Oh My, Denver
“Denver Public Schools argued a drop in school attendance was due to a new Trump administration policy of not shielding schools from ICE raids“
“A federal judge has ruled against the Denver public schools system’s attempts to block immigration officials from carrying out raids on school grounds, marking a win for the Trump administration as it looks to ramp up its deportation efforts.“
“The school system also argued that rescinding the policy had caused schools to devote time and resources to teaching students and staff how to remain safe from immigration enforcement.“
What the Denver Public Schools didn’t bring up is that they receive Federal funding based on the number of students enrolled. Even I remember those two days a year when the schools begged us to “Please, oh please, come to school” on such and such a day.
Yeah, I’ll be hard-hearted – I have a wife that went through the legal process of becoming a citizen. It’s not a simple or easy process (it’s a pain in the butt actually). Those people are here illegally, costing money that could be used for legal residents, and should be deported. As they say: “The family that gets deported together, stays together“
I would suggest to Denver Public Schools to quit teaching staff and students to break certain laws and padding the enrollment numbers – and that if they wish to continue in such manner, that they do so on Denver dollars, not Federal funds.
But that would mean a return to semi-private, locally-funded schools, eh?
And somehow, I doubt Denver residents would go for it once they knew how much would come out of their pockets and not mine and yours.
Schools should be supported by local communities … preferably by those with school age children – though that could be debated. But not Federal funds.
For 30 years at least public schools have been nothing but very expensive day care centers where uncaring and/or retarded people store their charges.
Public school – you are forced to attend them for 12 years and then forced to pay for them for the rest of your life. Such a deal.
To which I say, “OFF WITH THEIR NUTZ!”
From the great Roger Scruton:
What’s the point of education? – Spectator Life Nov 16
From this, by a kind of creeping egalitarianism, we edge towards the conclusion that the state must make no distinctions, that children should not be sorted by their abilities and aptitudes, and that even exams should be downgraded or at least not made to look as though they were the final goal. When it comes to schooling, the educationists add, we, the experts, are bound to be better informed than the parents, who should feel no qualms in surrendering their children to the beneficent care of a state that acts always on our wise advice.
The assumption has been, in other words, that education exists for the sake of the child. In my view the state takes an interest in education only because it has another and more urgent interest in something else — namely knowledge. Knowledge is a benefit to everyone, including those who do not and cannot acquire it. How many of our citizens could build a nuclear power station, judge a case in Chancery, read a grant of land in mediaeval Latin, conduct a Mozart concerto, solve an equation in aerodynamics, repair a railway engine? We don’t need to have the knowledge ourselves, provided there are others, the experts, who possess it. And the more we outsource our memory and information to our iPhones and laptops, the more those experts are needed. If that is so, then the state must ensure that education, however available and however distributed, will reproduce our store of knowledge, and if possible add to it.
There may come a time when children and their teachers cease to hear about
the Dark Ages. People may then no longer understand that knowledge can be lost as well as gained, as our store of knowledge was lost for 400 years, before being slowly and painfully recuperated.
Here, it seems to me, is where the educationists have misled us. The state, they have told us, has a duty towards each child, and no child must be made to feel inferior to any other.
Although that is true, the state has another and greater duty which is a duty towards us all — namely, the duty to conserve the knowledge that we need, which can be passed on only with the help of the children able to acquire it.
Do you agree with that?
Seems reasonable to me although the state is no better then its people. We have a pretty large divide between the left and right. The fact that the left is outraged with DOGE spending cuts and is defending this outright thievery of taxpayer dollars is not logical to me.
My two kids went to Catholic school K-12. Those schools did not put up with the purple hair, faggotry and wokeness. Kaupun High School is named after Father Kapaun who won the Medal of Honor in Korea. There is a large display in the school honoring this man including his Medal of Honor citation. One of the best decisions I ever made in life was to not send my kids to public school.
I’m rather torn about whether or when young students should be divided according to their abilities and aptitudes. This was done to the extreme in schools in the UK and on the continent until the early 1960s and was detrimental to many young people who simply developed intellectually and emotionally at different (slower) rates. They were forced into directions that were irreversible.
On the other hand having advanced classes available for those who can and want to take them, as many schools have in the USA, is a great thing. And competition is a great thing.
I went to a school where we had an annual “Prize Days”. Prizes were awarded to those in each grade who had achieved the highest marks in individual subjects and to those with the highest marks overall. No one was made to feel inferior; rather, achievement was admired, celebrated and through the celebration encouraged in everyone. The same applied in sports.
So, yes I do believe we need to nurture students in way that provides them the skills and intellect to receive accumulated knowledge, to understand their culture and it’s origins and to be curious enough to seek new knowledge. All for the benefit of the future.
If the State has duties, they are certainly to its citizens and preserving knowledge and culture should be among them. What I wrote above was only an extract from Scruton’s article. Perhaps I should have included more of it as he makes, in my view, some excellent points.
The irony of the Denver story (because I have a long memory when it comes to gubmint BS) is how the mayors of Denver and Aurora, and I think even the fugn state AG, said up & down that there were no im. gangs there. “Nothing to see here!” Fast Forward to now and the rats are scurrying. Turns out the schools themselves are harboring ill eagles, and now it’s their Marxist weapon against Trump.
Either they are there, or they aren’t. Which is it, Che?