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To: TheDingoAteMyBaby

You need to think about your comment - it actually agrees with the author.

Why do you suppose we have homeschoolers now?

Anyway - their success has little to do with the teachers and everything to do with direct parent:child involvement. (We homeschool.)

I will venture to guess you are <35?

40+ years ago - a completely different intellectual/cultural class were teachers. They commanded respect - even from smart kids. In the current world - a smart person feels uncomfortable in a school.

It is as if you took all of the engineers at Boeing and replaced them with draftsmen. Nothing jusdgemental - but - reality.

It is just an unintended consequence of massive societal change - the leftist “forgot” to take into account the effect changing the entire teaching profession would have.

The discrimination was wrong - but those old teachers were smart.


15 posted on 03/15/2011 10:52:41 PM PDT by Eldon Tyrell
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To: Eldon Tyrell

I agree that we’ve dumbed down education in this society and that affects the pool of teachers. But the student demographics have changed, too. A large number of children are products of divorce, single-parent families, abuse and neglect situations. Many have parents who not English-language proficient. So I wouldn’t totally compare modern teachers to old school teachers without taking into consideration that they are dealing with problems less prevalent 40 years ago.


16 posted on 03/15/2011 11:31:55 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
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