Curriculum and textbook writers are dominated by liberal and even revolutionary thinkers. Read you kids history book, it will stun you.
Students are allowed to behave as they wish without limits. Combined with mainstreaming all students together regardless of capability, skills, aptitude, attitude and mental health has turned the classroom into a cattle pen of behavioral problems.
Parents will sue for any reason anytime. Administrators are scared to death of this. Special Ed IEPs use more educator time that preparing lessons. Every parent thinks their kid is incapable of being a brat.
Administrators are teachers promoted to their highest level of incompetency. Most principals don't have any experience in operating a large business or dealing with suppliers and contractors. Yet they are placed in near complete charge of financial and facility improvements in their school.
School districts are enamored with computer technology. Computers are the classroom babysitting equivalent of the TV or video game at home. Students that understand the technology are deluded into thinking they are educated because they can access files on a computer that provide answers rather than actually derive an answer from knowledge and analysis.
When given money school districts spend it on new buildings, supplemental technology and motivational seminars/lectures for teacher in service meetings. It rarely goes directly to something that benefits student performance. They never spend it on textbooks and teaching resources, supplies or classroom furnishings.
Way too many teachers are the kids who loved being in school and entered the profession so they could stay in a Peter Pan world.
Beware of any teacher that sponsors all the social clubs. They may not be predators but may be so socially underdeveloped that they identify more with the 15 year olds rather than the adults in their life.
I am a retired high school teacher. I taught vocational classes in electronics and I taught physics and intro to engineering. Before that I spent 9 years in the USAF and then 12 years as a quality assurance engineer in General Dynamics on the Tomahawk, M-1 and F-16 programs.
“Way too many teachers are the kids who loved being in school and entered the profession so they could stay in a Peter Pan world.”
That’s the money comment right there. Well done sir.
That has very much been my observation since high school. Putting my daughter through school only reinforced the notion.