Joined: 06-01-2000 Posts: 26,185 |
bgz wrote:Apparently you don't know too many teachers (k-12... sounds like you're mainly talking college professors).
What happens with teachers, is greedy politicians get in there and rape the education budgets, and when that happens, it forces the skilled and talented teachers to leave the profession. A good teacher has the mentality and drive to take up another profession rather easily, they're good because they actually want to teach and make a difference, not because it's all they can do.
So teachers continually get worse, test scores keep dropping (don't get me started on teaching to the test), class sizes keep getting bigger and then people start talking about how much better it would be if education was privatized.
I've known plenty of people who went to private schools, IMO, it's not really better, I mean, they still have to achieve the same standards as public education, and kids can still turn into screw ups, where they simply get kicked out.
Anyway... you found another topic I generally agree with the left on (just their rhetoric, not their actions as their actions don't support the position).
I believe to stay competitive with other countries, we need solid education system. We need to quit teaching to the test and focus on teaching critical thinking skills as most trade jobs of the future are going to engineering the tools/robots that create the products and do the services as opposed to actually doing the work your self.
I'm rambling now, point is, good teachers are good, don't want to pay teachers sh1t? No good teachers, that's the bottom line. Regardless of how we feel about good/bad teachers, there should not be a teacher's union. It is counter productive.
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