tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070786324546788238.post5313508251526564131..comments2023-12-29T02:56:22.978-08:00Comments on Angry Peasants: Problems With the US Public Education SystemPetehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15798062397517960171noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070786324546788238.post-57725621701833486132012-09-12T19:44:59.703-07:002012-09-12T19:44:59.703-07:00Perhaps unionized teachers are part of the problem...Perhaps unionized teachers are part of the problem, but as my wife is a teacher, I can tell you that she isn't a part of it. It is the administrators. It's the people who make the tests, it's the people who dictate the standards,it's the fact that those people are politicians instead of educators. She has to teach the things they tell her to. It's not optional if you want to keep your job, and with the way the economy is now, teachers in my area are losing jobs, so they certainly can and will get rid of you if possible. <br /><br />Teachers really don't get paid enough. If you want to take away the retirement, fine, but you'd have to pay the difference to the teachers; it's the one thing that keeps a lot of them going to back to work. Also, funding the poor and poorly performing schools is stupid, but if you don't, who would teach there? It's a catch 22. <br /><br />Also, yes, parents are a huge part of the problem. Going to school should be a privilege not a "right"if you will. Or at least like you say, going to a good school should be for the good students. Of course, what we need to acknowledge most is that a lot of these kids aren't going to college. We need to start training them for the real world by using trade schools etc. before they leave HS instead of making them take four years of English. It's clearly not helping now with the way our language is being aborted, so you might as well embrace that part of it. <br /><br />The solution is simple. Get a group of teachers and educators to set the standards for what kids should be learning, not politicians who just see numbers. Why wasn't this a problem 15 years ago when I graduated HS? Why can't we just roll back to what was going on then, and modify it with what we know works better today? <br /><br />Mark Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01106059877303526001noreply@blogger.com