Distance Learning = Lost Revenue

Boo Hoo. Educrats are now crying because they realize that playing political games with people's liberty has its downside. Mask mandates have made people angry, and they have looked for solutions. Many parents have chosen to have their children do distance learning rather than have them suffocate all day behind a breath-obstruction device. The kids themselves realized that they could complete assignments and still have time left in the day, so they got jobs. 

Problem is, schools don't get the federal funding when kids learn at home. The big lesson is that federal funding should not be involved in local education. The other lesson is that Americans like their liberty and don't like being told to sacrifice their immune systems for a "disease" that has 99% recovery rate, with children being the age group least affected. Administrators chose to play politics instead of doing what was right for the students, and they lost. And are losing. There's an old saying that 'you reap what you sow." 

The same educrats equating children's absences from the classroom with future failure in the real world are forgetting the real data from Texas Education Agency's  2017-18 School Report Card for Lockhart High School  -- that Lockhart ISD is sending young people into the work world illiterate.  

Only 3% (2017) and 4% (2018) had mastery of grade level in Reading and  3% (2017) and 5% (2018) in Math? Isn't that a 96% -97% FAILURE RATE?   What business, other than education, can have such abysmally low return on investment and not be bankrupt?


“If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.”  – Ronald Reagan​


And what happened to that $650K investment in distance learning? Remember that TIME article where Supt. Estrada was hailed as a hero for that?  Did all those wireless Internet towers get pulled down?  Why can't older students who are working still take advantage of distance learning? Why not do what is best for the students instead of manipulating their education to get the most money?  


Maybe the young people who have found full-time jobs are actually doing some math.  They have calculated the life reality of the economic system and found that being held hostage by a broken system that uses them as mere tokens for educrats' paychecks doesn't work for them as well as trading their labor for a paycheck of their own. 

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