cause they can afford to???
Posted on 08/11/2012 3:36:45 PM PDT by grundle
The Washington Times reports:
“Nationwide, public school teachers are almost twice as likely as other parents to choose private schools for their own children, the study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found. More than 1 in 5 public school teachers said their children attend private schools.”
“In Washington (28 percent), Baltimore (35 percent) and 16 other major cities, the figure is more than 1 in 4. In some cities, nearly half of the children of public school teachers have abandoned public schools.”
“In Philadelphia, 44 percent of the teachers put their children in private schools; in Cincinnati, 41 percent; Chicago, 39 percent; Rochester, N.Y., 38 percent. The same trends showed up in the San Francisco-Oakland area, where 34 percent of public school teachers chose private schools for their children; 33 percent in New York City and New Jersey suburbs; and 29 percent in Milwaukee and New Orleans.”
Wow! That’s a huge percentage of public school teachers who send their own children to private schools. I wonder why they do that. Let’s see what the education bureaucrats have to say about this. The article continues:
“Michael Pons, spokesman for the National Education Association, the 2.7-million-member public school union, declined a request for comment on the study’s findings. The American Federation of Teachers also declined to comment.”
Of course those bureaucrats have no comment. Can you imagine the CEO of Coco-Cola being caught drinking Pepsi? Or the CEO of Ford being caught driving a Toyota? Or Bill Gates being caught using Linux? Any of those incidents would be hugely embarrassing. So of course the bureaucrats who run the teachers’ unions don’t want to explain why so many public school teachers send their own children to private schools.
The teachers who work in the public schools know a lot about how good or bad those public schools are. So the fact that so many public school teachers send their own children to private schools tells us a lot about how good or bad the public schools are.
........to ask the question is to answer it Grasshopper.
Report Abuse on yourself and ask to fix the title (it is the fastest way to get the AM’s attention).
Ok, now your tagline is stuck in my head to the tune of Hulk Hogan’s old entrace song.
They are paid so well they can afford it
cause they can afford to???
i shoulda known...
>Why do so many public school teachers sent their own children to private schools?<
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Has anyone noticed that many muslims send their kids to Christian private schools, especially their daughters?
Probably because they’re not as dumb as their students end up.
Probably because good teachers know that the public schools are filled with students who are behaviorally and academically unprepared to be educated and parents who have little or no involvement in the schools or their child’s education. Plus, public school administrations place more emphasis on children passing the standardized tests than actually learning.
I don’t think 3 is true at all. I think most teachers are happy with public school indoctrination. Hell, they are the ones doing the liberal, global warming, touchy feely, zero-tolerance, anti-religion, anti-history, pro-feminist, pro-gay indoctrination. But your #1 and #2 are dead on.
I agree that the few conservative teachers fit your #3 in spades, but I’m not so sure most of those sending their children to private schools are conservatives. I think it is about education, discipline and very much about safety.
It is much less likely for your kid to suffer a beat down in private school, because the guilty kid will be summarily expelled. Kids don’t get away with sassing and threatening teachers in private schools the way they do in public schools. You don’t have the playground crime or the massive drug use in the higher grades. All that stuff is policed and violators are suspended or expelled. It is a bit of different world in private school.
All this, the public school teachers well know.
Back in the really old days, teaching was an honorable profession with dedicated professionals. Today, not so much, mostly a bunch of unionist grabbing for all they can get and marking time until their pensions come due. Are there good professional teachers? Yes. But they are few and far between and generally leave the profession or suffer in silence hoping to do some good.
“Frankly, I don’t rate public school teachers much above tour guides or someone who works in a recreational dept.”
What a putz. They are like everyone else, some good and some bad. You’ve taken the easy way out. Complain but never do anything to demand that public education be allowed to put disruptive kids that the private and parochial schools dumped because they just didn’t fit in a special school. The parochial and private schools don’t take physically handicapped or those with learning disabilities or ones with even minor disruptive problems. Great Christians they are they just dump on the public schools so you can complain. I doubt it’s any different in your city. Give me a break it’s about money. Tuition dollars. The ones that are taking vouchers here are the ones under threat of closing by the Archdioceses and these are not quality schools. You also forget and what scares the H out of me is religious education getting those voucher dollars. We already have several Muslim schools indoctrinating kids in this city. If you want to see class stratification in this city the parochial schools outdo any of the private schools in a very class conscious city. Why do private and parochial schools always refuse to take the same tests the public schools take for evaluation. The teachers aren’t evaluated either. Funny they are always looking for public school teachers that have experience here. If you think most teachers get 3 months off your crazy and the ones that do don’t get paid for it. Are you po’d that you have to take care of your own kids sometime.
How do you home school your kids if YOU are in a school all day long?
Thank you. You said it best. Like any profession there are good teachers & teachers who should never have entered the teaching profession.
How do you home school your kids if YOU are in a school all day long?
Why do so many correction officers not send their children to prison?
My problem is that too many ignore the fact that what teachers teach these days is dictated by Federal and State Departments of Education. They have no leeway. Almost every moment is scripted by someone else and they are being berated and evaluated by a bunch of no nothings who don’t want to get involved just criticize. They are a good scape goat for politicians that want to look conservative. Vouchers are a loaded weapon for the Muslims, I wonder why some can’t see that.
Your three answers in post 16 are all excellent!
Both liberals and conservatives send their own children to private schools. The difference is that the conservative parents are proud of it, while the liberal parents feel ashamed about it.
You are either a teacher or married to one. You have to be because you nailed this so perfectly. I mean to a T!
I joke that the prisoners who come down our road to pick up trash have more freedom than we do. It is insane, all creativity and individual teaching has been completely taken away. We started back on the 6th for 3 days of teacher meetings. These entailed sitting for hours on end and being screamed at by these “consultants” whose main job seems to be to degrade us at every turn and that we know nothing. (During this time the superintendent, who makes in the six figures (for a small poverty identified school district) is standing on the wall listening to her “consultants” & we all wonder; why does she get paid all this money if she has to hire consultants????)
What people don’t understand is the absolutely outrageous freedom the central administrations have. There is no oversight & people would be SHOCKED at how money is spent frivolously and at the expense of the kids.
I have no union & teach under fear. And yes, many of my fellow teachers send or sent their children to private school. And I don’t blame them. I am appalled at the members of our government who set educational policy and they send their children to private school. Teachers are employees, we have NO power, we make no policies.
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