[cookiedough]

My son’s incompetent German teacher has been teaching for 29 years in our district. He makes $75,800, yet he cannot answer basic German grammar questions my son asks him. The teacher’s answers to my son’s questions: “We do not cover that this year.”

To add insult to injury, the class (in which my son has a 100 average) only covers 1-2 textbook pages per week. At this rate, one year of high school German may take forever.

The Spanish teacher who told my son to stop participating in class because it makes his classmates feel stupid when he knows the answers and they don’t, is not listed at all.

The history teacher who shows movies and talks about politics instead of teaching history, makes only $60,000.

[pburgh01]

Public education like everything else is coming down, the whole ugly edifice. State and local budgets won;t allow at any level of taxation the current pension and benefit structures and the upkeep on athletic programs, facilities etc. Within 20 years the monopoly will end. I went to High School in the 1980’s and it was terrible then and is worse now. The university's despite being more selective are churning out morons and illiterates. Our company will not hire recent college grads anymore, we had a University of Michigan CIS grad, all the right qualifications, did and internship at a large software shop , he made it 4 months. He was a Gen Y zero, slow learner, moody, lazy, and slow intellectually. And UM is a good school, if they are churning out idiots like this guy, I fear for the future.