I've said many times that there is a problem with teacher quality in the USA. Recently, the National Council On Teacher Quality agrees. "The vast majority of the 1,430 education programs that prepare the nations K-12 teachers are mediocre, according to a first-ever ranking that immediately touched off a firestorm. Released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington-based advocacy group, the rankings are part of a $5 million project funded by major U.S. foundations. Education secretaries in 21 states have endorsed the report, but some universities and education experts quickly assailed the review as incomplete and inaccurate...." http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html?tid=pm_pop
This is a pretty scathing statement from the article. It isn't at all clear whether teachers today are professionals or crafts people who aren't professionals: "We don’t know how to prepare teachers,” said Arthur Levine, former president of Teachers College at Columbia University and author of a scathing critique of teacher preparation. “We can’t decide whether it’s a craft or a profession. Do you need a lot of education as you would in a profession, or do you need a little bit and then learn on the job, like a craft? I don’t know of any other profession that’s so uncertain about how to educate their professionals.”
The average school system sucks because the rich/elites in this country despise competition. Keep the peasants as dumb and unprepared for any opportunities that come their way as possible. Another way of assuring the rich/elites kids maintain a specific advantage in society.
Of course they are poorly trained. You can't have an educated populace that thinks for themselves and use them as useful idiots. It's all been planned for decades so they can stage their revolution that we are seeing today and the collaborators that are helping them by willfully letting the government use them as useful idiots.
The best government corporate money can buy dictates the schools curriculum. A decade of the bipartisan (Bush/Kennedy) 'No Child Left Behind' failure clearly shows a lack of concern/responsibility on the governments interference with the education system. This is nothing new since the school system has been in decline since the early 1950's, when school bureaucrats, and local public officials learned that milking the system was the best way to enhance their wages and salaries. So instead of having a system based on results, the system was allowed to deteriorate, and the declaration of 'we need more money' was born. The rich/elites (AKA best government corporate money can buy) simply allowed it to become consistently nonproductive until we have what we have now. Total failure. Enough so that the rich/elites are contemplating elimination of the public school system, which assures that their children will continue to dominate society in the future as they do now. Sometimes doing nothing and allowing incompetency to rein is the best way to get the desired results. Nobody understands this like the plutocracy.
The quality of American public school teachers is really very low. They aren't at all professionals. Teachers are more like bus drivers.
Teachers tend to come from the lower strata of intellect. The have nearly the lowest SAT scores of any college major. What exactly would you expect?
We are deluding the best and brightest students with the dumb oxes that simply don't care at all about school. Public schools should have classrooms with proctors to keep order while children use pre-recorded on-line classes for the course study. Tests can be given at the end of lessons with the computer doing the scoring. Students that excel, say 85% or above would qualify to go to schools with live instructors. Two things would be accomplished by this method. 1) Students and parents that actually care about their education would have the opportunity to move on up to live instruction free of the distraction of disruptive students. 2) The disruptive students who do not care about education would be isolated so as not to interfere with the best and brightest kids. It's a win/win all the way around.
Im sure your teachers are (*)(*)(*)(*), but thats not your problem. The problem is, that most of your students are 3rd world trash who are incapable of comprehending even slightly complex issues. Just ask the swedes, they arent doing that well in pisa studies either.
Since the creation of the NEA and having our Education run from Washington D.C. and centralized within the states..... out children's education and scores have plummeted. Government Public education costs a fortune to fail our children. VOUCHERS NOW!!!!!!
They will give them amnesty. And that will be the end of white america. You should have fought harder, now the jews have won and you've lost, and there is nothing you can do about that.
While I do agree, most teachers are pretty bad. Lets not let the American people off the hook here. Students are being far more unruly in classrooms and teachers are losing tools every year to discipline them. Parents are worse and worse and worse. 95% of all the successful people I have met came from parents who worked hard to supplement their education at home.
This is the National Education Association...check out all of the professional educators: [video=youtube;_dW7rEwekzw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_dW7rEwekzw[/video]
