Hagbard Celine
Senior Member
So you are for vouchers? Closing private schools? How would you see the government, state or federal, improving public schools? There is plenty of research that could improve public schools if implemented, but the education community does not like what the findings are.
Yeah, teachers bitch and moan when they are held responsible for producing students who actually learned something from them. Teachers should have to take ongoing training to stay up to date in their fields and they should not be able to earn tenure until they have proven their effectiveness so that they cannot rest on their laurels while they shuffle hordes of ignorant students through their classes un-noticed. I'm not convinced that "benchmark" standardized tests are the way to test teacher effectiveness as in the "no child left behind" plan. I don't think it'll work and I don't think standardized tests are a good test of knowledge or intelligence. Higher standards for teachers equals better teachers equals better students. Maybe teacher salaries should be raised.