Top 10 excuses teachers use to justify the failure of public education

[SheriffJoe]

I didn't want to clog the Offshore forum with a thread bashing teachers, so I thought I'd create one here instead.

Few fields produce as much whining, excuses and failure as public education. One look at grade school tests from 100 years ago tells you everything you need to know: education was perfectly fine until 'progressives' got involved.

I'm not anti-education, I'm anti public education - for many reasons. For one, when it comes to politics, teachers are some of the most vocal and ardent defenders of the failed progressive status-quo - in other words, fiercely anti-logic, anti-business, anti-capitalist...anti-conservative. Small wonder - indoctrination is the essence of public education.

Remember Gov. Walker's violent recall campaigns in Wisconsin? Yep - you guessed it - teachers! What amazing role models for children!

Here are the most frequent excuses we hear for public education failure (in no particular order):

1) not enough funding for books, school supplies etc. (this is rich when you factor in how much money is tied up in their pensions, benefits and salaries).

2) Republicans

3) stupid parents (because the customer is always wrong!)

4) bratty, undisciplined children (Oh no! Little Johnny called you a bad name - your life is over! Tell your sob story to a cop, firefighter or Marine.)

5) job is too stressful (this despite having the entire summer off AND every student holiday on the calendar!)

6) global warming, oops, I mean "climate change"

7) too much homework

8) the pay sucks (with pensions and benefits most in the private sector can only dream of!)

9) bad curriculum (Nonsense. A great teacher could make his/her students learn under a tree. How do these 'professionals' account for home schooled kids putting public-educated kids to shame?)

10) meddling school boards

Sure, public education is 'free'...so is eating out of a trashcan.

Good thing 'progressives' never declared telephones a "human right" which must be accessible to everyone or we'd all still be using these:

 

[vitterd]

Clearly you don't know many teachers. Since my wife is a teacher, I interact with many and their spouses. Politics is a subject that never comes up. I wouldn't know what they are registered. My wife's late uncle was a teacher and republican.....so was his wife.


I cant tell you how many kids come back to wife's classroom and tell her the influence she had over them.....same with many other teachers at school. These are extremely dedicated and capable professionals who can make the difference in many lives. You would have to be around it to understand it.

 

[SheriffJoe]

"To put public school spending in perspective, we compare it to estimated total expenditures in local private schools. We find that, in the areas studied, public schools are spending 93 percent more than the estimated median private school."

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Hmmmm...I don't suppose public education has an overhead problem.

In the real business world, there's this thing called cost-benefit analysis, but why bother with that in the public sector when you can just blame it on stupid evil Republicans!

 

[Dave007inVegas]

I didn't want to clog the Offshore forum with a thread bashing teachers, so I thought I'd create one here instead.

The amount of whining going on up there is astounding.
Soap Opera city.

 

[TomGshotput]

If a student struggles and falls behind they should always blame someone else instead of taking accountability for themselves. That's what Joe does.

8) the pay sucks (with pensions and benefits most in the private sector can only dream of!)

Las Vegas is so desperate for teachers they will hand a license to anyone who asks for it. Why aren't private sector workers jumping at that opportunity for a huge raise?

 

[NFLTrends]

If a student struggles and falls behind they should always blame someone else instead of taking accountability for themselves. That's what Joe does.



Las Vegas is so desperate for teachers they will hand a license to anyone who asks for it. Why aren't private sector workers jumping at that opportunity for a huge raise?

I wouldnt say its that easy

Las Vegas is home to the Clark County School District, the fifth-largest school district in the United States, which educates approximately 75% of all the students in Nevada.1 The district hires teachers who possess a Nevada teaching certificate and who can provide evidence of highly qualified status as outlined by the No Child Left Behind Act. To earn a teaching certificate in Nevada, you must possess a bachelor’s degree, complete a teacher preparation program, and pass the appropriate state exams. Private and charter schools in Las Vegas may have different hiring requirements and do not necessarily require a teaching certification. The job outlook for Las Vegas teachers is projected to be stable through 2022 with most new positions becoming available at the elementary school level.2

 

[TomGshotput]

To earn a teaching certificate in Nevada, you must possess a bachelor’s degree, complete a teacher preparation program, and pass the appropriate state exams.

In reverse order, from how you listed:

the state required exams are pretty easy (http://www.ets.org/s/praxis/pdf/5732.pdf and http://www.ets.org/s/praxis/pdf/5712.pdf if you want sample questions)

teacher preparation programs vary, but first one on a google search says they average 10 weeks (http://teachvegas.ccsd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/8-quick-facts-about-arl.pdf)

four-year degrees may be a barrier to some. But that's probably why they could never dream of making $50k + pension and health insurance in the private sector as Joe thinks

 

[SheriffJoe]

Public Education: Progressivism's Unbeatable Advantage

By Daren Jonescu

(The following is adapted from the introduction to the author's new book, The Case Against Public Education. More information below.)

During an 1839 debate in Britain's House of Commons regarding the establishment of government schools, the young Benjamin Disraeli objected:

Wherever is found what is called paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

In short, the susceptibility of government schools to exploitation as tools of oppressive social manipulation -- the Prussian model in a nutshell -- was once understood by many to be a risk too great to be borne. Today it is a reality too manifest to be denied. The promise of modernity -- the promise of liberty and a civil order grounded in practical reason and virtue -- remains now only as a dim shadow of its true self, maintained merely to pacify the masses with a chimerical representation of freedom and morality in place of the real things.

If there is to be a renewal of our morally and politically exhausted civilization in the foreseeable future, it will of necessity begin with an educational emancipation. The effort is already long overdue.

http://www.americanthinker.com/arti...tion_progressivisms_unbeatable_advantage.html​

 

[roadreeler57]

In defense of the teachers 1/2 the problem is students not behaving in class & overall shitty atitude...They dont get the paddle in schools anymore or at home when they get out of line...

 

[SheriffJoe]

High schooler records teacher’s racism lecture: ‘To be white is to be racist, period’

NORMAN, Okla. – A Norman North High School teacher is instructing students that “to be white is to be racist, period.”

A student at the school who did not want to be identified recently used her cell phone to record a classroom lecture at Norman North High School in which her teacher, who also is not identified, explained how to “heal the racial divide,”KFOR reports.

The girl alerted her parents to her teacher’s troubling comments and they in turn contacted district officials to demand answers.

The lecture began with a video about the “Mistreatment of Native Americans” that prompted the student to record the lesson and ended with the teacher’s lecture about racism.

In the video, a man “pulls out this globe with a bottle of white out and marks over a country or a piece of country and puts his name on it,” the student said.
“So he was basically comparing what he had done to the globe to what we did to America,” she said.

When her teacher laid out his theories of racism afterwards, the student said she was stunned.

“To be white is to be racist, period,” the teacher said in the recording. “Am I racist? I say yea. I don’t want to be. It’s not like choose to be racist, but do I do things because of the way I was raised?”

The student was naturally offended by her teacher labeling her a racist.

“Half of my family is Hispanic so I just felt like, you know, him calling me a racist just because I’m white … I mean, where’s your proof in that,” the girl said. “I felt like he was encouraging people to kind of pick on people for being white.”

Her father wasn’t impressed, either, and he contacted school officials and the media to alert them about the situation.

“Why is it okay to demonize one race to children that you are supposed to be teaching a curriculum to?” he asked KFOR.

The family posed that question to the school district, which claims the lecture was simply sharing one of several “perspectives” on racism. The student thinks many of her classmates took the lecture as fact, and the teacher should make it clear that’s not the case.

“You start telling someone something over and over again that’s an opinion and they start taking it as fact,” the student told the news site. “So I wanted him to apologize and make it obvious and apparent to everyone that was his opinion.”

Norman Public Schools Superintendent Joe Siano offered a statement to the news site that blamed the teacher, but did not offer any details on what, if any, disciplinary action the teacher would face.

“Racism is an important topic that we discuss I our schools. While discussing a variety of philosophical perspectives on culture, race and ethics, a teacher was attempting to convey to students in an elective philosophy course a perspective that had been shared at a university lecture he had attended,” the statement read.

“We regret that the discussion was poorly handled. When the district was notified of this concern it was immediately addressed. We are committed to ensuring inclusiveness in our schools.”

KFOR attempted to contact the teacher, but was unsuccessful.

http://eagnews.org/high-schooler-records-teachers-racism-lecture-to-be-white-is-to-be-racist-period/