Simple cure:
1) No teachers union or cushy tenure. Pay for perform.
2) No assistance dollars for any household where a felon, illegal, juvenile delinquent or truant child lives.
Also, the end of education degree credentialism. That’s where they get brainwashed in all sorts of idiocy, including whole word reading.
I think it needs to go much further.
Every time the government enacts some kind of reform, the situation just
gets worse. Get the Fed out of education.
Even state goverment is too much in my opinion.
Parents should be able to pick, choose, and define the education that their children will receive.
It needs to go much farther.
Get the Fed out of education.
Even the state government influence should be drastically cut.
One major root of the problem is the influence that professors of education in the University system have.
Parents should be able to pick, choose, and define the education that their children receive.
Your two “cures” are good. Add to them things like:
- No more of the hyphenated race/ethnicity designations. Americans need to identify with AMERICA, as they did in the early 1900s. As long as kids are raised thinking they’re equally hispanic, black, Chinese, etc., they’ll never be true Americans. If they aren’t true Americans, they’ll blow off learning our history, language, etc.
- End the bi-lingual crap in the schools. It cheats the English-speaking kids when teachers have to adjust curricula to the lowest common denominator.
- End American adoptions from foreign countries. God knows there are enough children in America who need good homes. Why, on purpose, raise a kid who’ll always believe they’re only half American?
I dont think teachers are the root of the problem. Its administration. They’re the ones steering the curriculum and generally calling the shots. Then theres the unions... Yes, I sure the teachers have a part in this but its minor in comparison the the other bigger players who are seldom mentioned.
Do you also consider and factor in the following: Children coming from a disfunctional enviroment: No parental involvement, getting educated is acting like whitey, not knowing who your Mother or Father is, out of wedlock births. When you have these situations factored in it is amazing that some barely obtain an education at all. While the Teachers must be accountable, the Parents must play a role too.