by Rep. Charles Wilson
Vermont School Boards create their own vision, policies, hire a union superintendent, give their budget to the voters, and monitor student performance. This all sounds good, except when policies come from the U.N. 2030 Agenda for Global Governance directives, then to the Federal and State Governments, then the supervisory unions, and then to the public schools.
This takes the voice of the people and parents out of negotiations and puts the power into the hands of bureaucrats. Parents and taxpayers should be first!
School boards and public schools implement rules that are controlled by area school supervisory unions that take huge taxpayer funded salaries. Public schools will receive no money if they do not comply with the Woke agenda. School boards for public schools don’t follow their own rules but hush parents and those of common sense and instead insist on indoctrination of our children instead of focusing on quality education curriculums.
The U.S. Constitution on Education does not address education, but from court cases in the States as of 2021, American children are to have high quality, equal education regardless of race, income, location etc.
Children should not ‘lead the way’ but be loved and directed by good parenting because they are dependents who want guidance to be prepared for a good and productive life – not to believe foolishness that is not truth. Many are angry, confused, unstable and many unable to even sit quietly to learn. We have seen a huge decline in test scores in English (reading/writing) and Math, which are especially low, and have learned that now only 21% could successfully enter college or the military. School boards and superintendents suffer no penalties for poor job performance but our students fall victim to socialism and many students end up with no hope or vision for their lives.
How did supervisory unions come to run our schools? The main function of a union school was to permit the creation of larger high schools in rural areas. In 2018 the school system in Vermont was built for 100,000 students. It’s now only educating 76,000 at over $23,586 per student, plus now an addition of free school meals at taxpayers’ expense.
The state of Vermont spent $1.6 billion dollars to educate 76,000 students, the largest per capita in the U.S.A., and twice the national average. There are less students and yet the cost keeps going up. 2023 we see more, more funding required from tax-payers, with test scores and learning at an all-time low. $23,586 per student, plus the U.N. plan for free lunch, all at taxpayer expense. Parents raise the children, pay taxes and have NO voice.
What will reform education? God first, plus parents’ voices who will speak up for their children’s welfare and the adherence to our Constitution. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and the Inalienable Rights from the only Creator.
Let us not let the U.N. take control of the United States The results can be seen in California, and Burlington here in Vermont. Homelessness, poverty, prostitution, child trafficking, gun violence and gang murders from drug dealers. Judges let repeat offenders go free, and illegal aliens too, all creating more taxes, taxes, taxes.
Rep. Wilson is a member of the House of Representatives. He lives in Lyndon.
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this is the plan honest truth…Is every one blind ?
Yup. Agree.
Subsidizing private and parochial schools would make sense.
All in all just another brick in the wall.
The national NEA has manifested itself in the Vermont local chapter.
Ask fo more , yield less. Somebody has to tell me the sanity of all this?
No union dues from those who do not want to join a Union.
I can’t tell you how many times teachers have told me they are powerless to effect change. At this point I believe them.
So why continue to pour money into a failed exercise?
Reinforce your successes wherever they may be. Charter schools, gold town schools, parochial schools, private schools. Wherever. Save those who strive for excellence.
Cut your losses. Don’t have teaching done in 28+/- languages – some without a written language – in Burlington. Welcome to America . The melting pot. Don’t let cell phones in schools. Expel – not home school-problem children . If someone assaults in school we have jails for that … some are in Kentucky. Have apprentice programs with the end outcome a job. Pay teachers for performance (yes, I said performance) . Lengthen the school year ( the Chinese have done it). I hear CIVID caused some issues with missing class time. I don’t hear a plan to dig yourself out or are we just going to kiss off a generation .Give homework. Give grades. Retain students ( leave back ) for non performance. Yes you have the right to succeed but also the right to fail. Require standardized testing— the real world will expect to differentiate performers from non performers. The student wants to be disrespectful. Show him the door. Hold parents accountable. They know how to procreate just fine now they need to be accountable for their creation. Absentee parents. Not an issue —off to jail you go… you are not there anyway. Recruit as teachers people who have had real world work experience in their field.
There are choices to be made. Make them. Move on. Expect and demand results.
From my experience the primary job of most (not all) superintendents and principals is to make the teachers happy and comfortable. Test scores and achievement is secondary.
Does this include retirement and benefits?
Affordability, Drugs and School funding/programs
These are the issues, have been for decades, 30+ years…..and we know why they don’t want them to change.
But we can change….
A product of the public school system myself, for the vast majority of my life, I was a huge fan of public schools. No more. I am now absolutely convinced that Homeschooling is the only way to educate children. Public school provides a substandard, one-size-fits-all education rife with woke indoctrination, bullying, drugs and dangerously coercive peer-pressure that is creating a generation of young adults permanently addicted to prescription medications and video games. An environment that fosters stress, anger, ignorance and subservience. Sending your kids to public school is the most dangerous and deadly decision you can make for them.
We homeschool our son. Total supplies for the year comes to around $300-$400. Despite being a 3rd-grader by age, he’s currently studying at 5th-grade level (and excelling at it.) More importantly, he is happy and relaxed and he only formally “studies” for 2 hours a day. The rest of his day consists of play and hobbies. He’s not coddled. He’s not bullied. He’s not stressed by a hectic schedule. He’s not forced to be concerned with things kids should not be concerned with.
Structure your life so that you can homeschool. Your kids will thank you with their smiles, and their success. And you’ll have a blast doing it. Stop making excuses.
The number of “do nothing “ jobs at large district central offices is staggering. DEI departments?? Literally what do they do for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? Chittenden south has SIX. The answer is nothing. There are others, many others. If efficiency experts were ever hired school budgets would be cut in half. Tons of wasted money in SPED and EL (louder and slower) as well as “support “ positions. Until the lib sheep vote no repeatedly it will continue to grow.
Dave, one need only to read the Vermont Agency of Education employment reports. Whether or not they do anything is a debatable point. But the sheer numbers are impressive.
According to Rep. Wilson, there are 76,000 Vermont K-12 students in public schools.
According to the VT AoE, there are 23,962 teachers and para educators in the classrooms (clearly, not all at the same time). But that’s a 3.2 to 1 student teacher ratio.
But when counting all public-school employees, from Superintendents to Bus Drivers, there are 75,534 AoE employees for 76,000 students. Basically, that’s a 1 to 1 ratio. Is it any wonder that there’s a $23,856 cost per student?
What is a wonder to behold is that, with all of those employees, only half of Vermont’s public-school graduates meet grade level proficiencies in Reading, Writing, Math, or Science.
Postscript: The ‘the lib sheep’ will never vote no, because they work for education, health, and government establishment.