This is the problem:
Other professionals accept among themselves a certain standard of conditions and behavior. They will **not** practice their profession unless those standards are met. If they do and they don't have these minimal standards in place, they are subject to malpractice suits, sanctions from their professional organizations, and loss of their license. For example, would a nurse give blood that wasn't properly labeled and tested?
So?...Why is it that teachers, every day, open their classroom doors on policies, methods, and conditions that are not only ineffective, but harm children, and place children in danger of KNOWN physical, emotional, sexual, and educational harm? No one is holding a gun to the teacher's head when they do this.
Where are the malpractice attorneys and class action suits against the teachers, principals, and superintendents?
Why, when teachers willingly agree to subject children to possible harm, that the public says, “Tsk! Tsk! This teacher is working soooooo hard. Give him the Mother Teresa award, “ when with any other professional they would be demanding the withdraw of his license and pressing the district attorney for criminal charges?
Why, is it when other professionals lie to their patients or clients, lie on official documents, and misuse public money, they are subject to malpractice suits, loss of their license, and prison time, but in the government schools children routinely receive official government high school diplomas they can not read? Who were the teachers and principals who lied and fraudulently allowed this to happen?
Re: “Implementing”
It isn't Howdy Doody agreeing to conditions, policies, and methods that are ineffective, harmful, and dangerous. It is teachers who are agreeing to do this. No one is threatening them with death and there are plenty of other career options open to them. We don't live in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union...( yet).
Again...Please note that every word of the above post is about education in GENERAL and NOT NOT NOT directed at any specific individual.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed what it is calling a "first-of-its-kind" lawsuit against the state, its Department of Education and one Detroit-area school district for allegedly failing to teach students to read at grade level, as mandated by state law and its constitution.
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For Moss and the ACLU, the situation and the lawsuit have national significance.
"If kids aren't reading, nothing else is going to come," Moss said. "If we're not preparing our children, there is no way our economy can recover."