Nice try...
If you really understand what passes for Curriculum (Common Core, Whole Language and the like) I think you might take a different stand
Maybe, but my take away from your response is the education is there if you will only accept it
What a farce
I was married to a teacher or almost 20 years and keep very close tabs on the quality of that which is provided and methodologies. I was blessed to attend the best High School in the Chicago Public School System and the rigor and quality was intense. Go look it up, Lane Tech High School. It was primarily a Vocational school and you had to apply to be admitted. It too is being softened to meet “social norms” and the ranking of what was once the top school in Illinois is now down in the mid 200’s
So please cease with the Poor Teachers nonsense and let’s all get serious. The creed of an Educator is to do so and not just have butts in seats indoctrinating them on condoms on cucumbers and social engineering. If you think that school is as good or better than it was say 20 years ago you are sorely mistaken.
In professional education at a corporate level the pressure is on to produce competent people to insure that the function they take on is done well. Yes, I have been involved in that realm for decades and my standards for the teachers and curriculum was very demanding. I managed it not only for the company I worked for but partners and affiliates as well. So take these poor teachers and apply the same rules, what quality of student are you producing. If you turn out consistently lower scores versus others teaching the same you are the problem
Where I played was International and so students were trained using the exact same curriculum to a high standard of excellence, it was mandatory.
The system is broken and there is no denying it, unless we change it generations of poorly educated snowflakes will be ripe for the picking by Democrats who offer them anything to get their vote
So, Pontiac, I await your response in hope that you understand the teachers job is to teach and if the student is incapable or challenged then they must take action to move them to a teacher who can deal with it. That is their role in the whole system as it has been for decades. If they cannot do it then they need to find another vocation
I wasn’t defending teachers.
I was saying that the state can not be necessarily be held responsible if the student is not educated.
I didn’t even mention teachers.
It is up to parents to hold teachers accountable if they are not teaching. If the student is not applying themselves the teacher should be informing the parent.
Ultimately it is the parent that has to ensure that the student is being educated and it is the student that is doing the educating. The teacher is supplying the knowledge and the student must consume that knowledge and integrate that knowledge into themselves.
Sure teacher accountability is important. If that comes from an administrator great. If it doesn’t the parent must do it. But far and above teacher or administrator the parent must ensure that the student is doing the learning, doing the studying and doing the homework. If the school has a poor curriculum the parent must do something about it or teach the student themselves or get tutors.
But a good student doesn’t even need a teacher.
My father who never graduated high school taught himself trigonometry and calculus in his fifties.
He also got his journeyman’s welder’s card on a self-study program.