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Education is much more complicated than most from both sides realize. It is also too political. I was a certified teacher when I started on FR. Still a repub, still a teacher, and still get most of my news from FR. Just wish other people on FR could stand in a public school teacher's shoes for 6 months; they would see a wider perspective.

Dittos from another public school teacher.

IMO it would be an improvement if the testing & NCLB finally put a stake through the heart of the "middle school concept". Put the 6th graders back in elementary school, put the 9th graders back in junior high, and have teachers certified in each subject (not in "middle grades education") teaching the junior high students.

Dittos from another public school teacher.

IMO it would be an improvement if the testing & NCLB finally put a stake through the heart of the "middle school concept". Put the 6th graders back in elementary school, put the 9th graders back in junior high, and have teachers certified in each subject (not in "middle grades education") teaching the junior high students

And the 7th and 8th graders should go????