Ever heard of JROTC instructors?What makes you think a math teacher who actually is barely proficient at math and actually got hired to coach football or a washed-up gender studies major "wine aunt" teaching language arts is going to know it?
Because that's who you're going to end up having it be taught by, if you try to outsource it to teachers. They skew massively left (even in pretty red areas), most of them have never seen a gun and would react to one like Swalwell did. And that's on top of the fact that they're going to be trying to be teaching thirty or so students instead of one, and trying to fit it into an hour, tops.
A better solution might be to have the government offer to reimburse people some of the cost of safety training they undertake elsewhere?
I think one big problem us on the right do is we keep falling over this stupid meme of "small gubamit" What we need is to make sure teachers, police, military, judges, and other civil servants are right leaning instead of just allowing communists to infest the government. Obviously we don't want to have a big totalitarian government that does everything, but allowing a bigger government so that it can protect against communists may be a necesity.What makes you think a math teacher who actually is barely proficient at math and actually got hired to coach football or a washed-up gender studies major "wine aunt" teaching language arts is going to know it?
Because that's who you're going to end up having it be taught by, if you try to outsource it to teachers. They skew massively left (even in pretty red areas), most of them have never seen a gun and would react to one like Swalwell did. And that's on top of the fact that they're going to be trying to be teaching thirty or so students instead of one, and trying to fit it into an hour, tops.
A better solution might be to have the government offer to reimburse people some of the cost of safety training they undertake elsewhere?
I think one big problem us on the right do is we keep falling over this stupid meme of "small gubamit" What we need is to make sure teachers, police, military, judges, and other civil servants are right leaning instead of just allowing communists to infest the government. Obviously we don't want to have a big totalitarian government that does everything, but allowing a bigger government so that it can protect against communists may be a necesity.
I guess I'd have requirements that they'd have to pass to be instructors for it.What makes you think a math teacher who actually is barely proficient at math and actually got hired to coach football or a washed-up gender studies major "wine aunt" teaching language arts is going to know it?
I guess I'd have requirements that they'd have to pass to be instructors for it.
Which is also a practice that needs to stop. We really do need to focus on education again, and not just by blindly throwing money at the problem like Democrats seem to think will work. Usually that just ends up lining the pockets of administrators and coaches anyway.
But you're right that as these institutions are currently controlled by the enemy, we need to minimize their role in our lives- and furthermore, we need to minimize and handicap them. Putting more power into the hands of those who hate us is foolish- but surrendering the field and hoping they'll leave us alone is just as foolish.
Which is also a practice that needs to stop. We really do need to focus on education again, and not just by blindly throwing money at the problem like Democrats seem to think will work. Usually that just ends up lining the pockets of administrators and coaches anyway.
Blindly throwing money at the problem doesn't help, but the problem of teacher understaffing is fundamentally a consequence of the undeniable fact that K-12 teaching pretty much has the lowest pay, worst hours, and least social prestige of any job that requires postgraduate education. Between dealing with that, dealing with student misbehavior, dealing with "Karen" parents, and dealing with school administrators. . . there's a reason so many people who could have been great teachers end up going "Oh fuck no."
And in an ironic converse, college professors get vastly more social prestige (although not necessarily much more pay, if they're part-time associate professors as opposed to tenured faculty) even though they actually don't necessarily have postgraduate education.
One thing to keep in mind about Ruby Ridge, Waco, and doubtless numerous other cases where people try to isolate themselves from the system. While the government has stepped in to crush groups or individuals who tried to isolate themselves, most people who isolate themselves aren't killed or significantly persecuted by the state. That may change in the future, but for now only a small minority are targeted in that way. Keep in mind that any battle strategy, even highly successful ones, is going to have casualties and is going to occasionally fail. Voting often fails to accomplish anything and violence often fails to accomplish anything. Will removing ourselves from the system, to the degree that we are able to, also fail from time to time? Sure, it will, but I think that it would be more successful, more moral, and less risky than violence while being more effective than voting, which you can still do.We've seen how going full Benedict Option plays out:
But you're right that as these institutions are currently controlled by the enemy, we need to minimize their role in our lives- and furthermore, we need to minimize and handicap them. Putting more power into the hands of those who hate us is foolish- but surrendering the field and hoping they'll leave us alone is just as foolish.
Blindly throwing money at the problem doesn't help, but the problem of teacher understaffing is fundamentally a consequence of the undeniable fact that K-12 teaching pretty much has the lowest pay, worst hours, and least social prestige of any job that requires postgraduate education. Between dealing with that, dealing with student misbehavior, dealing with "Karen" parents, and dealing with school administrators. . . there's a reason so many people who could have been great teachers end up going "Oh fuck no."
And in an ironic converse, college professors get vastly more social prestige (although not necessarily much more pay, if they're part-time associate professors as opposed to tenured faculty) even though they actually don't necessarily have postgraduate education.
Over-credentialing is a huge part of the problem. At the root level, collegiate education is completely unnecessary for teaching K-6 at the least, and almost certainly 7-12. If you can graduate those with good grades, you have the basic material understanding to teach them, and teaching the material will help you master it further.
Does France have any riots like what we have been having here thanks to George Floyd?This is a fascinating debate, perhaps it deserve its own thread?
When is there no protest/riot? There is always something going on, especially in Paris, Yellow vest, protest against the new security bill, protest demanding intervention against the president of Senegal...Does France have any riots like what we have been having here thanks to George Floyd?