Sunshine said:
err My daughter came out very educated and my grand children are too ..I think maybe you are thinking all schools are like the ones you have gone to? You said you have moved alot? and that means changing schools alot..no you were home schooled part of the time...well Just know not all schools are bad..not all teachers are bad..
I see it as a 50 50 thing..a good teacher who is there because they love to teach ...and a good student who is there to learn...both win and both are successful....if one side is short then the outcome is not soo good..
If the schools produced this drones..who will be teaching the next generation? the Drones?.........
When you are older life is less black and white and things become more clear
A majority of schools do not have these "good" teachers you speak of. While I was lucky enough to have two of them while I attended public school, every single one of my teachers at the private school I attended for high school were not only good, they were excellent.
The difference is the fact that public schools aren't about education anymore. Teachers teach because they get paid (most of them), and students go to school because they have to (most of them, at least for grade school). This is a difficult reality to face, but the quicker we do as a nation, the more children we can save from our "modern" education.
We really need to either:
A) Stop abusing tax dollars by having this joke of a public education system and initiate some serious education reform (this includes some serious belittling of the teachers union - they are 50% of the problem).
OR
B) Stop abusing tax dollars by having this joke of a public education system and completely privatize it alltogether. Though I wouldn't really like the idea of it, a voucher system funded by the government would be beneficial to those who can't afford to pay a lot for schools. Those who don't make enough money to pay top dollar for education (even though education is worth every penny when you are actually being educated) can use a government voucher worth a certain amount to get their child into a less-expensive, yet privatized school.
Not only does this plan remove the government from a public education system it is quickly destroying, it allows the private education groups to choose the teachers, cutting down on the number of bad teachers and increasing the number of good teachers.
Students will be able to learn more because private education groups can be more specific in their teaching and monitoring, so they will be able to get more help to children who are struggling, and also hire more advanced teachers for more advanced children At my public school, all of the advanced programs for the more advanced students were eliminated because it "discriminated" (intelligenceism????) against the children who couldn't make it into these advanced programs, and as the education system is run by the government, this "discrimination" was immediatly dealt with by simply eliminating said programs. Not only did this hurt the advanced students by not allowing them to learn at a faster pace, it hurt the less-advanced students because they were forced to compete in class with students who were learning at a much faster pace. How can anyone justify hurting children trying to learn?
PS: My mother is a public school teacher. She agrees with B.