State takeovers of school districts under fire: 'Like you're being strangled'
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- ABC News’ Em Nguyen visits Houston to see how the state’s largest school district has fared in its first year under state control. She also looks into how state takeovers have worked across the U.S.
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When you get rid of the librarian and close the library, you don't care about the children and do not have any good intentions for them.
That is a fact!
I will always have a problem with anyone shutting down a library at a school. Growing up in school that's how I found my love for history and science because I had questions and would go to that school library to get them. This doesn't help anyone especially the kids when you do that.
@Sam-jw5vrNot true. You saw in the video children using the makeshift library out of a bus. There would be more kids using the actual school endorsed library.
When you have 60 kids to 1 teacher because all illegals get the same taxpayer education this happens. This will become more common nationwide.
@@jacoh11you mean state controlled library. Libraries should be places free from political control
Ironically it was my hometown library that tried to stop my love of history and science. They would just ridicule me in front of everyone for checking out history books because it was the wrong books for a kid to read. I celebrated when that library got shut down and I bought all the under appreciated history books on the cheap (not that there were many). Now they are loved.
I live in Houston and have a child in HISD. My child is in a high preforming school. Of all the parents I speak with, I cannot find one that has anything nice to say about Mike Miles or think the state takeover was a good thing.
I’m so glad you commented. It’s always better to hear directly from someone who has impacted by changes that may or may not be a positive change.
The states took over minority schools even if they were preforming successfully. This is a way to ensure they have the right color under class. IF they successfully eliminate the number of people coming across the board to work in fields then you do have to have a group of people in this country to do that work. Who do you think that group would be?
@DarkNJuju straight facts! ✍🏾👊🏽🇺🇸🌎
We didn't understand why he was bothering high performing schools. Thats when I knew he wasn't here for the children. He is trying to ruin HISD
@@VeeAlee yep no good.
No one on one interaction with students?! What in the WORLD is HAPPENING?! Kids need one on one time with teachers! Everyone knows this!
It doesn’t make sense when he’s saying he wants to scores to be better. How will the scores be better if the students who need extra help don’t get it. Then who is supposed to help these students? Everyone can’t afford a tutor. This is unacceptable
@@CookieC23 the parents?
1. Those who don't teach, have no business making decisions about teaching.
2. Standardized testing needs to go.
3. Leave us alone and let.us.teach!
4. This is why I home school.
1. Those who don't teach, have no business making decisions about teaching. (I disagree, as a parent I've seen how teachers (who remember usually have ZERO experience in any other aspect of life) either naively or ignorantly making decisions for their classes that affect their students negatively. There needs to be input from outside sources. For example, A science teacher needs input from an actual scientist to keep up in the field. Same for History (and especially ideological interpretations of it), and more. Should they have the most input? Yup. But all? Absolutely not.
2. Standardized testing needs to go.
I agree
3. Leave us alone and let.us.teach!
I agree to a point, but let me tell you it's like pulling hair out trying to get my kids teachers (extremely high IQ, extremely high ADHD) to do anything to try to even understand what he needs. It's a constant fight with average intelligence teachers to empathize, and change methods (that they were probably reared and taught into). That being said, I do agree that the State needs to back off and let teachers teach. But that doesn't mean that teachers don't have a lot to learn as well, and like any other profession, some need a kick in the butt sometimes.
4. This is why I home school.
I wish I could, but we simply cannot afford it, nor do I personally think I would be a good teacher to my children. I did terrible in school, it was so frustrating. My teachers all gave up on me. by the 5th grade.
When I see that NOTHING HAS CHANGED when it comes to my kid, well..a lack of trust in teachers is justifiable...and in my personal experiences, only the average benefit from modern schooling/teaching techniques.
@@WindwardToEdenI think the problem is that most teachers don’t have time to really help students with disabilities in a manner that would help them. Most students with learning disabilities and ADHD need a lot more time than an average kid. So, it is up to the parents to review content with their child at home or have some tutor help said child. Just put yourself in a teacher’s shoe. There are 30 students and the teacher needs to follow curriculum and pacing plans to ensure MOST students move forward. While the goal is to have all students move forward at the same time, that is not reality. So, some parents have unrealistic expectations. Teachers can differentiate lessons to help different learners but to what degree is the underlying factor. How can a teacher help students for example who don’t know their multiplication facts but the class is now doing fractions. The kid needs to practice daily at home and catch up. Most students and their parents don’t care and expect miracles from the teacher. The teacher will not sit for 20 mins with one student doing multiplication facts while 29 students need help on the current lesson. The student COULD practice and learn on the side, but for them to do this with fidelity is hard. They need one on one support.
Well said, even as bout to be father I agree with you
The sad thing is when teachers apply to be board members and higher administration (they often get turned down or lose to richer rivals who don't even have education experience)
@@Yukosan13 this is what happens q when jock rules and nerds have no power anywhere, akak how society is corrupt today, and rigging the system so only jocks and rich reproduce and population explode and others don’t and intelligence declines, akak like idiocracy film2006, also society collapse to greed by mass robot usage to evade employment payments, and all money to themselves, and discrimination to all forms of “ waste” even as in time, productivity, tasks done in timeframe, enengy, resource usage regulations,etc akak socialist/ conformist policies and their flows with it even if exposed to all
Isn't this dude under investigation for sending school funds from a state to another?
@Sam-jw5vrokay so because teachers underperform the answer is firing librarians?
The library money was sent to Colorado
@jacoh11 If teachers "underperform" that probably has to do with the state takeover and the new leadership hiring uncertified teachers. Hiring a junior college student with no degree or experience probably has something to do with it.
I'm also wondering why they did not mention these most recent allegations.
Yes, sure is. To charter schools in, Oklahoma, I think. Texas tax dollars going out of state. Outrageous.
Former teacher here. States don’t take over school districts over academics. They only do it for money reasons. Superintendent contracts are for several years, so when there is a school board that keeps replacing them for political or ego reasons then the past superintendents keep getting paid even if they no longer have the job. I know of one financially struggling district that was paying over a million a year just for fired superintendent salaries. Then there are the food programs. Millions of dollars pass hands even in the poorest schools but if the administration doesn’t file the paperwork correctly it can cost a district more than their budget for teacher salaries, and many districts NEVER file the paperwork correctly.
These are the reasons states take over districts. States don’t expect or demand kids in public education learn anything which is why so many graduates with high GPAs but can’t read or do mathematics above a third grade level.
TEA hired someone with a failed track record.
That was the point. Houston was not a failing district when the state took it over.
That is the exact point.
TEA needs some serious auditing and investigating!
Sounds the same as gerrymandering. Increase the opportunity of some to deny the opportunity of others.
This has always been this way in the poor communities unfortunately. I remember when I was in middle school we use to have summer school programs for the summer and I would go. It was so fun I was able to learn about different subjects and history but they took it out of the school system and said it wasn’t enough funding
The new superintendent is funneling taxpayers money into private for profit schools in Colorado. Great job Texas!
Too much corruption in Texas government and school system
Isn’t that just,wrong and defunding the public poeple!!!!
Get rid of standardized testing, and teach the children. Build their strengths and fix what skills they are lacking.
I have never been in favor of them. What results do they actually produce? Aren’t regular testing on the material they already are learning more sufficient? As a teacher you have to pause your regular lessons to prep for standardized tests, multiply that by how often they have to do it. That takes time away from them learning what they need to know to move on. I think basic end of year testing is sufficient to know if they retained what they have learned to move onto the next grade. And they wonder why teachers are leaving the profession and parents are pulling students out in drones. They’re doing the opposite of what actually needs to be done. The answer is not mass production learning it’s individualized learning!
Without tests how do you know their strengths and skills they are lacking?
@@winstonsyme5899 every year assements are given at the beginning of the year, and end of the year which is different from standardized testing, that needs to be kept in place and report cards need to determine if the child goes to the next grade or not along with the students progress, along with bringing back summer school, zero period and study hall.
@@winstonsyme5899 test them on what you are teaching versus what the state says they should know.
@@winstonsyme5899 that is my thought. If the kids have the skills, they should be able to pass these tests. Sounds like teachers don't want to be accountable.
That poor school librarian, trying to help the kids out with a bus full of free books since she isn’t allowed in the schools anymore… 😓
That hurts me so much! Obviously, the kids want to read! I wonder who is funding her?
Wait WHAT? The new superintendent mandate is “to raise standardized scores in math and reading”, how is THAT supposed to happen if they get rid of librarians? Where are children supposed to find books to read and open their minds? Make it make sense! 🤦🏽♀️
Where did you think book bans were heading?
@@bluevillsplashexactly. They didn't listen to queer people like myself, when we said that that's where the book bannings were going to leave. That they were trying to limit information, in order to make the populace stupider, and easier to control. Hopefully people will finally start to wake up, before it really is too late.
“Where are the students supposed to find books?” Amazon 🙃💰💸🤑📈
That lady is awful! She's not listening to the families
She doesn’t care
Of course she does not care. Not her kids she just her to fulfill her mission
$ is very important, because teachers and school staff need to be able to survive without working two jobs.
However all the new curriculum etc etc etc is a bandaid on a missing limb..
Children need strong families, security of housing and food and parents who aren't being worked to death just to pay rent.
Greed is destroying America.
To save it, we need to invest in families, in people not corporations
I love that womans comment, we are giving your child the best education we can provide. Ok lady whats your experience with kids, what are your credentials? If u have no experience in education, the best u can provide is not good enough.
I hope the majority of teachers quit in these districts. It’s the only way parents will wake up to the damage this authoritarian test driven approach is doing to their children.
This is not the parents fault. They voted for one man and the white supremacy the republican party keeps in power decided that person was not the person he wanted. NOW we have a racist attempting to destroy the education system in Houston majority minority schools.
That's the goal. force good teachers to leave, fill the positions with under qualified yes men, privatize the school system via charter schools. Mike Miles wants to make money, not help students.
The parents already know. This was forced on the district by the state.
That's his goal. He wants us to quit.
The US already produces the worst educated graduates of the western world even though we spend more money. Even some third world countries do better than us.
We need to attract, retain and give teachers better tools and more freedom to do their jobs, not turn them into unthinking robots. And of course evaluate their results and reward or even fire them based on those results.
If you want to standardize some part of education, develop a national system of computer-based education, with AI used to evaluate weaknesses and progress to increase focus on topics that the individual students are struggling on. THEN use teachers to handle socialization and the more human aspects of education.
And for the love of God, stop moving students up the grades until they master the topics. Or maybe even get rid of the concept of grades and have students advance through the grades on a per topic basis instead of per year. So, a student might be at 7th grade math, 4th grade language(s), 6th grade science... at the same time. And graduation from school requiring mastery of all school-level topics, while possibly be allowed to start on some college courses early if they so desire and satisfy the prerequisites.
🎉 I agree, that would be a much better system. Standardized test need to go. Pray to God for support and guidance on this one. He is there for you and his children all you need to do is ask him. He will try to influence the law makers hearts. He can’t control their choices but he can control what influences and factors that happen in a persons life. For example God controls the weather.
This is horrible you can not teach kids that way. They all learn differently. I remember when I was a kid they had hooked on phonics in the classroom and a lot of kids benefited from that. If they keep going in this direction a lot of kids will be left behind.
In my opinion, the biggest obstacle any school district faces isn’t the teachers or funding, it’s the parents who don’t hold their kids accountable in schools.
Parents both work full time and see their child for 3-5 hours a day. Teachers get 8 hours a day with them.
@user-uz5ko8sv2f Funding is a major issue. To ignore that is an injustice to the children impacted.
It is the teachers who are slower then snails which is maybe 1/3
@@BunnyMan-ec4xgmy parents worked all the time when I was a kid but they were on my ass about school work and getting good grades. Some parents are just lazy and love to the blame the teachers for their bad parenting 🤷🏽♂️
Its a little bit of both. We live in a age where the poverty gap is getting larger. Poorer families dont have to luxury to spend more time with their children as the wealthy. Also single parent homes are increasing every decade. This is why Poverty always leads to higher crime rates. The correllation is there. Until we improve on the quality of life of everyday working class citizens, the more we are going to have problem with the youth. My grandfather never graduated from middle school, but he was the breadwinner in our family because of manufacturing jobs and jobs for lower class, we dont have that anymore so its been a stigma since we lost manufacturing.
What we are doing in our schools is heartbreaking
What the schools have been doing to the population for years is heartbreaking, paired with the parents who don't care.
This is what happens when the state government doesn't look like the people who live in the state.
They forgot the uncertified teachers and his not being certified
Timed curriculum? That kind of stress is completely counter to a calm learning environment. Oh yeah, we're trying to sabotage the next generation. But you still need skilled labor more than ever, so the state will truck in the replacements from foreign countries
It's Texas. They seem to hate the idea of an immigrant workforce.
As usual. Bring in the immigrants and foreign policy.
What Dystopian hell is this... no library at school, state takeover that does not allow 1 on 1 instructions, unchangeable power points?
You cant industrialize learning like this and expect good results.
Totalitarian and authoritarian government, this is what I see here. No librarians and no libraries? WTH is this? Books are a must, knowledge is power. What's happening people? Parents must do something about this madness before it's to late!! OMG 😢😢
It's like they want kids to be stupid
That's exactly what they want. A stupid populace, is a lot easier to control.
What country are we living in???
All depends on the demographic.
What?
Hell
How does getting rid of librarians help increase reading comprehension?
Teachers should be making decisions, not politicians.
Once you make it to Principal it’s literally political… I work in maintenance… All of the Directors are voted in and the Superintendents are voted in.. My license literally says political on it
I remember when he was in Dallas giving us nervous breakdowns.
The American education system should be ashamed of how they do these teachers and kids. People pay millions/billions in taxes every year just for government officials to constantly be taking important things from schools. I feel for these kids. I have hope because I see good people fighting for better education.
Conservative politicians say they are for small government and local control but their actions show otherwise.
I couldn’t imagine being in school today this sounds terrible
"we're going to raise test scores by closing libraries" - looks like the pagans figured out how to ban books 'without prejudice' ..
How to make childs stupid and mean lolll and just left with more questions
@Facefully. For you to go out your way, 😂 just proof you are still in middle school and need to feel like you are important 😂 , it was autocorrect . Lol I'm sorry you don't have a life, you had the audacity to even care 😂 , low life
@Facefully.That's not what they were trying to say...at all.
This is what they mean, “How to make children stupid, mean and just left with more questions.”
Where did you get the” I mean I am” from? You couldn't tell from the context the video provides, that they were talking about how to make a child act stupid and mean...? Of course, I could be incorrect but based on the context, as well as use of the word and, it seems like that's what they actually meant.
Even how you wrote was incorrect. It should've been - How to make children stupid. I mean, I am just left with more questions. Or How to make children stupid; I mean, I am just left with more questions.
Also, the way that you broke up the second part, doesn't really make sense even though technically it is correct. Typically, somebody would say “how old are you ? Since you're writing at a fourth grade level”
To write at a fourth grade level makes no sense, because who are you talking about? You're not directing that at anybody. You're just saying to write at a fourth grade level. Read it aloud, you'll see how weird it sounds.
If you're going to correct someone, you might want to make sure what you're saying is correct. Since even in what you thought they were trying to get across, you missed a comma.
Regardless, you have no idea why this person was typing that way. Could be they have low vision, it could be they were just typing quickly because they're tired, it could be they have a condition that makes it difficult for them to read such as dyslexia, ETC. So not only did you not correctly, correct them, you also are engaging in ableism potentially. To act like them misspelling things/have incorrect sentence structure, has anything to do with their intelligence is ridiculous, you can't base some intelligence level on misspelling one comment. You would need more data points to make an accurate conclusion.
Also, you are aware that not everybody in the world speaks English as a first language correct? Let me guess you're an American like me, since we typically seem to forget that it seems...
There are so many reasons I can think of, that could cause,a person to misspell.
Out of curiosity go, why did you feel it was necessary to make this comment? Did it make you feel better to try to put somebody else down? I made my comment, because I thought it was funny that you clearly used incorrect grammar and because bullies should be called out. But I'm curious what your reasoning was.
Job - help raise reading abilities
His answer - fire......Librarians?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
They also forgot to mention that they are so short staffed they are hiring people who aren’t certified to teach (not substitute positions) they are planning to cut half the wraparound specialist. The administrators that help service needy families and help them with food, clothing, and homelessness. The student that are testing low are the most likely to need these services. If they want to know what HISD needs it’s affordable after school services, teacher’s aids, and better diagnosing and plans for IEP’s so parents can have resources to get their students assistance. Empower parents and teachers not just coming in and firing the small population of people who actually care for children and blaming them.
Now the state will make a profit will the schools get less and less and less. This only ends poorly.
Children are our country future, please make sure they are well educated and good personalities.
Judging by what is see what walks through the halls, and who drops them off, this country has no future. I’m so glad I have no children it’s time to get out
Home. School. Co-ops. Pull out from those schools and their funding will be affected. That's what this is about for them. That's my two cents.
Need some help/encouragement parents? Let me know.
How do people who are poorly educated help their children?
@@MamaKatt First I usually ask parents, "What kind of person do you want your child to be?". They don't need a formal education for that question - only heart. From that we can get a clear sense of the values in that family and use that as a guide for setting priorities.
We work backwards from those priorities and then see how to do every day things to support that.
When it comes to academics, I like to encourage parents to tap into the resource of retired educators and administrators in their community. Ask them, "what is my child 'supposed' to be learning right now?"
Then between their guidance and the internet + a network of other parents who are able to identify their own strengths as well, they can get something going.
Having all of the answers is not what makes someone a good parent. Being willing to reach for the answer and applying the help- that's a good parent.
Schools are funded primarily through property taxes. So regardless of whether your children are home schooled (or even if you don't have kids, you will pay for public schools.
This is why schools districts in more affluent areas get more funding then those in poorer areas. Enrollment levels have very little to do with it.
Your solution will only have some schools close due to enrollment being too low to justify staff and maintenance costs of buildings until an equilibrium is reestablished. This would create a scenario of a relatively few high funded/supported schools. But once that happens, there now will no longer be enough schools if enrollment goes up for any reason, creating a worse problem in the future if the district grows.
@@christracey5813 The pot from which the public school drawers is filled with funds from property taxes primarily, that is true. But a school with a lower enrollment number, and/or children that are missing days over the allotted amount per month where they can still be counted as really being a student there... That school will receive less funding than a school that is full. We know that because it's logical.
The point of my comment however is not to stick it to the public schools. It is to offer an actual alternative which is that the children do not have to be enrolled in public school or even associated with it.
Here in Florida and at least in my school district it is very difficult to even homeschool your children without being counted under the umbrella of the public school, because then they get to--- count the children as students and get the funding related to those numbers.
But parents are the ones in charge of their child's education, whether or not they choose to outsource the day-to-day teaching.
*Also here, the child can apply for a home school voucher that pools from that same property taxes funding and goes back to the parent who is homeschooling so that they can use it in their child's education. Essentially it is kind of like the step Up scholarship for families that want to send their child to a private school.
It's usually someone who has no idea what librarians do that de-value them. Yes, you can be ignorant even when you're educated.
What role do inattentive parents play here?
The problem is bureaucracies. Most of the people who fill their most important positions are incompetent !
Why would anybody want to shut down a school library and get rid of it staff and take away extracurricular activities as well and classes such as music and art?
Education and schools should be controlled by a federal institution, and the curriculum should be the same in every school district and every state. The current practice of every district and every school doing its own thing is a dumpster fire.
PAUSE! IF SHE SAYS THE MISSION IS THE BEST EDUCATION, would that not be, I don't know PERSONALIZED? Arent we all different and dont we all learn a little (or a lot) differently? The reaction to the failing education system is to MAKE IT WORSE!? glad I am im higher ed now and will NOT be sending my children to ANY state controlled schooling system, UNLESS they take a proper, individualized approach. Is it difficult? yes, When was the easy thing worth it? Never.
And another thing, they plan on one day returning it back to local control? Oh sure, only after ruining MORE children's love of learning, love of the system and more faith in the world and in the country. We do all these things to ourselves and wonder why life is so difficult??
I have no kids. HISD is useless. Yet my property taxes are mostly HISD. This is such BS.
Kids need more one on one attention. That’s what is effective-interaction with a teacher that puts them on the spot to answer and be corrected. That requires personal attention, and a smaller class size. Passively watching a PPT or doing a work sheet on your own is not as effective as interaction over the material with other students and ideally a teacher.
This man doesn't allow for independent reading time either. Even if the students bring a book from home.
The curriculum does not align with the state teks nor does it allow to differentiate for our high performing or low performing students.
The spot observations are led by inexperienced or previously fired administrators from neighboring districts.
The district created tests have shown less than 1% growth in a year over various contents.
He is just all around terrible, on top of being a theif
Atm our kids are not doing well. Something does need to change.
Most teachers with experience know how to make a lesson work for that particular group of kids. If the school districts would just trust their teachers and allow for creativity and personalization I think the schools would improve. Keep the focus on the traditional core subjects rather than politics, and let the teachers have some creativity to develop interesting lessons in each subject.
Also, the libraries need to be expanded, not closed! Kids should have access to all kinds of books, magazines, and newspapers, particularly in hard copy format to minimize the distractions that come with screen-based reading.
Homeschool co-ops are the only recourse for our students.
Reading isn’t enough.
Hands on work & interaction is what true learning is about.
Books only get anyone so far… mainly because it only offers 1 perspective.
these kids are now officially owned by the corporation.
As a former hisd student I don't feel sorry
Whenever an administration official uses terms like “for the kids,” “research based,” or “best practice,” it’s usually anything but! I wish interviewers would start asking follow up questions like “Specifically how does this benefit kids?, Which study is that from? What makes it a best practice?” The fact is most of these school takeovers have very little to do with improving student achievement but more to do with furthering a political agenda.
My district is a disaster and I mean disaster. So how do you fix it?
Is it racist to allow a substandard school system to continue to graduate unprepared students?
You lost control of your schools because your school board and superintendent were failing to educate the kids
Improve reading and take away librarians!!😂
This is what happens when you have incompetent and or corrupt local school officials and board members. At at school district In South Texas, the entire board resigned under disgrace and some were even convicted of fraud. Then the TEA stepped in and cleaned up the district as the corruption was far too deep.
‘They mean to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.’
Is there a coralation between school districts where funds for public schools are diverted to charter schools vs school districts with their funding intact and no charter schools?
The ex-librarian has the right idea. Communities can circumvent this garbage if they care about the kids and get involved in working with them outside of this broken system. I'll never say that this is easy to do, though. Government-controlled agencies have often blocked my efforts to do community science outreach, because governments at every level deeply fear a truly educated populace. School-to-prison pipelines do generate good revenue for those on the prison side. Capitol riots committed by people who never learned how to think for themselves generate amazing ratings for the mainstream media.
The really big question we all have to answer is: whose country is this?
7:52 diversity for the sake of diversity 🙄 is not the point
Dallas is next. Today is my last day at DISD. I'm leaving for a small town. Thank goodness!
As much as I would love to be a teacher there are so many things preventing actual learning and teaching thats why teaching college is better because of the freedom colleges give you
3:16 this is about money not goi a teachers
Yay! Parents are withdrawing their kids and putting them in charter schools to have teachers compete for jobs by having schools close due to low enrollment.
It will force a change that our children need.
So no librarian? A timed lesson? Teachers immediately being basically fired for what might be nothing?
Also kids learn the best through play and simply just enjoying it!
I remember things I've learned better from having fun and enjoying it.
Those changes are bulls***! And help no one! This isn't the early 1900s, its the 2020s. Why do we even have standardized tests still as well? 😡
I used to be a teacher. The problem is that every student has the same learning style which makes it difficult.
Standardized test killed well rounded education. We add outside activities for my granddaughters and my daughter has chosen to home school because of it
I left teaching and went to the medical Pharmacist It’s better. Same politics as usual but at least you’re in control of most things. Best choice ever. Less stress
What happened to the Board of Directors ?
Apparently these nes schools don't allow decorations, no field trips, and no libraries. Horrible.
This is true
@@VeeAlee teachers can’t decorate their own room?
@@RO-rv3fj I wouldn't say that. He wants his charts and mrs strategies up that was created by the district. He doesn't see the use of cutesy decorations. He is about functionality.
@@VeeAlee oh I see. This is so scary for teachers and students.
I live in Houston, no one has anything
Good to say about Miles.
do they really care about their students? perhaps the administration should get their craps together so that the state don't have a reason to take over their district.
Know your worth Teachers. Students must also be protected from state garbage
We pay for schools so i think we should have a say so. By community and areas. Parents with children in school should have priority in say so.
Why didn’t the state and schools find a solution way before now????
Texas Republicans haven't increased funding for education since 2019.
Because people can’t stop playing politics or just don’t understand, frankly I’d be surprised if there was 1 politician(elected or appointed) who knew anything about education
What's the goal? To teach children basic skills or employment, unions and politics.
Yea I see a lot of people quitting this job.
Oomg we need Montessori schools
In Texas? Doesn’t surprise me a single bit.
This type of crap right here is one of the many reasons why I left Texas. Our school systems already sucked so bad but hey lets make them worse, as long as they are pre programed to obey a system (no matter how ridiculous) then they got what they wanted. Why would they want people to think & grow as individuals, that's dangerous after all.
I wonder: if the state control led to similar test scores, then there must be positives from local AND state. They each had their own unique set of negatives that made the scores a wash. A committee needs to figure out what worked in bothe models and make a third, perhaps...
What the hell is this foreign guy running our school
County offices of education, and city school districts cost a fortune to run , its almost 50 percent of the money before it gets into the classroom, but not sure that a state run system could really do any better
Wow 😲😲😲!!!!
Some texas librarians already work part-time.. and many schools don't even have full-time Nurses!! For when a kid gets hurt or sick..
The Nurse comes in on Wednesday but wont be there on Thursday.. half day on Tuesday.. and even the cafeteria ladies and office staff are all volunteers 🙋♀️
Who make zero money or minimum wage (and don't get full-time)
The state already cut programs like art, music, and science.. went to a public school where they only get science once a week, and they just lost the music teacher (who only came barely twice a month)
Paper and supplies gets rationed like we live in the World War 2 times..
the state of Texas charges taxes on everything we buy.. you think they could afford the kids a proper school
I'm retiring this year after 30 years in HISD. Miles was appointed by Gov Abbot and his underling Mike Morath. It's been an unmitigated disaster. The goal may be to raise test scores but the real goal is to break the back of public education and introduce vouchers. I was offered a contract with the possibility of making more money than I ever have ($94,000) but there's no way I'd submit myself to the hoops you have to jump through. It's just not worth it.
I will say that closing libraries at the high school level is not such a terrible thing. Kids don't read books unless they are assigned....like it or not cell phones and laptops have taken their place. All the books in our library were distributes to classrooms and kids have access to them there.
School choice
Standardized test learning does not improve what happens in the classroom. You neglect a students special interest and needs and substitute it for your image of what school should be. Give the teachers the opportunity to nurture and teach these students
I wonder how many of these schools that lost their teachers still have plenty of sports teams? Hmmm…what REALLY is going on?
4:34 Forcing conformity.This is the reason why we're pushing texas out of higher educational learning.
We're going to force it into isolation for a catastrophic collapse.
Push the states leadership into an aggressive stance before wiping the mount in a civil war.
They needed to go into more details about what Miles did to HISD. Library into discipline centers, Texas money send to colorado, the teacher evaluation system that MANDATES a certain percentage on any campus must be under performing. Furthermore, the connection between this takeover and the targeting of Harris County's election system.
Fire Mike Miles!
Want kids to get vetter grades.
Liveable wages. When parents arent worried every hour about how theyre going tocpay the rent, keep the car (to go tocwork in this car centric civilization), put food on the table, get healthcare when needed, etc
Youll find they are able to stay involved in their kids education and behavior. Schools cannot makeup for the lack of surviveability
notice how they always take away the things that help kids library art music drama and keep the sports so sad to see this happen this is what happens when the school is run like a corporate business children need love and encouragement not more stress then they put on solders going though basic training and kids like Sammy Teusch get lost in the mess