Blueprint for Maryland’s Future Destroys Local Budgets and Squeezes Out Local Programs Best for Students
It’s been on the horizon for quite a while. Like a nuclear bomb set to destroy local budgets and local control of education, the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future will explode this year and negate local governance by counties and local school boards.
The Blueprint isn’t anything new. It was created in 2016 under the name “Kirwan Legislation.” A group of appointed education “gurus” and bureaucratic “experts” got together to create a top-down program that they insisted would make our schools better. They studied educated systems in Finland, Shanghai, Singapore and Ontario, Canada. They also studied schools in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New Hampshire. Is there anything that strikes you as unique about those systems?
None of those systems are at all like any school system in Maryland. Three of the systems come from countries where both population, values, and structure of schools and government are completely different from Maryland’s.
Here’s an article on Chinese schools: 6 Details You Need to Know About Schools in China (yoyochinese.com) As you read the article, you will conclude like I did that NO American parent or child would tolerate the way Chinese schools teach. Their schools are about as different from U.S. schools as their Communist Government is different from ours. This article from 2014 explores the differences more specifically: Here’s the truth about Shanghai schools: they’re terrible | Saga Ringmar | The Guardian
And then Singapore: 8 Facts about Education in Singapore – The Borgen Project The thing that struck me about their schools is that parents must pay for schooling, if even a small fee. Their school days are longer and teachers are expected to work much longer for much less pay. Again, can’t imagine much of that working here in the United States. The Unions don’t like the current workload of teachers as it is.
Wes wants Moore…indeed. Read that DelDot is making plans for the REPLACEMENT of the Route 54 bridge coming from going to Fenwick Island. Its the bridge next to Harpoons. That bridge will be in place years prior too the needed replacement of the route 50 draw bridge and expansion of route 90 to dual lanes. Uh…Wes takes Moore means forgitaboutit for a dual lanes new bridges for Route 90. SHA placed it on a long term plan which includes millions for a engineering advice. Major difference small millions and huge billions. A study is needed regardless. Do it now than later since prices will be more when it is built by 2050. But the route 50 DRAWBRIDGE needs to be replaced now.
Yet DelDot is moving forward since route 54 is a major access point for south Del Beaches….and when route 50 is closed, others use route 54 to get to the north end of OC.