Education
- Education
- In 2016, about 1 in 10 students in the state attended a low-performing school.
- Less than half of Missouri’s school children are proficient in Math.
- Only two-thirds are proficient in English.
- Missouri is the only state in the nation with a growing proficiency gap on NAEP tests.
- Missouri has the seventh lowest rate in the nation of students scoring a three or higher on an AP exam.
- Only 15 % of Missouri business owners believe that Missouri high schools are preparing students for the workplace.
- In the 2022-2023 school year, 76.6% of Missouri students attended class at least 90% of the time. Missing more than 10% of school days is the benchmark for chronic absenteeism.
- Thousands of students in Missouri and Kansas have left public school in the last four years, in line with a national trend of more families disengaging from public education.
- Surging violence in our schools, at all grade levels.
These are terrible statistics. In fact, the benchmarks are set too low. Our educators have been lowering those bars for years, trying to hide their failures with our children. In reality, the school system is much worse than the numbers show. Our schools today focus on teaching social agendas, like gender confusion. They have removed basic skills like we were taught in school decades ago. We need to get back to teaching the truth. No more social agendas and historical lies like Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the 1619 project misrepresenting what the founding of America was based on and promoting radical racism against white people. We need to be teaching topics like; reading, math, science, history, auto mechanic and handyman skills, budgeting in the real world, home economics and caring for families, resume and job-hunting skills – things that are practical and needed for everyday life. We also need to teach some courses on common sense and logic. Bring prayer and the pledge of allegiance back to school. The bible belongs in every school library. Today, they only allow child porn, satanic and pagan bibles, as well as other material we do not want our children exposed to. We must train our children to provide a bright future for Missouri and America or our country and their families, or all will be lost.
I will support school choice, not only does it give parents the option for better schools and environments to send their children for learning, it will force our public schools to cleanup their act or close due to lack of students. There is no valid reason for parents to allow public schools to continue as they have been in the past. Either educate our children properly or go out of business when we move the kids to good private schools.
Source: https://www.ceamteam.org/7-facts-about-education-in-missouri/
https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/fatal-flaw-of-the-1619-project-curriculum/
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/the-five-lies-crt