Much more important to attack typos than deal with fact?
Fact
The three-yearly OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report, which compares the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds in 70 countries around the world, ranked the United States 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for science and a below-average 25th for mathematics.
We need to do something different. We need to educate our kids. We need to stop paying the retirement and healthcare of past teachers until we get back to our past ratings as the best schools in the US. We need to take the best of you and ditch the rest. Not every teacher is bad, but it is rare to find one that will place any blame on their co-workers. I have teachers in my family, I’ve taught, I’ve known many of you.
Or the schools can implode as they are doing right now. Look up Garfield Heights, Ohio.
You see, I already bought my curriculum this year and MI has recently passed Virtual Charters into the mix. I know women who are getting a nice baby sitting business going. They’ll be watching other kids while moms work and the students attend Michigan Virtual Academy. It doesn’t take a BA in education to do it either. While teachers point fingers, parents are working things out.