Burrus86 said:
I live in Wichita Falls, and I enjoy the daily Karen rants on social media with regard to this company forcing these kids to learn. If momma had spent less time *****ing on social media and more time holding her kid accountable, the school district would not have had to resort to this method.
Yep. My sister taught at Kirby for her last two years before retirement, and it was a complete zoo discipline-wise. While the video made a big deal about how much the teachers were being paid by the private entity, the real secret sauce is simply that have installed some discipline and not put up with the crap that WFISD teachers were forced to tolerate by an administration (not the current superintendent, for what it's worth) that was afraid of getting bad marks for disciplining too many of the "wrong" kids.
People talk about vouchers and competition as the way to fix schools, but, all you are really doing with that is taking some teachable kids out of the problem (and if they aren't teachable, the private schools won't put up with them for long). Until we stop letting the stragglers drag everyone else down, there will be no solution to the continuing erosion of education in this country, and that starts with discipline. Most of these kids get no discipline at home, and many of them live with "adults" who are just overgrown children themselves.
A large factor is the federal Department of Education, which, since the Obama administration, has considered a school to be racist if they discipline too many minorities. One more reason why that department should be abolished.
