[wardaddy]

True...but money and teachers are less of an issue than the families who predominately send their children to public schools in urban areas.

Lack of familial support to be precise. No teacher can compensate for that.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

No the real problem is the teachers, the unions and the money. Lazy parents will always be lazy, no matter how much teachers and unions are taking advantage of tax payers. Stupid, lazy parents are similiar to union thugs, and many teachers ,because they all have an entitlement attitude.

You know the," I am alive you must pay for me and my way", group.

I am now expecting the RINO teachers to flame me and tell me no one understand how hard they work ,and how underpaid they are , and they never get three months off in the summer and two paid weeks vacation in the school year. That they don't have paid sick days and that they don't get home at 3:00.

I have said it before and I will say it again , teaching in public schools is the cushiest job around.

Most teachers I know are glorified public servants. They just get way more perks and pay than the janitors at the local court house.

"Teaching" What a racket.

[VOA]

Lack of familial support to be precise. No teacher can compensate for that.

Precisely why throwing more money at the education establishment doesn't
buy improvement in student performance.

Of course, that's pretty obvious already considering what teachers in private/religious
(=non-union/public) schools are paid...and the results are often much better.

[af_vet_rr]

Lack of familial support to be precise. No teacher can compensate for that.

Too many parents see schools as their babysitters and expect the schools to raise them. They are not willing to actually raise their children. Schools should be expected to do one thing, and that is educate them, not actually raise them, etc.

My daughter loves children and had considered teaching, but after going through the student teaching and being a substitute teacher, she got turned off to it. At least in Texas (Austin to be precise) some districts are so focused on the students passing the standardized tests, that they have almost stopped teaching the regular subjects (the old 3 R's) and concentrate on teaching how to pass the tests.

Maybe we should we should start a thread about when we were younger and the schools focused on teaching us and didn't have to be obsessed with state tests.