“Because nobody’s that dumb.”
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The ordinary government teacher who loves her cat and attends her church women’s auxiliary really is that dumb. Either that or they are evil. Remember that the next time you meet a teacher.
It is teachers who make the schools what they are. Every day they go to school, turn the key in lock of the front door, and then **willingly** proceed to use methods and adopt an atheistic, secular humanist worldview that **HURTS** children.
No one is holding a gun to a teacher’s head. No one will ship them off to a concentration camp. Teachers **willingly** hurt children in exchange for money and benefits.
If you know a good teacher, then it is a **former** teacher, a person who quit or was fired. If they are still holding on their job it is because they have agreed to hurt children.
As for teacher unions, ( the most powerful in the U.S.), only teachers make unions what they are. Parents don’t. Voters don’t. Legislators don’t. ONLY teachers. If the teachers unions are evil, it is because teachers are evil.
One more thing...If your wife, daughter, niece, cousin, etc. is smart. Then somewhere in the system there is a very dumb teacher, because on **average** teachers have the lowest SAT and ACT scores on campus.
I don’t know enough to contradict what you say. I’ll just mention my sense that for the young people coming into education, I suspect it’s a lot like young people going into the priesthood. Experts from on high tell you what is true. If you don’t accept the creed, you have to get out. The people at the top know the control they have when the rookies are only 24 and will soon need a job. I think if teachers showed independence, the bosses would purge them. So we end up with a much more monolithic and dumbed-down profession than is good for the country. I end up thinking we will get more done by replacing the top 100 bosses than by trying to change 1,000,000 teachers....It’s also a lot like the Army. You can’t blame very much on lowly soldiers. It’s 100 generals in the Pentagon that control things.
So let’s say I’m an advocate of fixing things from the top down. I believe we could transform the entire system in a year if we got rid of the ideologues who so cunningly engineered all the nonsense.