You still are not able to articulate what you believe is wrong with public education. If you can't even tell us what you believe is wrong, how are we to take your complaints seriously?
It's not that I can not articulate the problems - I can. Instead I chose to challenge you to SEE FOR YOURSELF what some of those problems are by watching the documentary. I can see you have no interest in seeing the problems for yourself, so I will provide you with some of my beliefs:
Massive over-lapping government Bureaucracy
- "Education is being corrupted by government and bureaucracy. As we spend more and more of society’s money in education, not directly as learners, but as taxpayers via massive organizations with their own agendas and interests, the responsibility and choices of individuals get lost, and the waste just gets larger and larger, and the results, the achievements just plummet.”
* Bureaucracy is the enemy of education for public schools
Teachers UNIONS and the inability to fire teachers are STILL massive Problem
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City to spend $29M paying educators it can’t fire
"The city will spend a whopping $29 million in 2013 on the salaries and benefits of outcast educators who are deemed too dangerous or incompetent to work in public school classrooms but cannot be immediately fired"
As of Friday, there were 326 city educators who have been reassigned away from the classroom yet were still collecting pay, a sharp rise from 2012, when 218 ousted teachers drained $22 million from city coffers, Education Department records show.
The teachers and school administrators are accused of abusing kids, breaking rules or just being lousy educators. But they're still collecting salaries because of a controversial firing process that makes it too difficult to terminate bad employees, education officials charge.
Back in 2010, Mayor Bloomberg and the city teachers union agreed to eliminate the shameful "rubber rooms" that house these expensive educational pariahs, but critics say the only difference is that today the accused teachers are spread out in spare offices across the city instead of being herded together."
Many 'libtards' still push the idea of not wanting to give kids grades because low grades and actual teaching could 'hurt kids' feelings'
- I am a journalism major, so when my daughter showed me a report she had written I nearly hit the roof. My daughter was in the 6th grade, and her spelling was atrocious yet not corrected in the teacher's grading of the paper. I contacted the teacher and asked her WHY her mistakes had not been corrected. I was told that 'as THIS POINT we don't really care how well the child can spell. I care more about communicating full coherent thoughts'. WTF?!
Many kids graduate - some can't even READ.
The level / quality of education is piss-poor. Maybe we would not have to hand out special visas and bring in foreigners to take technical jobs if our education was better.
Then of course, are the story after story of biased political assholes teaching our kids their political views as if they were 'the gospel' - classrooms turned into Liberal Indoctrination Camps.
-- 'Barak Hussein Obama....'Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm'. Gee, you never heard schools teaching kids songs praising Conservative Presidents.....
There are a lot of problems with out school systems - not all the schools' fault - parents, too.