I'll take point. Follow me . . .
God Bless you for your past and present service.
https://www.freerepublic.com/~ltcret/
I hope you make a difference. Many school boards are incompetent at best. Corrupt at worst.
Well said. More power to you!
If you win a seat, please do me a favor. Dont automatically assume that teachers are part of the problem. Yes, there are bad teachers. Just as there are bad doctors and bad plumbers.
But most teachers just plug away, and do the best they can. They are handicapped by insane curriculum requirements, and by insane discipline restrictions.
Heres an example. In my school district, every kid must take advanced algebra. Thats crazy. It would be like requiring every kid to play football. And if a kid misbehaves in advanced algebra class (because he has no interest or ability), he cannot be removed. So the teacher must spend a good amount of class time dealing with that kid instead of teaching.
I have taught in both private and public schools. So Ive pretty much seen it all. And heres my rough estimate:
5% of teachers are just bad. They are in the wrong line of work, and should be let go.
5% are good enough, but they let their personal opinions bleed into their lessons. They need a course correction from a supervisor.
25% are just awesome. They are master teachers who are worth twice their salary. These folks inspire kids, and change lives.
That leaves the 65% whom Ill call journeymen teachers. They are competent, and will go the extra mile when necessary. But they dont have any special flair. While Id like to see my kids be taught by a master teacher, Im okay if they end up in journeymans class. Those teachers will get the job done...if the student is willing to learn.
(Sorry for the length of this post. But as you can tell, its something Im passionate about. And if you care to ask me any questions, please do.)
The way our government works is messed up. It should be the last row in this picture.
https://imgur.com/gallery/jMog4Gf
I sure wish I could learn how to post pictures.
God Bless you and God Speed!
You are indeed a great inspiration and a call to action of exactly what we need to be doing.
Oh, my!!! How ignorant are these 21st Century "educators"!
"Fellow-citizens, the ark of your covenant is the Declaration of independence. Your Mount Ebal, is the confederacy of separate state sovereignties, and your Mount Gerizim is the Constitution of the United States. In that scene of tremendous and awful solemnity, narrated in the Holy Scriptures, there is not a curse pronounced against the people, upon Mount Ebal, not a blessing promised them upon Mount Gerizim, which your posterity may not suffer or enjoy, from your and their adherence to, or departure from, the principles of the Declaration of Independence, practically interwoven in the Constitution of the United States. Lay up these principles, then, in your hearts, and in your souls bind them for signs upon your hands, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes teach them to your children, speaking of them when sitting in your houses, when walking by the way, when lying down and when rising up write them upon the doorplates of your houses, and upon your gates cling to them as to the issues of life adhere to them as to the cords of your eternal salvation. So may your childrens children at the next return of this day of jubilee, after a full century of experience under your national Constitution, celebrate it again in the full enjoyment of all the blessings recognized by you in the commemoration of this day, and of all the blessings promised to the children of Israel upon Mount Gerizim, as the reward of obedience to the law of God." - John Quincy Adams (Final Paragraph - "The Jubilee of the Constitution" A DISCOURSE Delivered at the Request of The New York Historical Society In the City of New York, On Tuesday, the 30th of April, 1839, Being the Fiftieth Anniversary Of the INAUGURATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON as President of the United States on Thursday, 30th of April, 1789, by John Quincy Adams (Eldest son of John Adams, born in 1767, served as Minister to the Netherlands under President Washington, as minister to Prussia and to Russia, as Secretary of State, and as U.S. Senator. He was the Sixth President of the United States and from 1830 until his death in 1848 served the nation as a United States Congressman)Do any now retired teachers remember when the National Education Association provided booklets and other materials based on Biblical teachings and America's founding documents in order to teach children their rights and responsibilities as good citizens?
Perhaps an examination of this web site may refresh the minds of such teachers. Or, perhaps a reading of this factual account of NEA publications may enlighten others who are younger to understand the degree to which the "progressive" control of education in America may have contributed to our current dilemma.
"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." - John Adams - 2nd President of the United States and advocate for the Declaration of Independence
"Ideas have consequences." - Weaver
If you win, please push for Separation of School and State.
Government schooling cannot be reformed.