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Remind you of someone who claims it's always someone else's fault, anyone but him?

Yes teachers do remind me a great deal of Obama.

It is always the kids fault, or the parents, or society, or that they don't have the greatest gadgets.

Never is it that they have not the foggiest idea how to teach.

I mean sitting at a desk playing with your Ipod while telling the kids just to read the material should produce great results!

If you have never taught in a public school (and I strongly suspect that is the case), then you cannot possibly have the slightest accurate concept of what it's like. As I said in a previous post, it ain't like when you were in school. "Sitting at a desk playing with your Ipod while telling the kids just to read the material" is not what occurs in a classroom. You have to monitor your studernts and make sure they're on task.

Kids in today's classrooms have absolutely no respect for authority, their parents, anyone. They have no problem cursing out their teachers, threatening to assault them, actually assaulting them, skipping class, etc. because they know that the libs in charge will offer them night school, summer school, weekend school, online school--anything--to nudge them over the line into the "pass" column, whether they know a darn thing about the subject or not. They don't have to do very much work at all. In NYC, they can even take "credit recovery" classes which only repeat the parts of the class that they failed. In other words, they get a mishmash quilt of this component and that component instead of having to repeat the whole class so that they get a cohesive idea of what the subject is actually about. And that passes for a class that they passed in their record.

So unless YOU have taught in public schools, you have absolutely no business asserting that teachers don't know how to teach. You say that based on what you think, not what you know from personal experience.