[okie01]

And we wonder why so many are fat and listless.

And alienated.

The "keep 'em quiet and drug 'em" mentality seems to trace to teachers. FReeper teachers, take no offense -- I'm not talking about you.

Teachers who don't know their subject, can't engage the kids to teach it effectively and, thus, can't maintain control of their classroom. The whole motivation for the public education hierarchy is no longer to "teach", but to "control".

What has happened to public education (recognizing that the subject school in this thread is a Catholic school) is an absolute shame.

[Clintonfatigued]

That was a great posting.

However, Public Education has never, at any time, been a bastion of academic excellence. It's always been boring and alienating.

[wintertime]

FReeper teachers, take no offens
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Teachers are supposed to be professionals, or at least, they claim to be.

Other professionals are held to professional standards. If they don't meet these standards, choose to ignore them, or willing do action that hurts a client or patient, they are guilty of malpractice.

Teachers using methods that they know, or should know, are ineffective or harmful, are guilty of malpractice. These teachers absolutely should be blamed!

Yes, we should blame teachers. We should blame teachers who open the doors to schools that emotionally, physically, socially, or educationally hurt children.

If teachers were true professionals, they would do as other professionals do. They would refuse the job, or they would do what was right, regardless of how much parents or principals complained, nagged, or whined.

Instead of behaving professionally, teachers use ineffective teaching methods, and follow school policies that hurt children, and then expect to the President to award them the Mother Teresa award in the Rose Garden.