Public education is nothing more than a jobs program for illiterate dumb unemployable liberal arts majors. Sure there are good teachers. But good teachers can not overcome the idiocy that is the public education bureaucracy. Students are warehoused and indoctrinated to be good little political pawns.
Curricula are no longer determined by teachers. They are dictated by the administration, who got them from the Powers On High. This is a result of politicians and businesspeople poking their noses where they don't belong, manipulating curricula to suit THEIR needs, not the needs of the kids. Teachers have no choice in the matter of what to teach and how to teach it. They must also now waste huge amounts of their time correlating data instead of writing good lesson plans and designing interesting activities for the kids.
Meanwhile, teachers are no longer allowed to discipline students. They are actually at the mercy of students and must curry favor with them, lest they falsely accuse the teacher of things the teacher never did or said, resulting in the teacher being up on charges and in danger of losing their job. Teachers who have the dean remove disruptive students can count on that student being sprung and returned to destroy their class before the ending bell, with the student smirking up a storm, knowing there are no consequences for the damage they did to the rest of the class, disrupting their learning time.
I seriously doubt that YOU would last more than a few minutes in a classroom, particularly an inner city classroom. You want to call people names? Look in the mirror.
My wife is a teacher of 35 years standing. She teaches Special Ed which is the red haired step child of Education and no one in supervisory positions wants to hear anything about it. She gets to actually teach stuff and some of her “learning disabled” kids read and cipher (remember that word?)better than the “mainstream” kids. She does lots of phonics and rote. Rote is what primary school kids’ brains are good for. They don’t figure and reason so well yet but their brains are empty and voracious databanks. A teacher who understands things knows to fill up those databanks with useful information so that when kids’ brains are developed enough to reason they have something to reason about. They actually know stuff.