Sir, what is the right culprit? Government? Parents? Money? Teachers? Why are our kids falling so far behind year after year, decade after decade, generation after generation?
It is the government who has thrown money at teachers, technology, building structures, programs, food for kids, etc.? The government has tried everything from "open classrooms" to changing paint colors and carpeted floors in the buildings. We have teachers that are paid for showing up because of union. Most college educated professionals works about 260 days per year on average. The typical teacher works 180 days per year. Teachers negotiate everything from Benefits and pay to school provided security and teacher lunches in the contracts. But because of unions, those contracts are not allowed to be performance based (not really). We can't reward the best teachers or fire the worst teachers without expensive arbitration, mediation and/or litigation.
The only thing we haven't tried to make our kids smarter is ending the collective bargaining arrangements for all public school teachers nation wide. I think we should give that a try before we privatize every single solitary school in the nation. What do you think? No? Just more spending huh? Pay the teachers more, give them a better retirement and the kids will get smarter? Is that your answer?
Go jump in a lake.
I believe you’re operating under some sort of misapprehension. I posted the excerpt and the URL because it was interesting that an obviously anti-union film would be shown at the RNC *and* the DNC. I assumed that interested persons would go to the source URL. I pinged the homeschooling person because I thought it might be of tangential interest to that group, too.
P.S. I’m a little old lady. Because of my advanced years, I’m qualified to make the observation that you really need to cool your jets.