Man do we have some dumb teachers teaching students

onlinewsj ^ | 6-15-2011 | edcoil

[edcoil]

Only 35% of fourth-graders knew the purpose of the Declaration of Independence. The news was even more dire in high school, where 12% of 12th-graders were proficient.

[Buckeye McFrog]

But 93% of them know Bush is Hitler and 87% know that Scott Walker is on a mission to destroy the planet...

[ThinkingBuddha]

More Obamabots in the assembly line.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

You can't even begin to imagine how dumb. I know someone who went to college as an adult, after she had left her husband and children for another man. She is teaching elementary school in Florida. The grammar of this woman is atrocious! She might not be an idiot, but to listen to her speak for more than a few moments would drive me insane - I can't imagine her teaching grammar to children or them having to listen to that all day! Yet, a college awarded her a diploma and a school hired her.

[married21]

In our school, you don’t learn about the American Revolution until fifth grade, but then you learn it in great detail. So, I’ll ask my fourth grader what he knows about the Declaration of Independence, but won’t be surprised if he can’t say much yet.

[Mr. K]

I bet LOTS o’ money she is a good liberal

My local school just fired the most outspoken Republican teachers and replaced (supposedly because of budget) but then hired two more to replace them (very liberal)

YOU MUST BE A LIBERAL TO GET HIRED AS A TEACHER - so my question is, how do they test for liberalism?

[Da Coyote]

A good definition of “null set” is the contents of an “education” degree.

Thanks, education unions, you’re living down to your reputations.

[edcoil]

Well it seems 35% know about it but by the time they go through the system to the 12 most forget.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I don’t know this woman’s current husband, he might be a liberal I have no idea but I would be willing to bet she couldn’t tell you if the President was a democrat or a Republican if you asked her. I’m talking really dumb.

[texmexis best]

Ths is the real cost of shrinking class sizes throughout the US. Marginal teachers who normally would not be hired are now sought out because of the need for teachers in school districts that keep the class size down around 20 to 22 children.

When I went to school the average class size was about thirty five or so. I have a far better education than the children being moved through the system these days.

[Leaning Right]

A better title for this post might be “There is something wrong with our schools”.

Because I must tell you that teachers are usually not the ones to blame. That would be like blaming the beat cops when crime rises in a city.

Let me give you a couple of examples. In my school district, the big shots at the top decided to eliminate Civics courses in favor of international diversity classes.

So now instead of learning American Civics (the three branches of government and all that), students learn about societies in Peru and Indonesia. Our history teachers were up in arms about this, but that didn’t matter.

Second example. The big shots decided to allow students to erase low grades by doing a project. So you could fail every test yet pass the course by making a poster.

That increased the district’s passing rate and made the big shots look good. Again, it enraged the teachers, but that didn’t matter.

Sure, there are bad teachers. In my experience, maybe 5%, like in any other profession. But you wouldn’t believe the crazy ideas that come from administration. Then add on the chronic discipline problems.

See what I mean?

[conservonator]

A good definition of “null set” is the contents of an “education” degree.

We called them "Mrs." degrees.

[Aevery_Freeman]

The article seems to imply that we are slighting science and history to teach math and reading.

What a sad joke. Take a calculator away from a kid and ask the most rudimentary mathematics question and see what happens.

Then have them read a newspaper article and tell you what it said.

You will find that four more years of Obama is not your biggest fear for the future of America.

[arderkrag]

Public education at its finest. My wife taught for a couple of years, 9th -12th grade English and Drama. By the time kids nowadays get into high school, it has been ingrained in them since birth to simply not care. I used to grade their papers - a child trained to not care can't be made to care. When I was little, I learned at my father's knee about the greatness of our country and what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were about. I also learned to call the 4th of July Independence Day, not just "The 4th".

[org.whodat]

Lol, not all of them, my nephew teaches school, but he got very, very, rich before he started to teach.

[JayAr36]

Education is what we had before educators. Mark Steyn

[Aevery_Freeman]

YOU MUST BE A LIBERAL TO GET HIRED AS A TEACHER

Not true, just to stay hired.

[MayflowerMadam]

I was compiling survey responses for a politician in the area. One hot-button issue was tenure for teachers, so there were hundreds of responses from teachers. Oh, dear... the majority were borderline illiterate. And they were screaming the loudest about how wonderful they are, how they “deserve” tenure, higher salaries, etc. Obviously, they don’t even know how stupid they are.

And then there were responses from people who are personally well acquainted with teachers. They relayed what teachers had told them about why they had gone into teaching. Summers off. Not “really” work. Guaranteed salaries forever with tenure. Etc.

[knarf]

It was another time, and Sid's focus was a little different than today, but the principle is the same.
We tried, but were a little too early and wrongly directed.
Some of you may have never heard this

[driftless2]

I found it highly amusing and indicative of the leftist nature of today’s educrats that some of them were saying since the NCLB act, they didn’t have time to teach history. History is among the top three things that should be taught to students. No knowledge of their pasts means students have no idea how to think of the future. A deliberate ploy by lib educrats.