Posted on 07/28/2011 6:41:59 PM PDT by jazusamo
Teacher cheating scandal is symptom of public schools’ failure
If the disturbing documentary “Waiting for Superman” didn’t convince you that a massive overhaul of the public education system is necessary, maybe the massive cheating scandal erupting in the Atlanta public school system will.
First off, there is no argument that public education in America is a complete and total disaster. Our children routinely score at the bottom of the barrel in math, science and geography, while more than 50 percent of other children drop out of high school in some districts.
It’s not that our children are dumb, but rather that they are tossed into a dumb, antiquated system that is controlled by one of the largest and most powerful unions in the nation, the National Education Association (NEA).
Instead of using their bully pulpit to demand educational upgrades across the board, the NEA works hard to ensure that teachers get tenure, more sick days, pensions supported by taxpayers and more and more benefits. The NEA couldn’t give a damn about children, and the test scores prove it. Shame on the NEA.
Regardless the reasons for the cheating, almost 200 teachers and administrators in the Atlanta public school system cheated by inflating the test scores of children taking the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test. The cheaters probably were all NEA members. They should all be fired immediately and have their teaching certificates burned.
Of course, Democrats will rally to the NEA’s aid, as the teachers union is their largest cash contributor. If the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful pro-gun organization, though not a union, was found to be complicit in a gun-running operation for Mexican drug cartels instead of the brain-dead dimwits at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, you can bet President Obama would rain down fire...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Try to find someone who cares. The public school curriculum comes right out of universities, academia and the NEA, leaving a couple of generations coming up marxists. And we wonder where America went. No representatives have Education on their agenda and really, neither do the people. We’re all too busy looking over there, no, look over here, no look over there.
This thing is so not surprising. Schools have become a like a trashed bus stop, everywhere figuratively speaking and literally in some areas.
What the parents in Atlanta should do is get together and sue the school board and everybody involved in this for tuition money to private schools for their kids.
They should not let their children return to these schools.
Try to find someone who cares. The public school curriculum comes right out of universities, academia and the NEA, leaving a couple of generations coming up marxists. And we wonder where America went. No representatives have Education on their agenda and really, neither do the people. We’re all too busy looking over there, no, look over here, no look over there.
This thing is so not surprising. Schools have become a like a trashed bus stop, everywhere figuratively speaking and literally in some areas.
There is no debate for that. It's the bottom line and it's the truth.
Sadly, it’s not just Atlanta. Our education system needs an overhaul and the first step is getting rid of the NEA.
Damn, it’s just a typo. :-)
The academic most influential in the development of secondary school curricula over the past 25 years:
Dr. William Ayers.
The DOE was created in 1976, correct?
So you are going back to 1986. I would like more details as to what position he had and when and how this happened. Your timeline seems correct as to when there was a shift in secondary education.
I was studying secondary ed in college in the early 80s. I changed majors after one “clinic” in a local high school.
The public school system is the engine-room of American Socialism...
...and it’s working just fine.
Ayers graduated from the Bank Street School at Columbia with an M.Ed in Education in 1984. Subsequently, he became a Professor of Curricula at the University of Illinois in Chicago. From that post, he became prominent in education circles and specialized in curricula development.
Ayers was elected Vice President for Curriculum Studies by the American Educational Research Association in 2008.[68] William H. Schubert, a fellow professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, wrote that his election was "a testimony of [Ayers'] stature and [the] high esteem he holds in the field of education locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally."[69]Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank praised Ayers as a "model citizen" and a scholar whose "work is esteemed by colleagues of different political viewpoints."[70]
It's Wiki, so it's a favorable treatment of an anti-American radical, but here's his brief biography: William Ayers
Thank you so much. Unbelievable. God help us.
bflr
Want to fix public schools?
The 1st step is:
ELIMINATE the entire U.S. Department of Education (re-education) including their SWAT team.......
Close the whole D..mb thing....
This massive bureacracy has presided over a dramatic decline in education while pissing away billions. I see no problem and much benefit in eliminating it immediately.
Though Nugent gets some of it right, as a teacher I confidently can say that often the problem in U.S. public education is the absence of a desire to learn. I have taught in an urban ghetto as well as in the comfy suburbs, and the problem of unmotivated students (compounded by the bureaucratic tendency to coddle problem students) is a huge issue that often is not allowed within the realm of “acceptable” debate.
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