Rant About Our Education System

[jaybet]

It's not just the liberals that have screwed this up. I know a couple of teachers pretty well, and they say  the last few years the only thing anyone in administration is worried about is passing the "No Child Left Behind" hurdles. Your test scores go down, you are out on your ass. Simple formula, but no child is left behind because the boat isn't GOING anywhere...it's dead in the water while they fill out forms and comply, comply, comply. My wife was on a school board for 9 years and all they did was fight the state and the principal for the sake of the kids, and do stuff to keep the lawyers off their backs.
Kinda like buying a handgun in NJ.

By the way...for those few folks for whom it matters...where I live in NJ is BELOW the Mason Dixon line. 

[JoJo]

First we had Head Start and now it's No Child Left Behind. Something isn't working. A politicians answer for everthing is to through money at it. Politicians are there for the money. They say they do for the kids, but the bottom line is the almighty buck.  A great help to our kids would be for us to win over more teacher's to our side then maybe, just maybe we could have the power of the teacher's union to aid in our fight to do really do what is best for the children.

[Rastus]

Home school all the way..  We do it, my sister does it, and a few others that we know.  In this area there are more kids in home school than in the public school.  Some of it is mindset, ...................
-Bidah

The drone manufacturing aspect of public schooling has taken over in many areas.  The NEA and other "elite" educators want to tell you how to do it, want you to come to them for approval and then when little Susie or Johnny gets screwed up it's still going to be "your fault" not theirs when someone parents the NEA way. 

Hey, God put the parents in charge of their children...don't abdicate your God-given right.  That's like a pilot listening to the tower tell him to reposition a mile east with a mountain range 1/2 mile east.  It's not intuitive, we are to respect authority, but because most people put teachers on too high a pedestal they get bamboozeled into thinking teachers are the parent's authority.  If you really love your children the way I suspect the people on this board do, you'll no doubt die for them...so what's a few fights with administrators and a day or two of lost work compared to laying down your life for your child?  Take a little time to think about how to fix the situation you may be in.

For example, a friend's daughter was supposed to do a book report on an book that went over the top....it had a few pages that were something like you'd read in a Playboy or Penthouse...but it was supposed to be a classic.  My buddy was distraught because, wouldn't you know it, this was the last required book report before graduation...what were they to do....no book report....no graduation. 

My first word...think....then I told 'em to take a deep breath and look at what is going on....tunnel vision had taken over...who says this is a classic?  Well, the teacher of course and what were they going to do.....well, my bud couldn't think so I had to do it for 'em...I said go to the principal....bud stopped me and said the principal would stick up for the teacher....I said tell the principal you were going to have the teacher charged with exposing a child to pornography and if he didn't change the requirement he was an accessory....bud said, "OH"!

No more problem. 

There are good and bad teachers (like good and bad anywhere else)...but none of them are gods...and, truthfully, many or the troublemakers are in education because they couldn't hack the harder stuff (except for math teachers...not many jobs out there for math majors).  So, respect teachers, but don't make the mistake to worship them.  Your children are far more valuable then some arrogant teacher's liberal agenda.