“As a public teacher, some complains I’ve seen:
1. Common Core
2. The Yearly Push for each district’s stupid new educational theory.
3. $100,000 curriculum heads that sit in their offices vs. $40,000 classroom teachers.
4. No support on suspensions, expulsions, and general punishment.
5. Overall micromanagement.
6. No school community, a “keep off the radar” mentality
7. Too many teachers EXPECTED to do extra-curricular activities
8. Little support on student failures
9. Non-administration “observations”
10. Kids that generally are allowed to run rampant
11. Sports take precedence over academics.
I don’t see these at my school because we have a good district and a good school, but these are out there.”
I’ve seen most of these at my school. Add to that expectations of continuing education, planning, parent conferences, before and after school tutoring,and Saturday school, ALL on our own “FREE” time (What, you have to go pick your kids up from the sitter? Too bad! These kids are more important!) Add individualized IEP’s for dang near every kid and a community of “parents” who are all trying to get you to help them to scam SSI money, why aren’t we all teachers? There is that one other thing. I actually enjoy the teaching part. But then I get to come here and read about how sorry we all are and how we are all just drones for the NEA (I’m not). Sigh......
Lots of public school teachers in my family. But times have changed since then. Discipline nonexistent, apparently, and no christian influence, and . . .I’m hoping that the KhanAcademy approach - whether by Khan or by a Christian organization - will ultimately free us from the need for brick-and-mortar schools. Just for efficiency and educational effectiveness. Bureaucracy is not the answer.