“Good education is not rocket science. Get the asinine theories and methods out of the way”
+1. As a teacher I have to operate in a world whose leaders are dominated by rubbish disguised as “best practices” or who sincerely believe that some article that name drops some behavioral theorist has validity in the real world. Most of this is just make-work trash to keep some so-called researcher employed and their grant money rolling in.
I taught high school math/science three years. The leftist Gov’t schools cannot be fixed; the politicians, the teachers and administrators, the unions, the parents, even the students will fight to keep the status quo. The best reform would be to give parents choice and the best way would be a voucher system like I think every European country has. Suppose the gov’t system costs $10,000 per student; then, give each parent that enrolls their child in a private school a $7,500 voucher and let the gov’t school keep the $2,500 one year. Kids get a better education and the taxpayers should soon see a cut in property taxes.
I, too, am a teacher. My recommendation would be to abolish the public school system in its entirety and sell the physical plant to private enterprise.
Short of that, I would settle for burning it to the ground and canceling all promised pensions and perks - simply pay back what was deducted from wages. They failed to live up to the terms of the bargain - educating children - we fail to support their lavish pension plan.