Teachers are taught “how to teach” instead of being required to show mastery of the subjects they teach.
It isn’t just Atlanta. WDC has an ongoing “investigation” into similar corruption. There are many many school systems with this corruption. These so-called “professional educators” need to have their licenses yanked and they need shunned by society...left to wander America aimlessly. With all the 24 hour days they always purport to put in grading papers and preparing classes you would think they wouldn’t have time to cheat.
We have a winner!!
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Government schools have **always** been progressive. The failure merely became unforgivingly evident in the past 40 years!
From their very beginnings in the mid-1800s to early 1900s government schools have **always** been a progressive idea. Teacher training and curriculum development has **always** been under the control of progressives.
Government schools have **always** been socialist-funded, compulsory, and run by the collectivist voting mob ( schools board)! At first they offered the students a lukewarm and generic Protestantism. Is it any wonder then that in the last century citizens grew increasingly lukewarm in their morals and ethics? By the 1960s they were utterly godless! That was the progressive plan from the beginning!
Solution: Socialism, government compulsion, godlessness, and voter mob collectivism can never be reformed. We must move toward abolishing government schools and establishing universal private K-12 schooling.
By the way there are NO NO NO “good” government teachers!
Why?
“The Mythical ‘Good’ Government Teacher Lives in the Land of Unicorns”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2744804/posts
They’re cheating everyone else, too.
I just saw that you wrote the essay. I am sorry for being so blunt.
The essay is really very good, except for that one point.
One more thing about teacher mastery of the subject material.
1) All teachers should be required to sit side by side with the engineers, science, and math major and pass Calculus I with a “B”. Yes, I know that few teachers need calculus but doing this would assure two things. First, that they had a high IQ to justify being in a classroom, and second, that they did not have a math phobia that they would pass on to their students.
2) All teacher should be required to take and pass ( yearly) the GED for high school drop outs. If they can’t pass that exam they should not be in a classroom. I wonder how many would fail the math portion of the GED?
If I ran a private school this would be the minimum requirement for all of my teachers.