[ksen]

From what I hear from co-workers and neighbors who are parents, most of the teachers don't even know their own material.

From what I hear most teachers do not send their own children to the public school system.

[Overtaxed]

From what I hear most teachers do not send their own children to the public school system.

Ditto that!

I've worked with ex-teachers, folks whose mothers were teachers and left, people that decided not to teach, etc. I don't bring up the public school situation unless I want to get an earful!

About this reform thing. "Traditional" public schools have done/ are doing anything possible to sink the charter schools here.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think that might be an urban phenomenon perhaps... If the schools are bad. But they may not want to send their kids to the school they work in for other reasons, even in good schools.

My mom taught in public schools... She taught Special Ed, so not even classes we would have been in. But when my older brother got to high school age, she switched and taught at the other high school in town. She didn't want to teach at the school we were in.

She didn't want us to have to have our Mommy at school all the time. It would have changed school for us, and probably changed her relationships in her job. Her bosses should be her bosses, and her child's teachers and administrators should not be her superiors or suborninates in the pecking order of seniority and workplace relations. They may send their kids to other schools for that reason.