“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.
Thank you. You said it best. Like any profession there are good teachers & teachers who should never have entered the teaching profession.
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.