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VoiceofReason wrote:

emcee rib wrote:Fire them all and hire people who want to work. That should be no problem with the current unemployment rates,

I personally wouldn’t be a teacher for the money they make and what they have to put up with.

I would mow lawns and collect scrap metal before I would be a teacher.

Society is very lucky to find people that will get a degree then try to teach a bunch of spoiled brats something while putting up with idiot administrators and jerk parents.

Yea, do away with the union, cut their pay and benefits, and give them no say so in their working conditions. That ought to attract a better caliber of teachers.

RoyGBiv wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:It isn't about how good or bad the teachers are necessarily, it is how involved a child's parents are in raising and teaching their children. Notice that I said parents, plural, both, as in mom and dad.

Anygunanywhere

I'm a big believer that course material should be 100% taught in class and that homework should reinforce what the students were taught in class. I see too many examples of kids that come home with homework on topics that were not taught in class and they are expected to learn the material on their own. That means parents (if the kids are lucky enough to have two at home) get to work 12 hours days and come home to kids who need help learning new material in order to complete homework.

I had just such a discussion with a neighbor this weekend. His kid is a straight-A student and very smart.
He and his wife had a meeting with the school principal already over this. Principal said "you should talk with your kids teachers" and my neighbor said "that is your job, you are the administrator, do your job."

WHY is class material being learned at home? Because class time is spent teaching kids at the slowest level. I can't tell you how to fix this in public schools, but a voucher system would go a long way. Paying for under-performance in public schools is unacceptable.

Whoever said "stop coddling" above is right on... Life is tough. Not all snowflakes are equal. Stop pretending they are.