As a Texas teacher, I can tell you that it’s true. They make life difficult for the older, more experienced teachers (who can run a classroom and handle discipline most effectively [usually]). That leaves them with the young teachers of 0-3 years experience who can’t dress professionally, get to work on time (or even at all), make it to duty, complete professional tasks, etc. And they can’t handle student discipline so that the students take over the classroom. The students don’t learn and the young teacher winds up in tears.
Then, to top it all off, administrators cry because they have no experienced teachers to mentor new teachers.
Education is a joke that I lay at the feet of the people who do not work directly in the classroom— and that goes all the way to the state capital and D.C.
You’re right. It’s not good for the country, our society, when so many of the best, brightest and most experienced people are let go when they still have a good 10-20 productive years left. So much expertise is lost. We lose our competitive edge because the tatoo’d, earring’d, text messaging, media saturated younger generation can’t get a proper education and take longer to grow up. With so many having lost their jobs, obama doesn’t deserve to keep his, no matter how pretty the media generated Potemkin village is made. And I don’t care about what GWB did, we’re on obama’s watch now. Just my little gripe at the moment. Thanks