Imagine how many people they would have added to the public payroll if a hiring freeze had not been in effect...
I am sick of hearing about stupid teachers, as if they are saints or something. Most of them (in the blue states) are overpaid union hacks who get the easiest college degrees in existence, and then indoctrinate kids with liberal bullshit. Our education system is made WORSE when you hire more of these mind-numbed robots for the welfare state. FIRE MORE TEACHERS!
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Just a personal anecdoante, but we pulled our special needs son out of the public schools three years ago when he was 7. They could produce no evidence that he was learning to read or able to do any sort of math. They would literally give him awards for “good handwriting” (his handwriting STUNK) and have him memorize reading passages to “show off” to me when I’d come in.
After a year at a private school, and 1.5 years of homeschooling, he’s now reading at almost grade level, is finally learning all his math facts and basically is catching up to almost grade level in terms of language arts, handwriting, spelling, etc.
I didn’t need those teachers. They strutted around in their fancy outfits all day, looking down at us, pushing paperwork at us w/ their ridiculous IEP process. My son actually has PROMISE now — and we as parents have actual hope that he might just attend college someday. He’s actually VERY smart — just needs a good curriculum and to stop being pulled out of class 100 times a day in the name of “inclusion.”