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Friday, August 14. 2020

Manhattan Contrarian: Covid-19 Is An Opportunity To Disrupt Education

Despite overwhelming evidence that opening schools for in-person education is both safe and beneficial for children, teachers unions across the U.S. continue to try to hold families hostage in pursuit of political gains. As the unions overplay their hands, there is a great opportunity for market disruption of the dysfunctional union-controlled status quo.

Posted by The Barrister in Education at 16:31 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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This is creating some crazy trends:

Online classes for example. Do we really need teachers then? After all it would be simple to "can" classes on all the subject matter a child should study in various classes and can the tests as well.

Unintended consequences: The parents are likely to become very aware of what is being taught in schools and this could result in some demands to change specific things.

One suggestion I keep hearing for in person teaching is that if the teachers/schools don't want to open give the money to the parents in the form of a voucher and let the parents find teaching/tutoring for their children bypassing public education.

#1 OneGuy on 2020-08-14 18:01 (Reply)

I can't agree with you more, especially having the educational $$ follow the STUDENT instead of the student's (most local) school system.

Standardized Computer Instruction for kids was the topic of a short Sci-Fi story written by Isaac Asimov back in 1951, in: "The Fun They Had" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun_They_Had

The negative is the lack of socialization, and, the "daycare" element, not addressed in the story, since 1950's American families were mostly able to operate on one spouse's income.

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#1.1 Riick on 2020-08-14 18:37 (Reply)

I was thiking along the same lines yesterday. Squeeze the union until it bleeds. Nudge them until they strike and then make them look selfish and ridiculous. Tell your state representatives to make it easier for parents to un-enroll their children from schools and homeschool without restrictions. Tell them you want that in the state constitution (very important). Tell them to make it easier to hire people who aren't trained in education, but have real world experience in the subjects they will teach. Tell them you want vouchers so you can choose how your children are education.

#2 Jack Walter on 2020-08-14 18:35 (Reply)

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Virus and education