Kansas Supreme Court Rejects Lawmakers' Bid To Fix Education Funding

Oh the horror of inequity. The horror of public schools is that teachers aren't allowed to teach, school districts aren't allowed to choose their own curriculum and many school administrators are tied to groups who sell the latest new thing in public education. Right now it's Common Core, in a few years it will be called something else. The real goal is to have a national curriculum that will take away all local control of education and most likely result in a national education tax instead of local or state taxes, which will then be portioned back out to the states.

The real issue is that a teacher can't teach in their room and adjust for their students rate of learning, and local cultural or social learning needs. There need to be general guidelines to meet each semester or year, but the strict guides of Common Core that require each teacher to be on the same page each day in a district or statewide are utterly ridiculous. That doesn't account for the wide variation in students, local situations and class environment. And if anyone, and I mean anyone at all has a problem with that I invite them to be a teacher for a week at four different schools throughout the US and make it work without the help of a mentor, district administrator or union official.

Teachers get paid nothing to take crap from the public and it's sickening. They do remarkable work each day attempting to educate just a few kids who are motivated and willing to think, learn, and move above the fray. It's not the lack of funding that stifles education, it's the lack of discipline, motivation and desire to learn that is the problem, but few are willing to say that out loud. It's much easier to blame failure on lack of funds than to tell people their kids are brats and that education is a privilege and not a right.

Any idea how much of a cash cow a school administrator job is? Quit paying admins over a 100k, reroute some of that to teachers and watch overall cost lessen and reasults improve. I honestly believe only people in Lawrence are outraged about this. We will see at the judicial retention elections in November if I'm right or wrong

That's one of the reasons Kansas is off the PCS list.