are rising.

The liberals scream we need more money in the education system to compete, yet when the money going in drops, the test scores go up.

Things that make you go, "hmmmm".

And we are not talking just a slight rise in test scores. In one district, school spending has dropped 6%, but the scores for standardized English, for example, rose from 48 percent to 55 percent.

Sacramento: cut annual spending by about $120 million, or 4.4 percent, from 2008 to 2010. Their state achievement test scores improved: scoring proficient or advanced in English jumped from 53 percent to 59 percent, while the portion scoring proficient or above in math went from 57 percent to 62 percent.

And nobody can figure out why.

Hmmm, but it is a good argument that to improve scores, we don't need to throw more money at the problem.

California students are still faring poorly when compared to the national averages - and largely because of the experimental teaching methods and curriculums being used. We're not teaching writing much anymore, or history, social science and physics. The schools act more like indoctrination centers for leftist philosophies, than centers of education.

If the schools would abandon the liberal teaching methods, and return to the three Rs, we might improve even more.

Public Schools need to follow the lead of the private schools - or steps need to be taken to end public education and make private schools more affordable.

Any progress, however, will be set back drastically once S.B. 48 is implemented, and teaching homosexuality in positive terms sweeps through the schools - and the schools in California return once again to being indoctrination centers and social engineering centers - despite the opinions of the parents.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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