The American educational system was destroyed by Communists. Our colleges are a bastion of Communist, Socialist and other Anti-American dogma going back 100 years or so. These colleges churn out the teachers through idiot professors and the typical moron adjunct. The Pedagogy is mostly leftist garbage and the sex and alcohol fueled Universities actually regress the young adult. Debauchery, sewage Social Media, and decline of morals and culture has also turned many teachers into sex deviants which quite compounds the insanity. The union system in the USA is now nothing more than a leftist system that is all about money and power.
The one caveat to take from the claims in this - most of which I agree with - is that not all students are equally teachable, equally studious, equally diligent nor of equal intelligence.
As much as it would be nice to think that teachers of equal worth can teach a class of the same number of students and those students produce equal academic results is simply not reality. I heartily believe that teachers comprise no more than 1/2 the effort in attaining the academic result of any student and by that I mean that student’s potential which is not 100% the same as another student’s. I would also add that while all teachers are also not equal, not all students put in their half of the effort to get an education.
In sum, while I think there is a lot wrong with K-12 education - in the institutions, many teachers, and the curriculum & teaching methods, improving all of that will still find some great portion of students who will not do above the median and an equal number who will never perform as well as their potential, due to no fault of the teachers.
I think there is a lot wrong with K-12 education, but a lot what is wrong with K-12 academic results is only partly due to what’s wrong with education. A good part of the problem is in society itself, a good deal of which education institutions will not solve.
Many teachers do not get 100% family care, I don’t.
Almost 50% of the “educators” or teachers are; administrators, resource personnel, research, curriculum supervisors/writers, attendance people, data, representatives for specific groups, SPED liasons, etc...Point is, the actual teacher does all the work, the rest of the fat makes more work for us.
I dont’ disagree with most of this article, but I disagree with the lack of understanding of the entire education system. It’S FRICKEN BROKEN.
As a teacher I work hard, and try to avoid all these government bureaucrats who dictate what I need to do in order to justify their jobs.
Read some arricles from NEA mags a few yrs ago. Told my kids if the chose to be public school teachers I wouldn’t pay for their college and would disown them.....luckily they have honest jobs now
I use to be hard on teachers, but now that my wife is one I sympathize a little bit more. Of course this is Canada, so things might be different.
What educational qualifications do teachers have to meet in the US? Four year degree?
90% of the applicants failed one or both and more than half failed screamingly, either being completely unable to compose a business letter that could be read and understood as reasonably correct English or failing to get even half of the math correct. More than a few applicants literally walked out leaving behind two blank pieces of paper for "answers", unable to do any of it. A couple actually wrote things like "**** you" on the test before walking out, clearly unable to do any of it.
I would dearly love to see this instituted nationwide.
They aren’t paid for 12 months. Those that draw checks for 12 months have deferred their salary. So the article starts with a lie, and is crap from there on out.
“minimum of 75% of all teachers must be committing fraud by certifying acceptable performance when it is not true“
What would you have them do?
Their employers (the public) believe so many things that are not true.