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The Real Baltimore
Kim Klacik is a Republican running for Congress in Baltimore, and she has a few things to say. Warning: pearl clutchers should have pearls handy before watching this campaign ad:
While Nancy makes selfie-videos of her $30 a pint designer ice cream, Kim Klacik is shaking up her old home town. Sometimes the revolution that arises is not the one the elites were staging. A race worth following. Donate here.
As you were.
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Also, it’s important to note that teaching is, by its nature, a very simple process.
It doesn’t require exotic materials or technology, it doesn’t require a lot of money, it doesn’t require complex infrastructure. And we’ve been doing it for a very, very long time.
There’s certainly a degree of craft and skill involved. And the student has to be eager to learn.
But the level of failure we see can be directly attributable to criminals plundering a system.
Currently 9.7 million views. So the growth has leveled off substantially over the last couple days.
Yes… literally flattened the curve.
Curriculum in standard schooling is the priciest… and I think it’s the most daunting, since most people going in have a set expectation of what education is.
I know it’s the most intimidating point for me.
Math. Why did there have to be math?
A question; why does an administrator of pretty much anything make more money than the people doing the thing?
I get why it happens in business (and should). But why in government?
What do you mean by curriculum?
I’m sure my view of a one-room schoolhouse is hopelessly naive but that model used the same books year after year and most subjects weren’t subject to change.
Except there are – or at least there still better be! – more teachers than administrators. So the teachers could vote for what they want, and win, except they get “convinced” to vote the way the union leadership wants. And a lot of them are probably stupid enough to even do so voluntarily.
A lot of this comes from a desire among the higher-degreed administrators etc, to use the teachers and students as their experimental laboratory. They tend to have their own little theories about what should be done to “improve” education. And like with managers in private business, they can feel that if they don’t “shake things up” then they aren’t demonstrating their value over the previous schmuck, or the other schmucks who applied for the same job.
My understanding is that Texas and California have a lock on the K-12 textbook market. It’s a matter of economics – the costs of production are supposedly so high, and the client base so regularized, that we end up using the same textbooks in nearly every school system. If CCPV-19 disruption can help us break the textbook oligopoly, we might even come out ahead in the 2-5 year term.
What you teach, when you teach it, creating synergy between one subject and another, utilizing existing books/biographies/histories/literature in age appropriate ways…
For math, reading, and grammar, what building blocks come first. For instance, teaching ‘e’ sound is different than teaching ‘ee’ sound and comes at a different reading stage.
For reading and grammar, you can use literature and histories for composition, grammar, and other language arts pieces, but what are they and how do you teach them?
Schools actually break it out week by week.
Those are the kinds of things that I think should be determined by actual people with experience and stuff. (I resist using the word “experts” especially in this context since “experts” in “education” often have their own agendas.) Each little elementary-school teacher should not be developing their own independent lesson plans based on little if any experience even in their own area, let alone understanding the wider framework.
Curriculum is like anything else in that people who haven’t done it simply don’t know what’s involved.
Good history and analysis. I did not know any of that.
The one consideration you left out is how traditionally, the dead always vote for Democrats too.
Yes. And it’s really costly for parents to buy curriculums that exist.
It’s almost impossible (is?) to find a loose guidance curriculum that allows an interested parent to fill in the gaps.
For instance, I’m not half bad at teaching elementary math, but I have my blind spots. We began with manipulatives, I added in tools to help develop a visual “sense” of numbers and visually grouping to make counting faster, and we use clothespin numbers on flash cards to build fine motor strength and reinforce basic math facts. My 5 year old can do addition facts under 10 in his head. I have a good idea of the blocks.
But even so, my blind spots are shapes, time, and money.
Language arts and history, just forget about it. And trying to get trusted sources of current books? Nope.
Children’s biographies are useless… they are a boring collection of facts and kids learn best in story, so narrative history is best, but 1st, it’s impossible to find and 2nd, I’d never trust anyone getting published in today’s world.
I’ve heard that Hillsdale has references for home-schooling, but not sure if it goes down to elementary level.
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Thanks for posting the ad, @sisyphus. It’s just… fantastic.
But am I the only one who wishes she were running for Mayor of Baltimore instead of for a House seat? She could do so much more for the city as a local elected official than she would be able to do from Washington.
And also, @kedavis, for heaven’s sake, yes she looks like a female human. Sheesh.
Downloaded right after you mentioned it. Has details for every class and every week of instruction.
Glad to be of service. (I tried to find a clip of that from HHGTTG but couldn’t.)
Except that it would be her against the rest of a corrupt city government. They’d probably mess her up badly.
Assuming corruption is the major source of Baltimore’s problems… You’re in the position of attempting to replace a corrupt city government. How many successful examples are there of this?
My guess is that you’d have to make some arrests first. Clean it out a little. And then run a slate of people to work together as a team, city council and all.
Over 10 million views.
Mike Huckabee shows his appreciation.