Teacher shortage?? Or surplus of stupid kids??

[Divine Wind]

There in lies the problem. Of her 28 students, only 2 or 3 parents give a damn. Most just send there kids to school so they dont have to be bothered. They havent learned anything in school since June 1st when grades were due yet they continue to goto school till tommorrow. All the kids are there every day. Oh and big suprise, she knows for a fact that 26 of the 28 families are either divorced or never got married in the first place. Parents did note changes when she came in. The change was that she actually called them about bad behavoir. The previous teacher didnt do ANYTHING, so the parents assumed everything was ok because their kids are pathological liars. At first i felt bad thinking these kids are ruining their one opportunity. Some refuse to take tests because the teacher is white. So she gives them F's. The school then informs her at the end of the year (May)that no student can be given a grade below 60 unless a failure notice was sent home in February. So some students that should be failing and sent to summer school pass with D's despite not doing a damn thing all year. Then they accuse her of being racist and some of their parents believe the kids. Its just a volatile atmosphere and im glad she wont be going back next year. Hopefully she finds a suburban school to get into even though its extremely hard to break into around here.

Let's say you are completely correct even though your assertions lack evidence. What you point out is not a matter of throwing money at Education but a cultural problem. What do you propose we do?

 

[initforme]

Only dumb, truly dumb people blame unions. They should be shipped out. Buy bye.

 

[Divine Wind]

Only dumb, truly dumb people blame unions. They should be shipped out. Buy bye.

You won't defend America but you'll deport American citizens who don't like unions?

 

[anotherlife]

How the hell can the United States have a teacher shortage?? THe news report the other night said that US school districts are flying over to the Phillipines to hire school teachers.. Why??

You mean to tell me that we pay our teachers so little that they won't teach???
Or do we dumb down public school students so much that they can't be taught to teach???

This country is just sinking lower, and lower everyday. It is no wonder that the little tyrant countries thumb their noses at us,, their people are teaching our kids!:bang3

Filling The Classroom Void

This sounds like that usual government policy in the USA. If you are and American, you must go through many years of college training and hundreds of thousands in student loans to become a teacher. But if you live in the Philippines, then you just get picked up and be an instant teacher in America. I think it is possible that they import them for Spanish speaking, because English speaking teachers are not useful in most western schools.