“You really think the problem is the teachers?”
I believe the teachers statement was within the quote taken from 2banana. My comment was on the text books.
However, I would very quickly add that many teachers and teachers unions play a major part in the dumbing down of our schools, and turning schools into liberal indoctrination centers. The government, of course, benefits from and thus encourages this, and does everything it can to support teachers unions. Society, generally, plays an even bigger role in that it buys liberalism as a way of life. Detroit is merely the distilled version of everything that is wrong with liberalism. Big government benefits from decay and thus fosters it where ever it goes. Teachers unions are a tool of big government. Many teachers enjoy being part of that tool. Most, probably, don’t, but they are caught between a rock and a hard place in the middle of it all.
How’s that?
I agree, schools have been turned into liberal indoctrination centers and the unions have been a negative factor. I just don’t understand blaming the teachers for this sorry state of affairs. Would you be a teacher in that school system and put yourself in danger every day? I wouldn’t.
You could take the best teachers in the world and put them in the Detroit school and it would make little difference. IMO