Posted on 08/11/2012 3:36:45 PM PDT by grundle
The Washington Times reports:
“Nationwide, public school teachers are almost twice as likely as other parents to choose private schools for their own children, the study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found. More than 1 in 5 public school teachers said their children attend private schools.”
“In Washington (28 percent), Baltimore (35 percent) and 16 other major cities, the figure is more than 1 in 4. In some cities, nearly half of the children of public school teachers have abandoned public schools.”
“In Philadelphia, 44 percent of the teachers put their children in private schools; in Cincinnati, 41 percent; Chicago, 39 percent; Rochester, N.Y., 38 percent. The same trends showed up in the San Francisco-Oakland area, where 34 percent of public school teachers chose private schools for their children; 33 percent in New York City and New Jersey suburbs; and 29 percent in Milwaukee and New Orleans.”
Wow! That’s a huge percentage of public school teachers who send their own children to private schools. I wonder why they do that. Let’s see what the education bureaucrats have to say about this. The article continues:
“Michael Pons, spokesman for the National Education Association, the 2.7-million-member public school union, declined a request for comment on the study’s findings. The American Federation of Teachers also declined to comment.”
Of course those bureaucrats have no comment. Can you imagine the CEO of Coco-Cola being caught drinking Pepsi? Or the CEO of Ford being caught driving a Toyota? Or Bill Gates being caught using Linux? Any of those incidents would be hugely embarrassing. So of course the bureaucrats who run the teachers’ unions don’t want to explain why so many public school teachers send their own children to private schools.
The teachers who work in the public schools know a lot about how good or bad those public schools are. So the fact that so many public school teachers send their own children to private schools tells us a lot about how good or bad the public schools are.
Oops! That should be “send” not “sent.”
Nobody is more aware of the shortcomings of public school education than the teachers themselves.
They know better than anyone the quality of the education available at the public schools.
Mods can fix that if you ask.
I imagine it would be like someone working in a Chicago slaughterhouse becoming vegetarian—perfectly understandable.
Nobody is more aware of the shortcomings of public school education than the teachers themselves.
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yes. and many of them are good conservative teachers.
but many are liberals, who KNOW the truth,
and yet fight against parents who want vouchers, etc.,
to be able to send their children to a decent school,
without the constant threat of violence, etc.
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many policemen and firemen, are required, by contract,
to live in the district they work.
...public school teachers, who belong to unions,
should be REQUIRED
to send their own children to public schools.
Its a job?
A pretty good job for the vast majority.
Pays better than the average with good bennies.
That is if you are not a teacher in some kind of urban liberal hell hole.
Otherwise, you get three month of a year and the good month,too.
Frankly, I don’t rate public school teachers much above tour guides or someone who works in a recreational dept.
Why? Because most public schools SUCK! They would know best.
>”I imagine it would be like someone working in a Chicago slaughterhouse becoming vegetarian—perfectly understandable”<
I’m no expert on this, but I think you have a shot at Post of the Day. A very concise observation IMHO.
well said. who knows, they might even get tuition assistance as benefit.
That’s a trick question? Right?
As with most government jobs, teachers almost cannot be fired, regardless of how terrible they are short of criminal conduct. However, many public school teachers do absolutely wonderful work, taking pride in teaching their students well. That varies tremendously by school district, but we have excellent, politically-neutral public schools in my area.
I got that feeling when I heard 2 teachers in a neighboring suburban town talk about how they home school their children. They wouldn’t even send their own kids to the same school they teach in. If that isn’t an indictment of the public education system I don’t know what is.
That's OK ... for a public school kid.
/8^)
Public teachers send their kids to private schools because:
1. They know the public schools have poor standards and by and large are pure sh— when it comes to educating children.
2. They make enough money to send their kids to private schools. They make enough money because they are public school teachers.
3. They love their children and do not want them to be subjected to the “Clockwork Orange” that is public education.
........to ask the question is to answer it Grasshopper.
However, many public school teachers do absolutely wonderful work, taking pride in teaching their students well.
If I had to guess I would say 1 in 4? Forgive my terrible grammar btw...:)
Public teachers send their kids to private schools because
Not to mention being the daughter or the son of a teacher is often not a pleasant experience.
Especially, if your mom or dad is not well liked.
I think the odds are much better than that. Even at that ratio, it's not a reason to avoid public schools, not when we know that the bad teachers are concentrated in some schools and the good teachers in others. It's a reason to choose schools carefully if you're not going to homeschool, and to seriously consider homeschooling in certain areas.
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