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.
Your last sentence is so true it made me laugh outloud!
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.
And you say I’m “a putz” or I’m “complaining”...haha
But you are right..public schools are about money.
If you go along with their cookie cutter one size fits all rules they won’t pull your funding.
Public schools take a kid, say for example in fifth grade, that has fallen behind. Instead of working with them individually to bring them back up to level.
They throw him or her into a great big room and play “educational” games and work at a first grade level.
ONe more thing. If Public school teachers take credit for the natural acheivers and the A+ students then they have to take credit for the dum dum and the problem children,too.
Thanks.
Easy, several people join together and teach collectively a a day a week each or at night. Home schooling can take on many forms including small groups. It need not be just a stay at home parent teaching one kid.
“If you go along with their cookie cutter one size fits all rules they won’t pull your funding.
Public schools take a kid, say for example in fifth grade, that has fallen behind. Instead of working with them individually to bring them back up to level.
They throw him or her into a great big room and play “educational” games and work at a first grade level.”
Well the private and parochial schools just kick them out. You obviously don’t have a clue about what a good public school system is about. Must live in either a very Catholic or Union city.
“I am appalled at the members of our government who set educational policy and they send their children to private school.”
Well the putz that wrote the original post is probably hanging with the super or one of the politicians getting the graft while complaining about the schools. He hasn’t seen or is involved with the missing funds in P and P schools. Easy to blame it on the teachers, just a smokescreen for their agenda. You pretty much described our Gov. who fires anyone who disagrees with him. Really open minded and he didn’t even get picked for VP. Now he will have to perform if he stays in town long enough.
The consults are there to blame when she is blamed and the changes they implemented didn’t work. I have never in over 30 years of private and public work ever met a consultant worth 0.01% of what they charged. In many cases they just come in and fire enough people or cut enough to say they met their goal. They leave before the poop hits the fan. They are professional smoke screens for the bosses without a clue. Was your super hired because of who she sleeps with or because she is related to the right group? Often the case around here.
Well the private and parochial schools just kick them out.
Interesting that you would say that.
I was at a first grade reading level in 6th grade.
Had it not been for a teacher, in a private SDA school, who took me aside and gave me individual instruction I would have fallen so far behind it would be hopeless.
While I still have some difficulties I owe any reading or writing abilities to that one teacher.
In public school that had reading packets with the answers upside down at the end of the reading assignment.
I am certain that almost every student that fell behind simply cheated.
The worst thing you can do in public school is fall behind. Because its virtually impossible to catch back up.
Nah, Having some cold impersonal centalized government bureaucrat and pseudo-intellectual who is detatched from your childs individual needs, to decide whats best, is way to go.
Thank you for the clarifiction. That makes sense!
“I am certain that almost every student that fell behind simply cheated.
The worst thing you can do in public school is fall behind. Because its virtually impossible to catch back up.”
Sorry you went to such a bad experience. That is obviously not my experience. You obviously had a good teacher they are not all in private schools.
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