Teachers leaving, retiring, and districts just don't care while kids suffer
@Radicalpatriot (665)
United States
February 28, 2007 7:19am CST
Attended a few teachers' hiring "fairs" recently, and what a shock. In an environment where waves of teachers are retiring with zero young teachers coming in, the arrogance of the school districts continues to be staggering. Districts make teaching prospects go through all kinds of screenings, endless filling out of paperwork, and then all the can say is "we really need Spanish-speaking teachers" or "we really need Special Education." What they are going to need pretty soon are warm bodies. They are clueless to the looming crisis that lies at their doorstep. Nobody wants to teach, it is a nightmare. No wonder public schools are turning into gangster havens and dead zones, black holes where tax money disappears and students suffer.
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@TDonald (1421)
• United States
28 Feb 07
Public Schools should be abolished. They have become one huge inefficient bureaucractic quagmire.
Private schools would be able to teach anything they want beyond a certain state mandated curriculum. Parents would then be back in control of what their children learn.
Schools that don't perform would simply go out of business.
State money that is now wasted on public schools programs could subsidize tuition for low income students.
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@Radicalpatriot (665)
• United States
28 Feb 07
I have a similar post along these lines, and you're right. The bureaucracy of public schools is choking off any real chance at real education. Better to shut down schools, give the tax money back to parents and let them teach their own kids. It's better than the current idiotic system we have.
@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
28 Feb 07
Well of course the children will suffer if there are not enough teachers to teach them in school,. My own daughter started University to become a teacher and due to the paper work she has put this on hold so my country is suffering as well it is a good in someways that they check for police records but why all this other paper work to check things instead of teaching them to be good teachers for our children.
