Ping
In my experience stupid children often have stupid parents (who do nothing to stimulate them intellectually); I’ve also noticed that many teachers (especially younger ones) are incredibly ignorant about many things we take for granted (in an education sense). Playing Trivial Pursuit with some public school teachers wasn’t just eye-opening; it was downright frightening.
Just goes to show what happens when the government mandates everyone be given something for “free”.
Follow the money. When the teachers returned from the Chicago strike they told the children that they’d done it for them. They had to strike so the kids could get a good education.
I asked these young people in government schools what was wrong before. They mentioned things like overcrowding, not being able to get into an appropriate skill level class, etc. I then asked, “Well, if the strike was for you which of those things changed?” Silence and then one spoke up saying, “Nothing changed.”
I replied, “Something changed: your teachers got more benefits and money.” At that point I’d thought my point made and a victory achieved.
Then someone else said, “The teachers work hard and they deserve it.”
At that moment I thought of Boxer or perhaps the children of Jessie and Bluebell.
I was in am EdD program from a well known university for a while, but gave up in disgust. The professors hadn’t been in a classroom for decades, were totally ignorant of computer teaching technology and had little practical knowledge of much else. With the EdD types running our schools it is no wonder they are failing.