Yes, but the American people still believe in state-controlled education, the more controls the more they like it. That may be wife mostly liberals hold school board seats even in conservative states.
Cue the Public education haters in 3....2....
Get on this before it gets old.
But Holy Cow—she takes pages and pages to do so!
In the business world one is taught to serve its customer; customer #1 mentality is paramount in most well run companies. The problem with the public school system is with the teachers unions. As structured now, the teachers customer is their union. In turn, the unions customer is its leadership and extended to politicians who vote legislation in their behalf. So, it’s a circular ponzi scheme with the students completely left out. So, if public schools are to be cleaned up and changed into credible learning institutions the unions have to be busted. It’s that simple.
Whenever she would be asked about her career change she would say, "Well, there are two distinct advantages to teaching at the Vo-Tech as compared to the public high school. First, all the students are there because they want to be there. Second, the disruptive influence brought about by the integration of schools, doubled the frustrations of the job. Where it used to be just one type of one color of student that took pride in failing grades, there are now two colors that revel in their ignorance. It is indeed a shame that the best intentions of integration, which were to raise others to a higher standard, have seen those standards shamefully lowered."
I have spent some time in an elementary school recently. Public elementary, that is. Oh my, but the children are animals! Not all of them. But there are enough animals that it takes a special child to get anything out of what the teacher is teaching. And the special child will come home with “other” knowledge that should not be happening at an elementary school. So the alternative is to pay up the wazoo to send your special children to private school. We have done that with a few of our children. Our son, who is no genius, shakes his head at the ignorance of his peers. He doesn’t think it is because the private school is not teaching. He thinks his peers are dumb but very well behaved. Lol. I would sure like to be able to send our children to school with like-minded and intelligent people. That is the way my public elementary school was. Alas, social engineers have spoiled the system and made a huge mess for all.
This is an excellent, well written letter. If you have had kids in the public school system you have seen all the things she mentions and a lot more that is worse. She does not mention the gangs and the violence that are in many public schools. She also doesn’t mention the constant stupidity and political correctness of the liberals who run the public schools.
The fact is most teachers I know literally hate their jobs.
The more intelligent and harder working they are the more they hate it.
The older teachers usually stay because they have tenure and do the absolute minimum and work within the system. The younger ones look for a way to leave and find other employment. The only teachers who like their jobs are have either learned to get around all the liberal administrative political correctness and bureaucracy or just don’t care and do little or no work and give all the students high grades.
This teacher is highly unusual if she works 80 hours per week. Most teachers take advantage of all the days off, use all their sick days and personal days and do not spend much time preparing lesson plans or grading papers. That is simply the way it is.
The public schools have been dumbed down. Most students learn little or nothing. They are extremely costly to taxpayers. The best thing to do would be to close them and end the waste of money and young peoples lives.
She’s a whiner.
When State run education quit teaching students “how to learn” and instead opted for indoctrination the end was near for the most literate populace the world had ever seen.
Bump
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