Comment There is no one answer (Score 1) 377
Education is one of the most frustrating and important subjects that this country needs to deal with. There are many problems with the education system and there isn't one solution. Education is affected by: government, money, PARENTS, teachers, educational administration, society, and even things like the courts.
I was a teacher and I come from a family of teachers......I've had a good look at the education system.
One of the many reasons that private schools work is because the parents care and will get involved with their child's education and discipline problems. These parents are paying a good chunk of change for their child's education and most of them aren't going to just let it go by the wayside.
There are also many parents who do care and still can't control their children as well. But then, if you spank your child in public, you might end up going to court.........
Discipline in many schools is abysmal. The administration doesn't have much control. In some cases, this is because they're afraid. Afraid of what? Afraid of getting canned because some parent has decided that their child is always right and will attack, attack, attack.
I had one parent actually tell me once that it was my job as a teacher to teach her child (who, btw, slept in class and didn't do most of his homework), and make him understand the material, no matter what it took. If I had to be there until midnight every night with her child, it was my job!!! This was probably the biggest piece of horse hooey I've heard in a long time! Actually, it's HER job.
Anyway, sorry bout the rant, there.....
Looking at the education system again, there are many discipline problems in the classrooms. Where you used to have 1 or 2 problem children in a class, now you have 5-10. There's more children with learning disabilities who need to be handled with kid gloves. Teachers are no longer allowed to use many effective disciplinary measures they used in the past.
New teachers, in many cases, will get the low-end classes with the more discipline problems and not many effective disciplinary measures to deal with it. They'll also be required to coach a sport they know nothing about. No wonder more and more first year teachers are dropping out. Case in point: me and the many I graduated with. Teachers have more to fear than in the past. They fear for their lives and physical injury. I know that 1500 a month take home wasn't worth the fear of getting my head bashed into a wall like what happened to a teacher when I was student teaching.
Some of the teachers who have been around a while are becoming apathetic and are starting to feel like it's no longer teaching, but babysitting. I could go on and on......The point is, there are many aspects to the education problem and we as a society need to address all of society in an effort to fix it. Blaming one aspect of the system and focusing on that aspect seems to be the general trend in how folks think education should be cleaned up.
Whew! that WAS a mouth full *grins*
I was a teacher and I come from a family of teachers......I've had a good look at the education system.
One of the many reasons that private schools work is because the parents care and will get involved with their child's education and discipline problems. These parents are paying a good chunk of change for their child's education and most of them aren't going to just let it go by the wayside.
There are also many parents who do care and still can't control their children as well. But then, if you spank your child in public, you might end up going to court.........
Discipline in many schools is abysmal. The administration doesn't have much control. In some cases, this is because they're afraid. Afraid of what? Afraid of getting canned because some parent has decided that their child is always right and will attack, attack, attack.
I had one parent actually tell me once that it was my job as a teacher to teach her child (who, btw, slept in class and didn't do most of his homework), and make him understand the material, no matter what it took. If I had to be there until midnight every night with her child, it was my job!!! This was probably the biggest piece of horse hooey I've heard in a long time! Actually, it's HER job.
Anyway, sorry bout the rant, there.....
Looking at the education system again, there are many discipline problems in the classrooms. Where you used to have 1 or 2 problem children in a class, now you have 5-10. There's more children with learning disabilities who need to be handled with kid gloves. Teachers are no longer allowed to use many effective disciplinary measures they used in the past.
New teachers, in many cases, will get the low-end classes with the more discipline problems and not many effective disciplinary measures to deal with it. They'll also be required to coach a sport they know nothing about. No wonder more and more first year teachers are dropping out. Case in point: me and the many I graduated with. Teachers have more to fear than in the past. They fear for their lives and physical injury. I know that 1500 a month take home wasn't worth the fear of getting my head bashed into a wall like what happened to a teacher when I was student teaching.
Some of the teachers who have been around a while are becoming apathetic and are starting to feel like it's no longer teaching, but babysitting. I could go on and on......The point is, there are many aspects to the education problem and we as a society need to address all of society in an effort to fix it. Blaming one aspect of the system and focusing on that aspect seems to be the general trend in how folks think education should be cleaned up.
Whew! that WAS a mouth full *grins*
