Text books and Federal mandates
include layers and intensities of anti-Constitutional, anti-Christian, globalist liberalism
quite apart from the School Board and/or Superintendent.
Add in the teachers colleges and universities—the influences are more than considerable.
include layers and intensities of anti-Constitutional, anti-Christian, globalist liberalism
quite apart from the School Board and/or Superintendent.
Add in the teachers colleges and universities—the influences are more than considerable.
And yet the local district still gets to choose its curriculum and the principals and directors of curriculum and instruction oversee what is actually taught. All you need is one good principal with a vision and a good knowledge of instruction to take a school and make it a performing school. This includes removing non-performing teachers (Don't say it can't be done, a school in our area "encouraged" 10 or more of a total of 29 to move along to greener pastures by simply requiring accountability for what they were doing in the classroom. Once it became clear to the teachers they couldn't coast into retirement, they retired or moved to other districts.)
With accountability comes performance. If you get a good principal who holds teachers accountable for results, you'll see districts perform. One of the key problems of public schools is that too many principals are managers and not instructional leaders. Thus, they cannot walk into a classroom and tell you if the teacher's doing a good job. Thus there is no accountability for the teacher to actually teach. Just show up. Don't make waves. And eventually retire. Accountability to a trained instructional professional changes all that. Sorry for the rant, but I've seen amazing results from people who are motivated to change their district and actually implement instructional plans to do just that (with a heavy focus on reading at the elementary level).