Old Rocks
Diamond Member
Bullshit. I pay a teachers to teach my kids and since I have to I lay the blame at the feet of the incompetent assholes stealing my tax money. It annoys me to all hell when people deflect blame from those paid to do a job to those paying. You wouldn't do that to the person mowing your lawn why do you for a teacher?
No, I think most of the blame does lie with parents. Other countries which are out performing us, parents will go to any and all lengths necessary to make sure their kids get a good education. In America we stop caring as soon as they're old enough to take care of themselves. It's nothing but daycare to us.
I'm not absolving teacher unions, which allow shitty teachers to keep their jobs. But even the best teacher can't teach a child who doesn't want to learn.
So A parent teaches their kids then what do we need to pay teachers for now? If I have and I do go out an buy books and teach my kids cause they are not learning it in school why am I paying for schools? My car breaks down I pay a mechanic to fix it I dont fix it my self and still pay the mechanic do I? Now while I am at it where do I find the extra 7 hours to do the teachers job for them?????? Unions are the problem but so is the fact we have to many sub par teachers ALSO the fact that the higher education they went to doesn't teach them anything they can use. Parents like me do everything we can but dammit we pay teachers to do what I AM NOW FORCED TO DO! time to call a spade a spade. Teachers are no more noble then any other profession... Shit maybe less the most since they dont work all year and it is damn hard to fire one.
The whole system is broken.
You are the biggest problem in the system, fool.
You mean it would take you 7 hours a day to find out what your childrens assignements are? What the subjects they are studying in school are? Ever bother to take your children to museums or science exhibits? Art gallerys? Stage or music events?
I was very much involved in my childrens education. And I constantly heard people like you whining about the fact that the teachers were not teaching their children. The problem was not and still is not the teachers. It is the example the parents set at home with their attitude concerning the worth of education, and, as well, the worth of the own children. After all, if they are not worth their parents time preparing for life, what does that tell the children about what they are to think of their own worth?